1914-02-26 — Page 6

Shipping

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1914.

CANADIAN PACIFIC

ROYAL MAIL.

STEAMSHIP LINE.

From Hongkong

Shipping

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP. CO.

Projected Sailings from Hongkong

Empress of Japan Empress of Russia

5th Mar.

Monteagle

8th April.

19th Mar.

Empress of Asla

16th April.

Destination; -

MARSEILLES, 1

All Steamships leave Hongkong at noon. The "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA," and "EMPRESS OF ASIA” are new quadruple screw 21 knot turbine steamers, of 16,850 lons gross," 30,626 displacement, the finest, fastest and most luxurious on the Pacifio.

The direct route to Canada, United States and Europs, call- ing at Shanghai, Nagasaki (through the Inland Sea of Japan), Kobe, Yokohama and Victoria, B.C.

All Steamers of the Company's Pacific and Atlantic-Fleets are equipped with Marconi Wireless apparatus.

PASSAGE RATES HONGKONG TO LONDON,

" EMPRESS UP RUSSIA." "EMPRESS OF ASIA." Optional Atlantic Port, £71.10:

via

*EMPRESS OF JAPAN,” vis

via Canadian

EMPRESS OF INDIA." Optional Atlantic Port £65

**MONTEAGLE", Intermediate service, Atlantic port £43, via Boston or New York £45.

Ratos quoted above de not include meals and sleeping car across Canada, These, if required, will be furnished for £6 additional.

SPECIAL RATES (First Class only.) allowed to Naval and Military officers, Civil Service employees, Missionaries, etc, etc. Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Round Trip passage tickets have the option of returning from 8an Francisco by the steamers of the Pacific Mail 8.8. Co., or Toyo Kisen Kaisha.

Local and through passengers may, if desired, travel by rail between Porte of call is Japan.

For further information, Maps, Routes, Handbooks, Rates of Freight and Passage, apply to

D. W. CRADDOCK, General Traffic Agent for China. Corner of Pedder Street and Praya, opposite Blake Pier.

BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.

APCAR LINE.

Regular Service Between

CALCUTTA, STRAITS, SHANGHAI and JAPAN FORTS...

LONDON & AN-

TWERP, via

Subject to Alteration

Steamers.

Singapore, Hirano Maru

Malacca, Penang, Capt. Fraser Colombo, Buez, &

Port Said...

VICTORIA, .B.O., and BEATTLE Shanghai, via Moji, Kobe, Yok- kaichi, and

Shipping HONGKONG

LOG BOOK.

Chlosse Steamship Co. The Administrative Inspcolor st Antung has investigated the scheme of loanding, the: China Steamship Co. by some Chinese

PHILIPPINES. residents of Antung, and, hes ser-

ious doubts, if, in the present fin- |ancial condition, the share capital of the company will be success

STEAMSHIP CO. fally subscribed. Should the

For

PHILIPPINES

Salling Date Steamship. T.

Zafiro

Captaing.

4000 F.8. McMurray

f

(WEDNES., 11th T. 16,000 Mar. at 10 am.

}

Rubi

4000 J. Miller

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TUESDAY, 10th Sado Maru Capt. Asakawa T. 12,500 Mar. at noon.

Yokohama

SYDNEY & MEL-

BOURNE, via Kumano Maru Manila, Thurs-Capt, K, Soyeda day Island, Tango Maru Townsville and Capt. T. Sekine Brisbane

T.9,300

T. 13,500

vis) Ceylon Maru

WEDNES., 11th Mar. at noon. (WEDNES., 8th' Apr. at noon...

THURSDAY,

S'pore, Porang

T: 1,500 15th Mar.

JSUNDAY,

CALCUTTA

& Rangoon

BOMBAY via Singa-1 Colombo Maru

pore and Colombo.f Capt. Kawashima, T. 5,000 1st Mar. KOBE & Yokohama

NAGASAKI, Kobal Tango Maru

;">

WED.. 11th

Fitted with new system of wireless telegraphy,

Salling date.

Manila,Mangarin, TUES., 3rd Cebu and Iloilo. Mar. 4p.m.

Manila, Mangarin, FRI.. 13th 1 Cebu and Iloilo. Mar. 4 p.m.

Electric light Fans in every cabin; "competent stewardesses

carried.

required capital be forthcoming, it would be next to impossible to maintain the enterprise without receiving a heavy grant from the Chinese Government to etable it to compete with existing lines.

Overcarried in his Sleep.

T

When the Blue Fannel steamer Oanfa arrived at Penang on the 11th inst., the master of the vessel

Fumongers holding round trip tickets may return by any steamer of the Pacific reported that a representative of Mail 8.8, Co., Toyo Klon Kalsha, Norddeutscher Lloyd and Eastors and Australian Steamship Co., Ltd.

