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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.)

From

8.5.

Tons

Hong Hong About

*KASHMIR

1931.

Destination.

Oct. M'scilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp.

Noon Oct.

4th Nov. 7th Nov. 21st Nov.

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

THE

CHINA

MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON DOCK They set out to build about 3,500

EXTENSIONS.

At Completion Will Be Largest in the World.

feet of new quay to accommodate, any,

four big ships; but quité

directors the

recently

ed to double

that

decld-.

accom-

.

TARGET FOR BOMBERS.

Deserted Decks.

II.M.S. Centurion, the Fleet tar-

getship of the British Navy, which is passing through the North Sen on her way to a Scottiah bage, is offering a target to squadrons of which are dropping acroplanes bombs and torpedoes off the York- shire coast.

modation and build 7,000 ft. of Centurion's Cruise with quay, thus furnialling accommoda- tion for eight auch vessols Whea they considered that meant adding "A wonderful accomplishment" about one-third to the quay accom- were the words Mr. G. R. Newcombe,modation of the existing docks they would "appreciate that Southampton and marine Southampton docke manager, used to express his ad was going in a year or two to be a much more important port than miration of the manner in which the Docks Engineers Department in the past. (Applause.) were pushing ahead on the work of the world's greatest graving dock which is being built on the western shore at Millbrook. He was speak Ingat the seventh annual dinner of, the department, held at the Chan- try Hall, Southampton, tioned that although operations were only commenced a short time ago, the preliminaries were so far advanced that the actual work of

excavation would

and mon-

be commenced

Now they had been called upon to 'carry out yet another great work in bullding a graving dock which would be by far the largest in the world. It would not only accom- modate the vessel of over 70,000 tons at present being built for the Cunard Line, but would be sufl. clently large to accommodate other much bigger vessels if auch were ever built.

The Centurion is controlled by

the destroyer Shikari, and while the bombs are being dropped the big battle ship is without a crew. The steering and speed of the Cen- when steam reaches full pressure on turion are directed by wircioss, and the Centurion the stokers and the rest of the crew are taken aboard Shikari. They return when the practice is over. Guided by delicate lostruments, the Centurion steams

Traffic Figures for February. early. The manner in which they area

The Southampton docks statistics were rapidly enclosing the with sheet piling was worthy of the for the month of February, which

have just been issued by the South-at 17 knots and is made to swerve from port to starboard or vico greatest possible admiration.

The dinner, which was attended

customary vide the

favourable

by about 200 members of the do. /ern Railway Company, do not pro versa, In order to dodge the mlesilca]

chairman Mr. comparison with those for the of the attacking aircraft,

corresponding month in 1930, the number of decreases recorded being higher than usual.

partment, had as F. E. Wentworth Shields, O.B.E the docks engineer, who, speaking

The number of vessels Inward of the work of the department, said they were themselves carrying out the great extensions on the western was one in excess of the total during shore. That was a compliment the same porled of last year, name- which they most appreciated for, in-ly, 223 as compared with 222; but stead of calling in special engineers, outward there was a falling off of

had the directors entrusted the three vessels, the figure being 220 werk to their own department, be as against 223. lleving that in it they had men of the necessary experience and zeal to sec it through to a successful con-

BATTLE AT SEA. Thrilling Encounter with Rum-Runners.

Boston, Sept. 6. All the scientific refinements of All the tonnage totale showed a

Gross tonnage inward modern warfare were employed to- a spectacular clash be tons decline.

to day in 910,778

and rum- coast-guards slumped from 818,137 tons, and outward from tween

off Gloucester,

whon 868,869 tons to 811,265 tons, mak-runners

shot to Was rum.runner ing the respective decreases 92,641 one

one guardeman was by polson

Four gas. tons inward and 57,658 tons out-denth and ward. The net tonnage also fell felled

A high-powered smuggling boat,) during this February as compared alleged rum-runners were arrested. months. In that time further ex-with the corresponding month in

clusion.

Really Big Job.

That extension work, proceeded the speaker, was a really big job upon which considerable progress Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull Straits, Colombo, Bombay & Karachi, had been made during the past few Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant-tensions had also been decided upon.

9,000 24th

*tBURDWAN

*ALIPORE

6,600

6.309

31st

NALDERA

16.000

*KASHGAR

0,000

RAJPUTANA

17,000 5th

+CORFU **SOMALI

15,000 19th

6.800 20th

Doc.

Marseilles, Havre, Londen, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

HONG KONG TIDES.

"

werp & Hull. Doc, Marseilles & London.

