The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-19
IL WAS ORDERLY
TO GEN. J0UBERT
ste ward on Bloemfontein
Served In south
Area.

The British steamship Bloemfontein. !
with lumber, put in here yesterday to
coal. The Bioemf0ntein is ca. go tramp
belonging to the British and Coioniai
NaVlgauOn Company. she was Tor
several years on the run from London
20 South Africa, but was chartered
light months ago TO run for year be-
.ween Puget sound and Honolulu. The
.ew laws. however, smut her out, ana
she is now on her way to Melbourne,
where she will be redelivered to her
Iwners, IUau Tor Lonuon and resume
Ter regular run to the Cape.
The f5loemfontein has had an adVen-
.urous time since leaving London last
August. She first proceeded to Ascen-
5Ion with cattle, en- route to Cape Town.
After leaving Ascension she struck
some floating wreckage which caused
/ leak i'm her bottom. Going into Cape
Town a propeller blade was iost. From
south Africa the B4oemfontein went to
Australia, arriving at Port Pirie. sac
should have gone to Newcastle hrsI,
out went to the wrong port through
some unexplainable mistake in orders.
Five days after leaving Newcastle
lor Honolulu the crank shaft broke and
-aptain Blelloch was undecided wheth-
r to go back or to continue the voyage.
De decided on the latter course, anu
| utter a hard time arrived in Honolulu
| IN November 10Th. In this port Captain
5lelloch discovered that his vessel han
oeen chartered by Frank Waterhouso
/ II Seattle to run from Puget Sound to
| honolulu. his understanding having
leen that she was chartered by the gov
eminent.
! On me last trip. while leaving PorJ
| Ludlow, the Bloemfontein, with pilot
n charge went ashore in place mark
/ d four and half fathoms on the char
4 out where there was only nineteen feet
! f water. y diver was sent down tt
! investigate. but found no serious dam
/ age. and she was soon hoated.
! The crew and officers of the Bloom
/ fontein are of a sporting disposition
| and include several good all-arounC
| athletes. Cricket and football matche!
ire arranged when possible at ports o.
/ ,all. The ship carries a complete crick
/ L outfit and practice is INDUCED IL
very afternoon during the dog watch
Captain Bleloch is noted shot, am
his cabin walls are decorated will
many trophies of the chase, a pair o
elk horns four feet nine inches high ant
four feet three inches broad. and rec
ord deer head being particularly no
ticeable.
Captain Blelloch. who is a lieutenan
in the Royal Naval Reserve, has hel,
command in the company for severa
years.
Acting as second steward is Ola
Onsun, who was for three months or
derby to General Joubert at Pretori
and Johannesburg. Onsun speaks O
Joubert as being a we'll educated gen
tleman, of kindly disposition and yer
approachable. The Beers, he said. low
, ed him. President Kruger, he added
they feared rather than loved, on &C
! count of his rough manner and addres
! and his extreme irritability when eS
: cited. When provoked, the ex-orderl
said, Kruger roared like a bullock, an
I he has seen him, when laboring unde
excitement. utilize his fingers and coat
0 sleeve as a handkerchief, at a Parlia
| mentary session.
J The Beer people. nevertheless. trus
n ed Kruger implicitly. and what Pa
!. hath said was taken as Gods woI
J, / among them.