Shipping
CANADIAN PACIFIC ROYAL MAIL.
STEAMSHIP LINE.
From Hongkong
Empress of
India Empress of
Asia Empress of
28th May.
10th June.
25th June.
Japan
Prom Quebec
All Steamships lenve Hongkong at mon.
THE HONGKONG- TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1914,
The "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA." and "EMPRESS OF ASIA” are now quadruplo screw 21 knot turbine steamers, of 16,850 tons gross, 30,625 displacement, the finest, fastest and most luxurious on the Pacific.
The direct route to Canada, United States and Europe, call- ing at Shanghai, Nagasaki (through the Inland Sea of Japan), Kobe, Yokohama and Victoria, B.O.
All Steamers of the Company's Pacific and Atlantic Fleets are equipped with Marconi Wireless apparatus.
PASSAGE RATES HONGKONG TO LONDON,
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA."
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Optional Atlantic Port. £71.10.
"EMPRESS OF INDIA," Optional Atlantic Port £65.
"MONTEAGLEN
EMPRESS OF ASIA."
via
vin
* EMPRESS OP JAPAN,'
Intermediate service, via Canadian Atlantic port £43, via Boston or Now York £45.
Rates quoted above do not include meals and sleeping car across Canada. Those, if required; will be furnished for 46 additional.
SPECAIL RATES (First Class only.) allowed to Naval and Military officers, Civil Servico omployoos, Missionaries, eto, 0.5+ Passengers pureba ing Trans-Pacific Round Trip pasage tickets have the option of returning from: San Francisco by the steamers of the Pacific Mail S.S. Co, or Toyo Kisen Kaisha;
Local and through passengers may, if desired, travel by rail between Ports of call in Japan.
For further information, Maps, Rontos, Handbooks, Rates of Freight and Passago, apply to
D. W. GRADDOCK. Si snemal Traffic Agout (or China. Corner of Pedder Street n.djl'vaya, onposite Blake Pior.
BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.
APCAR LINE
Regular Service Between
CALCUTTA, STRAITS, SHÄNGHAI and JAPAN PORTE.
EASTWARD.
9.S. "A. Apcar," 4,450 tons, Capt." Walker, will be despatched: for SHANGHAI, KOBE & MOJI, on 7th June,
S.S. "Takada," 6,800 tons, .Capt. J. R UO'Sullivan, will be dospatched for KOBE & MOJI on 16th June.
WESTWARD.
S.S. "G. Apcar." 4,030 tons, Capt. Drake, will be despatched for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA on 2nil Juno.
5.S. "Dunera," 5,389 tons, Capt. Dickinson, will be despatched
a Bboye on 16th Juno.
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The above steamers have excellent saloon accommodation for passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a duly qualified surgeɔn.
. For freight or passage, apply to..
Hongkong, May. 26, 1914.
DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD. Agents.
THOS. COOK & SON, Tourist, Steams ip and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &c.
Head Office for the Far East:-16, DES VIEUX ROAD,
Shipping
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO.
Projected Sailings from Hongkong-
Subject to Alteration. Steamers.
Alsula Maru Capt. Trizawa Hitachi Maru Capt. T. Sato
Shipping HONGKONG
PHILIPPINES.
PHILIPPINES
STEAMSHIP CO,
Sailing Date
Steamship, T.
Captains.
T. 16,000
T. 12,500
JWEDNES., 3rd
June, at 10 am. ƒWEDNES., 17th (June, at 10 in.
Rubi .....: 4000 J. Miller
Zafiro 1000 F.S. McMurray
..
Destination.. MARSEILLES, 1 LONDON & AN TWERP, via Singapora, Malacca, Penang, Colombo, Suez, & Port Said..
VICTORIA, B.C., and 8EATTLE via 'S'hal, Keelung, Capt. Asakawa T. 12,500 Moji, Kobe Yok-Yokohama Maru kalchi, Shimidzu and Yokohama... Capt. Machida T. 12,500
SYDNEY & MEL
Sado Maru
#
BOURNE, via Kumano Maru Manila, Thurs-Capt. K. Soneda day Island, Tango Maru Townsville and Capt. Sekine Brisbane
CALCUTTA
via
"S'pore, Penang
& Rangoon
"』-
TUESDAY, 16th
[TUESDAY, 2nd June, at 4 pm.
June, at 4 p.m.
T. 9,300
T. 13,500
(WED., 3rd
June, at noon.. WEDNES., Ist July, at noon.
TUESDAY, T..5,000 (2nd June.