For Freight or Passage apply to

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

GENERAL MANAGERS

Hongkong, 23rd Feb. 1914,

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN

LIJN.

Regular Fortnightly Service between JAVA, CHINA and JAPAN.

t

From

* WE MAYS ON OF khai t

firm of stevedores, at Colombo having fallen as- on board the Perseus leop |when she was at Colombo, he was overoarried to Port Tewik: The matter was reported to the agents there, but as they had no opport Juuity of sending him back direct, at "Captain Robinson's, of the Perseus, request, they put him on board the Danfa to disembark him at Singapore, requesting the agents at that port to send him an to Colombo by the first Blus Funnel boat. The matter wAG referred to the agents at Penang

Rapected on or above for Tjibodas......JAVA...1st half Mar.......JAPAN ...1st half. Mar. Tilliwong...JAPAN...1st half Mar......JAVA...1st half Mar. Tiltaroem...S'HAT...1st half Mar.JAVA 1st half Mar. who consented to send him back Timanoek.JAVA...2nd half Mar. S'HAI 2nd half Marto Colombo by the Rhesus....... British 'Shipping Returns, p Tjilatjap....JAVA...2nd half Mar.......JAPAN ...2nd half Mar

The 1912 addition of 1,416,500 Tjipanas......JAVA...2nd half Mar.......S'HAI...2nd half Mar. & Yokohama ...... Capt. Sekine T. 13,500 Mar. at 11 a.m. Tjikini S'HAT...2nd half Mar. JAVA 2nd half Mar. gross tone to the steam section of ...ist half Apr. the British Mercantile Macine has Tiimahi....JAVA 1st half Apr. ......JAVA (FRIDAY, SHANGHAI, Mojil Kawachi Maru

The steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light, and been exceeded during the past and Kobe....... Capt. Christiansen T. 12,500 (27th Feb.

have accommodation for a limited number of saloon passengers, and twelve months, for which period SHANGHAI, Moji, Tosa Maru.

{ FRIDAY,

will take cargo to all Ports in Netherlands-India on through B/L the increase is estimated at over Kobe & Yokohama Capt. Yokohama T. 12,000 27th Feb.

For particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the

150,000 tons. New sailing ton» Cargo only.

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

aage has, as usual, boos meagre, Telephone No. 1574

York Building.

probably not more than 18,000 tone; even so, however, the addi- tion is great than in 1912. The feature of the past year has been the scrapping of an unprecedented aumber of old boats, with the result that the average age of vessels in the British merchant service has been considerably re- duced; in fact, the total is pro- bably lower now than it has ever been before; the average age be- ing about eleven years.

PASSENGER BEASON 1914-

FOR EUROPE.

Hirano Maru 16000 tona sails Wednesday 11th March. Katori

25th Kamo

EASTWARD.

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S.S. "Dunera," 5,389 ions. Capt. Dickinson, will be despatched | Kashima for YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJI on 28th Feb.

20000 16000 20000

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Aki

Maru

FOR AMERICA, 12500 tons salle Tuesday

Sado Yokohama Awa Shidzuoka

12500

12500

12500

$1

#1

•

12500

*

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WESTWARD.

S.S. "Torilla," 5,203 tons, Capt. Swanson, R.N.R. will be des- patched for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA on 27th Feb.

S.S. "Dilwara," 5,378 tone, Capt. Ramage, R.N.R. will be "des- patched as above on 28th Feb.

The above steamers have excellent salcon accommodation for passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a duly qualified surgeon.

For freight or passage, apply to,

Hongkong, Feb. 25th, 1914.

DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD.

Agents

THOS. COOK & SON,

Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &c.

For further information apply to Telephone No. 292.

J

8th April. 22nd

24th January, 10th March. 24th 7th April. 21st

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TOYO KISEN KAISHA

SAN FRANCISCO LINE

VIA SHANGHAI, MANILA, THE INLAND SEA, JAPAN AND HONOLULU,

Sailings from Hongkong Bubject to change without notice.

Steamer. Chiyo Maru Tenyo Maru

Nippon Maru

Hongkong Maru

Shinyo Maru

KINOYOTO, Mansger.

CHINA NAVIGATION

CO., LTD.

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

Steamers..

For

Head Office for the Far East-16, DES VEUX ROAD, HONG-SHANGHAI.......

KONG. SHANGHAI: 2-3, Foochow Road. YOKOHAMA:

32, Water Street, MÄNILA: Manila Hotel.

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TICKETS SUPPLIED to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP LINES and TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

TOURS arranged tó ALL PARTS of the WORLD. BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowest rates.

