1930-11-12 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1930.

N.YKLINE

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA USA. VARYING FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghal, Japan Ports & Honolula

ASAMA MARU .... CHICHBU MARU

Thursday," 20th November Thursday.. 11th December.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA yia Shanghai & Japan Porta.

HIKAWA MARU

... Wednesday,

3rd December.

LONDON, MARSEILLES. ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM vin

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.

Saturday,

Saturday,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

FUSHIMI MARU

HAKOZAKI MARU

KITANO MARU

ATSUTA MARU.

... Tuesday,

Tuesday,

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

IYO MARU

+ CALCUTTA MARU

15th November.

29th November.

18th November.

23rd December.

Wednesday, 12th Novembor ̈ Thursday, 27th November.

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

Thursday,

20th November.

KOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Porta,

LIVERPOOL via Port Sald, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genos

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

Mexico & Panama. BOKUYO MARU

WAKASA MARU

Tuesday,

18th November.

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.

† ASUKA MARU

Monday,

24th November.

† TOYOOKA MARU

DAKAR MARU

Thursday, Friday,

18th November. 12th December,

† BENGAL MARÚ

Saturday,

PENANG MARU

Saturday.

15th November.. 29th November.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

HARUNA, MARU

Friday.

11th November.

ATSUTA MARU (Nagasaki dircet} Wednesday.

19th November.

20th November.

† DURBAN MĀĻU

25th November.

Carge only.

+ TOKUSHIMA, MARU (Moji diret) Thursday,

Tuesday,

For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KÄISHA

(Private exchange to departments.)

Telephone 30291,

0.

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BAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBIECT TO ALTERATION.

LONDON, HAMBURG. RÖTTERDAM · & ANTWERP Via Singapore

Colombo, Surz and Port Sald.... LONDON MARU

Sunday, 14th December.

Friday, 28th November.

CESARA MANAGENT 1

BRANDT & co.

St. George's Building, Chater, Bond.

Halfling and pair of Stanmors and Motorships of story type,

SOUTH CHINA

Talophones #3774, Nigha 87103. Telegrama; "BHIPAANDY."

MOTOR SHIPBUILDING

REPAIRING WORKS, LTD.

Te Kwa Wo-KOWLOON BAY, Telephone: 07001 Day and Night, Worka Manegeri W." D. HAALETY,

Telegram: "Morrano,"

LONDON DOCKS WEEK.

q

Successful Opening Day.

Inviallation and Repulta of Plesi- Engines _and" Mators for Mario and Lionary

'speciallly.

20,000-ton Orient liner, which is the Thames, and there are pic- to take home the Australian|turesque survivals to spice tho Cricket XL · and the Ashes, contrast-riverside inns, Marsh From the docks we entered the Tavern, each standing solitary on Thames through the new lock, a barren shore, each filled with opened 12 months ago, which is memories of old prize-fights wide and long enough; to take which were decided there. the largest ships afloat. Out in From scenes like these we en- the river a stiff breeze was blow-tered Gallions Reach, and then The Port of London is too vasting, and a low-lying and decrepit King George V. Dock, in company for any visitor to hope to see it Dutch waste-paper boat was with a fleet of barges, The ris thoroughly. Even if he could driving downstream before it. ing water in the lock lifted do so, there would still be some. We steamed past long jetties and us. 15 thing fresh to see to-morrow, for round the Highland Monarch to level with the dock policeman its most fascinating elements is the new passenger landing-stage, and the world had become hori the shipping: which ebbs and flows as unceasingly as the tides opened by the Prime Minister zontal again. The upper gates, last May. The Highland each of 800 tons weight, 'opened themselves. But, impossible

Monarch, of the Nelson Line, for us, and we steamed into the though it may be to know the bringe meat from the Argentine company of the greatest liners Thames completely, this London

as well as, carrying passengers.we had yet encountered, moor- Docks Week at least affords an In her modern way she is a beau-ed on both sides of us like a opportunity to make better actiful ship, with squat black and guard of honour. There were

ft. until we were

CANADIAN PACIFIC

QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC

12 DAYS FROM CHINA AND 8 DAYS EROM JAPAN TO CANADA AND USA.

LOSTO

Hong Kong Shangha

Rohe Σπατα

Yukojums Laye

'DeQura

Anive

Empress of Japan Nov. 27 Nov. 30 Dec. 2 Dec. 4 Dec. 12 Empress of Asia Dec. 10 Dec. 13 Dec. 18 Dec. 18 Dec. 27

