MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1929.
P. & 0.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
MOREA
MANTUA
9. S.
Tone
From Hong Kong About
KARMALA
| 10,953 14th Sept. 10,946 28th Sept.
9,123
Oel. 120
*NACORE
*MIRZAPORE | 6,715 | 16th -Oct. *KALVAN
9.141 26th Det.
5.2.43
2nd
Nov.
Destination
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & Londor.. Marseilles, London, Hull, Rotterdam
& Antwerp. Straits, Colombo & Bombay, Marseilles, London, Hull. Rotterdam
& Antwerp Marseilles. London, Hull, Hamburg
Rotterdam & Antwerp.
* "Cargo only. Calls Casa Blanea. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Parts by steamers of the Kolival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
4th Sept. 3.30 p.m. 5,327 17th Supt. 10,006 4th Oct. 1
*DALGOMA
1 5,958
*RANKETA
TILAWA TALAMBA TAKLIWA
TAKADA
3,014 12th Ort.
7,936 21st Oct.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcatta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
6.949 7th Nov. - Singapore, Penang & Caleutta. Galis Rangoon Cargo only.
·BI. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st nad 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).
ST. ALBANS
NELLORE
TANDA
ST. ALBANS
NELLORE
| 4,500 | 4th Oct 16,553
F
Ist Nov. Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, 6.956 29th Nov.)
Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney & 4,500 3rd Jan.
Melbourne.
6,853 31st
1930
Jan.
* Calls Zamboangn, Port Holland & Cairns.
to Austrdin.
Regular monthly mailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong The E. & A. S.3. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Hoile, Cebu, Kolambucan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route us in- ducentent offers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
THE CHINA
MAIL,
LINER TRAGEDY
LITTLE BOY'S PATHETIC PARTING
"MUMMY KISSED ME "
San Francisco, Saturday. "Mummy kissed me before she throw me," wailed Hollis Pifer, aged six, the only child survivor of the "San Juan," which was sunk in collision with an oil tanker on Friday, when found aboard the tanker. His mother flung him there as the vessel struck the ship and then parted. She perish- ed with the other holiday-makers. whose death roll is still mount- ing.
The Los Angeles and the San Francisco Navigation Company have filed two suits totalling $1,800,000 against the Standard Oil Company alleging that, the tanker "Dodd ramped their liner, the "San Juan," that the tanker was travelling at a high speed, and that the crash was the result of negligence and failure to keep an adequate watch aboard the "Dodd," ---Reuter.
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Destination
Steamer
Sailing
4th Sept. at Noon
Sun.,
8th Sept. at Noon
Wad..
11th Sept. at Noon
Sun.,
16th Sept. at Noon
Ttau via Stow & S'hal CHAKSANG...Wed., Ttau via Stow & S'hai .. YATSHING Ttau via Stow & S'bai.. KWAISANG Ttau via Stow & S'hai KWONGSANG Osaka via Amoy, Moji &
Kobe
HOSANG Tues., 3rd Sept: at Noon Osaka via Amoy, Shanghai,
Moji & Kobe
KUTSANG
Tues., 10th Sept. at Noon Osaka via Amoy, Moji &
Kobe
NAMSANG .Fri 20th Sept, at 7 a.m. Qsaku via Amoy, Moji &
Kobe
YUENSANG .Tues., 1st Cet. at 10 a.m. S'pore, Penang & Calentta SUISANG
Mon., 2nd Sept. at 3 p.m. S'pore, Penang & Calcutta KUMSANG .Mon., 16th Sopt. at
$p.m. Sandakan
HINSANG Wed, 4th Sept. at 3 p.m. Sandakan
MAUSANG Mon.. 16th Sept, ut 3 p.m. Tientsin via Wei-hai-wei &
Newchwang
CHEONGSHING .Thurs., 5th Sept. at Noon Tientsin via Wei-hai-wei & CHIPSHING....Tues., 24th Sept. at Noon
Newchwang ................
