The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-09-16
NEW STEAMER ARRANGEMENTS
FOR THE ORIENT.
japanese Competing Line Headed Off
at Hongkong in November.

The new joint schedule of the Pa
cifc Mail, Occidental and Oriental and
Togo kisen kabushili kaisha Steam
ship lines, was issued in San Francis
co on September 1st. Each company
is to run three steamers between san
Francisco and Yokohama and Hong
kong, including calls at Honolulu,
Kobe, Nagasalli and Shanghai. The
Mail Company has. after mature de-
liberation, decided to run the City OF
Peking, China and City of Rio de Ja-
neiro. The Occidental and Oriental
Company will retain the Doric, Cop
tic and Gaelic. while the Toyo kisen
Kabushiki Kaisha will be represent
ed by the new steamers Nippon Maru,
America Maru and IIongkong Maru
The new time table goes into effect
next November at the Hongkong end
of the line, and the first steamer will
be the City of Peking which is sched-
uled for November s, arriving in San
Francisco December 9th. The others
steamers will arrive at the same port
from Hongkong via Shanghai, Nagas-
aki, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu,
about as follows: Gaelic, December
16: China, December 81; Doric. Janu-
airy 6, 1899; Nippon Maru, January 13:
City of Rio de Janeiro, January 20;
Coptic, February 3; America Maru,
February II; City of Peking, Febru-
airy IS; Gaelic, February 2s, and the
Hongkong Maru, March Z.
The Mail Company's chartered
steamer Glenfarg will not return. nor
will the Glengyle. The o. & o. Com
pany's chartered steamer Belgic,
which left Honolulu last Saturday for
China will make one more voyage af-
ter this one and then she will be re-
turned to her owners the White Star
Line of England. The City of Pekin
and the CITY of Rio de Janeiro are
both to be thoroughly overhauled be-
fore they 90 back to the Hongkong
route. The Peking reached San Fran
cisco from Manila on August 22nd,
and as soon as hunks and fixtures that
were put in her to fit her out as a
transport have been removed she will
90 on the dry dock, and later to the
Union Iron Works. She will not go
into commission again until October
1St next.
It is not known whether the Rio has
left Manila for San Francisco or not,
but there will be plenty of time to ov-
erhaul her, as the schedule does not
call for her departure for Hongkong
until November 10.
All the steamers are scheduled to
call at Honolulu both coming and go
ing. in spite of the fact that three OF
them fly the British and three the ia
panese flag, while the China only pro-
cured a Hawaiian registry tew
months ago. From this it would ap-
pear as though there is to be spe-
cal clause in the constitution OF the
new territory allowing foreign Ves-
sells bound to San Francisco to carry
passengers and freight to and from
that point, for the time being.
The steamers of the Togo kisen ka-
bushiki Kaisha are now being com
pleted in England. They are hne
new vessels, about the same size as
the China, and will be splendidly hit
ted out. The Nippon Maru and the
Hongkong Maru are sister ships, and
being built by Sir. j. Lang of Sunder-
land, England. They are 431 feet in
length. so feet inches broad and 20
feet inches deep. CThe China is
44O.4 feet long, 4s.1 feet broad and
1928 feet deep). The America Maru
was built by c. S. Swan & Hunter Co..
Ltd, of Newcastle, England, and is
412 feet long, 80 feet inches wide and
30 feet inches deep. All three yes
sells are twin screw and are expected
to be fast. They were originally to
have run in opposition to the Pacific
Mail and o. & O.. with NJ. A. Newell
as the Pacific Coast agent, but Coils
p. Huntington got to work on the
japanese owners and now all three
concerns are housed in the Pacific Mail
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