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During FebruaTM the shipping entering and lanying the port Antwerp amounted to 400 vessels of 824,989 fons, against 476 vene's of * tonnage of 826,468 tone during February of last year. During January and February the vessels nuraberei 939 of a total of 1,655,774 tous, as compared with 1,006 rassels of 1,774,897 tore in the first two months of 1907. The port authorities are beginning to be concerned at this falling off, which shows signs of being
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Shipowners have rosson to be thankful for some drop in soal prices, but they live in great fear that their industry will be permanently. handicappol should the Miners Eight. Hours Bill ever become law. They are taking overy step in their power to make England under stand that the limitation by statute of the work-
wid of coal.
Sprottly thick on a par with the drop in tán ₫ Thê dugásvat may dredgarson dhe huluka Hamburg American Company's dividend is that It is expected that he will prossed to tas Niw which is notified by the Kosmos Company, in April in order to report upon the mehema. which teades between German ports and the The proped improvement of the river is to be the declaration in 9 per cent, ad compared with the fallway terminus of Buco, a distance of 14 per cent. The Humburg Roath America mailas.
9 per cent, The High Commisioner reports that the. Company doon batttar, for it pays against 10 per cent, so that the drop is but a general pace of the country is being maintained, small one, One erman company has done and that no seriane operations took plaas in, the better than last year. This is the Haass Com rear 1997. pany, of Bremen, which a little time back waged two-years war with the P. and G. and British India companies, In the hope that it might induce them to reduce the number of their sailings from Antwerp. It did not succeed, Apparently the peace which was eventually declared has been advantageous to it,, for the dividend has been incressed from 6 per cent. to which again page 8 per cent, exhibits no ratis 8 per caut, The German Australian Line, tion in dividend.
JAPANESE BHIPPING
COMPETITION.
E EASTERN OPINION ON THE
GROWING RIVALRY, A An occasional correspondent of the Pall
Shipowners of all nations trading with the Mall Gazette wrote from Hongkong on February
Far East are bearing testimony to the great nativity of the Japanese in the panuit of commeres in India and Chinese waters. Opision le divided as to whether the competition is unduly hesa, but there is unanimity of view as to the minority of the Japanese ta detesting Daw Openings for her marcantile marino. On all hands is heard comment on the spssch delivered recently by Bic Thomas Sutherland to Sho the shareholders of the P. and O. Company as to Japanese compstilion, but it must be granted. that the English papera in the Far East, from India to Japin, are by no means redolent of. sympathy for the ides expressed by Sir Thomas, in spite of the fact that most of the editors are from his own northern half of Great Britain, and are shrewd business man, jealous of the prestign of the British g
The Japanese are not disposed to let the Americant have it all their own way in cosuse. with the transport of oil in bulk. There has just been completed on the Tyon a-largs tank steamer, called the Buys Maru, which was. launched at the end of last year by Messrs, Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., which has now been required by Japanese owners
employed in osrriage of oil will go out to be logo. She is the second Tessel of Lardos Lo be sold to a Tokyo company: It looks as thigh the Japanese are intent on possessing amontile marine which shall be capabla asentuni of rendering them quite indepent of European aid in the conduct of every branch of their shipping trade.· ́
PROGRESS OF NIGERIA,
During the Russo-Japanese war, Japanese versals were pressed into the service of the Government as transports and auxiliary cruisers, leaving the ordinary freight trade to the German Reuters Agency understands that Sir Percy and British lines for the most part. Soaps not Grouard, High Commissioner for Northern dealt with by these companies were picked up by Nigeria, who has just arrived in England on Norwegian vessels that had strayed on specula the termination of his first official tour, willtion into Far Eastern waters. return to Northern Nigeria in May next, preciaaly
With the close of the war, however, the Japanese subsidiosd auxiliary cruisers 200 texasporis returned to their owners, and were supplemented later by a number of vessels esp. fared from the Russians and handed over by the Government as free gift to the principal. companies of Japan. These vessels, being of 6,000 tons and upwards, were a very valuable aid to the companies, and they promptly antared into a keen competition with the German and English firms, under these favourable auspices, to wrest from them the commerce of Straton, then freights have been out, the ty Nor- Hongkong, Singapore, and Baugkok. Binsi wegians have been forced so withdraw, and many British and German ships are lacking
It was at Best
ing hours of miners will most prejudicially feat steam shipping It la opportunely pointed out that France has already tried an Experiment in this-direction,--. with
In coarse of overation with Renter's the same consequences as are apprehended in this country. The French output has fallen representative, the High Commissioner seid off, prices are higher, and the economic that what perhaps appealed most to him in the situation has become seriously disturbed. Protestorate was the wonderful agricultural French shipping, however, can hardly be said development, more particularly of the Ie to rely very much upon coal as an outward northern provinces which he visited. cargo. Bat to British shipping it is indispens referred especially to the aeroage under exitin 2b, unless homeward freights are to be 19tion areaud Bsuo, within sixteen miles of which sire. Reduced coat supplies, therefore, would town there wore over 1,000,000 ceres nuder mean not only that the consumer would pay crop. The High Commissioner added that more for his fuel, but for practically every after some experience of other parts of Afrio, S'ates of commodity brought te him from abroad by the heidered the agrisaltarsi conditions
