THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1929.
P. & 0.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE
PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
**
THE CHINA
A. "DOGGY TALE
CANINE CARGOES FOR JAPAN
Trans-Pacific liners salting from Victoria, B.C., are playing an import
ant part in the importation of dogs
of
LARGEST MOTORSHIP.
HOIHOW
MAIL,
PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF HARBOUR
PRELIMINARY REPORT
Hoinow Bay
is
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY day, August 6, is the largest motorship several reasons may be expected along
DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
CONSIGNEES.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS AND MANILA.
be presented to the Undersigned on or All claims against the steamer mast before the 30th inst., or they will not be recognised.
All brokes, chafed,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 8th September, 1920.
for
LLOYD TRIESTINO N, CO.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
* ESQUILINO "
From
In the course of preliminary report that are flooding Japan. Thirty-six on proposed harbour construction at sailors and petty officers of the "Afrien Hoihow, Hainan Island, Major G. W. The Steamship. Maru" appeared on board the vessel Olivecrona, Engineer-in-Chief, Kwang- just before
"BENMACDHUI" it Was .to Bail turg Board of Conservancy, states: tron Victorin, each with some sort
CONSIGNEES of Carge are hereby in- At
transportation of formed that all Goods are being land- present the of a dog which he stoutly maintained gords is as follows: from ship into ed at their risk into the hazardous was a personal pet. Any suggestion of lighter, from lighter onto shore. Als and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Business was strongly denied. How- after harbour improvements have been The Hong Keng & Kowloon Wharf & ever, a few days after the ship reached made, either according to Leigh and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or Yokohama most the thirty-six dog Orange's minor scheme or according to from the wharves delivery may be ob- lovers were noticed to be unusually the Netherlands Harbour Worka pro-tained. wealthy. One of them admitted part-posed first improvement scheme,
g with his bull dog for $529.
No claims will be admitted after the When the same inconvenient way the ship sailed from Yokohama there transportation will remain.
of Goods have left the Godowns, and all To this Goods remaining undelivered after the way not a single dog on board. The must be added a third moving of the 16th inst. will be subject to rent. next week brought a similar cargo on goods, by road from the junk harbour the Arabia Maru. It is reported that to Hothow, should the last mentioned stray dogs are now bringing unpre-scheme be accepted. cedented prices in Vancouver,. Seattle
A study of the prevailing conditions and Victorix, although the
IL Nippon makes perfectly clear that Yusen Kaisha bas forbidden its sailors, from
technical
and damaged point to take dogs aboar and the Osaka view
of Goods are to be left in the Godowns, not the where they will be on STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, Shen Kaishe is reported fallowing right place for the construction of a 14th inst. at 10 examined or the
suit. It believed that the non deep water harbar for the Isle of Hai-Goddard and Douglas. WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, subsidized companies will take up the nan. The coust in front of the Hethow
terative trade when the larger lines viver does not exhibit any natural ed.
No Fire Insurance has been effect- desist, so that there is little likelihood features, favourable for # harbour, of a diminution of the supply.
Bill of Lading will be countersign. which, if buit at this place, inust ened by, tirely depend upon artificially made protection works for its serviceable-
1053.
Harbour Requirements The 27,000-tor White Star liner Apparently the whole of Hainan "Britannic," Jaunched by Mesars. Island offers good possibilities for Harland
and Wolf et Belfast on Tues-future development which afloat, and has larger and more power-somewhat different lines than in other ful oil-engines than any other vessel, paris of China. Thus, climatic condi The machinery, which is completed in tions and the fact that the island offers The Motor Vessel the firm's shops, consists of two 10-an abundance of virgin soil, indicate evlinder air-injection four eyele double-the existence of asing internal combustion engines of the development of plantations on a possibilities for the Harland B, and W. type. One of grand seate
The island has also from the tso sets has run highly successful triet in a similar way before being the main coastal shipping route, con- location, situated as it is on on board. It is stated necting Hong Kong and other parts on that uncertainty
regarding de-the China coast with Haiphong, Saigon, lopments in engineering accounts for Bangkok Bad Singapore. In spite of the delay in laying the keel of that this the trade statistics of the island at vessel. New discoveries in ma-have for the last 20 years shown an in- chinery designs have, it
added. crease of brought about
only 50 per cent, which, con- drastic change in sidering the advance in prices of the plans. Experiments are being made various commodities during the same with pulverised fuel for the purpose period, means little more than a stand of Arding out whether low-grade ccal still. can be used economically and with that the non-appearance of any actual It is no exaggeration to say, ciency in the boilers of such a vessel, development is, in the first hand, due and it is hoped that a decision will be to the lack of a proper harobur or har- reached in time to enable hull construc-hours. tional wark tu be started
In order to make possible future de- this mouth. All or some of which may velopment the island of Hainan needs or may not true, but it is obvious a harbour or harbours, that there is some good
where can reason for going vessels can cater at any tide and the delay and that this reason is almost in any weather; but Hoihow is no such certainly associated with the question place. On the other hand, Huihow is of propulsion.