For Freight and Passage apply to:- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Telephone Central 215.
General Managers.
CHINA SEA TYPHOON PASSENGER LISTS
CAUSES ALMOST A GALE"
IN HONG KONG
COOLIE SLIPS, HITS A CAR
[The coastal passenger steamer "San Juan" voyaging from San Fran- cisco to Los Angeles, with 55 pas- sengers and a crew of 45, was sunk in a collision with the Standard Oil tanker S.C.T. Dodd," off Pigeon Point, California. Sixty-five persona are believed to have been drowned.] "Dirty weather" prevailed on TERRORISM AT SEA blowing a gale" in the harbour to Saturday night and it was "almost
to
DESPERATE MADMEN FIGHT
LINER'S CREW
U.S. "MILLIONAIRES"
Five passengers who are stated
have gone
mad during the voyage were handed over to the ploice at Saples on the arrival of the Italian motor-ship "Vulcania" from the United States.
wards midnight, so much so that when the river steamboats arrived they experienced some difficulty in berthing alongside their respec- iive wharves.
ARRIVALS
Por 9.9. "President Jackson" from America, Japan and China, August 30:-
The Rev. and Mrs. M. S. Ady, son
Mrs. and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John L Artmaier, M. A. Azar, Mr. und H. F. Bunje, and Son, A. Baptista, Mrs. P. Baptista, Miss A. Baptista, Mrs. A. H. Carroll, Miss Edna Carroll. Miss Grace Cumine, family, Miss A. da Luz, H. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. da Roza and Holte, Liez. and Mrs. S. E. Johnson, Mrs. Bayard Lyon, Mr. and Mrs. Ov O. W. McMillen and two sons, Miss Miss Lulu R. Patton, 3. L. McRobbie, Dr. R. C. Miller. J. W. Platt, Mrs. R. S. Piercy, son and daughter, T. M. Rohn, D. J. H. Ruttonjee, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Shank, Miss Socares, Miss M. Sacares, Miss C. Sudka, Miss Eleanor Thom, A. G.
At the height of a heavy rain- storm after the dinner hour, there was a nasty accident in Queen's road Central, at the foot of Gra- ham-street. A middle-aged coolie had a rather substantial round bamboo basket blown away. This According to
receptacle travelled fast along Waller. the captain's re- port, the madmen spread terror throughout the third-class part of coclic fell, sustaining injuries-to the slippery road surface and the
the ship when they suddenly be- his head which caused him to came demented. They attacked bleed. His fall threw him against other passengers, who took refuge a private motor car, a back wheel in their cabins.
of which passed over his leg.
The captain and members of the crew overcame the madmen after a violent struggle and locked them into separate cabins.
When the five men were taken off the ship they were quite calm, and believed themselves to be American millionaires making a pleasure trip.
The "Vulcania" is a ship of 28,970 tons, owned by the "Cosu- lich" Societa Triestina di Naviga-
zione.
M. P. SHANGHAIED
FOUGHT MALAYAN PIRATES LONG AGO!
HONG KONG TIDE
The tide-table given below kas been obtained by aid of the Tide-pre- dieling Machine, which includes 40 components for the better prediction of tides, from the result of the analysis of the tidal observations, taken at the Kowloon tidal cbserva- tory under the
direction of Dr and 1989. Doberck during the years 1887, 1888
The times and heights are given for Kowloon; but they may be used for the Victoria Naval Yard Aberdeen, the differences being very small
and
The times of high and low-water must not be considered to coincide with the times of slack-wator and change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinet.
Mr. Jim Setton, genarian M.P. for St. Helens, is, the septua-
according to
a "Daily Mail" writer, the only M.P. ever to have been engaged in a "scrap" with pirates and the only M.P. ever to have been shanghaied,
The off Malaya half a century ago. affair with the pirates was staged
when half a dozen dhow loads of bloodthirsty Villains bore down
Wed, on the little schooner in which he was sailing, With muskets Thurs and axes and crowbars, however, were beaten off. He was shanghaied a year or so carlier at San Francisco, and forced to do
The Union 5.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New they
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal.