· LETTERS of CREDIT and CIRCULAR NOTES ISSUED and CASHED Chief Office:-LUDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON, E.C.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.

IN CONJUNCTION WITH

Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft “HANSA.”

EAST ASIATIC SERVICE,

Regurar Sailings from JAPAN, CHINA and PHILIPPINE

rin STRAITS and COLOMBO,

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Marseilles, Havre, Bremen and Hamburg and New York. And from Manila, Hongkong and Japan to Vancouver (B.C.) and Portland (Or.)

Taking Cargo at Through tail to el! Estopero Nerib Contental and British Porn, alão Trlesse Haben, Oporto, Geads, and other Mediterranes Levantins, Black Baltic Sea and Ports, and all North and South American Poria,

Assyria.

Hoerde: Seudmark

Next Sailings from Hongkong :

OUTWARD.

For Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama:

To Sail. S'TOW, S'HAI & N'CHWÀNGKalgan ...... 27th Feb. at noon SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU... Kanchow...28th Feb, at m'night SWATOW & SHANGHAI ...Shengking ........leb. Mar. at d'light

Shaohsing...... 3rd Mar. at noon". MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO... Chinhuz 3rd Mar. at 4 p.m. TIENTSIN..................

Kuelchow *** 5th Mar. at noon Anhui

5th Mar. at 4.p.m." SHANGHAI

DIRECT SAILING TO WEST RIVER, Twice Weekly. "8.8. LINTAN "and" 8.8. SANUI " MANILA LINE-Twin Screw Steamers "Chinhus,” -

," "Taming" and "Tean," Excellent saloon accommodation amidships; electric fans fitted; extra staterooms on deck aft on "Taming" & "Tean." ESHANGHAI LINE-The Twin Screw steamers

Anbul" "Chenan," and the 8.9. "Liangchow," "Luchow" and "Yingchow": having excellent accommodation with Electris Light throughout and Electric Fais in the State-rooms and Dining Saloon, maintain a fast schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, leaving Hongkong for Shanghai direct every Thursday and Sunday, taking cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtazo and Norther China Ports.

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The steamers leaving Hongkong on Sundays proceed from Shanghai to Tsingtau, leaving there on Tuesdays for Shanghai, Hongkong and Canton.

Displacement

Leave Hongkong.

7th Mar. 4th Apr. 8th

"

25th

29th

Tons & Speed 22,000 - 21 knots Sat., -22,000 - 23 kaots Sat.,

44,000 - 18 knöts Wed., 11,000,10 knots Sat., -22,000 - 21 knots. Wed.,

via Manila. Omitting Shanghai.

Assistant Commander. It is officially announced thet the White Star, steamer Olympic will in future carry on assistant commander, who will assist the commander in the navigation of San Francisco £45.

the steamer, supervision of the "Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Retorn tickets have the option of other officers and the control of dis- returning from San Francisco by steamers of the Pacific Mail B.S. Co., or from oipline and other matters on board Vancouver by atcamera of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.

All steamers will be despatched at NOON. First Class to London £71.10. Return(6 months:) £120, First Class to New York......£60...

ARIES oto.

£96.10. £68.

Special Rates given to NAVAL & MILITARY, DIVIL SERVANTS, MISSION-Ee of course, will not relieve the

commander of his general respon ROUND THE WORLD Tickets issued in Connection with all the Principal sibility as captain of the ship. Mall lines and the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Passengers may travel by Ballway between ports of call in Japan free of Lieutenant G. R. Metcalfe, R.N. R., formerly commander of the Canopic, with 17 years' service in

charge.

SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.

appointed to this important post, and took up his new duties on Jan. 21.

Via JAPAN FORTS, HONOLULU, HILO, MANZANILLO, SALINA the White Star Line, has been ORUZ, CALLAO, IQUIQUE and VALPARAISO.

Thence by TRANS-ANDEAN ROUTE to BUENOS AIRES, For Full Particulars as to Passage & Freight, apply to

S. MORIMOTO, 'Agent."' Telephone No. 291

in

...

KING'S BUILDINGS.

THE EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED. Mail Service to Australia

via Manila.

Steamers.

MAIL SCHEDULE #BUBJECT TO MODIFICATION

Arrive Hongkong from Australia.

21st Feb. 14th Mar.

Empire N.B.-Passengers must embark before midnight on Saturday for St. Albans the Sunday morning sailings. A Company's launch leaves: Murray Eastern Pier at 10 o'clook every Saturday night...

These steamers land passengers in Shanghai, avoiding the incon- venience of the trans-shipment at Woosung.

Reduced Fares-Single $45: Return $75.

For Freight or Passages apply to

Telephone No. 36

Hongkong 26th Feb., 1914.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

Agents

"

2002400......