Jan. 1 Jan. Empress of Canada Dee. 25 Dec, 28 Dec. 30

9 Empress of Russia* Jan. 7 Jan. 10 Jan. 13 Jan 15 Jan. 24 Empress of Japan Feb. Feb. 8 Feb. 10 Feb. 12 Feb. 29 Empress of AsĨa" Feb. 18 Feb. 21 Feb. 24 Feb. 28 Mar. T Mar. 20 Empress of Canada Mar. 5 Mar. 8 Mar. 10 Mar. 12 Empress of Russia Mar. 18 Mar. 21 Mar. 24 Mar. 26 Apr. 4 Empress of

of Japan

or Apr. 7 Apt. 9 1 Apr. 4

Apr. 17 A 10 Apr. 13 Aur. 16 Apr. 18 Apr. 27 Empress of Asia

May 14 Empresa of Canadat Apr. 25 Apr. 28 Apr. 30 May 2 Empresa of Rusala May 8 May 11 May 14 May 16 May 25 Empress of Japan May 23 May 20 May 28 May 10 June 13 Empress of Asia' June June 8 June 11

June 27 Empress of Canada June 20 June 23 June 25

*(Call at Nagasaki the day after departure from Shanghai)

Apr.

June 10 June 22 July

† Calls at Honolulu on May B. Calls at Honolulu on June 5.

HONG KONG. - MANILA SERVICE.

Loave Hong Kong

Arrive

Manila

Emp. of Japan Nov. 19

Nov. 21

Dec. 4

Emp. of Arla ..Dec. 2

Telephones: Passenger 20752 Freight,.20042

SYSTEM

oudinfance both with the Port white funnels peeping over a the P. and 0. liners Balranald, WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL and with its traffic than was ever grey hull and a vast bridge that Rawalpindi and Rajputana, the possible before. The Week made seems to spring almost from her Megantic of the White Star Com- a successful beginning on Satur-water-line. Smal! tugs were pany, the Hobson's Bay, the day, writes a Times correspon- loading-baggage into her as we Port Pirie, the Gregalia, and the dent in mail week, with excur- passed.

Menestheus with her distinctive sions to Tilbury and Galliona

The floating passenger stage light-blue funnels. We turned Reach, and a choice among simi-is joined by bridges to the new when we had reviewed them and lar tours, embodying visits to a baggage examination hall, in passed into Royal Albert Dock, variety of docks, warehouses, which a Customs officer explain-where among other liners and

k

and liners, is offered every day ed with evident pride how well some cargo vessels the Rangitane BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

this week.

the The party which made Tilbury excursion on the opening

ed these

St.

and expeditiously everything awaited us with ten, at which here is done. The hall is four hosts were the New Zealand- day numbered something short modern, well appointed, and un-Shipping Company. The Ran

comnianly beautiful with its gitane, a very. handsome ship RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Vin Saigon, Singa- of 200,- A special train convey walls and pillars of hand made which has been in service a little

pore, Colombe, Durban & Cape Town,

visitors from RIO DE JANEIRO MARU

Pancras to the dockside station Sussex bricks and a white semi-over a year, is due to sail next circular roof. When baggage is Thursday. After tea we were: MONTEVIDEO MARU

at Tilbury. Here they embark

landed it is ranged round the in-allowed to inspect her oil-burn- BOMBAY Vla Singapore & Colombo.

the ed on two sea-going tugs, HONOLULU MARU

Kenia and Sun V-stout little terior of the hall under the ini- ing engines and her passenger SUMATRA MARU

ships which rode comfortably on fiat letter of its owner's name. accommodation, before re-em- DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES,

a river which the wind at times our informant told us that the barking for the final stage of our

P. and O. liner Rawalpindi, arriv- journey to Tower Bridge. made choppyThe tugs were cd at 9.15 that morning with 580 As we turned into Blackwell spick and span, with awnings to give protection against rain, of Essengers, had cleared all her Reach there shone ahead the baggage and passengers, and twin domes and colonnades of which a little fell.intermittently

ZIBAR & MOMBASA Via CANADA MARU CALCUTTA—Via. Singapore, Penang

CELEDES MARU

TACOMA MARU

Tuesday, 30th December.