The P.&O. Branch Service of steaners to London via the Cape.
DATE
Top
Hit
September 2 to 8. 1929.
HIGH WATER LOWER WATER
Standard Standard
Tintas
Times
Bt.
Mup.
4:78
1 24
37
47 12
3 15 B
(7
Tues
3 un 9 1792 17
3.3
17 H
3 MA
A
4 0 9 5278 п. 3
m
J1:1 A
Al
5 зн
4 24 a
1.2
27.4
m 8 6
7.5
11 464
4 57 44 1.6
Fri
Sat 27
t
216
8.4
0 18 a
[
3 я
m
7 A
a six months' voyage that he did us.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and not wart,
London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
*NAGPORE ST. ALBANS
MANTUA
TILAWA
*MIRZAPORE
TALAMBA
KALYAN
4,283
5th Sept.
4,500 10th Sept. .10.940 12th Sept.
10,000 14th Sept.
6.715
8,018
1
17th
Sept.
19th Sept. 9,144 27th Sept.
*NELLORE 16,859 27th Sept. 7,936 1st Oct. 8,097 7th Oet. 6,000 8th Oct.
TAKLIWA
DELTA
ARATURA
* Cargo only.
Shanghai, Moji, Kube & Yokohama,
Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama, Shanghai.
Amoy Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Moji & Kobe.
Amoy S'hai, Muji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Moil, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS. Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries,
Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 9 ft. x 1 ft. will be received
at the Company's Office up to Neon en the day previous to, sailing,
For further Information, Passage, Freight, Handibooks, etc., apply to:--
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
P. & C. Building, Connaught Ed. C., Hong Kong.
HONG KONG AND MACAO LINE
in Good. Speed
S.S. CHUEN CHOW
Daily Sailing from Hong Kong at 2.00 p.m. Sailing from Macao at 7.50 a.m.
Sundays excepted.
Freight and Passage apply :-
Agenta.
CHUEN ON STEAM BOAT CO., LTD.
4, Connaught Road W.
Tel: C. 6061.
115.
Travel Facilities For Fish
STAIRCASE TO GET OVER DAMS
HR
m 43 9.3
N
A $7 23
567 a
27
17 2.0
G GAB
Here is the design of the Patent, Office drawing of Franic - W. Pro- vince's piscatoriai escalator, show- ing cone and flume, so that -poor fish can now get around- and" do things without handicap of prior traveling accommodations » At the left here you see a leaping, walman of the very typg this fishway was designed for. It makes traveling so much easier for the finny tribed the shape, of a cone, around, which, winde a dume with a gradual ries from the lowest to the uppermost lover
The fame has a sloping floor, tha msuring a messtars, of safety - for-the-young and defense- less fakes, for in the shallow water they can escape the large, carnly-. orque fshes, coming down at the Kayne time.
OW can you expect a
poor fish to get upstream In fact, every possible provision to its spawning grounds, has been made for, the comfort of or a baby fish to go down the Anny travelers. ¿ The winding stream from its birthplace lume is built so that each turn when it has to climb over aloverhange p lower turn-thug af wan-made dam? more
fording shade and there are and
lena, of the fish, world" for... a lơng.
Interesting
with
the
As a matter of fact, that has largements at intervals wherein the been one of the most trying prob fah may rest.
But perhaps the
most time. Now man, who built the feature in, connection a dams, bas bad stroke of con "fish palator recently patented is clence, and invented a stairway the possibility of making the:fabu whereby the ploddlag flafes can get | way structure hollow and so, built- to their destination
as to allow for the housing...of tur
Invented, by Frank W. Province bines, so that the water power of of Cards, Washington, the new the "stair” may be converted into fishway has a supporting base insectricity.
