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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930,

-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.)

8.5.

From Tous. Hong Kong

About

†KALYAN *LAMORE

RANCHI

MIRZAPORE

*JEYPORE

KASHMIR

1080

Destination.

9,144 20th

5,304 27th Doc.

1931. 10,650 3rd Jan. 715 4th Jan. 5,318 10th Jan.

8,985 17th

15.132 31st Jan. 1,018 7th Feb.

"Cargo only. Calls Casablanca. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Porta by steamers of Thedival Mail Steamship Co.

Dec. Biarseilles, London, Hull, Rotterdam

& Antwerp. Alaraeiller, Londen, Hall, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antwerp,

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antwerp

Jan. | Marseilles, London, Hull, Rotterdam

COMORIN *PERIM

& Antwerp.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marcelles, London, Hull, Hamburg

Rotterdam & Antwerp.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1931.

SIRDHANA

TILAWA

TALAMBA TALMA

.8,018 10,000

7,745 24th Dec. 10,000 7th Jan. 14th Jan. 3rd Feb.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcuttę.

the

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SOUTH-WEST GALE.

MAKING FOR HARBOUR.

The day is grey and wild; blind- ing rain squalis blot out all but the nearer foreground. The huge seas are in fearful tumult. Some attempting to climb the massive breakwater are hurled back to meet their oncoming fellows and, leap ing skyward in vast volume, gro torn by the gale and driven in dense showers of spray into the harbour.

Here the mail boats roll to A gentle swell,' the groan of their hawsers - suggesting pent-up energy. Many other craft too are sheltering; tramp steamers glad of respite from the strain of driving with decks awash and roaring scuppers into the gala's teeth, tor pedo craft and small sailing ves- sels fortunate to have made the harbour ere the gale reached its worst. Here, too, are tugs, short and powerful, with thin eddies of smoke whirling from their fun- nels, waiting with steam. up to dash from the harbour and snatch from destruction some lame duck doomed without their aid to drive on the sands.

Some distance out to sen a small, light cargo steamer is making for the harbour. She has left the shelter of the Downa during a lull in the gale, but finding it now blowing with redoubled force i

She seeking the nearest, refuge. is nearing the narrow where the spring tide, combined with sea and wind, makes it a mat. ter for great skill and judgment, "She won't make it this time," shouts my companion-I can just "She's hear him above the gale

entrance

a stranger, we can always tell by the way they come at it." Yawing as the wind catches her bow, her rudder sometimes clear of the sea, she struggles to make the short distance that divides her from my informant safety. Even 68 speaks her skipper turns her head once more to the wind. Now comes a steady fght; pitching 'frightfully aho beems barely-to-hold-her-own, and gathers way with painful slow- ness. "Going on down Channel?" I call. "Can't say, I expect she will try again; these small boats haven't more coal than they can do with and a little of this soon empties their bunkers." Again she Imakes the attempt, and his time, by keeping close to the western end of the breakwater, succeeds in get ting in.

My experience of sailors has shown me that they mostly take the elements as they find them. They have been called grumblers, but to me they seem the most patient of men, meeting 'discomfort, priva- tion, and peril with wonderful for

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). titude. These wild coasts of our

ST. ALBANS NELLORE TANDA

4

claim a heavy toll of life, and we at home on winter nights cannot picture the hardshipa endured by Manila, Rabani, Brisbane, Sydney those who follow the sea for

livelihood. If you would care to know something of a winter's gale on our coaste read the story of the wreck of the "Indian Chief."

1931

4,500 2nd Jan. 0.858 | 31at Jan. 6,950 28th Fob.

& Melbourne,

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan. and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 daye.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

HONG KONG AND MACAO LINE

in Good Speed··

S.S. CHUEN CHOW

Daily Salling from Hong Kong at 200 p.m. Salling from Maeso at 7.50 a.m. Sundays excepted.

Freight and Passage apply 2—

CHUEN ON STEAM BOAT CO., LTD.

Tel. 26061. 241, Des Voeux Road C.

PASSENGER LIST

ARRIVALS.

Greene,

EASTERN PORTS.

The health bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ended Decem-

Plague.

