The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-12-22
THE MARAROA.
Arrival of This Fine New Steam
ship From Australia.
Particulars Of the yoyage-The Ala
media Four Hours Ahead AT samoa.

The flag Of the Union Steamship Com
pany OF New Zealand appeared for the
first time III Hawaiian waters yesterday
on the MaTaroa. y description OF this
fine steamship appeared in onr issue OF
the 18th, but it came FAR short of the real
ity, as the crowds of visitors to her last
night unanimously declared The Ma
raroa is unlike amy ether vessel We have
had in harbOr in her internal arrange
ment, and it il simple justice to say that
she is not excellcd in any point by any
vessel aflOat. As a companion ship to
the Alameda aud Nlaripoaa Oh the New
Zealand and Australian ROYAL Mail line,
the Mararoa stistains the high reputation
Won by the Oceanic steamers III her rate
of speed, passenger accommodation and
elegant equipments. These three vessels
are 50 superior 10 the australia, Zea-
landia and City ri Sydney in their gcn-
eral appointments, finish and speed as to
put comparison ont Of the question, and
it will only he matter Of :, short time
when they must have the passenger
travel between the Colonies and the
Coast entirely to themselves, just as they
| now have the mail service under contract
This is self-evident, because in the very
nature of things, people undertaking Il
long sea voyage will select the ship that
! furnishes the greatest measure OF COM
| fort and speed at the lowest cost.
| SUPERIOR PASSENGER ACCOMMODATIONS.
There are two grades OF cabins on the
! Mararoa The first-class staterooms are
spacious, elegantly upholstered and fitted
| with every requisite for convenience and
| comfort The second-claSs staterooms
are equally spacious, and though less
| elaborate in their finish than those re-
served for saloon passengers, are never
theless quite equal, if indeed they are
not superior, to the accommodationEfu
nished to first-class passengers in the
| Australian mail ships under the Pacific
Mail Company's contract. Indeed moth
ing could better illustrate the advance in
naval architecture in the past ten or
| twelve years than a comparison of the
| Mariposa and Alameda, American-built
ships, with the City of Sydney or City
! of New York, also built on the Della
ware and of the Mararoa with the Aus
tralia or Zealandia, each of the three
latter being Clyde built.
CLEANLINESS AND NEATNESs.
Another advantage of the modern
ships over the old competing ones is that
they are not floating slaughter-houses,
the butcher being an officer unknown
on them. Their refrigerating chambers
fgsshl tlhf Gafutt2rd 50 ,c6mmon on ocean
going steam vessels which carry passen-
gers without being provided with this
adjunct of modern civilization. The
decks are not filthy or fOul-snelling; and
no part of the decks of the Oceanic OF
Union Company's vessels are unfit to
Furthermore, the food is always whole
some and fresh on these vessels, which
is very far from being the case at all
times on board old-fashiOned ships. The
general cleanliness and absence of all
nastiness that could offend the sight or
smell were commented upon when the
Mararoa came alongside the wharf last
evening after her voyage from Sydney
and Auckland These points alone are
calculated to make the new Royal Mail
line between San Francisco and Sydney,
via Honolulu and Auckland, the most
popular passenger line of travel on the
Pacific.
THE VOYAGE FROM SYDNEY.
The MararOa, as already stated, arrived