8.2
B.
Per .. "President Pierce from Manila, August 31-
Rev. Fr. J. Bort. M. Fujioka, F. A. Galey, Outo Hahn, I. Hayasaka, Baron W. van. La Roche, Rev. Fr. J. Misol, F. J. Michelbacher, Major N. B. Morrow, Mr. and Mrs. M. Rosenthal and son, Mrs, I. M. Suddeth. K. K. Sakhrani, Miss M. Tester, Mrs: F. P. Young.
from Manila, September 1:
Per RMS. Empress of Asia,"
Liant. W. H. Clifford, Col. MeD. Haskard. Fevre, A. B. Tiezen. F. W. Parker, Miss M. Hutchine, P. P. Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Palmstag and Harts, Master R. T. Lopez, Rev. son, Misses Edith, Louis and Jarct W. T. Featherstone, Miss S. Aguila, B. R. Rinker, Mrs. J. F. Karcher, Miss E. Allen, Maste: L. Allen, Miss and son, Miss J. A. MacBean, Mr. and Mrs. M. P. lanes, E. B. Ward, Miss R. Jorgensen, Miss Brown, Miss Mrs. R. Bausum, Rey, R. T. Capen, M. Bischoff, Mrs. F. Atly, Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Poppen and son, Miss A. R. Poppen, Miss S. Spencer, Master S. Spencer, Wm. M. Mason, Master W. R. Mason. Master M. K. Mason, Mrs. E. H. Giedt and two sons. Rev. E. H. Giedt, Mr. and Mrs. S. Tappen and son and daughter. Dr. and Mrs. H. V.
Bradshaw, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. C. Gutierrez, Mr. and
President Liner
SAILINGS
WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
To San Francisco and Los Angeles
The Sunshine Belt via
Honolul
To Seattle and Victoria
The Short, Straight Route
to America Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays" Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays
3.1.
a.m.
Pres. Jackson Tues., Sept. 10, 1Pres. Pierce, Tues, Sept. 3, Pres. McKinley Tues., Sept. 24 Pres.. Taft Prés. Grant...Tues., Oct. 8 Pres. Jefferson..Tues., Oct. 1 Tues. Sept. 17 Pres. Cleveland Tues., Oct. 22 Pres Lincoln ..Tues., Oct. 15 TO SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES VIA HONOLULU DIRECT PRES HAYES
Oct. 2
to Europe via United States, Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.
£120, £112 Special through rates
EUROPE AND NEW YORK DIRECT
ROUND THE WORLD.. Fortnightly sailing on Sunday via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandra, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston..
B.Et,
B.00.
Prea. Garfield .Sun. Sept. 8, 8 Pres. Harrison Sun. Oct. 20, 8 Pres. Polk ....Sun. Sept. 22, 8 Pres. Johnson Sun. Nov. 3, 8 Pres. Adams...Sas. Oct. 6, 8 Pres. Monroe..Sun. Nov. 17, 8 TO MANILA Pres. Taft...Sept. 10 6 p.m. Pres. Grant....Sept. 28 6 p.m. Pres. McKinley Sept. 14 6 p.m. Pres. Lincel Oel. 8 6 p.m. Pres. Jefferson Sept. 24 6 pm. Pres. Cleveland Oct. 12 6 p.m. For Bockings, Passenger and Freight Information apply to Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795.
Cable Address "Dollar." CANTON BRANCH:-4, SHA KEE STREET.
AMERICAN MAIL LINE
AND
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS. BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. A work done in this establishment ia guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and cam accommodate any craft of 200 feet long,
Town Office: 64, Cornaght Road Central, Hong Kong, Tel. Central No. 45%. Shipyard: Sham-Sui-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel. Kowloon No. 1. Estimates furnished on application.
