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SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1933.

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 HLM. Government.)

3.9.

*KIDDERPORE

From

About

Tann Hong Kong

CARTHAGE +*BHUTAN

1931.

6,000 8th Sept. 15.000

9th Sept. 6.000 16th Sept.

NALDERA CORFU **SOUDAN

MANTUA RAWALPINDI **BURDWAN

COMORIN CHITRAL .**SOMALI

RANCHI CARTHAGE *BANGALORE

ALDERA CORFU RANPURA

10,000 23rd Sept.

15,000 7th Oct. 6,800 14th Oct.

11,500 21st Oct. 17,000 4th Nov. 6,000 11th Nov.

15,000 18th Nov. 15,000

2nd Dec. 9th Dec.

6 800

17,900 16th Dec, 15,000 30th Dec.

30th Dec. 6,000

16,000 13th Jan, 15.000 27th Jan. 17,000 10th Feb

*Cargo only.

Destination.

S'pore, Penang, Colomb & Bombay Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre,

London, H'burg R'dam, Antwerp & Hall.

›

Rombay, Marselles & London.

Marselles & London.

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg Bombay, Marsellwerp & Hail.

& London.

Marseilles & London.

Rotterdam,

& London, Bombay Marseilles Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

R'dam,

& Hull. Bomb Marseilles & London. & London. Marielles, Rare, London, Hamburg,

R'dam, Antwerp & Hull Bombay, Marsellier & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay. Marseilles & London.

287, ABIles &

† Calls Cablanca. 1 calls Karachi.

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,

*SANTHIA

TAKADA

SIRDIANA

TALMA

Calls Rangoon

8,000

1933.

2nd Sept. 7,000 16th Sept, 8,000 30th Sept. 10,000 14th Oct.

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

Penang & Calcutta.

Singapore. Port Swettenham,

THE CHINA MAIL.

Southampton's Huge Dry Dock

Built To Accomodate Future Sea Giants

A RECORD ACHIEVEMENT

(By John Lakil Everard.)

NATIVE TRAPPED IN ICY WELL

Good Samaritan Act

Goes Wrong.

WENT TO RESCUE CHICKEN

Johannesburg.

The nursery rhyme of "Ding Dong Bell" had an unusual Ivariation in Benoni wheri Я chicken down a well resulted in a native spending four hours knce-deep in city water.

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SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK, SEATTLE, VICTORIA THE SUNSHINE ROUTE 10 Days THE EXPRESS' ROUTE 17 · Daya To San Francisco Via Shangkat,

To Seattle Vin Shanghai, Kobe and Kobe Yokohama and Honolulu

Yokohama

Fortnightly callinge s--

Pres. McKinley...Ang. 39, 6, 8.3. Pres. Houver Pres. Lincola Pres. Coolidga

The plight of the chicken was discovered by a native who sum- moned another native to his Assistance. It was arranged that The new graving dock at South, this is sunk a long line of concrete the former should descend the ampton, which the King opened on monoliths, each 35 feet square well in the bucket to rescue the Wilson July 27, is of itself a notable en-Each monolith weighs about 5.000 chicken. Apparently the native gineering accomplishment. But it lons, and to force it to its depth of called to assist had a grievance forms only a part of the stupendous from 70 to 100 feet below quay le against his companion, for after scheme of extension on which the vel, it is necessary, as a rule, to, letting him down carefully for ai

Bombay, embarked some add 3,000 or 4,000 tons of cast-iron few feet he released his hold of

Southern Railway years ago.

blocks.

In pursuance of the company's The entire work is still far from the windlass and allowed the un- fortunante man to shoot 87 feet, determination to keep the premier completion, but the progress that

to the bottom. Surprisingly passenger port of Great Britain not la being made is indicated in the enough, although the well con- imerely abreast of, but in advance fact that already cargo sheds for tained only two feet of water, the of the times, marvels have been se-two of the berths along the quay Samaritan arrived at the bottom

complished. A couple of years ago have been erected. These sheds uninjured, narrowly missing the the new dock-the largest of its have been built as one continous chicken. kind in the world-WAS tidal structure, 1,650 feet in length and mudland, useless and unsightly. 150 feet wide.

For nearly four hours the man at the bottom of the well stood

A gigantic quay wall a mile and The graving dock which his Main the water looking up at the a half in length has been built in jesty has opened is essentially a little round patch of daylight and In bay of the River Test. In the section, though an enormously shouting for help. At last a ¡process incredible quantities of portant section, of the whole scheme

young European heard the cries mud, sand, and gravel bave been of dock extensions. By a sad irony and hauled him, and the chicken, dredged, and an immense sheet of if events, the giant Cunarder for shivering to safety-Reuter. water has been driven away by the whose accommodation the con-

engineers.

FAST-GROWING PORT

of

The very topography struction was begun a couple of Southampton has undergone a years ago, remains on her stocks, as a graving dock.

though there seems to be ground The marvel of the dock itself is change.

for hoping that werk on her may sustained in its sliding caisson, a product of Tees-alde: It is 140ft Ameng many evidences of this one day be resumed.

long, 59ft high, and noʻless than FOR FUTURE LEVIATHANS is the fact that the corporation

The long view has been taken in 30ft wide. It is designed to be electricity station, originally built on the foreshore, is now well in-the design of the dock, for it is big double acting; that is to say, In enough to hold not merely a vessel addition to keeping water out of land.

