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M.V. "ROMOLO"

S.S. VENEZIA" S.S. "TIMAVO"

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S.S. DUCHESSA D'AOSTA .Sails on or about 5th October. M.V. "ESQUILINO"

SS. ROSANDRA"

M.V. "ROMOLO"

Sails on or about 15th October.

Sails on or about 2nd November. Sails on or about 30th November.

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FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

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THE CHINA MAIL,

M.V. “TAI YEE II'

LAUNCHING OF NEW WATER

BOAT AT KOWLOON

GARDNER MACHINERY

SHIPPING

A pleasing ceremony took place on September 25, at Kowloon Dock, when Mrs. F. Syme Thomson christened the latest addition to the Union Water- boat Company's Fleet, M.V. "Tai Yee II in the prescice of shareholders and officials of the Company, representa- tives of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., who designed and con- scruited the vessel, and Messrs. Daireli & Co. Ltd., who supplied the

· machinery.

SECTION.

A PECULIAR CASE

WIVES ARRESTED IN LIEU OF HUSBANDS

LOGS IN SHELTER

Three boatwomen who were a- rested just because the Police had

“LLANGIBB CASTLE" failed to apprehend their respec

HARLAND AND WOLFF'S BIG ORDERS

TWO NEW LINERS

The first of two intermediate liners which Farland and Wolff are bulid- ing for the Union-Castle Mail Steam- ship Co., m addition to the two 20,000-tonners, was Inuriched recently.

the is for service on

East She Coast of Africa via the Suez Canal. Zanzibar and Beira. The name of t trading to Kenya and Tanganyika, the other vessel will be "Dunbar Castle."

The length h.p. is 485 ft., the mold- ed beam 66 ft. and the depth 33 ft. 6 ins., the gross tonnage being 12,180, The neve vessel, having an overall Two hundred and fifty first-class and length of 110 ft. and moulded breadth 200 third-class passengers will be car- ried. On the upper deck is the first- of 22 ft.. is designed to carry 300 tons ed. of fresh water on a draft of about 9 ft. class dining saloon decorated in Empire The four fresh water tanks placed end,, a portion of the saloon being re- style, with a musicians' gallery at the amidships are coated with a special cessed and utilised as a children's din bitumastic composition, and every preing-room, The furniture is in caution has been taken in prevent mahogany, with gren silk damask pollution and contamination.

curtains. At the after end is the main While this is the seand Union staircase with a lift the centre to Water Boat to be fitted with Gardner all decks. The lift and staircase finish engines the owners have kept abreast deck. The lounge is the Louis XVI in the lounge on the ipper promenade for the stylo. times by installing main drive, 152 B.H.P. Gardner The smoking-room is at the after end engine of the sew cold start full Diesel on the upper promenade deck and is a Įtype, which entirely dispenses with such | reproduction of an English oak

of the

i

tive husbands appeared at the Marine Court this morning before Mr. T. W. H. Hosegood an 2 charge of depositing a number of rafts and logs inside the Yaumati Typhoon Shelter without a written permission from the Harbor au- thorities.

Mr. A. E. Hall appeared for all the defendants and entered a plea of "Not Guilty." -

Sergt. Hudson of the Water Police said that on September 20, he saw several trading junks an- chored outside the shelter, and on enquiries being made, be found that they had been crowded out of the shelter by a large quantity of rafts and logs which had been deposited there.

Witness made further enquiries and bound that the timber belong- ed to three boatmen. He even- tually located them, and when they admitted ownership he told the obstruction, them to remove

make a giving them two days' time to start. He visited the place next day and found that the work of removal had not com- menced. On September 24, he

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER -26, 1929.

PACIFIC

to EUROPE

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via CANADA

UNDER ONE MANAGEMENT

[SE the Canadian Pacific Route to Europe and dispose of all the troublesome details that usually arise out of a 10.000 mile overseas journey.

When you trave! Canadian Pacific there is only one transaction- the initial one between our agent and you. Your trip across the Pacific, across Canada, and across the Atlantic is made on Canadian Pacific ships and trains; your stopovers at Canadian Pacific hotels.

One ticket One service

The utmost in speed and comfort.

CANADIAN PACIFIC

Next sailing to the Pacific Coast EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

WORLD'S

NOON-9th October, 1929.

GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM

NYIKLINE

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA US.A. VARYING

FROM £83 TO 2120 ON SALE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

Wednesday: 16th October. Wednesday, 20th October.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

TAIYO MARU

TENYO MARU

MISHMA MARU

IYO MARU

Monday, Monday,

21st October.

4th November.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez,

HARUNA MARU (Calls Hull)

KAMO MARU

Saturday, 5th October. Saturday, 19th October.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

AKI NARU

KAGA MARU

† TOTTORI MARU

Wednesday, 23rd October. Wednesday. 20th November.