Hong Kong, April 1, 1924,
RIVER WATER LEVELS
REPORT FROM BOARD OF CONSERVANCY WORKS OF KWANGTUNG
(Water Levels in English Feet)
Mrs. R. Baldwin and son, Miss M. G. White, Miss E. A. Mitchell, Miss G. North River at Tsingyuen.
Place of Observation
Highest W. L.
Lowest
W.L.
W. L. W.L
on record
on record
29/8
30/8
West River at Shinhing
+41.0
0
22.0
20.9
Miag
Mrs. C.
+28.7
0
7.8
—
M. Albers,
North River at Samshui
+-27.3 +15.2
--
*15,0
12.9
3.1
4.5
*For the 27th.
Ward, Miss E. S. Ward,
Albers and infart,
J. F. Rentedios, G. A. Remedios, Miss East River at Sheklung
M. M. Lefever, Miss
Miss A. M. Carpenter,
Mrs. C. N. Laird, Miss Laird, Miss D. Wise, Miss E. M. R. Buckland, Rt. Rev. and Mrs. C. R. Duopus, Hev. T. A. Broadfoot. Miss E. E. Miller, Miss A. G. Sanderson, Mrs. M. U. Hall, and M. Sevilla.
DEPARTURES
Per 8.5. "Tanda" on Friday:-A. W. Nash, Mr. and Mrs. Horgan, Mrs. L. J. Woodman, F. W. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Doanes, Phillip R. J. Glover. Thomas M. McGrath, R. L. Davies, C. Bastin, F. Thursby, Dr. Jose Paez, Miss Mercules de Ocampo.
By the P. & 0.
6.3. "Kashm on Saturday for Europe vin ports:-
Mr. and Mrs. T. Burkett, Miss K. Parkett, Mstr. R. Burkett, Misa M. Burkett, E. Broad, C. D. Bhat, 3. M. Brackenridge, L/Sergt. A. Clarke, Mrs. A. Coleman, L/Sergt. P. Darman, Mr. and Mra. W. A. Donaldson, L. V. Dent, Mrs. H. Fitz-Simone, A. C. Fairburn, E. Hayter, Mrs. J. E. Hancock, Mstr. N. J. Hancock, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. S. Jones, Miss E. Jones, Mstr. W. Jones, Mstr. S. Jones, Sergt. P. Keenan,
Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Logan and infant, K. M. Logan, Miss S. L McRobbie, G. C. Murray, Mr. s Mra. D. L. McLean, Mrs. M. M. Mattison, Miss Mattison, Miss M. Mattison, Mr. andl Mrs. H. H. Mattison, Mr. and Mrs. ሀ. ▸ Mattison, 2 children and infant, L/Sergt. T. McKay, W. J. Reyers, E. H. Reynolds, E. R. Russell, Rey, and Mrs. G. W. Ridout, A. I Robertson, D. Sellon, Capt. W. Shaw, W. ScurfTe, L/Sergt. Smart, L/Sergt. Trindon, R. H. Wetherell, L/Cpl. F. Wright.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: "MANIFESTO" HONGKONG.
DOCK OWNERS, SHIP BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER
MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS. FORGE MASTERS,
ELECTRICIANS.
The Com.
pany
pos-
Besses Six
Cranite
Docks and
Two
ent
Pat
Slip- ways. The diuensions of No. 1 Dock are 700 ft. x 86 It x 30
I
M.S.
"SUGBO"
Single screw steel passenger and cargo motor ship. Dimensions:
x 28' 0" Mid. x 11' 6" Mld.; D.W. 470 tons; B.H.P. 360; Speed 10
Codes Used:
AI, A.B.C.
Fifth Edi-
tion; En-
gineering
First &
Second Edi-
tion; West-
ern Union and
Wat-
kine.
O
154" 0" BP. knots. Built
and machinery installed by The Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd, to the order of La Naviera Filipina Inc., Cebu for Philippine coasting service.
Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager:
R. M. DYER, B.Sc., M.IN.A., Kowloon Dock, Hong Kong.
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