Fer M/3 Terukuni Maru from ber 6, issued by the Director of Japan on December 12-

Medical and Sanitary Services, Dr. S. Muro, Lt. S. Tomono, Lt.gives the following cases:→ S. Nakahara, Mr. F. C. Hehbock, Col. F. H. James, Miss E., H. Millard, Miss M., M. Goorraline, Dr. and Mrs. D. C. Miss M. Greone, Miss.E. Greene, Mr. and Mrs. EG. Loomis, Mrs. G. Ainger, Mr.-W. E, Bowerman, Mr. T. C. Spence, Mr. G..H. Potts, Mr. T. G. Weall, Mr. A. Boyd, Capt. and Mrs. J. H. Carmichael, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Hall, Mr. L. V. Sjostedt, Mr. P. M. N. Silva, Miss M. Franke, Mr. E. F. Andral, Miss B. Miiler, Mr. K. Mizuma, Mr. R. tani, Mr. V. Pautoin, Mr. W. J. Brown, Miss A. D. Talavikoff.

STEAMER'S MOVEMENTS.

The CF.S. R.M.S. Empress of Canada arrived at Yokohama on December 12 (Fri.) at 8.30 a.m., left Yokohama on December 12 (Fri.) at noon, and is dus at Kong on December 18 Hong

She leaves Hong (Thurs.), a.m. Kong for Manila on December 18 (Thurs.) at midnight,

CONSIGNEES.

BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE.

"NOTICE" TO CONSIGNEES- Motor Vessel,

་་

ex

"TAI SHAN"

From NEW YORK & PORTS.

are here- Consignees of Cargo

Goods ty informed that all m.v. "Tal Shan" have been tran- shipped at Manlia to my. "Tudor" thoir are being landed at and

Godowns of the the rink into Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves de

Optional Cargo will be forwarded livery may be obtained anlass notice to the contrary be given before 10th instant.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godswn, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 16th instant will be subject to rent.

All claims against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 20th instant, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 16th instant at 10 am. by Mesars. Anderson & Aahe, Surveyors.

And now, a great square-rigged ship, a gypsy of the sea, is runed ning under shortened sail for the shelter of the Downs, one of the few remaining, alas, of man's most

The Union 95. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New lovely creation. She makes littlo Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

*

The P. & D. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P.&O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez, The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton London via Panama Canal.

*PERIM

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAT & JAPAN.

KASHMIR

TALAMBA

"KIDDERPORE

COMORIN

NELLORE

TALMA

KASHGAR

KHIVA

MALWA

TANDA

1930

of the gale, taking the seas in her stride and fitting the picture per- fectly. "Not many of them left and now, Sir; she's a Finn; fine sallor men." Next a destroyer makes twice the weather of it; the smoke from her funnels is pouring ahead, and with her low freeboard' she- disappears between the seas till nothing is seen but her uppers works:

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersign-

by

DODWELL & CO, LTD, Agents

Hong Kong, 9th December, 1980. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON and STRAITS.

The Steamship,

Paom-Penh: 1 caso, 1 death,

Cholern. Bombay: 4 cases, 1 death.. Calcatta: 2 cases, 1 death. Tuticorin: 1 case. Pondicherry: 1 case, 1 death. Pnom-Penh: I case, 1 death, Small-por Bombay: 1 case, 1 death. Berbera: 1 case. Calcutta: 6 cases, 4 deaths. Cochin: 6 cases, 2 deaths Madras: G cases, 2 deaths. Negapatam: i case. Vizagapatam: 1 case. Penang 1 caso.

Shanghai: 5 cases, 3 deaths. Dairon: 1 case.

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

The following British warabipa are in harbour to-day-

Tamar-Basin.

Thracian-South wall, Stormcloud-South wall. Iroquois East Wall. Medway--North arm. Berwick-West wall dock. Marazion-In deck. Cicala-In dock. Seamaw-In dock. Suffolk-No. 3 buoy. -Horakd→No.-4-buoy.--

Bruce No. 6 buoy Sepoy No. 8 busy. Somme-No. 10 booy, Sirdar No. 11 buoy. Serapis No. 12-buoy, Cornflower-No. 18 buoy.

HONG KONG TIDE

The tide-table given below has been obtained by ald of the Tide-predlet- ing Machine, which includes 40 com- ponents for the better prediction of das from the result of the analysis

of the tidal observations, taken at the Kowloon tidal observatory under the direction of Dr. Debesck during the years 1887, 1888 and 1889,

The times and heights are given for Kowloon; but they may be used for the Victoria Naval Yard, and Aberdeen, the differences being very small

The times of high and low-water. must not be considered to coinelde with the times of slack-water and change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinct,

S.S. PRES. JEFFERSON

will sail from

HONG

KONG

for

SAN FRANCISCO

1 A.M.

on

MONDAY December 15th

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE

||DREX/

MURKO

PUSAKA

EXPRESS

SERVICE

BARBER WILHELMSEN

WER LINE

TRANS-PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC COAST SERVICE

via PANAMA.