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

AWA MARU

Saturday, Friday,

28th September. 11th October.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,

Mexico & Panama. GINYO MARU

Tuesday, 29th October.

The above is a view of the speedy schooner "Elsie," which is one of the favored entries in the American Fishermen's Race to be held in

ignition devices as lamps, hot surfaces, or electric plugs

The Pumping Plant

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| September at Gloucester, Mass, Inser shows Clayton Morrissey, who will pilot another fast entry, the "Josephine De Costa."

panelled room, and opening out from it fs the verandah in old English black and-white style. The third-class se- commodation is at the after end of the The pumping plant consists of

ship on the upper deck and there is a rotary plunger type "Truslove" pump saloon forward of this, in addition to driven through gear and raw hide

spacious lounge un the shade deck, pinion by a twin cylinder Garner Semi-finished in nahogany there is alo a Diesel engine of 19 B.H.P. located in smoke-room. the engine room.

The pump has to perform duties ranging from 5 tons of water per hour

at leads of approximately 35 to 40 feet in order to cope with the varying conditions met with in watering ships and naturally this bas received the closest attention of pump and engine

commendations.

SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports, makers when putting forward their re-

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama,

HAKATA MARU

TOBA MARU

+ LISBON MARU

LIVERPOOL via Por. Said, Constantinople, Genos.

† LIMA MARU

NEW ARRIVAL

Monday,

21st October.

Tuesday. Thursday,

1st October. 10th October

Saturday, 12th October,

9th October,

THE "EUPHORBIA" BRINGS COAL

Friday, Tuesday, 'Tuesday,

26th September. 27th September.

1st October. 1st October.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,

+ GENOA MARU

Wednesday,

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

BENGAL MARU (direct Chimulpo) Thursday. SIBERIA MARU

TAMBA MARU (Moji direct) ATSUTA MARU

+ Cargo only.

Reduced 1st Class Excursion Rates quoted between Manila and Australia.

For further information apply to NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

Tel. Central No. 282, 3807 and 3821. (Private exchange to all departments.)

0. S. K.

SAILINGS PROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,

LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore

Colombo, Suez and Port Said.

ALASKA MARU

Wednesday, 9th October.

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Saigon, Singapore,

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.

LA TLATA MARU

BOMBAY Via Singapore & Colombo.

CHIFUKU MARÜ

SHUNKO MARU

Calls at Karachi),

Friday, 4th October.

Friday, 4th October. Saturday, 19th October.

DUNEAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA,

DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZI. BAR & MOMBASA—Via Singapore & Colombe.

PANAMA MARU

Sunday, 27th October:

· CALCUTTA—Vis Singapore, Penang & Kangdım.

TACOMA MARU

BORNEO MARU..

Thursday, 3rd October. Friday, 18th October.

Shanghai.

The s.s. "Euphorbia (5,200 tons), a new ship to Hong Kong, arrived here on Monday with a consignment of coal from Calcutta. She was built at North Shields in 1924 and is chartered by Mears, Patel and Ghadiali who are the sole agents in Hong Kong China for the Guzdar Kajora Company of Calcutta.

ELECTRIC WINCHES

of the

Two Harland-B. and W. single-acting eight-cylinder engine are

installed, and it understood that the totaĺ power developed is in the neighboar- hood of 1,300 b.h.p. the power will be increased by the employment pressure-Induction system, the tarbe blower being driven by the main en gine exhaust. Auxiliary power will in clude three six-cylinder generating sets with over-size compressors for supply- ing the manoeuvring sir. Two Clark- boilers heated by the exhaust gases from the main engines whilst at sea are to be installed.

Son

NEW WARSHIPS

Royal from

SUBMARINE AND DESTROYER BUILT AT SCOTLAND

Two new vessels for the Navy were launched recently and the yard of Vickers-Armstrongs, Coal Barrow-in-Furness. They were the submarine "Pandor and he destroyer "Arrow."

the

Authorised under the 1927-28 pro- gramme, the "Pandor" is one of the six "P" class boats, her sister ships

the "Peracu" "Parthi

bohoenix," "Poseidon," and

uns (2,040 tons

Several instances have occurred of owners specifying steam-driven cargo They are of 1,570 winches on motor cargo vessels, reason being argely if not entirely submerged), and each carry a due to the fact that the first cost of gun and eight torpedo tubes, the steam winch is lower than that of the electrically operated machine, Some years ago it was also contended that the electric winch was neither so Hexible nor so reliable as the steam-

driven unit. These claims, however, were disproved without difficulty.

