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Intimations.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

SCOTCH

WHISKIES.

GREAT REDUCTION

IN

PRICES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY MAY 30 1986.

NOTICE All commulations Intender for publication in "The HONGKONG TELEGRAPH " bould be addressed to. The Klitor, 1, Ice House Road, and should be socompanied by the Writer's Name and Aldre Ordinary business communications should be addrossod

to The Manager.

The Editor will not undertake to to responsilde for any rejected 318., nor to return any Contribution."

SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE). DAILY $30 per annum. WEEKLY-$19 per annum.

The rates per quarter and per meniem, proportional, The daily quo is delivered free when the brows

accessible to momsenger. Da coples sent by post an, additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage, The postage on the weekly is to any part of the

warld in 80 conia per quarter.

·LOCAL AND-GENERAL.

SIR Ewen Cameron, K.C.M.G., has joined the London Committee of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation..

AT the wedding of King Alfonso and the Prin- cess Ena, China will be represented by H.E. Wang Ta-sieh, Minister to Great Britain.

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A TELEGRAM has reached Tokyo from Russia pouncing that sentence of death has been passed by Court-martial on General Stoessel and Admiral Nebogatoff, Japan Chronicle.

THE Governor of Kiáo-chow, Admiral Trüppel, will not return to Tsingtat before the begin- ning of the month of August. The Deputy. Governer von Sommern will return home after the arrival of the Admiral.

THE "STACH PERRY CO., La D.

ANNUAL MEETING.

The eighth ordinary annual meeting of shareholders in the above company was held AT the request of HE. Sir Matha Nathan, in the City Hall at 12.15 p.m., to-day.

There were present :-Sir Paul Chater Mr. Frederic Jones, the Queensland Commis singer, attended at Government House this(presiding), Mr. A. G. Wood, directors; Messrs. morning. During a lengthy interview many A. Haupt, H..Porcy Smith, W. Hutton Poils, important mutters concc.ning Ching and

G. Murray Bain, and E. Osborne (secretary),

The Secretary having read the nolicé con. Australia were discussed.

vening the meeting,

N

THE vacant appointment of navigating officer of the Tamar, Hongkong, has been filled by

The Chairman said:-Gentlemen,-1 pro- pose, if it be your pleasure, that we take the

TELEGRAMS.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVICE.

RIOTS IN KOREA,

DESPATCH OF JApanese troops. {From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 30th May, 12.30 p.m.

Disturbances are reported to have

Bingle Copies Daily, in cents: Weekly, twenty. FOR stealing a loaf of brend from the K.G.A the appointment of Lieut. Henry Butterwork. report and accounts as read. As foreshadow taken place in South Korea:

five cents,

BIRTH.

Mrs.

At Shanghai, on the 24th of May, RICHARD KUPSCII, of a daughter, Prematurely.

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1906.

MANILA'S TRIBUTE TO HONGKONG,

The Health Authorities of Hongkong so.

mess, yesterday, an unemployed coolie was this morning sentenced to seven days' tid This officer entered the service as a supple-ed in the remarks 1 made at our last annual

With a view of suppressing the riots labour by Mr..F. A. Ilazeland, at the Magis.mentary lieutenant in October, 1895, and he is meeting, there has been a heavy increase in the

qualified to take charge of a first-class ship..

cost of coal, the average price per ton during Japanese troops have been despatch-

tracy,

The Water Police were successful in arresting ALL old residents in the East will hear with another fisherman at Shau-ki-wan yesterday, regret that Mr. John Walter bas decided to who is said to have had some connection with resign his seat, on the London Committee of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor the piracy at Chick-wan, reported in our issueparation, and so severs a connection with the of the 24th instant.

Bank that has existed for nearly forty years.