Dec. Maryelles & London,

Carga only. Calls Casablanca, Calls Djibouti. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TILAWA

SANTHIA TALMA TAKADA

10,000

8,000 10,000 7,000

1081. 16th

Oct.

4 p.m. 29th Oct.

12th Nov. 20th Nov.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

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

BL Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.

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1980, the decrease being 57,143 tons the Lassghen, was fired upon by a inward and 27.126 tons outward. | const-guard cutter, and immediate- The totals revealing this are 437,042 ly laid down a smoke acreen and compared with poison gas. Machine-gun fire was tons inward 494,185 tons in February, 1930, and then directed into the quarry's hull 436,500 tons as against 462,688 by the cutter, and when capture to tho imminent owing

crew tons.

Lassghen's disablement, the unsuccessfully attempted to burn! the vessel to prevent the seizure of her cargo of 400 cases of liquor.

The time used is Standard, or

The amount of cargo handled at mean time of the meridian of 120 deg. E.; 00h. is midnight, 12hrs. is Southampton dwindled by more than noon. The heights are referred to 20,000 tons, a decline of 11,702 tons the datum of the largest scale Ad-being recorded Inward with 2,433 miralty chart of the place and and 4,844, contrasted with 3,089 ahould be added to the depths given tons and 9,240 tone outward. Ac on the chart unless proceded by an tually inward freight amounted to asterisk (*), when they should be 20,437 tons as against 41,189 tons, whilst outward the figure was 31.668 subtracted from the depths.

tons in comparison with 40,969

DATA

October 16 to 22, 1981.

Hion WATRE LOW WATTO.

Standard Standard Cctober Time:

Tamoa

Ht.

Fri 18

eat. 17

II.

13 47 00 05

M. Y.

E. M.

1-8

17 10

4.2

77

08 0$

10 40

4.7

16 61

00 49

(98)

NELLORE TANDA

NANKIN

1931 31st Oct. 7,000

2nd Doc. 7,000

1932 7,000 2nd Jau.

Mon. 101 01 40

01 48 Tues. 20

20 10

19 48

6-7

11 4*

28 41

Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney Wod. ti

04 80

& Melbourne,

20 13

5'7

1% 34

Thors 21

06 01

8'4

20 20

11 05

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). SuD. 18

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

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

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

The P. & G. Branch Service of steamers to London via Sues.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

&

tens.

The passenger returns were also considered down, but if they are with the trooping figures the deficit is turned into an increase.

SEA SLANG.

was

Efforts by the coastguards at! Kingston (Massachusetts), to re- cover several boatloads of liquor which rum-runners dumped into the Jones River flats resulted in volleys of gunfire from ambushed

rum-runners,

The guards dived into the river and escaped uninjur- ed. Later they recovered 200 cases of Ilquor.

clothing during a dirty job ou seaman named board. Also any Collins,

The following is taken from

Junk Liquor or drugs in Ameri- "Sea Slang," a Dictionary of the Oldtimers' Expressions and Epith-can or Australian ships.

ets by Frank C. Bowen..

Jump a Ship, To. To desert.... 6.1

Jumper. Now the technical name for the seaman's upper garment, 23 000119 but originally a slang term for a 24 duck jacket slipped on to protect

Cellular tissue in the head of a sperm whale, in which the sper maceti is found.

Rubbish. Hardened old rope, or the salt provisions which so often rosembled it.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.,

HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS: Telegrams: KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 28620.

Telephones:

KOWLOON DOCK 58053.

"MANIFESTO, HONG KONG.”

DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTERS, WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.

On Lloyds

list of

approved

Cast

Steel

Maxniac-

tarere.

Harbour

Call Flaga

Engineer

"K"

Boller. maker

Bhipwright

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931.

SPECIAL ROUND

TRIP FARES -

TO

EUROPE.

WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

To Ban Francisco, Los Angeles

& New York via Panama, The Sunshine Belt via Honolulu

To Seattle & Vistoria,

The Short, Straight Route to America Fortnightly sailing, on days.

Fortnightly sailings on Tuesday

p.m. .Oct. 27 Pres. Madison....Oct. 18, 1 Pres. Cleveland....Nov. 1 Nov. 10 .Nov. 24 Pres, Taft

...Nov. 15

Pres. McKinley Pres. Grant

Pres. Lincoln

£79 £112 £120 Special through rates to Europe via

United States, Direct connections with all Atlantic lines... Choice of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.

ROUND TRIP FARE TO EUROPE. From Hong Kong to Naples

., Marneille

London

Full particulars upon application, EUROPE AND NEW YORK DIRECT ·

ROUND THE WORLD.

