The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-26


ance to the Colonial Governments
that the delays and inconvenience
inseparable from transhipping at
Honolulu shall be minimized; and
every effort will be taken to see that /
proper dispatch is given on every
occasion, and that passengers are in
convenienced as little as possible. |
Upon these points we cannot do bet .
ter than make the following extract /
from the Union COmpany's memo |.
randum of instructions to it's branch
managers and agents:
Managers are specially requested to take
pains 10 combat any objections to the tran
shipment at Honolulu by pointing out to
intending passengers that the steamers Of
the Oceanic Company are among the finest |
vessels afoat, having great speed and fine
passenger accommodations. On the sailing
of our steamer from Sydney telegraphic ad-
vices will be sent TO San Francisco Of the
number of passengers, and ample space will
be reserved in the connecting steamer, to
the exclusion of local passengers, if neces-
sary. The steamers lay side by side along
side a wharf at Honolulu, and the incOn-
veniences of transhipment are reduced to
minimum. Passengers have the option of
remaining in Honolulu for following
steamer, twelve days later thus giving
ample time to visit the famous active
Volcano of Kilauea, and other objects of
interest in the Hawaiian Islands.
Bulky cargo from San Francisco will be
brought on to Honolulu by the steamer pre-
ceding that which brings the mails, twelve
days earlier, thus giving ample time for
transhipment. The steamer bringing the
mail will of course bring fruit and light
cargo for immediate transhipment.
We do not anticipate any incon-
venience to local passenger traffic,
however, for should it increase to
point requiring greater steamer
facilities these will be provided. The
advantage from this arrangement
that must accrue to Honolulu and
| the interisland trade is obvious. 1t
is the very best arrangement that
could possibly be made for the benefit
of this community in general, and it
has been brought about by the enter
| prise of the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany. If it had not been for this
! spirited company, and its energetic
management, this arrangement for
transfer of freight and passengers at
Honolulu would not have been made.
Since the contract was signed
we are informed that it has
been definitely settled that Mr.. w.
| Pearce, of Messrs. Elder & Co., the
owners of the Zealandia and Aus
| tralia, is to come into the service, and
| that instead of using, as would other
wise have been the case, the Union
| Company's new steamer MararOa,
and either the Alameda or the Mari
posa to run between Honolulu and
| Sydney, the Zealandia and Australia
will now carry out that part of the
service.
1---, >, Gs,.a. .. l. -
country and the Oceanic Company on
the completion of this great under
taking. The new timetable for the
mail service gives the date of the first
| departure under the Union-Oceanic
contract: From Sydney, December
Sd; from Auckland, December 8th;
from Honolulu, December, 21st, ar
irving at San Francisco December
2Sth. And the first steamer under
the new contract is to leave San
Francisco November Dist, and Homo
lulu November 2Sth.