1930-10-24 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1930,

NYKLINE

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghal, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

TATSUTA MARU ASAMA MARU

Thursday,

.. Thursday..

30th October.

20th November.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

Wednesday, HHKAWA MARU

3rd December.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM vla

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. ' SUWA MARU.

FUSHIMI MARU

Saturday, 18t. Nog, at-11 a.m. Saturday: 15th November.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

18th November.

Tuesday,

Tuesday,

⚫ 23rd December.

27th October.

·BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

KITANO MARU

ATSUTA MARU

TOTTORI MARU

† YAMAGATA MARU

Mexico & Panama.

Monday,

Thursday,

30th October.

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

BOKUYO MARU

Thursday, 20th November. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,

WAKASA MARU

NEW YORK, BOSTON, via Panama,

Tuesday,

Sunday,

Tuesday,

Thursday,

18th-November.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genda:

CALCUTTA vin Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,

†TSUYAMA MARU

† ASUKA MARU

↑ TOYOOKA' MARU

+ RANGOON MARU

7-NAGATO MARU

KAGA MARU.....

↑ RAKODATE MARU

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

HAKUSAN MARU

† Carga only.

Wednesday,

Saturday,

Tuesday, Wednesday. Friday.

9th November.

25th November,

13th November.

29th October.

8th November.

28th October. 29th October. Blat October.

For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

Telephone 30291.

(Priyale exchange to all departments.)

0. S

K

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

LONDON, HAMBURG,

ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-Vis Singapore Colombo, Suez and Port Said. AMUR MARU

LONDON MARU

... Sunday, 9th November.

Sunday, 14th December.

BIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES--Vin Saigon, Singa-

pore, Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.

SANTOS MARU

RIO DE JANEIRO MARU

BOMBAY-Via Singapure & Colomba

Thursday, 30th October.

Friday, 28th November.

SUUNKO MABU (Calls at Karachi) Morday, 3rd November. HONOLULU MARU

Wednesday, 15th November.

DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZAN-

ZIBAR & MOMBASA-Via Singapore & Colombo. PANAMA MARU.....

Wednesday, 5th November.

CALCUTTA Vin Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

HIMALAYA MARU

CELEBES MARU

Saturday, 1st November, Tuesday. 18th November.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE TACOMA & VANCOUVER.

AFRICA MARU (from Shanghai).. Thursday: 13th November. MELBOURNE-Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydiny.

MELBOURNE MARU ..**

HAIPHONG-Vis Hollow & Pakhol.

Thursday, 6th November.

NEW YORK-Vis Japan perts & Panum.

GENERAL MANAKILI...

BRANDT & CO.

Bt. Heorge's Bullding, Obater Homil.

Building and Repairs of Steamots andƐ kletorships sé uvury type.

Telephones: 2772.

Night: 67100, Telugrams: "8UIPERANDT,"

SOUTH CHINA MOTOR-SHIPBUILDING

REPAIRING WORKS, LTD.

TO KWA WANKOWLOON HAY. Teleph: 576) may and Night Works Mauxger: W. the

Telegrams; "MOTARD"

LETT.

ALTON ABBEY.

HISTORY OF HAVEN FOR INFIRM AND FRIENDLESS SAILORS.

CABLE REPAIRS. DAMAGE BY SUBMARINE EARTHQUAKE.

the

submarine Damaged by Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Roger Keyes, in mail week opened the erathquake last November the trans-Atlantic cable is now wing at Alton Abbey, erected British to provide a free and permanent now completely repaired, the last rendered home for friendless and infrm section having sailors. The new wing is an im-workable.

In spite of the breaking of the posing building designed by Sir R. Nicholson, and each cabin is cables the services of the Im tamed after its donor.

been

ceean-bed and made available for another lifetime of work.

an ares

square miles andtions.

Installation and Repaite of Pinsel Hasina al biotera for Marine and Nationaly A spoutality.

WHITE STAR.

THE COMPANY'S PROGRESSIVE POLICY.

