Directory_and_Chronicle_1879 — Page 940

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ADEN AND BOMBAY,

Passengers for Aden and Bombay are conveyed by the Company's Steamers leaving Southampton every Thursday, at 2 p.m., Venice every Friday morning, and Brindisi every Monday, at 4 a.m.

The Passengers from Southampton proceed through the Suez Canal, and those from Venice and Brindisi are conveyed from Alexandria to Suez by Railway.

On alternate weeks Passengers from Southampton for Bombay change Steamers at Suez.-See Time Table, page 3.

Railway Tickets from Bombay to the principal towns in India, can be obtained at the Company's Offices in London, 122, Leadenhall Street, 'E.C., and 25, Cockspur Street, S.W., see page 9.

SPECIAL RETURN TICKETS are now issued from Bombay · to Brindisi or Venice, available for Three Months from date of departure to arrival at Bombay, for Rs. 950, or available for Southampton in ont direction, Rs. 1,000, or viâ Southampton, both ways, Rs. 1,050.—These Tickets are also issued from Galle, Madras, and Calcutta, at the same rates.

BOMBAY, vià MARSEILLES.

Under arrangement with the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes de France, this Company is now prepared to issue Tickets from Marseilles to Bombay at the following Fares :—

First Class

Second Class

exclusive of transit through Egypt.

£62 31

These Tickets are available by the Steamers of the Messageries, from Marseilles to Alexandria, leaving the former port every Thursday at noon, and by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steamers from Suez to Bombay.

Passengers are requested to take notice, that neither Company is responsible for any failure of the Steamers of the one to connect with those of the other; and that neither is responsible for the consequences of any act or default of the other.

Similar Tickets from Bombay to Marseilles can be obtained from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Agent, in the former city.

MADRAS, CALCUTTA, CHINA, JAPAN, &c.

Passengers for Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, Penang, Singapore, Batavia, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama, are conveyed by the Company's Steamers leaving Southampton every alternate Thursday, Venice every alternate Friday morning, and Brindisi every alternate Monday, ať 4 a.m.

The Passengers from Southampton proceed through the Suez Canal, and those from Venice and Brindisi are conveyed from Alexandria to Suez by Railway.

Passengers for Penang, Singapore, Batavia, China and Japan are, on arrival at Point de Galle (Ceylon), transferred into another of the Company's Steamers.

From Hong Kong, Passengers for Shanghai go on by the same Steamer, but those for Yokohama are transferred into another Vessel proceeding direct to that port. Arrangements having been made with the British India Steam Navigation Company, Passengers are now booked through to any of the Ports touched at by that Company's Steamers, at proportionate rates (see page 21).

SPECIAL RETURN TICKETS (see above).

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