All broken, chafed, and damaged There are also fresh already established as a trading centre Goods are to be left in the Godowns, reports from America about the pro-and cannot be left out of consideration, where they will be examined on the posals of the United States Lines for It seems, therefore, necessary to make 14th inst. at 10 a.m. by our surveyors the constraction of two very large a compromise, by which the interest of Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. vessels. Each, it is said, will be 956 Hainan as a whole, and that of Haihow
No Fire Insurance has been effect ft. in length, or 56,000 tons displace- locally, may be looked after. Such a nent, with accommodation for 4,000 compromise is
a cd. follow-
Bill of Lading will be countersign- passengers; each will cost £5,000,000,
the construction of a ed by ing propositions.ested in the and they will both be put on service on harbour at a place where the natural the Atlantic in 1932. They will be pro- conditions are as favourable as possible
DODWELL & CO. LTD., pelled either by mechanically geared for the future development of a trade
Agents. turbines or by turbo-electric machinery mart for the island; improvemens of operating quadruple screws, and they the arrangements for interchanging will be the fastest liners afloat, The commodities between Hofhow and the
3. S.
MOREA
*MANTUA
KARMALA
1*MIRZAPORE #KALYAN
*NAGPORE
Tons
{- From
About
10,950 14th Sept.
Noon 10,946 28th Sept. 9.123 12th Out.
6,715 16th Del. 9.114
1
5,283
Oct.
F
Destination
Bombay, Mursailles & London.
Bombay. Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London, Hull, Rotterdam
& Antwerp.
Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles, London, Hull Rotterdam
& Antwerp. 2nd Nov. Marseilles, London, Hull. Hamburgs
Rotterdam & Antwerp. Cargo only, Calls Casa Blanca. & Calls Karachi.
+ Calls Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pirenus, Smyera and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
GARBETA
TILAWA
TALAMBA TAKADA TAKLIWA TALMA
5,427
36th Sept.
10,006 9th
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 10,000 18th Nov. 1 Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Calls Rangoon, Cargo, only.
1 306 19th Oct.
6,840
Oct. 1 Bisc 7,086 8th Nos.
BI. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 18t and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.
*ST. ALEANS NELLORE TANDA
4.500 4th Oct. 8,853 1st Nov 4,950 79th Nov., 4,500 3rd Jan
1930 6,85 Bist Jan. Purt Holland.
ST. ALBANS
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.
rich
Trieste. Venice, Brindisi, Spalato, Port Said, Suez,
Besi-byl trials, and the other will be hical point of view, a very Massaus, Karachi, Colombo, Penang &
mor
Fiume,
Singapore.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong, and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd, at Kowloon, whence and/or om the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded before 9th instant. unless notice to the contrary be given
No claims will be admitted after the Gords have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 15th inst. will be subject to rent.
All
claims
against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 25th inst. or they will not
recognized.
be
Hong Kong, 9th September. 1929.
EXPRESS
PAHANA
LIKE
SEXVIDE
BARBER WILHELMSEN
LINE
TRANS-PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC COAST SERVICE
via PANAMA. NEXT SAILING
M.V.“ TAI YIN”
on SEPTEMBER 12th
for SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & BOSTON
42 Days To New York.
For Passenger and Freight information please apply
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Queen's Buildings, Agents.
Telephone C. 1030.
·
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and com accominodate any craft of 260 feet long.
Town Office: $1, Cornaught Road Central, Hong Kong, Tel. Central No. 458. Shipyard: Sham-Sol-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel. Kowon 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)
Highest
on record
Lowest W. L..
W. L.
W.L
Place of Observation West River at Shiahing..... North River at Tsingyuen ..