THE trooping season, so far as the Far East is concerned, will commence about the later end of September next. Amongst the changes is laid down will be that of a battalion of the Manchester Regiment, which goes from South February next year,

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number of cases of plague for the twenty our hours ending noon to-day, according to the return, showed 14 new cases, of which nine had proved fatal, all being Chinese, one Indian

.hese cases brought the total for the year up to 654,

TO-DAY is the 71st anniversary of Alfred Austin, Britain's "Poet Laureate," since 1896. There nothing very remarkable in any of his puoli cal effusions, the, majority of which merely excited ridicule on all sides as soon as they saw the light, on account of the marked inconse

very seldom receive a need of praise that it Africa to Hongkong, where it is due in being among those who still survived. would seem niggardly to withhold the moderate but discriminating remarks of an expert like the Chief Quarantine Officer of the Philippines wher they are in favour of From this date the prices of our popular the focal staff. incidentally, it may be ob- served that the Sanitary Board somewhat resemble the ancient prophict who had no honour in his own country. Not

quence... Bir Care of a dez,

of course, that the Sanitary Board bas no honor in Hongkong. The Chinese coulies who have to turn their Lures

brands of SCOTCH WHISKIES will be as

under :--

A, THORNES BLEND..... B. GLENORCHY BLEND (A

Fine Soda Whisky)

C. ABERLOUR GLENLIVET A Fine Peaty Flavoured Whiskyj D. H.K.D. BLEND of the Finest Old Malt Scotch Whiskies

$11.00

11.40

14.00

A PASSENGER on board the steamer Shun Lre, who arrived in the Colony this morning from Canton, was arrested and removed to the Cen-is tral Police Station for being in possession of a dagger, without police permit. Mr. F. A. Haze land, at the Magistracy this morning, fined the visitor 515, and ordered the confiscation of the dagger,

SERGEANT Gordon prosecuted a coolic before

We are informed that the steamer Lucia Vittoria (Jate H. M. storeship Humber) which went ashore on a Russian island, sixteen miles Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Police Court this morning, for trespassing on Crown land al

of Vladivostock, is a total loss. The vessel is West Paint, yesterday, without permission.reported to be full of water and lier bortom Defendant, in admitting the charge, said that badly damaged. Instructions have been sent to Vladivostok to have her put up for sale by, he was passing at the time and seeing a piece

public auction. of old iron there he went to remove it. A fine of $3 was imposed.

ed to the scene of the disturbanco.

JAPANESE ATTACKED BY "VOLUNTEERS." A Scout lelegram to the Mainichi states that an encounter took place on the morning of the

21st between the so-called "Volunteers" and Japanese policemen and gendarmes at Papjiu," Chunchondo, with the result than a Japanese gendarme was wounded. The rioters num. bered about three hundred. Reinforcements of police were subsequently sent to the neigh- bourbood, Gendarmes have also been sent to Kyongsangdo, where a number of "Volan- teers" have assembled. At the last-mentioned place two japanese were attacked on the 18th inst., one of thein being killed and the ethes severely injured.

According to a later Seoul massage, bearing date May 22, the rioters at Chunchoudo, who numbered about thres hundred, attäked 'Hong." jyu on the morning of the 19th, and compelled the post office officials to retire to Yoisan. On the morning of the 20th Palice Superintendent Iwata arrived on the scene with a aumber of constables and shots were exchanged with the riotera. The latter, however, showed, a deter.

mined front, and it has been found necessary. to sunimon gendarmes from Kubsa, Kong-jyu and Syoun. The disturbances have caused an interruption in the postal service.-Kobe Herald.