obtaining in the Mohammedan Northern Nigeris highly promising for the Sir Walter Runciman, an experienced ship-future prosperity of the country. During his invariably histon nouvolescence, often by many owner, expressed the opinion a month back that term of resilence in Northern Nigeris. Bir adequate cargoes.odat that the Japanese, the shipping interest has in front of it a period Peroy (icouard inade some extensive fours of of keen depression. On the other hand, Mr. the Prolectorate, primarily into_the_Mo-roads on the F. and O trade between India as well as the Pagan and Japan were made possible because of 8 Brace Murray, Scottish owner, who describes hammedan Slates hirasolf #s "an old Parliamentary band in the sad Mohammedan Province on the Beace, baidy from the Government, This was Commissioner promptly denied, there being a subaidy on the waster of shipping," has been speaking in a In there tours the High much more hopefal strain. He argues that, for was greatly impressed with the peaceful con Chian trade, but not on the Indian route. It all practical purposes, the enormous tonnage ditions pravalling, a happy symtom of which was then alleged that there was co-operation. recently bailt, together with the large additional we the foot that the agricultural population between the Nippon Tusen Kaisha and the tonnage artificially created by the new free resides in the op soustry, whil formerly Japanes Cotton Spinners Asociation, and tist board rules, bas already been absorbed. There
gare. thom the advantage. It has, however, been pointed out here that the Association is, le observes, nothing like the condition which
receives no aid from the Government; in any obtained during the depression of fourteen or
| way, but is an independent organisation Conference fifteen years ago, when some millions of tons of
entirely; moreover, that a Shipping of shipping were laid up Mr. Brace Marray
site for the carriage of cotton freights goes so far as to assert that the foross which invariably proseds a xavital are already at work, and to suggest that these who have the courage to order new steam-re now. will profit most by the boom that is inevitable. It is pleasant, amidst so much pessimistic talk, to And at leset one shipowner who takes a cheerful view.
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It is not often that a newly-built mail is devoted at the outset of her career to pleasure voyages. The F. and O. Company, however, announce that their now express steamers "Elestie," of 6.000 tons, which is to be launch ed in April, will be employed on a couple of oraises before finally mattling down to carry the Used maile between Bombay and Aden. The now rensel will, it is expected, go to the Northern capitals, including Kronstadt, for St. Peters burg, in August next, and in September will est out for Gibralter, Algiam, the Dalmatian coast, Venice, Sicily, and Marseilles The arrangement is subject to the exigencies of the mail service, and also assumes that no unfore seen delay will occur in the completion of the FORA. The "Salsette" is to be a boat of high speed, of the same type as, but much larger than, the Tos" and "Osiris".
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Pazos, however, has now been established. In coordanes with Herr Ballin's roosnt declaration that the present condition of the shipping trade is one that abonld encourage friendy rather than hostile relationship between the flags of Various nationalities Not only has the aght in the New York-Henzil trade been settled, bat the Hamburg American company has come to 50 sgreement with the Royal Mail Steam Pasket Company respecting the fature of the trade betwean New York and the West Indise.
English Mails from the Year of the Cloring tiled there is one wore problem to be
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For sixty miles from The combination is made to keep up the Niger to Kano Bare earthworks are well forward, and, about freights, to monopolise the carrying tendo und Be- keep out tramp competitors, and it svours of 5,000 men are engaged on this section. tween August and October of this year the Machiavelli to ory out, in the circumstance rails for the liest 150 milss of the Baro-Kano. for Free Trade and competition and the end of delivered by su oo-an-going monopoliss. Under the agreement, the com- Railway will steamer at Baro itself during the high-water of panis blod theme-dres that they shall ons sad the Niger. All the rails for this section will be all enjoy the same privileges and shall be non- delivered on the spot during the satuma, sud il-senting parties to and partakers in any and is confidently expected that, in twelve months every agreement made between the Nippon from them, 150 milos of the Baro-Kan Bail Yusen Kaisha and the Cotton Spinners”, „Auto- fray will be completed On the conclusion of eation. If the P. and O. Company is not the ceremony at Badeggi, Bir Paroy Girouard getting what Sir Thomas considers & fair share visited the works in progress for the extension of the Bombay-Japan trade. he is not likely of the Lagos Railway, now approaching con- to get much sympathy in the Far East, la member of its staf who knows Far plotion, to Ilorin, from which point the line will ignorant Fleet Street, where not every journal proceed via Jabba to Zangarn, and subsequently his
WO Dipact to 560 from a junction with the Baro-Kane line It Eastern conditious, is expected that the Ligos Railway will reach diatribes against the successful Japaness an outcome of Sir Thom Bather- Ilorin by April at the latest, and earthworks as
the Nippoa Yusen are already proceeding very satisfactorily land's speech but towards Jebbs and Zaageru. "It is intended, Kaisha oso afford to ignore this, and devote its after the construction of the first 150 rails attention to business." of the line from Bars, to proosed with; BBCOR otios of smelier mileag, and it is hoped that Kand itself will be reached in 1911, before which time the jaaction with the Lagos Railway will also have been completed...
Parhaps one of the most important schemes for the opening up of the Protectorate is that for the deepening of the Niger River. The Government of the Protectorate has secured the service of Mr. Robinson, a Canadian expert in river dredging, who lately reported on the Upper Nile for the Soudan Government, and has been
Other patersommert similarly and point ont that while it is good and patriotic to support British ships the smeargument applies to the Japanese in regard to their vessels, All agree, too, that the best thing that can happen to Far is that the shipping Eastern residents conference thus controlling freights shall coms to an end. Moreover, it is pointed out that while the complaining lines have recently put up their fares ten per cent, on the plan of higher expouses, especially io coal, the Japanese have setually reduced their rates,
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