WED., 3rd T. 16,000 June, at 11 a.m. TUESDAY, 2nd
BOMBAY via Singe-1 Bombay Maru
pore and Colombo. Capt. KOBE & Yokohama 1 Kitano Maru
í Capt. VAGASAKI, Kobol Tango Maru
& Yokohama Capt. T. Sekine T. 13,500 1Juno, at 5 p.m. SANGHAI, Moji, Kawachi Maru
Kobo & Yokkaichi Capt.ChristiansenT.12,500 129th May. JFRIDAY, KOBE & Yokohama) Capt. Yoshikawa T. 12,500 (5th June,
1 Tosa Maru
ƒFRIDAY, ! Cargo only.
Fitted with new system of wireless telegraphy. REDUCED SUMMER RATES BETWEEN HONGKONG AND JAPAN PORTS. Commeacing from 1st June, ending 30th Sept.
SPECIAL EXCURSION TICKETS (1st & 2nd class) available for
3 months.
YOKOHAMA KOBE
Return.
1st class.........$135
2nd class........$ 81
5
Return.
MOJI Return.
$122
$103
NAGASAKI Retura. $95
r
$ 75
$ 65
$57.
With option of Rail between Steamer's Calling ports in Japan. For further information apply to Telephone No. 292.
T. KUSUMOTO, Manager.
CHINA NAVIGATION
CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
For
Steamers.
To Sail. SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU...Chenan ......30th May at m'night MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO...Taming 2nd June at 4 p.m. SHANGHAI......Liangchow......2nd June at 4 p.m. PAKHQI & H PHONG.........Sungklang......3rd June at 10a.m. SHANGHAI..................Luchow ......4th June at 4 p.m. HONG-STOW,W WEI,OFOOTTSINKuelchow...5th June at 10 a.m.
MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO...Tean ......9th June at 4 p.m.
KONG. SHANG.IA|: 2-3, Foochow Road. YOKOHAMA,
32, Water Street. MANILA: Manila Hotel,
11:KETS SUPPLIED to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP LINES and TRANS SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
TJRJ arranged to ALL PARTS of the WORLD. BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowest rates,
Le TERS of CREDIT and CIRCULAR NOTES ISSUED and
CASHED
Chief Office-LUDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON, E.C.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
l'eutsche Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft "HANSA." Regular Sailings from JAPAN, CHINA and PHILIPPINES
ria STRAITS and COLOMBO, "
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Marseilles. Havre, Emden, Bremen and Hamburg and New York And from Manila, Hongkong and Japan to Victoria. Vancouver
(B.C.) and Seattle, Wash, and Portland (Or.)
"Thenna taten to all European Nerib Continental and Bettis's Ports, so Telin, Marcilley Fason, and other Madranean Lerantina, Hiack Sea and Bit's
Ports, and all North and 5th Americas Porti
Next Sailings from Hongkong :
STEAMSHIP
FOR
Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama,...Segovia
Vitoria Vivar, S'ile & Pland (Or.).
"
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TO SAIL 29th May Preussen 8th June Silesia....... 18th June
M'los, R'dam, Hamburg & A'werp...Brasilla
DIRECT SAILING TO WEST RIVER, Twice Weekly, "8.8. LINTAN " and " S.S. SANUI"
For
Sailing date.
LOG" BOOK.
Reclamation Scheme.
The Toshin Warehouse Cm pany has filed an applies.ion for a-charter for the reclamation of the seafront at Hamabe-dori, Kobe, of 10,516 tsabo, for the construation of more warehouses and cheds to meet increased re-
quirements when the first quay,
which is shortly to be completed, is open for pablia service. The coat of the reclamation is estimated at. Yan 1,000,000.
ƒ Manila,Mangarin, TUES,, 2nd 1 Cabu and Iloilo, June, 4.p.m.
The Toll Question. [Manila,Mangarin, THUR, 11th 1 Cobu and Iloilo. June, 4 p.m.
It is curious to note the arga- Electric light and fans in every cabin; competent stewardesses side of the Atlantic to justify the ments put forward on the other carried...
Paseongera holding round trip tickats may return by any steamer of the Pacifio exemption of the payment of Mall 8.8. Co., Toyo Kusen Kaisha, Norddeutscher Lloyd and Eastern and Australian Panama tolla by American vessale. Stoamabip Co Ltd.
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The Marins Journal maintains that the British Government pays the Suez Canal tolls incurred by the P. &0. Company, and that the mail payments made by other countries are for the same purpose, and that when the Pannus canal is opened the various "foreign Governments will proceed to give, to at least their principal steam- ship Companies, the money to pay the sells for passing through this great American waterway. That Wallionen on or abartı 19 just as certain as the rising and Timahi ....JAVA ...2nd half May....JAPAN..nd half May the setting of to-morrow's sun. Tjibodas..... JAVA...2nd half May....JAVA
...ist half June The British mail contracts Bra Tjikini .....................JAPAN ...1st half June......JAVA ...1st half June Tjimanoek...JAVA
For Freight or Passage apply to
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
GENERAL MANAGERS Hongkong, 25th May. 1914.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Stalker
Regular Fortnightly Service between JAVA, CHINA and JAPAN.
From
Expected}as or about
For
lat half June......SHAI...1st half June put up to tender, and they are Tilpanas......SHAI...1st half June......JAVA .lat half June payments for services rendered in Tillatjap.JAVA 1st half June......JAPAN ...1st half June the carriage of maile. More than Tjillwong ...JAVA ...ist half July....JAPAN...Ist half July no British Company would bs Tiltaroem ...JAVA...2nd half July S'HAI ...2nd half July better off if they had no contract The steamers are all fited throughout with Electric Light, and with our Government for carrying have accommodation for a limited number of saloon passengers, and our mails, the condition being will take cargo to all Ports in Netherlands-India on through B/L o onerous. One is surprised at
For particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the
publication of the standing of JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN. he Marins Journal putting for- Telephone No. 1574
York Building.
ward such arguments, as the editor knows, or ought to know, that the British mail payments: have no connection, directly or indirectly, with the payment of Suez Canal tolls.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA
SAN FRANCISCO LINE
VIA SHANGHAI, MANILA, THE INLAND SEA, JAPAN AND HONOLULU,
Sailings from Hongkong-Subject to change without notice.
Steamer.
Tenyo Maru
44
4
Displacement
Leave Hongkong.
16th June. 23rd
14th July.
Tons & Spoed. 23,000 - 21 kaots ́ Tu98., Nippon Maru*
11,000 18 knots Tues., Shinyo Maru
2,000 21 knots Tues., Chiyo Maru
22,000 21 knots Tues., 4th August. Steamers via Shanghat will be despatched at noon. Steamers via Manila will be dospatched at 10.30 am. First Clasa to London......£71,10. Return (6 months) £120. First Class to New York.................£60.
£96.10. £68. option of
A New Dutch Liner. The steamship Rioaw, built by Mars. Arcbd., MoMillan and ion, Ltd., Dumbarton, for the
omvaart Maatschappij Neder nd, Amsterdam, recently tan her trials on the Firth of Clyde. She is of the shelter-deck type, and is built to Lloyd's highest olass. Length over all, 470 f; breadth. 66 ft.; depth moulded to abolier-deck, 38 ft. 3 in. She is intended for the transport of pilgrims and general trade with
San Francisco £45. » "Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Return tickets have the retuming from San Francisco ay steamers of the Pacific Mail S.S. Co., oz from the East. The exposed decke Vancouver by steamers of the Canadian Paolo Rallway Co.
are sheathed with teak, and the Special Rates given to MAVAL & MILITARY, CIVIL SERVANTS, MISSION-accommodation for passengers,
ARIES ⚫to..
ROUND THE WORLD Tickets issued in Connection with all the Principal officers, and dotora is arranged Mall lines and the Trans-Siberian Railway.
in a house on top of the bridge charge.
Passengers may travel by Railway between ports of call la Japan free of lock. She is supplied with a
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE. Via JAPAN PORTS, HONOLULU, HILO, MANZANILLO,
complete wireless installation. SALINA provided for Beams, petty In the poop the accommodation
ORUZ, CALLAO, IQUIQUE and VALPARAISO.
Thence by TRANS-ANDEAN ROUTE to BUENOS AIRES. For Full Farticulars as to Passage & Freight, apply to
S. MORIMOTO, Agent.
KING'S BUILDINGS.
Telephone No. 291
MANILA LINE-Twin Sorew Steamers "Chinhua," "Taming," THE EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN
and "Tean." "Excellent saloon accommodation amidships; eleotrio fane fitted; extra staterooms on deck aft on "Taming" & "Tean." SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU LINE-The Twin Borow steamers"
" Achuf " "Chenan," Shaohsing" and the 8.8. "Kanchow" Liangchow," Luchow" and "Yingchow" having excellent accommodation with Electric Light throughout and Electrio Fons in the State-rooms and Dining Saloon, maintain a fast schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, leaving Hongkong for Shanghai direct every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, taking cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtze and Northern China Ports,
*
STEAMERS CO., LIMITED. MAIL SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA
VIA MANILA.
MAIL, SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO MOFICATION).
Arrive Hongkong from Australia..
Steamers.
The steamers leaving Hongkong on Sundays proceed from Shanghai to Tsingtau, leaving there on Tuesdays for Shanghai, Hongkong and Canton.