the year under review being $10.63 as against $7 $7 the previous year. There has also been a larger consumption, by reason of its inferior quality and in consequence of our running the boats at quicker speed and augmenting the number of night trips Other working expenses show a slight reduction, so that this unfortunate rise in the price of fuel is alone responsible for the diminished dividend recommended for your acceptance. The new pier at Kowloon has been in use since 1st April and is, we have reason to think, appreciated by Kowloon resid- ems. There are several improvements yet 10 be made, notably a ricksha and general shelter in front of the pier as protection against the strong winds which sweep down Salisbury Road and which without a shelter will, in It winter, seriously incommode passengers, has also been found necessary to drive piles to guide the boats in making the entrance to the camber as the currents are stronger than was ant cipated. This work has to done between and 5 am, so will take cunsiderable time, Negotiations have been commenced with the Government for a new pier on the Hongkong side and it satisfactory terms can be arranged plans will shortly be prepared. It will mean a large outlay, probably $75,000, and as the company will not earn a cent more by it, the matter will need to be carefully considered before launching into so great an expenditure: and it will probably involve calling up the remainder of the unpaid capital. We are now three, the time allowed the coxswains to make the journey being seven minates as against, nine and a half at the old pier, and although' this greater speed necessitates burning superior coal and working the boilers at their maximum case to come a conclusion. His Worship pressure, yet on the whole there will be a substantial saving. The changes at Kowloon, the augmented service, accelerated speedy of the Colonies. It will interest China people to learn that the and other improvements increase our working engagement is announced between Mr. Ed-expenses, but we deem it to be in the interests ward Russell Burdon, MA, F.L.S., of Cam- of shareholders that we provide a service which bridge, younger son of the Right Rev. Bishop will satisfy the reasonable demands of the Burdon, D.D., late Bishop af Victoria, Bong public and we claim that in maintaining a ten kong, and Lady Alfard, widow of Sir Edward minutes' service from 5.30 am. to to a m., and Flee: Alford (who was himself a son of a for thereafter every twenty minutes till 12.30 u.m., der Bishop of Hongkong), of 26, The Boltons, with additional trips on Saturday nights, the South Kensington. The marriage will take company is fulfilling its duty creditably. The place during the summer,

proposed extensions to Yau-ma-ti and Hung. hom referred to in my remarks at last meeting were, on investigation of the traffic, found to be impossible without incurring a heavy loss, not prosecuted further. so the matter was Competition of Chinese Launches which only run when no better employment offers renders a profitable extension, to these, places; main'

A YAUMATI Carpenter was charged this moro-

et Ferates into the open streef, at the behest of the Department when the spring cleaning 12.50 comes round, regard the Sanitary authorities as a sort of fetich, whose word is more to be leared than that of the native Zukony. But worship is not exactly honour, and terror cannot be described as reverence. The honour for which the Sanitary authorities the Liantung Peninsula have decided to remove crave is of the character offered by Dr. V. about 200 Chinese houses in the old city of G. Heiser of Manila. It seems that the Port Arthur, according to the Building Reafternona. The police applied to the Court for an adjurament on the ground that they were unable to produce evidence to enable the good people of the neighbouring islands gulations. The Chinese quarter referred to is have been reading the reports in the Hongeported to be so poor and filthy that its existence is considered to be detrimental to the kong papers regarding the number of cases

granted a témand. of plague reported in this Colony every day, decency and hygiene of the city.

17 is reported that the fapanese authorities ing by Sergean Macdonald, before Mr. F. A running the service with two boats in place of

E. BLEND.

The popular Whisky in the Far East

15.00

The above prices are strictly net. The discount of live per cent, previously allowed on our Whiskies ceases from this date..

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, Hongkong, 17th May, 1996.

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A representative of the Manila Times was | A BOARDING-house keeper" nained Lan Chan A. S. WATSON & CO., detailed to inquire as to the possibility of San was charged this morning, at the Police infection being brougin from Hongkong to Court, at the instance of Serpt, Grant, with LIMITED,

the Philippines by Chinese immigrants, keeping a boarding-house for emigrants at Already the Insular Government have had a Nos. 6 and 1,4, Sutherland Street, without the cholera, necessary papers. Defendant pleaded guilty, hard Jask in Stamping out small-pox, dysentery, typhoid and all and Mr. F. d. Hazeland, ordered him to pay a the rest of the diseases which peculiarly fine of $100, with the uften of two months' belong to a tropical country. The very suggestion that plague might be introduced was enough to make the cheek blanch, and the hair grow grey. So the Manila news- paper man begins his account of an inter- view with the Chief Quarantine Officer in this cheerful way: "Bubonic plague con-

POST CARD

COMPETITION.

inues to rage in Hongkong. The death list is increasing rapidly, but almost all the

labour.

my kind permission of Lt. Col. Aitkin and Officers, the Band of the 19th Infantry will play the following programme of music at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner, on Thurs day, the 31st inst, weather permitting :-

...." La Reine Fun fout Adam ....." Sourire ('Astil ".............. Depret

"The Chugater"

Ma "By the Fouain Rouaul Ambe Velen

Mans H.........." thojnsu Olvesture

Walte Stirling

NOK

God Save the King.

