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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 STÉAMERS. (Under Contract with HM. Government.)

8.8.

T'ona

From HourKord,

About

CHITRAL

*KIDDERPORE RANCHI

*BANGALORE

NALDERA KAISAR-I-HIND *+*BHUTAN

· · RAJPUTANA .

MANTUA **SOUDAN

RAWALPINDI BANPURA ++*BURDWAN

MALWA

16,000 18th June 12,000 2nd July 6,000 9th July 17.000 16th July

Destination.

1932. 15,000 21st May Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Noon 5,800 8lat May Straits, Colombo & Bombay. 17,000 4th June Bombay, Marsellies & Landon.

6,500 11th June Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre H'burg, B'terdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marsailles & London. Bombay, Marsailles & London. Bombay, Marselles, London, Havre,

H'burg,

Aword &

& Hull Bombarda,

Marsellies &

Loaden. by Marseilles & London.

Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London. 17,000, 27th Aug. Marseilles & London.

6,500 3rd Sept. Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. 11,000 10th Sept. 1 Bombay, Marseilles & London.

THE CHINA MAIL.

.......

WHAT THEY SAY IN

1

THE NAVY

QUEER EXPRESSIONS USED

AT SEA.

"The Devil to Pay" Often Heard.

CONSIGNEES.

14

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

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

The Steamship.

›“BENREOCH”.

"The devil to pay" is a common; honour." At the end of the eighCONSIGNEES of Cars are hereby to enough expression, but how many teenth century, however, the term formed that all Goods are being land- people know that it is nautical in came to be applied to young gened at their risk into the hazardone origin? According to "Naval tlemen who were training for the and/or extra. hazardous . Godowas of Customs and Traditions," by Rear service on board ship.

The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf, & Admiral Gerard Wells (Philip Al-

whence, and/or from the wharves lan, 88. 6d.), the complete saying|rink after the Peace of 1815, when tained. should be: "The devil to pay and the number of demobilized mid- No claims will be admitted after the only half a bucket of pitch." The shipmen and the few ships commis- Goods have left the Godown, and all "devil" was a very large, impor- sioned made it both desirable and 23rd May will be subject to rent.

Goods remaining undelivered after the

Midshipman only became a naval Godown Co., Livery may be ob

| tant, and difficult saam of the ship possible for the Admiralty to as-

All claims against the steamer must

to caulk, and half a bucket of pitchsume responsibility for their ap- be presented to the Undersigned on er would be totally inadequate to pay'pointment.

before 6th June or they will not be

Loggerheads

ed.

It To "pay," by the way, means Even on shore we speak of recognised

All broken, chafed, and damaged to pour in hot pitch after caulk "splicing the main brace," implying Goods are to be left in the Godown, ing, to defend the oakum from the the desirability of a drink.

where they will be examined on the wet, and is derived from poix, the This expression. It seems, sprang 21st May, at 10 am, by Messrs.

French word for pitch.

from the custom of giving Goddard & Douglas.

a man a tot of rum as a reward To comply with the General Bond- It is probable that "the devil to when he had been employed on the ed Warehouse Regulations consigness must have Revenue Officer in at pay has half-a-dozen other sug-difficult and highly skilled task of tendance when damaged dutiable gosted · origins-what 'old saying putting a aplice in the main brace. goods are examined. hasn't?-but there is no denying Those who are looking for a new

No Fire Insurance has been effect- the ingenuity of this one. Rear- way of saying that it is time for the

Bill of Lading will be countersign- Admiral Well's book is full of first drink might point out that similar instances. We often hear, the sun is over the fore yard." GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. for example, of people "coming to Indeed, the landlubber, with

Agents. loggerheads." But happily they thirst for good expressions, may

Hong Kong, 18th May, 1982. rarely do it literally.

learn much from this book. If Loggerheads were heavy iron you wish to get rid of an unwant

which

heated and ed person say "Top your boom.” It then used to melt the pitch Bounds more polite than the bald For canlking. It

obvious "Go away." is. that In an argument they

Hooch-My-goosh."

bars

were

ed by,

became the common word "spin. naker.

Rear-Admiral Well's book is revelation to landsmen, and it could

no

proved to be most useful weapons. There are possibilities, too, in the be read with profit by sailers too. When they "came to loggerheads" food line. For "stew" try the ex-Half the time, one suspects, they at sea, one imagines, the decks were pression thooshy-goosh," and have no idea of the origin of the

phrases they use. It makes speedfly cleared for action!

for breakfast, instead of sausages

pretence to include every nautical Many expressions, although they or kippers, have "bangers" or term, but the examples have been still survive in the sailor's voca- "Spithead pheasants." "One-eyed" bulary, have completely lost their steak" sounds better than "bloater," judiciously selected. The illustra- original meaning. Most of them and "underground fruit makes a gravings and caricatures in

tions from hitherto unpublished en- the date back to the old days of sail change from vegetables. ing ships, often hundreds of years. "Banyan Days," which might be Macpherson Collections are a joy in

themselves, came translated "binge," is another term cen- that hus lost the meaning it once

to had:-

The term forecastle Into use In

the twelfth

11,000 80th July Bombay,don, Har tury, when castles, similar

6,800 8th Aug. Bombay, 17,000 18th Aug. BEIR,

•Cargo only. † Calls Casablanca, Calls Djibouti. Frequent connection from Port Bald for Passengers and Cargo to Con stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and oth or Levant Forts by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TILAWA TALMA SANTHIA

1932.

10,000 28th May 10,000 18th June 8,000 25th June

Singapore, Penang & Cakutta.

the war buildings on shore, were The Banyan Days in the old added both fore and aft to Norman Navy were Monday, Wednesday, ships.