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'clock every Saturday night.
2nd May. 23rd May.. 13th June,
officers, spprentices, and stokers. includes mess roome, b sik rooms, and lavatories. The steering gear house is placed at the after- end of the poop, and the steering arrangements consist of steam
and hand gear, fired with a quad.
Fant and controlled by telemotor from the flying and navigating bridges. Steam heating is fitted throughout, also electric light with generators driven by steam turbines. In a steel house on top of the boat deck there is a Hall.y fire-extinguishing and dis infecting apparatus. There-are Leave Hongkong13 life-boats and one pram, all
for Australia.
constructed of teak, She is fitted 29th May, 10 a.m.
with 20 steam winches, some 19th June,
being of Sieurin's .make, while 10th July,
there are 29 steel derricks, one
double bottom, both peake, and ballast is provided in the celintar capable of lifting 30 tons. Water
deep tank. The propelling ma- obinery has been supplied by Messrs. D. Rowan and Co., Glas-
These steamers land passengers in Shanghai, avoiding the incon-suring Plentiful supply of Lae, French Provisions, etc., and are The above Steamers are fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, en venience of the trans-shipment at Woosung.
Reduced Fares:-Single $45: Return $75.
For Freight or Passages apply to
Telephone No. 36
Hongkong 28th May, 1914.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agenta
HONGKONG AGENCY.
Outward Bound. (Vladivostok via Nagasaki.)
lighted throughout with Electricity All State-Booms have Electric Fans. A duly qualified Doctor and Stewardess are carried
For further particulars, apply to
Gibb, Livingston & Co.
gow, the engines having cylinders 28), 47 and 82 by 54 in stroke, The six boilers are 18 ft 9 in. by
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD. ft., designed for working
:
Hongkong-South China Const Ports.
Highest Class, Fastest and Most Luxurious Steamers on the Coast, having splendid Accommodation for First-Class Passengers, Electric Light. Excellent Cuisine."
FOR SWATOW, AMOX AND FOOCHOW RETURN. (Occupying 9 to 10 daya.) Captain
Leaving. AH. Stewart... FRIDAY 20th May at 11 am A. E. Hodgins... TUESDAY, 2nd June at 11 am
C. Ferd. Laelsz...3rd July RUSSIAN
RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET, Senegambla 17th July Scandia ..... 27th July Alesia....
14th Aug. Saxonia
10th June .Andalusia
........ 4th Aug. Sithonia ............9th Sept. 3rd June. Furst Bulow 5th June.. Havre, R'dam Hamburg & A'werp...Wuerttemberg...19th June. Sudmark... 24th June. Segovia 4th July. Coldenfels 13th July. Preussen ............16th July. Silesia
29th July. ...Frisia .....................10th Aug.
The S S. Koursk 6,400 R.T., Commander Padalke, is expected Steamships. to arrive here on or about the 28th day of Mayi
Havre & Hamburg
Mursel Tes & Hamburg
M'les, Havra, Emden & H'burg
R'dam.burg & A'werp.....
Havre, Bremen & Hamburg,
T'dam & Hamburg........Emden......20th July.
Havre, Emdon & Hamburg
Dankirk & H'burg 4
For Further Particulare, apply to-- **
Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hongkong Once,
(Odossa via Ports of call.)
to arrive here on or about the 6th day of June.
The 8.8. Mogilev 6,200 BT., Commander Kahiant, is expeated
Haitan Halyang
Halching
Halmun
The S.S. Koursk 640) R.T., Commander Fadalks, is expected Haimun. to arrive here on or about the 17th day of July,
For Freight, Pasange and further particulars, apply to
Hoogkoop, May 16, 1214,
Capt LUKHMANOFF, Agent, Hotel Mansions. Yra Vigor Tel. No. Hit.
W. O. Passmore, FRIDAY, 5th June at 11a.m.
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FOR SWATOW.
3. W. Evans WED., 3rd June at 11 am. J. W. Evans SUNDAY, 31st May at 10 am.
Steamers will arrive at and depart from the Co.'s Wharf near
Blake Pier. For Freight and Passage, apply to
Douglas Lapralk & Co.
General Manager"
pressure of 218 lbs. They are worked under forced draught on Elowdon's patent hot-air system, and the steam is superhosted by meansof smoke tube superheaters, As in the case of the sister Emp Roepat, the bottom has been painted with three coats of Solio- bert's free from mercury or copper combined anti-fouling and anti corrosive compositions.The trials proved in every way Batin. factory, and a mean speed of 14) knots was obtained on the measured mile,
Oysters, Fresh, Fried oz Stowed. Findon Haddocks, Kippers &tó.
ALEXANDRA CATE
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