To the Briton with the sea in alsof 72,000 tons like the new Cunar- the dock, it can hold up the level der, but vessels of 100,000 tons-If of the water inside the dock while blood the world has no more Is-

leviathans of such dimensions the tide is falling outside. Made spiring spectacle to offer than that should ever be brought into com-up of more than 1,800 tons of steel, furnished by the numerous big mission in the British mercantile this mammoth gate must resist at liners which embark or disembark fleets. The dock is 1,200 feet long high tide a wall of water with a more than 500,000

passengers an- land 5 feet wide at its entrance, pressure of 6,000 tons. nually at Southampton. The total and the distance from cope" to EMPTYING THE DOCK of these great ships is being confoor is 60 feet. Here again one is Extraordinary pumping equip- stantly increased by the decision brought up against figures sa atarment has been installed, for pro of foreign shipping companies to ling as to make a real grasp of vision has had to be made for both. berth in the docks Instead of re- their significance improbable. The emptying and Impounding not only maining in the Cowes Roads. These work has involved the excavation of water filling this graving dock, but and other passenger developments 1,258,000 cubic yards, and in its con also another lock which is to be demand more and still more dock struction has called for 456,000 huilt alongside at some future date. accommodation.

cubic yards of concrete.

This second, contemplated dry The constant progress of cargo And its execution is probably dock by no means exhausts the traffic, too, calls for further ware-record achievement; the work was projects that he Southern Ball- house space.

all carried out between June, 1981. way, as owners of the Southampton | In his fashioning of Southamp and April of this year.

Docks, have in view. The schemes! ton into one of the great world

aa, such still on paper include a big jetty Essentially utilitarian ports. man has been conspicously a structure is, some of its details parallel to the new quay. assisted by Nature. The 15 miles

Jare, nevertheless, of imposing would give accommodation for of approach to the docks along the beauty. Fixing the eye on the twelve other great liners, Solent and Southampton Water are eight fights of steps by which the Laudable visions are entertained sheltered from every quarter, and door is reached, one finds it dif- of a substantial advance on pre- for the most part the waterway is ficult to believe that so delightful sent facilities, which will make

This

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for wide and deep. The crowning gift and impressive an architectural possible an annual entry of 17,000,-"

· 1st and 2nd class 'passengers.

to the much-favoured part is its touch belongs to so prosaic a thing'000 tons of shipping. double tides, resulting in what is

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, practically high tide for close on

TANDA

NANKIN NELLORE TANDA

NANKIN NELLOME

7,000

1939.

2nd Sept.

7,000 80th Sept.

7,000

three hours.

The site of the extensions to all the existing docks and quays was, as stated, a bay on the River Test. mudland-covered at high

3rd Nov. Manila. Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & This

Melbourne.

7,000 2nd Dec.

7,000 30th Dec.

7,000 3rd Feb.

tide, but bare at low tide-extend- ed for two miles in length and half. já mile in width from the Royal Pier upstream to Millbrook Point.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan GREAT QUAY WALL

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:

On the south side of the new quay wall a deep-water channel is

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New being dredged to provide berthe Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

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

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

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

NANKIN *SOUDAN

CORFU

SIRDHANA

MANTUA

TALMA

BURDWAN RAWALPINDI COMORIN

SOM ALE CHIZ

"RANCHI

*BANGALORE CARTHAGE ALDERN CORFU

RANPURA

1588.

7,000 Brd Sept.. 0800 5th Sept 16,000 7th Sept

8,000

7th Sept. 11.000 21st Sept. 10,000 21st Sept. $100 4th Oct 174000 15,000 20th Oct.

Gr 6th Det

6,800 1st

Nov 16,000 17,000 17th

7th Nay

3rd Nov

6.000 20th Nov. 15,000 1st Dec.

18,000 15th Dec, 15,000. 29th Dec.

1934. 17,000 12th Jan,

*Cargo_only.

Suni.

axi. Mall, Robe & Unass

Moji, Kobe & Yoko &Yokohama.

for eight great liners.

On the north side of the wall the| reclamation and raising of 400 acres of mudiand will give accom- ¡modation not only for sheds, ware- houses, and rail sidings, but for new factories, which it is con- fidently hoped will grow up around such a great water dock.

Many staggering figures present S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama themselves in the details of the Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.new graving dock and of the var Shanghai. Kobe & Yokohama ious extensions as a whole.

Shai, Moll, Kobe & Osaka instance, the creation of the deep-

& Yokoham5.M.

water channel involves the removal of 20,000,000 tons of earth, sand, and gravelThe dredging alone, it will De seen, is a herculean taak Alongside the quay the berths are dredged to 40 and 45ft below water, so that ships drawing more then 35ft will be able to lie afloat ¦áb1all states of the tide.m

Shanghal Kobe &

1 Robe

& Yokohama" -

Kobe &

c& Yokohama.

Kobe & Yokokama. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.

Shanghai, Kobe & YokohamLE. Shangkal, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghal Kobe & Yokohama.

Shanghai,, Kobe" & Tokohama.

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jas Pareria measuring not more than 6 cu. ft. will be received at the Com

pang's Office up to Noon on the day previous to selling

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