[and Friday:

The Banians

W. E.

U.S. 30,000-TON LINERS,'

A survival of the nomenclature

were a class of A statement has recently been of "after castle" is found in the Hindu. merchants who, being of the issued in the United States by the manner in which the gear of the Valaya caste, abstained from the Roosevelt Steamship Company, quarterdeckmen is marked, name use of meat. Ships on the East general agent for the United ly "AX." as opposed to that of the Indian Station probably adopted States Lines, concerning the pro- forecastlemen, which is marked the word to signify the days ongress of construction of the 30,000,- "FX." It has survived probably which no meat ration was issued, ton liner Manhattan, which because it is much easier to cut plum duff being served in lieu, and launched on Dec. 5 last at the AX with a service knife than QD the expression became general New York Shipbuilding Com- (quarterdeck).

throughout the Navy.

pany's yard at Camden. It is ex-

Early Midshipmen. Midshipman, again, has entirely changed its meaning:—

Was

per cent. completed, and the en- gines, including main and auxiliary

The meat.ration, was so bad that pected the vessel will be ready for the meatless day was looked for service this Summer if arrange- ward to, and so in time the. BanyaDments go forward as planned. The Day 'became associated with occa-vessel, it is stated, is now about 75 It originally denoted the mensions of feasting and plenty. stationed amidships, i.e., under the "Spinnaker" and “Nob.” Captain's eye, and were usually The names of sails have all units, have been installed with tha prime scamen. The rating of Mid-kinds of unexpected origina. A exception of the two high pressure B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for ing down to the end of the Napo- first set in the cutter Niobe in hoisted aboard. The masts and fun- shipman was purely a ship's rat "spinnaker" for instance, was turbines, but these are ready to be 1st and 2nd class passengers.

leonic wars, and a Midshipman 1865, and the sail was for the first nels are still to be erected; but could be disrated by his command-few months called a "niob." this must await further progress ing officer, and made to serve be The Niobe, however, had a more on the superstructure. No date has famous rival, the Sphinx, and she been fixed as yet for the first sail The first mention of Midship almost simultaneously set a similar ing. With regard to the Manhat

·man, says Rear-Admiral Wells, sail. The sallors called for the tan's sister ship, now known as No occurs in 1848, "at which time it Spinx, and they called the peculiar 406, 87 per cent of the steel work 3rd June Mahila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & does not appear to have been a rat sail the "spinxer," which name pre has been erected, but the date for 2nd July

leading to

personal vailed over the word "niob," and her Teunching has not been fixed. 7,000 30th July'

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). fore the mast.

TANDA NANKIN NELLORE

7,000 7,000

1932

Melbourne.

Regular monthly astlings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan

and Hong Hong to Austraila.

Hong Kong to Bydnwy-19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union 9.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Kealand, Vancouver, San Francisen, ato,

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

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

ing

any

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NEXT SAILINGS

Weekly Sailings Transpacific

TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS

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via PANAMA.

TO SEATTLE

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Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays. Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays.

Prea. Grant ..May 24 at Noon Pren. Madison Pres. Lincola Pres. Coolidge

June 7 Pres. Cleveland ...June 21 Fres. Taft

.May. 28

June 11

June 25

ROUND TRIP FARES TO EUROPE, & AMERICA. 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 privi- leges for sight-seeing. Full particulars upon application.

Fortnightly via Suez to Europe & America

Fortnightly sailings on Sundays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Alexandria: Naples, Genos, Marseilles, New York and Boston,

Bi.m. Frea. Van Buren Sun., May 29 Pres. Polk. Pres. Garfield ....Sun., June 12 Pres, Adams

TO MANILA

'B #Mt. Sun June 26 Sun, July 10

Next Sailing. Pres. Madison May 21, 6 p.m.

Pres. Van Buren Pres. Lincoln

.May 29 - Pres. Cleveland „May 31 · Pres. Garfeld

.June 4 .June 12'.

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“SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. Cheap Summer Trips to Japan -June to Sept.

NALDERA.

TALMA *MIRZAPORE

"BHUTAN

SANTHIA

HAISAR-I-HIND

SNANKIN

„TAKADA

RAJPUTANA

*SOUDAN

SIRDHANAT

-1982.

16,090 19th May Shanghai, Moji & Kobe.

10,000 20th May Amoy, Shai, Moil, Kobe & Oazka.

6,700 28th May Shanghai Moll Kebe

6,000 41st Juno Shangha, Kobe Tokohama

* 8,000 27 Bid

12,000 mega

Shal, Moll, Kobe

Osaka. 7.

Molt, Epbergham

7,000 8th June 18'hal, Moll, Kobe, Ouin

16th June Amoy, Moll, Kobe A Yokohama 17,000 18th Tuna Shanghai, Kobe & Zorba f 8,800 28th Juna Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 8,000|| 80th June | Amey, 8'hal, (Moji, Kaba & Osaka,

- Cargo only

On Linyda

Mot of

approved

· Cast

AMERICAN FIFET MANOEUVRES

ports, will end on Thu concluding assembly off San Pedro (port of Los Angeles) keret

Back GA The battle fores

return to its operating bases in Mouthern Call- Decision to Carry Out formla and the scouting force will Plan Without the Akron Panama Canal, arising in New return to the Atlantia, via the

weweih

San Francisco May 11%

York on June 10,

Due to the constant, dinculties Cir

and delays experienced

Navy dirigible Akron 1

feet here, the

US MARINE ENGINEERS AS OILERS

to-mo

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