NEXT SAILING

M.V. "TAI YIN"

on DECEMBER 17th

for

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA,

·SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & BOSTON,

42 Days To New York.

Fed.

Thurs

December 18 to 19, 1980.

DATE HIGH WATRE LOWER WATER

Standard Standard

H Times

Times

*s*, 13 m 106.7. m 10 18 18

SED, 84 148. m 11.01

'11 49 = | 7.7 'On. 16 m 531 5.5 m 11-51

20 ̈ 6·1 Tues 18m 6 57 5 7 06 6.7 Wed, 17895.0 7 82 7.1 169 17 19m 10 12.5 6 35 79

8,9 010 3.0 £ 672 0208

ID 3448

Queen's Bulldings.

1791 125 17:13

"DENARTY** Consignees of cargo are hereby in. | 7,648 19th Dec. Shanghal, Moj, Kobe & Yokohama

A mill boat blows a hoarse formed that all goods are being land. G 8,985 | 20th Dec. Shanghai, Moft, Kobe & Yokohama, drone on her whistle, and backing at their risk into the bazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of 8,018 26th Des. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka from the jetty turns in the smooth The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and

1931.

water of the harbour, the glow of Godown Co, Ltd, whence and/or from Shanghai, Hoji & Kobe,

her starboard light shining on the the wharves delivery may be obtained. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

the No claims will be admitted after Shal, Mojl, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. spume. Then pausing for a mo

Goode have left.

the Godowns, and all Amoy, S'hai, Moll, Kobe & Osaks. ment as if to say, "Well, we are Goods remaining undelivered after the Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. the mail, it's got to be done," she 19th instant will be subject to reat. Shanghal, Mejl, Kobe & Yokohama flings herself, at 10 knots into the All claims against the steamer at Shanghai, Moj, Koba & Yokohama. S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama tooth of the gaie, and so disappears be presented to the Undersigned on or

in mist and rain and a smother of before the 2nd

6,834 ist Jan. 15,102

Brd Jan, 0858 6th Jan 10,000 12th Jan 9,005. 17th Jan 9,185 24th Jan 10,980 81st Jar

6,056 6th Feb.

* Cargo only.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS. Passengers for Rangoon mu defray their own Hotel expenses 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 nát more than 2% fh 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, Famage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply kei—.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

P. & O. Ballding, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.

Agents.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.

will not be 4981, or they

All broken, chatel, and damaged The short day la fading, duak Goods are to be left in the Godowns, intensifies the ghostly shapes of where they will be, rained on the great waves, a dim feeling of 18th instant at 10am Messrs.

Goddard & Douglas moonlight accentuates the ragged No Fire Insurance has been effect edges of wild scud. The Foreland Federerromant stretches its welcoming light Bills of lading will ba across the waste of waters, to be led by answered by Griane's splendid. beam The Times..

GIBB, LIVINGSTON

13:8.6

For Passenger and. Freight information please apply:-

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Agents,

Telephone 28021

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

CO. LID, Agents Hong Kong, 12th December, 1930.

Besses. Six

Granite Docks and

Two Pat-

ent Silp

TRAVEL A. O, LINE

Ye AUSTRALIA, Calling at Manifs (P. Is.), Thursday is.. Cairns. Towervilla,

* Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, and

BRITISH STEAMERS: CHANGTE TAIPING. (BURNERD,

FASTEST. 2d 110ST US/TO-DATE STEAMIES IN THE SERVICE, STRIC, LAUNDRY, HARERE KHOP, SUROSON 14 STEWARDESS CARRIED.

is Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Sydną w

FARE TO SYDNEY, 294 RETURN

LONDON (via Australia) from LIST/10/-

ways. The

"dimensions of No. 1 are

Dock 700

88 ft. x 30

M.S.

SUGEO.”

Codes Used:

A1, ABC

Fifth Edi- tion: Ex

g1n eering:

First

and

Second Edi

tion; West-

em Union ̈and

Wat»

kins.

Single screw steel passenger and cargo motor ship. Dimensions —154′ 0′′ RP. 11 8 MEL DW. 470 tona; B.H.P. 360; Speed 10% knots. Built

and machinery Installed by The Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co, Ltd, to order of La Naviera Filipina Inc., Cebu for Philippine coasting service.

Plate

series to the Chief Manager:

R.M DYER, B.Sc. MINA. Kowloon Dock, Hong Kon