Wednesday, 19th November. :- Thursday, 4th December. BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZAN. Singapore & Colombo,

Saturday, 6th December. & Rangoon

Tuesday, 18th November. Tuesday, 2nd December.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER,

ARABÍA MABU (from Shanghai).. Monday, 15th December. MELBOURNE.-Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.

Saturday, 4th December.

* SYDNEY MARU

*(Calls at Wellington & Auckland.) HAIPHONG_Vla Haihow 'a Pakhal

NEW YORK-Via Japan porta & Panama.

HOKUROKU MARU

Saturday, 6th December.

to

SAILING DATES FOR NOVEMBER, 1930 (Subject to change). DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 pm, Wachow 2 pm

SS. "TAI HING" [1,068 tons-Capt. Trett.]

NOVEMBER.

S.S. [649 tons

SUN. FRI.

TAI MING” Capt: W. H. Lawton:}- NOVEMBER,

16th. WED. 26th 21at

WED.

12th. MON. 24th TUES. 18th SUN. 300

Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers Having Good Accommodation for First Class Passengers, Electric Light and Fans In Staterooms and Saloon. The s. "Tai Hing" is fitted with Wireless. These vessels lényo Hong Kong for Wochów (via Samìbui,_Shiu- Mag, Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (via samo Pertx)

every five, or six days.

Fares for round trip (not including meals) $20. Monis & Wines are to be obtained on board.

"

Hong Kong Arrivals and Departures from, Tai Hing Wharf, For informatior apply to

29. "Connaught Road, West, Phone 20893.

KWONG WING C

Ltd.,

on Saturday, but not enough to seen them off by train by 10.15. Greenwich Hospital, so splendid spoil anyone's enjoyment. Most Parties numbering not more than and sudden a contrast to all that of us preferred to stand crowd-10 have been passed through had gone before that they ap with their belongings and the peared like outposts of a differ ed towards the bows as our ves ship herself dismissed in 20 ent civilisation. Then on sel threaded her way through

steamed minutes. Electric trucks dispose Limehouse Reach, where the locks and docks or briskly, up the fairway of the of the baggage as quickly as it Golden Eagle, familiar to all LOS ANGELES, PANAMA, NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND Thames. With binocular glasses can be brought ashore. A pass Margate pleasure-seckers, was senger can now be in London in moored in readiness for entering of passing less time than to read the names

was sometimes winter quarters. We entered ships and a knowledgeable school-

The 8.8. Cape St. Francis boy not far off, the outing was taken to land him by tender be the Pool of London in early even-arms we felt that this was the

ing. Lamps were lit on the walls perfect way of coming into Lon (Dodwell & Co.) commanded by instructive as well as entertain-fore the stage was built.

From the landing-stage we of Shadwell New Basin when we don.. The memory of it stayed Capt. B. Hagland, is of 2,169 net ing. The boy was indispensable walked to the Tilbury Hotel, of passed. The fading daylight with us as we disembarked, with tonnage and has a crew of 11 Bri- which way the tide was running, which the magnificent address is showed bare mudbanks on either the aid of a tug still smaller than tish officers and 64 Asiatic sea- The side of the river, for the tide our own, at Tower Pier, and as men. She brought a cargo of coal. identified the first Clan Line Port of London, England. steamer by her tunnel, and sup-atel belongs to the Port of Lon- and vessels of many shapes and our skipper waved his bowler hat for Hong Kong from Saigon. plied answers to innumerable don Authority, and its intimate sizes lay canted over beneath the in' farewell. queries. So far as his state- concern with shipping and the walls of quaint buildings and old ments could be checked they river is apparent from the mas signs "Cherry Gardens Pier THREE NEW SHIPS. net tonnage and is owned by the

SEATTLE MARU

PHILADELPHIA,

JAPAN PORTS.

HOZAN MARU

BURMA MARÜ

*(Takno & Keelung-via Amoy.)

TAKAO-Vin Swatow & Amoy.

TAKAO & KEBLUNG.

DELI MARU...

Sunday, 16th Nov., Noon. Sunday, 23rd November. Tuesday, 9th December.

Thursday With: December, 19 a.m.

For further particulars please apply to OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

Tel. 28061.

M. TAKEUCHI Manager

Donations and Subscriptions must now

be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Mrs. H. E

Goldsmith, 525, The Peak.