September 6 was the 61st birth.

of the White Star Lief day which, under the official title of Oceanie Steam Navigation Com pany, was registered on that day Henry in

Mr. Thomas 1869.

for competi- Iaminy, the founder, had set him- self no light task, tion in the North Atlantic was then very keen, but within twe years of the formation of the com pany the arrival in the Mersey of

great sen the Oceanie," the White Star Line's pioneer ship, created sation.

The Oceanic, embodied innova tions, such as the placing of the principal saloons amidship, adop- tion of electric belis. separate chairs

perial and International Com Alton Abbey is the community munications, Ltd., have been un- house of the Order of St. Paul. In interrupted throughout. Although of the cable a secluded corner of the grounds Hundreds of miles is the sailor's cemetery. There are had become buried, probably in

and about 40 plain crosses, on molten rock-a find for geologists them are inscribed such names as in the future. ages-a length of "Old Lamps," "Frenchy," "Skip-152 miles was recovered from the per," and "Old Tom." The founder of the Order, the late Father Hop

The recovery of such a length kins, came of a race of sailors. He was born at Cape Cod, the son from so great a,,depth is unpre-

for saldon passengers. of a master mariner and descend-cedented in the history of cable

The fleet of ships engage which have since been universal- ant of one of the Pilgrim Fathers. work. fle made his first voyage at the es in repairing' the numerous dam; ly adopted. and before a decade! Be- age of seven, when he went with aged cables had to scour the sen had passed, the White. Star fleet

of some 150.000 had become world-famous. his father in a sailing ship round Lover

in difficult, condi- fore his death. in: 1899, Mr. Ismay the Cape of Good Hope to Burma.

brought the line he had founded. In later years he wandered,

Occasionally the ships. the rig to a position second to none-n eventually became the organist of

ging, and the machinery were position it still holds to-day. The St. Paul's Cathedral; Rangoon.

In Rangoon one night (states The completely envelopod in lee, and policy of the White Star Line has Times) he readued six drunken the operation of the gear used in ways been to produce something an advance ов in three-mile which would be English ship's apprentices, from grappling cables

of water necessitated

the best previously known. the ugly attentions of a mob and depths

Incidentally the He asked them, steam heating.

The first Oceanic was an out- took them home. when they had recovered, how they cable was shortened by 200 miles in order to got themselves in such a mess. during the relaying "Because we knew no one in Ran- avoid the drive of the Gul goon and had nowhere to go," was Stream. the answer. He invited them and other sailors to visit him during their stay in port. That was the beginning of the Order of St. Paul; which Hopkins founded as an Anglican community, and which Buch in the was recognised as

LOS ANGELES, PANAMA, NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND diocese of Winchester in 1924.

: PHILADELPHIA,

SANYO MARU

JAPAN FORTS.

NITTO MARU (via Keelung)

TACOMA MARU

BATAVIA MARU

• KEELUNG-Via Swatow & Amoy.

CANTON-MARU

TAKAO-Via Swatow & Amoy. - TAKAO & KEELİNG..

BATAVIA MARU

Saturday, 26th October.

Friday, 24th October,

24th October, Friday, Monday, 10th November. Sunday, 26th October. Nuan.

Monday, 10th November.

For further particulars please apply to-OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

M. TAKEUCHI, Manager, Tel. 28061.

Donations and Subscriptions must now

be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Mrs. H. E. Goldsmith, 525, The Peak.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

SHIPBUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND

ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERS.

Hopkins founded his first, com. munity house at Barry, South Wales, in 1897.. Two years later, in search of a permanent site for A home, he tramped with eight brethren to Hampshire, where he acquired a rough piece of ground on the top of a hill near Alton. The brethren spent their first

night under the trees in the pour-

ing rain. Next day they erected shelters of "wattle and daub," something like kafir krauls, in which they lived while they built

more permanent quarters. To-day these primitive dwellings, repre-

ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.

Anking.