Morris

Hazeland, with kidnapping a boy, eleven years eld, from his parents at Yaumati, yesterday

SOME changes have just been made in the flotilla of shallow draught steamers employed in river service on the China Station, Licu- tenant R. E. Vaughan, from command of the Robin, has taken over the command of the Moarken. Lieutenant Vanghan has spent over nineteen years in the navy, the last ten and ntained with regularity, an impossibility. There 15 one other matter-a inatier of public half in his present rank, and he is an authority on the rivers of the station. He was Lieutenant importance- desire to touch upon be lore closing and that is The loss WC of the Rayalist when a British naval force oc-

sustain, amounting to something like 1%, on cupied Samoa in March, 1889.

your capital, by depreciation of subsidiary coins, including British coins. The question has been referred to the Chamber of Commerce and their

[Reuters.], " Germany.

London, 28th May.

The Reichstag has practically rejected the whole of the supplementary estimates for South-West Africa, and subsequently refused the Government money to establish a Minis-

This severe rebuff to the Government' is

mainly due to a hectoring speech of Colonel Duimling, who has just been appointed to the command in South Africa, in which he lectured the Reichstag in a stentorian voice like addressing troops, on the drill ground.

Colonel Deimling declared his determina- ion to ignore certain recommendations of the Budget Committee, unless otherwise directed by the Emperor, who alone had to decide.

A tremendous uproar followed this speech..

Later,

The Chinose Customs. Lord Fitzmaurice said, in the House of Lords, that the reply from China to the last note, re the control of the Cestoins, was ex- pected shortly.

To all purchasers at our Establishment of $1 and upwards between June 1st and June 25th will be given a Coupon Chinese travel between. Hongkong and entitling them to enter Manila as Americans or Europeans. Soperty of the Green Island Cement Works. been pleased to give and grant unto Sir Robert reply, which is not hopeful, has been published † knowledge of the other Powers, with which

cases are among the Chinese and in the Chinese district," The saving clause would almost seem to give cause for satisfaction, were it not for the fact that quite as many

that there is in reality an insidious sug-

Manila Health 'Authority, on the subject

the following Competi-gestion of danger in the last remark, tion. · The largest numn-However, the journalist interviewed the ber of English words and calmly hinted that vessels from Hong- that can be made from kong should be quarantined. Dr. Heiser,

MARIE BRIZARD.”

lat Prize:

1 Case Pts. Per- Fils inet & Champagne $56.50

2nd Prize:

Case Royal Old Highland Whisky -

3rd Prize:

24.00

A COOLIE appeared before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Magistracy to day, charged with being in ont.wful possession of a hammer, the pro-

Defendant said he purchased the hammer from a marine hawker. Sergt. O'Sullivan stated be

that of late many things have been found to missing from the Cement Works. As delcadant said he could find the man who sold the ham. mer to him, his Worship remanded the case

until to-morrow,

THE Gazette announces, that the King has

Edward Bredon, K.C.M.G, Deputy Inspector General of the Imperial Chinese Customs, His

Majesty's Royal licence and authority that he may accept and wear the Insignia of the Second with the Star, conferred upon him by His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, in recognition of his services in connection with certain Sino-German negotiations at Peking.

Class of the Order of the Crown of Prussia,

The Government did not intend to allow a protracted delay, fully realizing its import ance to trade.

F

The Government was acting with the

by the Press. The matter, however, will not be they were in perfect harmony. dropped, and whether a remedy be found in an increase of fares or otherwise, will be decided later on. If any shareholder present has any questions to ask I shall be glad to answer them

No questions being asked,

The Chairman proposed the adoption of the repart and accounts.

Mr. G. Murray-Bain seconded. Carried unanimously.

The Japanese Training Squadron: The Japanese Training Squadron has left Sydney for Japan.