HỒNG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

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

ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

It was he who first announced

were always right, though they threwano light upon the mystery how an intelligent boy can have picked up so much information in so short a life.

sive instruments which hang in was printed on one-making such the hall to give information pictures. as were etched by

and weather. At Whistler and described about wind

..A banana ship, luncheon we could see from the Dickens wide windows the homely roofs the Buenavista, ahead

TWO BRITISH AND ONE

by

ITALIAN..

The s.s. Great City (Admiral-

ty) commanded by Capt. G. Jones, is a twin screw vessel of: 3,341

Reardon Smith Line. She also came here from Saigon bringing a cargo of 5,840 tons of coal,

The 8.9.. Cracovia (Dodwell & of Gravesend opposite and ja grey ghost 48 We

Three new ships, two British Co.) is under the Italian flag, be- steamers dropping down-stream neared Tower Bridge. The and one Italian, paid their first ing owned by the Lloyd Triestino. We steamed down the eastern with the tide, which had now mighty bascules lifted slowly to visit to Hong Kong simultaneous- Her net tonnage is 4,566." The branch of Tilbury Docks and into turned. We set out again from the vertical to admit our small ly this week, arriving in port on master of the vessel is Capt. G. the main dock, passing between the landing-stage, this time to tug. At the sight of those giant Monday.

Lighters and Tarpaulins.

the City of Bristol, which had wards London. On our way to arrived only, that morning, and King George V. and Royal Al the Harmodius, which will sailbert Docks, a pageant of ships, to-day for the coast of Africa.big and little, went continually In the distance beyond the new by. There were archipelagos dry dock could be seen the Cana-of coal-barges, moored almost dian Pacific liner Montrose, an-hull-level under their cargoes. other recent arrival. Lighters Off Grays, on our right hand, moored end to end like strings was the training-ship Exmouth of sausages were tucked up for with its figurehead In uniform the week-end under tarpaulins, and cock-hat, and at Greenhithe Behind us lay the Oronsay, the two other wooden ships, perhaps the Arethusa and the Worcester. There passed at intervals tramps and cargo steamers, some smart, some rusty, barges with part- reefed and bollying, russet saila, more Dutch waste-paper boats, and the steamer Sirius, her screw A half-way out of the water. grey cargo-boat was named Dago, but she was reglatered at Hull perhapa by someone with a sense of humour or irony, Portia, on the contrary, belong ed to Hamburg..: A sailing-barge" that went by was called the Shamrock, An Enterprise fol lowed her "Inter in the day, re veraing the usual order.se

DRY DOCK

OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.

SALVAGE TUG "TAIKOO

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

Wireless Call

V.P.G.N. 500 Meters.

Length 787 Feet Length on Blocks 750 Feet,

Depth on Centre of.

"SU (H.WO.S.T.). 34 ft. 6 ins. -THREE SLIPWAYS-

Capable of Handling Ships Up

to 3,000 Tons Displacement, trie Crane at Sen Wall, Capable of *Ifsin 7100-Tons at 70 Feet Radius.

The

A River Panorama. The river banks were in them, selves an Interesting panorama. Except, for a village here and there, and an occasional glimpse of follage on the south side, there is little of natural beauty. about the low-lying fringes of these lower reaches of the Thames. Nevertheless, they stand, not inharmoniously as a background and -a corollary to the- unending tide of traffic, -Bare-stretches alternate with others which are crowded with that works of commercial enter

like

Cav. Quarantotto.

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AGENTS FOR

ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO.,

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE.

ELLERMAN LINE

UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT

5.S. "CITY OF ROUBAIX" London, Dunkirk, Rotterdam & Hamburg

·LTD.

5th December.

NEW YORK, BOSTON, & BALTIMORE

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE

ALSO AGENTS FOR

ANDREW WEIR & CO.

SERVICES: TO

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE

M.V. TWEEDBANK”.

MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA

S.S. TINHOW

AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE

12th December,

ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE

20th November.

Loading for Mauritius, Reunion, Delagon Bay, Durban, East London, Algon Bay (Port

-Elizabeth), Mossel Bay and Capetown.

Through Bills of Lading, lasted to Beira, Quilimsing, Ibo, Port Amelia, Mozambique, Chinde, Inhambane, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Killudini, Port Nolloth, Laderliz Bay Walvis Bay and Madagascar

For freight or passage on any of the above lines apply to

ANS

Telephone 27791.

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