W. L.
on record
8/9
3/9
+41.0
0
10.5
124
+48.7
0
9.9
88
North River at Samehui East River at Sheklung
1-27.3 +152
-5
5.0
71
ន
2.8
3.0
"BOMB" EXPLODED IN BARRACKS
PROFITS FROM THE TRADE IN LIQUOR
vessels are considered "an imperative sea. necessity" in view of the corning of the
PROPOSED AMERICAN LINERS German
Before deciding on the place where a liners "Bremen andharbour should be located, a study of "Europa," the White Star ships and the the present as well as of the fature re-
The United irospective Cunarder, not
States Line, which speak of
quirements for harbour facilities is recently purchased the best of the EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). and Italy; but a good deal will prob- may conveniently be divided into three Board, are losing no time in fulfiling
the large vessels projected in France necessary. For this purpose the island passenger vessels of the U.S. Shipping SHOCK FOR POLICE CANADIAN REVENUE ably depend on whether the "Bremen" sections: the north-eastern section the their promise to build giant express does actually improve on the speed of north-western section and the southern liners to run alongside the "Leviathan." the "Mauretania."
section. The last section is in a na-They will be laid down in February at tural way separated from the former the latest, and there is already great IMPROVED STEAM MACHINERYtwo by a range of high mountains. The natural speculation in shipping circles
two first mentioned sections are dis- as to what their details will be,
A rumour was spread that an at- The reven of the nine pro- There tinctly different from each other as to is talk of a ship of 45.000 tons load tempt had been made by a Cum- vincial Governments of Canada for The bitter rivalry between the ad- the stage of the present development, displacement with a speed of 33 knots, munist or anarchist to blow up the the last fiscal year totalled $168,- Vares of the steam engine and those future possibilities, progress in popula- but when naval architects come to barracks of the gendarmerie of the diesel continues unchecked, and tion, etc.
at 000,000, of $17.43 per capita. The rainly doing the greatest possible
examine this scheme it would appear Trappes, about twelve The north-eastern section of the that these figures will mean far
miles from expenditure was $165,500,000, or service in helping to solve the pro-island is at present the one most delighter scantiings for the hull than Paris, where there is a powerful $17.16 per capita.
of marine engineering and the veloped and most populated, dominated would be advisable for North Atlantic wireless station. jurarress of commerce, There is no by Hoihow as its centre of trade.
So work. This is providing, of course, doubt that the remarkable
the American engineers have not engine has of the island is pard on the steam engineers greater efforts and to bring about im-
way of Haihow
reduced mathinery weights and fuel consumption. provements which they would not have done had they not had that incentive, but there is also doubt that they
NELLORE
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong
to Australia
is
The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd.. steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, the interval combustiongress oftar, practically all the external track a big eurprise up their sleeves in the
Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timur. Darwin, or other ports en route as in- dusement offers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:—
to
The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Neware taking remarkable progress now Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, ete
The F. & 0. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal.
The F. &0. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.
concentrated
that
in
SALVAGE SERVICE CLAIM
and it has gone a long way towards In the Admiralty Division recently ilancing affairs. The addition of a before Mr. Justice Hill and Trinity
In the seven provinces which Just after midnight the gen-have adopted the system of the darmes were roused by a loud ex- Government control of the sale of plosion, which shattered almost all liquor, the accruing revenues form- the windows in their barracks. In- ed one of the main sources of re- quiries showed that a kind of bomb! venue. The total was approximate- had been placed just inside the ly $24,500,000. The net profits in main entrance. It is clear, as a Quebec were $7,000,000, in Alberta The following are the warships at result of investigations, however, and British Columbia $2,750,000
H.M.S."Tamar,”
WARSHIPS HERE
low pressure geared turbine to the ex- Masters the owners, master and crew present in harbour: haust end of a triple expansion engine, of the Liverpool se. "Daßia" жете At the Basin:
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and for so long barred by the difficulties of awarded £3,000 for salvage services "Moth" and "Tarantula." London via Panama Canal.
writing the uneven torques of the rendered to the Newcastle-on-Tyne At the North Arm:-I.M.S. "Ster two systems, permits a remarkable im steamship "Lockwell" in the English ling" and "Sandwich." provement either in economy or speed, Channel on
on May 5 last. The de- In Dock: H.M.S. "Seraph," made an offer of £750, which "Serapis" and L19. fendants made was refused. The "Dafila"
No. 8 Buoy-H.M.S. "Moth,"
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
MANTUA
*MIRZAPORE
TILAWA
TALAMBA
KALYAN
*NELLOSE DELTA
ARATURA
TAKLIWA *BELTANA KASHGAR
! 10,946 13th Sept
Shanghai.
10 a.m.
6,715
17th Sept.
Moji & Koby,
4 p.m ! 10,000
19th Sept. 9,018 26th Sept. 8,144 27th Sept. 6,853 27th Sept. 8,097 7th Oct. 6,000 8th Oct. 7,996 19th · Oct. ! 23rd Oct. 9,005 | 26th Det.
* Cargo only.
Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, Amoy, Shanghai, Kobe & Osaka, Shanghai, Moji, Kobs & Yakahama, Shanghai. Moji. Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. Amoy, Kobe & Ossks.
Shanghai, Moji, Kube & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji. Kohe & 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 Linea are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received
at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.
For further Information, Passage; Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
P. & 0. Enilding, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.
Agenis.
HONG KONG AND MACAO LINE in Good Speed
S.S. CHUEN CHOW
Daily Sailing from Hong Kong at 2.00 pm. Sailing from Macao at 7.50 a.m.
Sundays excepted.
Freight and Passage apply :-
CHUEN ON STEAM BOAT CO., LTD. 4, Connaught Road W.
Tel. C 6061
WЯE CI
according to the wish of the owner, without increased coal consumption. was The intermediate steamers of the 1,904 tons gross and was only 18 P. & D. Branch Line, which have for-months old, while the "Lockwell" was merly maintained a third class service on her first voyage. The "Dufila" to Australia by way of the Cape, was on a voyage from Amsterdam to have been converted to this system Manchester with a general ergo without any difficulty, and their re valued at £32,858, her own valus be markably improved speed has permit. ing £50,500. She came up with the ted them to take mail sailings through "Lockwell,' which was flying an out- Suez Canal
or-control signal, some miles of St. Catherine's Point,
lost her having The weather was rough, propeller. but plaintiffs, by
by launching their life- boat, got a rope on board and even.
HONG KONG TIDE
ampton.
It was contended that the
total
The tide table given below has tually made two wire bawsers fast been obtained by aid of the Tide-pre- and towed the "Lockwell to South- dieting Machine, which includes 40 Lockwell' was in danger of drifting เน
components for the better prediction otides, from the result of the on to a lee shore and becoming analysis of the tidal observations, the salvor ran no risk, and that ence
loss.
The defendants alleged that taken at the Kowloon tilal observa-round the Needles the towage was tory ander the direction of Doberek during the years 1887, 1888
simple and in the smooth waters of and 1880.
the Solent. It was denied that the "Lockwell" was ever The times and heights are given drifting ashore, as she could have in danger of for Kowloon but they may be used! for the Victoria Navs Yard and value of the "Lockwell" was stated to anchored in Freshwater Day, The Aberdeen, the differences being very bes
His lordship apportion- small.
The times of high and low-water £2,000; master £308; crew £500., The ed the amount as follows: Owners must not be considered to coincide with the times of slack-water and lifeboat to have double shares.
mate and men who had manned the change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinct.
September 12 to 18, 1929.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMER
The CPS. RM.S. "Emprem of France" arrived at Kobe on Septem
DATE HIGH WATER LOWER WATER. ber 10 (Tues.) at 5.30 p.m., left Kobe
Fit
Standard
Tixes
Standard Sep
Times
There 12 m2-516
No Dferior
Fri. 33 m 414 6.1
Noinferis:fi
on September 11 (Wed.) at 6 m Et, and is due at Shanghai on Septem- ber 13 (Fri.) at 9am She leaves Shangha
on September 11 (Sat) at
08 1.2 B
nor lo ∙W. 5.30 p.m....
0.599.3.
SAL. 14m 5.34 63 - 1 88 a
Sun. I m 8 35106
W.
20
a II
'CONSIGNEES' NOTICES
Consignees of cargo ex M.V.. Esquilino" are reminded to take 9 11 18
577 delivery of their goods which will be You. It m 7 39
45
subject to rent after September 15, 20 & 50 237 a 1.5 Tues. 17 m 8-97.1 m 14938 Benmachni" are
Consignees of cargo ex 1.5.2. reminded to 9 27
3 6 10 take delivery of their goods which will Wed 18 m 841 78 m2 be subject to rent after Septeraber
8404 8.34 1.5 10.
in
that the perpetrator of the outrage each, in Ontario $8,000,000, had sought, not to do serious Saskatchewan $2,250,000, and la damage, but simply to give the Manitoba $1,000,000. gendarmes a shock. The "bomb" appears to have consisted simply
Viscount Lee of Fareham has ac- of a quantity of gunpowder in a cepted the appointment of chairman cardboard box.
of the Radium Commission.
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.
·M.S.“ “ SUGBO ”
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tion; En
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First &
Second Edi
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Single screw steel passenger and cargo motor ship. Dimcasions; →→ 154′ 0′′ B.P. x 28' 0" Mld. x 11' 6" Mld.; D.W. 470 tons; B.H.P. 360; Speed 10% 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 20 the Chief Manager:
R. M. DYER, B.Sc., M.IN.A., Kowloon Dock, Hong Kong.
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