S. S. "APENRADE" IN A GALE,

ENGINES BREAK DOWN.

The German steamer Apenrade, goo tuna, Mr. A. Haupt proposed that Hon. Sir Paul Captain Goatard, which left here on Sunday Chater be re-elected director.

who is evidently a gifted inás, well adapted | Ar about eight o'clock on the night of the 18th to look after the needs of the capital of the instant, an armed robbery was committed in a Philippines, replied:"Manila has nothing shop near Belcher's Fort, and cinthing and COLONEL Legge, on behalf of Viscount Turn in fear. In the first place Manila is a clean money to the value of $36,80 stolen, From

our, asked the Secretary of State for Foreign town; and besides that the health author the story of the master of the shop, it appears Affairs, whether he had any official information ities at Hongkong have established what is that five men, all fully armed, entered the shop showing that facsimiles of the cartoons depict

and attacked him. They bound and gaggeding Chinumea in chains, issued in England considered a modern, scientific and specific the three fokia, and proceeded to ransack the during the general election, had been widely the ensuing year, on the motion of Mr. G. Mr. W. H. Potts was re-elecie i auditor for quarantine against departures from Hong premises. They get away with clothing, etc. circulated in China, and had inflamed the The men are still at large, and the police have tower class Chinese against that counter. Mr.

1. Case Macln-

tosh Whisky 10.00

AND

10 CONSOLATION PRIZES..

kong," It would be unfair to suggest that

the worthy Doctor was contrasting Manila with Hongkong when he said that the former "is a clean town." For what city could be cleaner than Hongkung, washed, by number- less streams which flow down the hill sides and, as the Director of Public Works will tell us, evade the reservoirs? Dr. Heiser went on The quarantine officials at to state that:

the matter in hand."

+

A winow named, Hon Him, and residing Yau-ma-ti, was yesterday afternoon seblenced to three months hard labour, by Mr. C. A.D. Melbourne, for obtaining $320 from another woman, named Pong Taal, ou 6th May, 1903, by means of a trick. The uick devised by the defendant in order to obtain the money was

Runciman, who replied on behalf of Sir E. Grey, said: The information, which I have

received, is to the effect that some agitation was aroused in China by criticisms of the Transvaal Labour Ordinance in 1901, but that it has since died away...

i

It is now 20 years ago that the first subsidized

Mr. H. Percy Smith seconded, Carried nem con,

Murray Bain, seconded by Mr. A. Hasipt.

The Chairman-Dividend warrants can be had on application.

That concluded the meeting.

last for railow, was compelled to put back owing to stress of weather. From inquiries made to-day by a Hongkong Telegraph reporter, we learnt that, when the Apenrade was eight miles

south of 1. John's, she encountered a severo typhoon, the ship's barometer having dropped from 59 to 45. The vessel continued on her course for some little time. But an accident accarred to the engines which rendered it prudent to the captain to put back to port. In PEOPLE are too much inclined to think that weathering the storm, a good amount of the their sins are forgotten they are also forgiven deck fittings of the Apenrade were either damaged or washed overboard by the huge Rev. J. 1. Stockley, at St. Ann's, Mauchester,

Waves.. The Apenrade, under the circum- stances, pointed her bows for Hongkong and ACCORDING to the Cologne Gazette the policy arrived in the harbour shortly before noon

it

in which all Chinese contemplating to sail mentioned that she wanted securities. The Lloyd made their maiden trip to East Asia and of the German Government is promoting fores-vesterday and anchored off Kennedy Town:

defendant went away, returned the following day, and presented certain papers alleged to represent title-deeds, obtained the money and cleared. It was afterwards discovered that the

for Manila are taken and properly inspected and sumigated before being allowed to clear be an improvement over the old method of title-deeds were false. from the port. The method is believed to holding passengers at this end of the journey for a number of days before allowing them

In the event of ties to

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Australia, and certainly nobody in 1885 could try in Kiao-chow is already bearing satisfactory She will go into dock in due course for repairs. dieam of the development which was to take fruit. Every year the area of afforestation place in that traffic in the years to come. The grows farger, and the Chinese, stimulated by Me, Birrell's picture of himself composing his first steamers that were run in the East Asiatic German example, are said to be planting trees

on their own account, and to be awake to their Education Bill speech in Battersea Park last line had a capacity of only 3,000 tons, while value as wind-breaks, It is further announced Saturday, amid a hum of childish voices asking nowadays the steamers show a capacity of 8,000

May.