Leave Hongkong

for Australia. 27th Feb. at 10 am 30th Mar.at 0th-April-at

The above Steamers are fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, on suring a Plentiful supply of Ice, French Provisions, etc., and are lighted throughout with Electricity: AllState Rooms have Electric Fans. A duly qualified Doctor and Stewardess are carried.

For further particulars, apply to

Gibb, Livingston & Co.

By Amanta.

LAW AND LAUGHTER.

There is a fine collection of good legal stories in "Law and Laughter, "an entertaining volume by D. Macleod Malloch and George A. Mcrton, published by Foulis. Eero are two A

Two notorious highwaymen were once charged before Chief Baron O'Grady, a famous Irish judge, with robbery, the surprise of jury returned a verdict of not guilty. "Mr. Murphy," said the judge to the gaoler," you will greatly case my mind by keeping shese two respectable gentlemen

to

and the

in custody until seven o'clock.

I

leave for Dublin at five, and I should like to have at last two hours' start of them."

Another story in which O'Grady was concerned arose out of a one tried at a county size. Bushe, then a K.O., who held a brief for

D. the defence, was pleading the cause

Brisgavia27th Mar. RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD.

1st Mar, Brisgavla..

15th Mar, Uckermark

5th Apr:

18th Mar, Sambla.... ......25th Apr.

HOMEWARD,

For H're,R'dam, B'mon &H'burg; For Vteria, V'ver, S'të& P. (Or.)]

O. J.D. Ahlers....28th Feb. Tor Marseilles, 'burg& A'werp; Sueyla......3rd Mar. For Marseilles, Havre & H'burg;

Sithonia

******......... 6th Mar. For M'los, H're, R'dam& H'burg: ♥ Bermuda ....... 8th Mar, For Havre, Emden, & Hamburg

Spezia ..............14th, Mar. For Bremen, H'burg & Antwerp: Senegambia ...... 17th Mar.

For Further Farioulars, apply to-

HONGKONG AGENCY.

Homeward Bound.

(Odessa vie ports of call.)

Hongkong-South China Coast Ports.

Highest Class, Fastest and Most Luxurious Steamers on the Const, having splendid Accommodation for First-Class Fassengers,

The 8.8. Klev, 5,566 R.T., Coromander Stetzky, is expected to Electric Light Excellent Cuisine, arrive here about the 5th day of March, 1914.

* FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW RETURN.

als (Occupying 9 to 10 days.) Steamships. Captain Leaving. Haiyank

A. E. Hodgins... FRIDAY, 27th Feb. at 11 am Hatching W.C.Passmore. TUESDAY, 3rd Mar. at 11 a.m. FRIDAY, 6th Mar. at 11 am.. Hallan

J. 8. Roach

FOR SWATOW,

Suedmark.....18th Mar. For M'les. R'dam & Hamburg;

Sachsen...........23rd Mar. 2 The 8.8, Vladimir, 5,620 RT., Commander Kamichansky, For Havre & H'burg;

Scandia 28th Mar. expected to arrive here about the end of March, or beginning of

April 19140ded í far nechcela. For Dunkirk, R'dani & H'burg;

Outward Bound, Aragonia...3rd April.

(Vladivostok via Nagasaki,siinod birds, For Havre Emden & Hamburg;

Assyria............. 4th April. The S.S. Yaroslav, 4,494 R.T., Commander Lokhmatoff, is Halmun For 'toria, V'ver, S'tle & P. (Or.) expected to arrive here about the 21st day of March, 1914:

Hoerde

NB.This outward steamer on the way to Nagasaki and Vladivostok will call at Hongkong if the room permits.

For Freight, Passage and further particulars, apply to

Capt. D. A. LUKHMANOFF, Agent,

Hotel Mansions. Tel. No. 1984.

....14th April.-

Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hongkong OfficN,

Hongkong, 18th Feb. 1914 - X

| J, W. Evans' ... | SUNDAY, 1st Mar. at 10 am. Haimun

JW. Evans WEDNES. 4th Mar. at 11 am Steamers will arrive at and depart from the Co.'s Wharf near

Home Blake Pierdut dan For Freight and Passage, apply to

androymi Douglas Lapralk & Co, an

General Managere, da

of his olient with much eloquence, when a donkey in the courtyard. outside set up a loud bray. One at'a lime, brother Buchel" called out his lordship. Peals of laughter filled the court. The connsel bore the interruption as best he could. The judge was. proceeding to sum up with his usual ability, when the donkey again began to bray "I beg smar lordship'e pardon | sild Bashe, putting his hand to his ear. “but there is such an who in the Court that I can't hear a word

you say.

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