Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-12-18
News Of Shipping
Along Water Front !

her cargo Of lumber for Lowers A
Coke. II will take about a week longer
to clear her out.
The Alameda Of the Oceanic steam
ship Company locked at the wharf yes
yesterday at 2 o'clock from the Coiu-
mics. She left again for the Coast at
G o'clock with light passenger list
Chief Engineer Little of the Alameda
has been promoted to that position on
the new steamship Sonoma. For eigh-
teen years he was engineer on the Ala
media, and his promotion Is a deserved
one.
The ship James Drummond left sgd
ney on Nov. Goth in ballast for New.
castle. She will load with coal for Ho-
nolulu. She Is In command Of Captain
H. c. Mason and has a registered ton
mage Of 1il5 tons.
The cold storage steamer Albion ot
the Elmball Steamship Company has
not completed discharging her cargo
as yet. She is lying at the end Of Fort
street wharf with about 60 tons of meat
IN her cold storage ready tobedeivered.
When this portion of her shipment IL
out she will get away for the Coatt
without delay.
If Captain Going of the America
Maru is quoted correctly. 1t is evident
that the Togo Kisen Kaisha who own
her do not intend to be outclassed so
far as speed across the Pacific is con-
cerned. The captain is credited with
saying that orders have been issued by
the T. X. X. Company TO make the
best possible time across the Pacific.
The United States Government nas
ordered the battleship Indiana and the
armored cruiser Minneapolis to rein
force its squadron In the Far East. The
cruiser has already left New York on
her new comission and the battleship
will shortly follow. The latter is of
l0.i00 tons displacement with speed
of IA knots and carries crew of 40
officers and men,. The Minneapolis
has a complement of 500. Is of 1850
tons displacement. and has a speed Of
1850 knots. Both vessels were con-
structed in 1898.
The arrival of the steamer Alameda
from the Colonies made things quite
lively for a awhile yesterday at the
Oceanic wharf She departed from Sgd
ney on Dec. LIST making a splendid run
to this port. The Alameda left here.
last evening at about 7 o'clock pd will
make all speed possible in order to
reach San Francisco In time to load and
take up the run of the Sonoma, one OF
the three new boats constructed by the
company, which was scheduled to leave
San Francisco on January 2. The Ala
media will shortly be retired from the
run to the Colonies, after fifteen years
of service. She is a good boat yet, a.
was in evidence on her voyage from
Sydney to Honolulu.
The American delegates to the Inter-
national Marine Conference, Rear Adj
miral S. X. Franklin, u. S. NJ: Capt.
John w. Shackford. the Hon. w. w.
Goodrich, Mr.. Clement Al Griscom, and
the Hon. S. I.-Kimball, met at the Blu
reau of Navigation, Treasury Depart
ment. on Thursday to consider the
proposition to modify, in several par
ticulars. the rules for preventing col
lisions at sea In so far as they relate to
lights on fishing vessels. The changes
relate particularly to trawlers In the
Mort hSea. In so far as they relate to
American fishing vessels the changes
proposed are in accord with the views
Of those most directly interested. Az
ter some discussion the delegates de-
termined to ask Congress to adopt the
proposition. which originates with
Great Britain. The enforcement OF
these rules. II adopted by Congress,
will be conditional upon their adoption
by the other principal maritime powers
as the intention Is to secure greater
uniformity in the rules to prevent col.
lisions at sea. The American rule for
lights on steam pilot vessels is also 10
he made the international rule.
The p. and o. steamer Egypt which
recently arrived at Plymouth, landed
the crew OF the British steamer Indra,
who were so long missing after the
wreck OF their vessel at Cape Guardd-
fui.. The Indra, bound from Java 10
Philadelphia, with $500 tons of sugar.
was wrecked on August goth about
twenty-eight miles from Cape Guaria-
fui In fine weather. The crew left in
four boats. but the captain and second
officer were soon picked up and the men
conveyed to Alden. Twenty-three days
later the remainder of the crew arrived
there after extraordinary experiences.
Two days after leaving the Indra they
fell in with Somali dow, which Il
freed to conduct them to the shore to
find fresh water. One of the native
crew understood something of the Ian
guage, and gathered that the strangers
intended making prisoners Of the ship
wrecked mariners and holding them 70:
ransom or selling them into slavery,
The SOmalis had placed an armed man