Wednesday, October 22, British str., 2,047 tons, Capt. R. Ritchie, from Amoy, buoy No. A7.-B. & S. Taybank, British str., 3,437 tons, Capt. J. Stewart, from Manila, buoy No. Al-Bank Line.

Thursday, October 23. Chian Lee, Chinese str., 850 tons, Capt. K. Ishii, from Canton, buoy No. 39-Yee Tai Hong. Dorry, German str., 878 tons, Capt.

J. Bruhn, from Chefoo, buoy No. A29.-Chau Yue Teng.

Emp. of Canada British str., 21,517 tons Captain A. J. Halley, R.N.R., from Vancouver, B.G., Kowloon Wharf.-C.P.R

Eng Lee, Chinese atr., 865 tons,

Capt. H. Maki, from Swatow. buoy No. B17.-Yee Tai Hong.

standing example of this polles. The young company, led by 'young chief (Mr. Ismay was 32); began its career. in a spirit of optimism, and its well-known hie- tory proves how sound were the!

Tho foundations of that spirit. Arst Oceanic, which entered the Liverpool-New York service in of 3,807 tona: the. 1871, was second Oceanic, which was coni- pleted in 1899, was 18,000 tons, and then the largest steamer in thirty-one To-day, the world. years afterwards, the White Stat Line still boasts the largest liner the Majestic, ot in the world, 56,621 tons, holding that distine, tion.

The spirit of the founder, which management to-

the

inspires heated in the bee of for troduction of the Britannic, first giant motor-vessel' to'sall In

"The building of a sister ship the North Atlantic trade. is being pushed forward, and she

STEAMSHIP

ISN'T

SHANGHAI RACES

NOVEMBER 3rd, 4th & 5th

EMPRESS OF CANADA

Sails at

6 A.M. THURSDAY, OCT. 30th.

due SHANGHAI

9 a.m. NOVEMBER 1st. SPECIAL FARES

HONGKONG TO SHANGHAI

AND RETURN.

Tickets available 4 months.

Passenger Dept.:

-Tel. 20752 Cables: "Gacanpac." Freight and Express: Tel. 20042 Cables "Nautilus."

CANADIAN PACIFIC

WORLDS GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTÉM

BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

When they pass the Shiuhing 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 Whilst "Rhine, and Switzerland."

OCTOBER SAILINGS.

DEPARTURE HOURS:

Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wüchow 2 p.m. 9.9. "TAI HING"

[1.968 tons-Capt. Trottl

OCTOBER.

MON.

27tb

S.S. "TAI MING" [849 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink.] OCTOBER.

THURS. 23rd

WED. 29th

British tourist declare "Surely, the Lake district or the Scottish mears, For information apply to

but with a little less vegetation." KWONG WING

Now why not take a five-days' round trip and see for yourself. you only $40.

It cunts

ATLANTIC RECORD.

on

29. Connaught Road, West,

Phone 20893.

Co.,

Lid..

the Clyde by, Messrs. John

a vessel of Brown and Co. is 21,500 tons, with a service speed

UP NEW TIME. CANADIAN PACIFIC LINER PUTS of 17% kuots. She was launched

Liner

Pacific The Canadian Duchess of Bedford has broken the Atlantic record between Liverpool She arrived at and Montreal.

senting the beginnings of the Kwong Sang, British str., 1.428 should enter the service before Montreal in mail week 1 hour 16

home, serve to show what has been accomplished by years of patient

toll.

The Abbey is now a place of well-ordered jawns and paths and flower beds, with a church, a gate- house, and oratory, and 12 cabins' for the sailors, all built by the monks. The church, as the work of eight men unskilled in building a remarkable or architecture, is

tone, Capt. A. D. Kelman, from Swatow, West Point Wharf.-- J. M. & Co.

the company's next birthday.