£132. 5.04. £161. 0,08.

£169.75.0

Fortnightly sailing on Sundays via Manila. Straite, Colombe, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genon, Marseliles, New York and Boston.

8.11.

22.31

Prea. Polk

Nov. 15, B Pres. Van Buren ..Oct. 18, 8

Pres. AdamS .....Nov. 29, 8 Pres. Garfield ....Nov. 1,8

TO MANILA

Pres. Van Buren Oct. 18, 8 a.m (Pres. Garfield ..Nov. 1, 8 a.m. Pres. McKinley Oct. 20, 6 p.m. Pres. Grant ...Nov. 3. 6 p.m. ....Nov. 7, 6 p.m. Pres. Cleveland .Oct. 24, 6 p.m. Pres. Taft

CANTON BRANCH:-4, SHA KEE STREET.

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL

BARBER}

VREKET

LIKE

PAUMA

EXPRESS

SERVICE

LINE

BARBER WILHELMSEN

LINE

TRANS-PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC COAST SERVICE

vin PANAMA.

NEXT SAILING

ΤΑΙ M.V. "TAI YIN"

on OCTOBER 18th.

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 28021.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS; BRANS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two p ways and can sccommodate any craft of 200 feet long. Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong.

·Shipyard: Sham-abul-pe, Kewloon, Hong Kong,

Estimates furnished on. application.

Tel 20459, Kowloon Tel 87009,

KASHGAR TALMA HACEDONIA

KIDDERPORE KRIVA

*SOMALI

RDHANA KHYBER

TILAWA

RAWALPINDI

NANKIN SANTHIA TARMALA1

1981. 9,000 | 10th Oct. Shanghal, Hoji, Kobe & Yokohama.

Bp.m. 10,000 23rd 11,000 23rd 5,300 30th

9,000 1st 7,000 7,000 6th 17,000

Oct. Amoy, S'hal, Mojl, Kobo & Osaka. Oct. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokoharan.

Oct. Shanghai, Moll & Kobe.

Nov. Shanghai, Moji & Kobo.

6th Nov. S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. Nov. Amoy, Mojl, Kobo & Osaka.

ath

Ναν.

Νον.

8,800 14th 8.000 20th 18,000 20th Nov.

9,000 10,000

Nov 28th 4th

Nov. Shanghai: Roba & Yokohama.

Kobe & Yokohama. Moll, Kobe & Osaka. Kobo Yokohama. Shanghal & Koba

& Osaka. Dec. Amoy Moll, Kobe & 17,000 4th Dec. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokobama.

7,000

7th Doc. S'hai, Moji, Hobe, Osaka-&-Y'hama. Doc. Amoy Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 8,000. 18th 19,000 1 18th Dec. Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama,

ཐཱ -

⚫ Cargo only,

All dates are approximaïs and subject to alteration without notics. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Panka Louvre System, Steamers on London And Australian Lines are dited with ·Laundries. Parcsts massuring not more than 5 en ft, will be received at the Com pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to safling.

For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE

P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong

&

CO

Agents.

T.S.S.

EMPRESS OF JAPAN.”

In No. 1 Dock. Dimensions:-686′0′′ Q.A. x 83′6′′ x 48′6′′ Mid 28,000, tons Grosa

The Company possesses Six Granite Docks and Two Patent Slipways.

The dimensions of No. 1, Dock are 700′0′′ x 89′0′′ x 30′6′′ over sill, H. W. 0.9. T. Salvage Tag "Henry Keswick, 2,000 LHP. Wireless Call Signal V.P.RT. and Flag Call Signal T.H.Q.B. Sheerlegs capable of lifting 80 tons.

Codes: Used: AI, A.B.C. Fifth Edition: Engineering, First and Second Edition. Western Union. Bentley and Watkins,

Kindly send enquiries to the Chief Manager,

R. M. DYER, B.Sc., M.IN.A., Kowloon Docks, Hongkong,

Hong Kong, April 1, 1924, ..

ROYAL NAVY,

to H.M. the King, in succession to Eng. Capt. R. Beaman, C.M.G., who to Eng Rear- was promoted Admiral on September 8.

Engineer A.D.C. to the Eng. Capt. Pulllbank, who has

King.

been Lerving as Fleet Eng. Officer, Reserve Fleet, Portemouth, since April, 1980, was twice, mentioned, The appointment is announced of in despatches, and received the Eng. Capt. J. B. Pullibank, D.S.O., D.3.0. for his services in the Dover 0.B.E., to be a Naval Aidé-de-Camp Patrol during the war,

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