The Norddeutscher Lloyd liner Gneisenau, according to information received from the local agents yesterday afternoon, is expected to tie up at buoys 11 and 12 at 5 o'clock this afternoon from Japan. Passengers are due to arrive at the Customs Jetty at about 7 o'clock this evening tender.
The Gneisenau will remain in port until Friday afternoon, when she will be sailing for Genoa, Southampton, Rotterdam and Bremen by way of Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Belawan, Colombo and Port Said. Passengers, according to the present Schedule, will be sailing from the! Customs Jetty at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon for the ship in the tender Scot I.
At about 11 o'clock this morning, the Java-China-Japan Line s. Tjisalak will be sailing from buoys 12 and 13, passengers travelling down to the ship in tenders which are to leave the Customs Jetty at 9.30 o'clock. The Tjisalak is bound for Semarang and Soerabaia by way of Amoy, Hongkong, Muntok, Batavia and Cheribon.
Empress of Asia The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Asia is expected to arrive from Hongkong at about 10 o'clock on Friday morning, when she will be tying up at the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co.'s Pootung East Wharf. Passengers from the Empress of Asia are to arrive at the Customs Jetty about an hour and a half later.
The Empress of Asia will be leaving port again at 6 o'clock the next morning, bound for Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, Victoria and Vancouver.
Passengers, however, will go on board the previous evening in one of two tenders, either the first at 4 p.m. or the second, the despatching tender, two hours later.
According to present expectations, the Messageries Maritimes liner Aramis, which sailed from Shanghai on Monday for Japan, is to leave Kobe on Saturday next on her return journey to France. She is due to arrive here two days later, finally sailing on Tuesday, March 1, for Marseilles by way of Hongkong, Saigon, Singapore, Colombo, Djibouti and Port Said.
Another vessel listed to sail on Tuesday next will be the P. & O. Comorin, sailing on that day for Marseilles and London with passengers, cargo and the mails. En route, the Comorin will be calling at Hongkong, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Port Sudan, Aden, Port Said and Malta
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