What actually determines the ques | tion are the fuel consumption and cost of upkeep. Taking its current from Diesel engine-driven dynames, the elec. tric winch uses about one-seventh the fuel required by steam winches. In- deed, the economy may be even greater

is frequently the case- and this the steam winth installation is not

in

lin

It is

understood that, like the new "0" boats, they are destined for service on the China Station.

one of The destroyer "Arrow" is the eight verseis provided for in the ship of her class to take same naval estimates, and is the fifth the water this year. of 1,330, tons, a speed of 35 knots, She has a displacement

and carries four 4.7 m.

guns.

MOVEMENTS OFSTEAMERS

The sa. "Talamba left Singapore yesterday for Hong Kong.

The CP.S. R.YS "Empress of

a first class condition as regards Russia" arrived at Kobe on Septem- the upkeep charges, we can do

no better tha quote the case of ber 24 (Tues.) at 4 p.m., left Kobe

a well-known concern manufacturing on September 25 (Wed.) at 6 am electrically driven winches The de- and is due at Nagauki on Septem- tails are worth noting.

ber 25 (Thurs.) at 6am. She

A list was made of the total spares leaves Nagasaki on September 26 ordered by all the users of this parti-

(Thurs.) at 2 p.. cular type of winch, numbering, we believe, between 30 and 40 shipowners.

The MS. Tai Ping" is due from Manila on October 20

The CP.S.. R.MIS "Empress of

FICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Parts from and applying, in round figures, to the Russia" Ltrived at Nagasaki on Sep-

MELBOURNE—“Via Manila, Brisbane & Bydney.

BURMA MARU

KAIPHONG-Via: Hollow & Palhol

BE MENADO MARU

NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, San JAPAN PORTS

HONOLULU MABU

KEELUNG Vis Swatow & Amoy.

HOZAN MARU....

„TAKAQ-Vis SWATOW; &'AMOT.

TAKAO & KEELUNG.

BATAVIA MARU::

Thursday, 3rd October.

Thursday, 3rd October, 10 am Francisco & Panama,

For further parienlare please apply to

· Tel Central No. 1488, 4089, 4020.

Friday, 27th September.

Sunday, 6th October.

Sunday, 18th Ortaber.

OSAKA SHOBEN KAISIA,

M. TAKEUCHI, Manager.

1,000 winches. It was found that average cost for spares annually, per tember 26 (Thurs.) st & a.m., leaves winch, amounted to less than 95. In Nagasaki on September 26 (Thurs.) other words, the owner of a motor at 2 pm, and, is due at Shanghai on cargo vessel employing ten or a dozen September 27 (Fri) at 5 pm. She electric winches may expect to face (Sat) at 4 p.m.

leaves Shanghai on September 28 yearly expenditure of approximately £5 on the whole installation, assuming

re-

that the circumstances are normal. We Plans voll for the construction of do not suggest that the gares quoted four Diesel-engined freighters of apply unconditionally to all classes of 5,300 tons, each equipped with ship, nor that they are bound to reprefrigerator facilities, and two steamers Beat the annual cost of upkeep through each for the company in South Ameri- out the life of the vessel, but they form can and Australian services. AlBo a useful and authentic guide.. Per- according to the "Fir Eastern Re- haps those who are in favor of steam view the Tamashita Kishen Kabha winchas will supply detalls for com will order three Diese-engined freigh parison

ters of 10,000 tons -each,

again visited the obstruction and when he found that the timber had not removed, he asked for the owners in order to

place them

under arrest. On his being told that the owners had gone ashore, he arrested their respective wives. Mr. Hall submitted that he had no case to answer, in that the de- fendants were charged with de-i positing the logs inside the shel- ter, and no evidence had been ad- dued to show that the logs were actually deposited there by the de- fendants.

The case was dismissed.

G. B. Gibson, antil recently pas- senger agent, shipping department, Smith Bell & Co. Ltd., Manila, wes transferred during August to Cebu, taking charge of the shipping depart- ment of the same frm there.

The "Hesperos" ashore of Fraser River, and quoted at 10 guineas per cent, for reinsurance, has been reñoat- ed.

BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

When they pass the Shishing Gorge,

the American travellers say ""Well, we guess this beats the Hudson River,

our show place." Continental visitors remark that it reminds them of the "Rhine and Switzerland." Whilst British tourists declare "Surely, the Lake district or the Secttish moors, but with a little less vegetation." Now why not take a five-days' round trip and see for yourself. It costs you only $40.

SEPT. OCT. SAILINGS.

DEPARTURE HOURS:

Hong Kong 5.80 p.m. Wuchow 1.30 p.m.

9.9. “TAI HING"

(1,068 tons-Capt. Trott.] SAT. 28th SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

THURS. 3rd TUES. 8th MON. 14th

SAT.

19th

THURS. 24th

TUES. 29th

S.8. "TAI MING" [640 tons Capt. G. J. Soink.] MON. 30tk

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

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MON. 2136 SUN. 27th

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