Local offices of the C.P. announce that the s. Empress of Japan is on her way here from Vancouver and Victoria by way of Japan and she will arrive today at about 10.30 a.m. at the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Company's Hongkew Wharf. She carries 776 passengers, 249 of which are disembarking at the Customs Jetty this noon while the liner proceeds to Hongkong and Manila, today at 6 pin., and her outgoing passengers will be conveyed to the ship by tenders from the Customs Jetty leaving at 1230, 230 and 420 p.m.
Arriving from Bremen and Hamburg via the usual ports, the HAL. inv, Burgenland should enter port tomorrow morning and berth at the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Company's Hongkew Wharf, from where she will leave on the following day in the afternoon, for Taku Bar, Dairen and Japan ports, Having left Hongkong yesterday morning, the E. & ASS. Co's s. Nankin should arrive from Australia on Thursday at about 9 a.m, and tie up at buoys 12-13 from where she is to sail on the following day for Japan ports from which she will proceed to Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. The P. & O. freighter Bhutan leaves buoys 13-14 today at 10 am, for Hongkong, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp.
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