Sixty-one years old! But a live concern never grows old, and to-

to

Lim Chow, French str., 1,591 tons, day the White Star Line is as Captain P. B. Morganti, from young and eager in its alm Pakhol, buoy No. C44.-Sing march forward as it was in the

carliest days of its existence. Kce & Co. Newchwang, British str., 1,480 tons,

Capt. F. Gibbs, from Swatow, buoy No. B13.-B. & So.

building. It is in the Early Eng- Nitto Maru, Japanese str., 1,276

lish style-and-will-accommodate 180 people. It ta bulit of flints picked up on the estate, with bricks made in the Abbey ovens and woodwork fashioned by an old ship's carpenter.

DRY DOCK

Length 787 Feet. Length on Blocks 750 Feet.

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.

SALVAGE TUG “TAIKOO”

Wireless Call

VP.G.N. 600 Meters.

Depth on Centre of

SUI (H.W.O.S.T.) 34 ft. 8 ins. THREE SLIPWAYS

Capable of Handling Ships Up

to 3,000 Tons Displacement. Electric Crane at Sea Wall, Capable of Fitting 100 Tons at 70. Reef Radius.

tons,, Captain K. Masuda, from Canton, buoy No. 311-O.S.K. Japanese str., 5,046 Sanyo Maru;

tons, Captain K. Mori, from Nagasaki, buoy No. A3- 'O.S.K.

Sumatra Maru, Japanese str., 4,272 tons, Capt. G Shimmura, from Singapore, buoy: No, A8.--- 0.S.K.

Tilawa, British, str., 6,158 tons, Captain Coleborn, from Amoy, Kowloon Wharf, M. & Co. Yat Shing, British str., 1,424 tons, Capt. C. Alexandre, from Can- ton, buoy No, B82.-J. M. & Co.

WARSHIPS IN PORT

The following British warshipa are in harbour to-day

Tamar Basin. Seraph-West well dock. Sereple West wall dock. Magnolie Indock." Tarantula Indock Sirdar No. 4 buoy. Somme-Nas buoy. Thracian No. 7. buoy, Herald No. B bucy Stormcloud-No. 12 buoy Foreign Men-of War. HartAmerican destroyer. Mindanao American gunboat. Rizal American gunboat.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE

of cargo ex 8.8, are reminded to take

which will

minutes faster than any previous run.

by Mrs. Stanley Baldwin in Jan. 1928 and made her maiden voyage on June 1, 1928.

S.S. MALOLO:

The above vessel is expected to arrive here at 9 a.m. on Sun- day, and will snil at 5 p.m., on In August, 1928, the Duchess of Tuesday, for Honolulu and San Bedford made the voyage in 6 Francisco via Manila, Bangkok, days 91⁄2 hours, reducing the pre- Singapore, Batavia, vious record by nearly a full day. Sydney, Wellington, Auckland,

The Duchess of Bedford, built Suva and Pago Pago.

BANK LINE

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AGENTS FOR

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ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO.,

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE.

UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT

S.S. "CITY OF HEREFORD” London, Rotterdam & Hamburg

8.5. CITY OF ROUBAIX" .London, Dunkirk, Rotterdam & Hamburg

NEW YORK, BOSTON, & BALTIMORE

ANDREBO

· AGENTSTMVOR

Macassar,

LTD.

ELLERMAN LINE 9th November. 5th December.

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINEĮ!

WEIR & CO.

SERVICES TQ

BOSTON, NEW YORK, & BALTIMORE

M.V. "TAYBANK”. “M.V. “TWEEDBANK"

MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA

58. TINHOW".

AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE

1st November. 444th December..

ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE

26th November.

Loading for, Mauritius, Reunion, Delaros Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay (Port Elisabeth),

Mossel Bay and Capetown..

Through Bill of Lading isaned to Beira, Quilimaine, Ibe Port Amelia, Honambique, Chinde, Inhambane, Zanzibar, Mombaan; Killedbal, Port Nolloth, Luderita Bay, Walvis Bay And Madagascar.

For freight or passage on any of the above lines) apply kosm

Telephone 27701.

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