THE WEATHER.

Pali Mall Gavrile,

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

be drawn for. All replies and." So that Manila need have no THE manager, of a tobacconist shop ip- Icẻ to 11,000 tons. Thus the total capacity of the that the German forestry department of Kian- the kind gentleman to tell them the time, is chow is to be strengthened by an inspector of decidedly. ingratiating, and was quite in place fear of plague. It would be a blessing if all House Road appeared at the Police Court this steamers rose from 30,000 to 183,000 tons OD to be sent on Post-cards clics coming, from Canton to Hong: morning to prosecute his shop coche for sich she East Asiatic chief line, while to forests, who will start for the Far East in in a speech that was thoroughly genial it tone.— only. Prizes will be dis-keng enjoyed the same health-preserving ing, aim of cigarettes from the shop yesterday Australian line the total number of tons rose treatment. But the point of the interview afternoon. Defendant said he did not know the from 25,000 tons in 1886 to 125,000 tons in tributed the 30th June is the praise meted out to the Health Author. tin contained cigareues. Complainant said that 1905. The total freight traffic rose on the East ities Here which, in this case, does not mean yesterday morning he saw 'defendant go to the Asiatic line from 68,000 to 330,0:0, and on the

The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figs. when all cards may be the Sanitary Board but the Disinfecting and glass case and remove a tin of cigarettes. He Australians line from 41,000 to 198,000 teas.

Fumigating Bureau, a private enterprise could not take it out of the shop at the time, so Passengers brought over the East Asiatic live First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory:- which meets the requirements of the Ameri- he hid it behind some boxes. When he finally were doco in 1886, and 23,000 in 1905, and on

On the 30th at 11.55 2. · Pressure is increas. inspected at our office.

can Government officials in this Colony decided to remove the cigarettes, he approached the Australian line 4,000 and 11,000 respective-ing over Japan, but the depression is still showe Yet probably the Sanitary officials will also take some kudos for the work of this Bureau, complainant and asked if he could carry away ly. For new vessels on both lines during the over the Pacific to the E. of Hokkaido, and now we may expect to see them with some empty (ins. He was told he could. De period under review there has been spent an swelling chests and heavenward gaze pur. fendant gathered up a few empty tins and amount of no less than m. 97,0:0,050. It is to euing those duties which have earned for their believing he was not being watched, got the be remembered that in the same time a con. confrères the encomiums of the authority in tin of cigarettes from behind the box, where te siderable number of feeder lines have been Manila, scornfully ignoring the ridicule or had hidden it, and made for the door. His created in East Asia, as well as in Australia abuse which may spring from the vulgar Worship sentenced him to seven days' hard and Oceania. The whole development, there. (36 | rabble,

Isbour

fate, must be considered as highly saljsfactory,,

CASH LESS 10% CREDIT LESS 5.

GREGOR & CO., WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. 19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Hongkong, ayth May, 1996,

The barometer has risen slightly over China, Pressure is highest over Central China.

Gradients are slight on the China coast, and fresh NE. winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel and the N, part of the China Sea.

Forecast:-Fresh NE, winds fair,

NAILS DUE. Australian (Changtha) 1st prox. Canadian (Tartar) 1st proX, American (China) 3rd prox. Indian (Kutsang) 4th prox, 20 German (Prine Waldemar) jih proxi German (Zieten) 6th prox." Canadian (Empress of India) 12th prox. The C. N. Co.'s a. Changsha from Austr

and is due here on 1st prox. tralla Paris, left Manila this morning daylight,

The N. Y. K. Bambay Line sa. Kagoshima Maru left Moji for this part Direct on th last, and is expected bars on 4th proz...: