The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-05-23

- UNRISE yesterday showed quite
q feet OF vessels on the harDor
- and visible from the DIAMOND
Head signal station. They were
all making for Honolulu and two Of
them. the steamers City Of Peking
and Samoa. had been OF port for sew
eral hours waiting for daylight TO
allow them 10 enter. The others we're
the German ship II. =. Glade from
l.ahalna in tow Of the tug Fearless,
and the American ship Charles &
Moody with coal from Tacoma The
mail steamer arrived here about
O'Clock yesterday morning after a
very rough trip from the Orient Be
sides the bad weather experienced
The vessel made an extra stop on the
way from Hongkong at Makao for
big load OF opium which is being
taken 10 San Francisco. The dope
is worth in the neighborhood Oh
quarter OF a million dollars and is one
OF the largest shipments ever carried
in the Peking as freight. This stop
at Makao made the steamer late in
leaving Yokohama and for the first
four days of the voyage from that port
she ran into heavy head seas and a
wind which threatened to stop her at
times Her average runs for the four
days was but two hundred and thirty
miles and thence TO port, although the
wind abated, the sea was high and she
bucked il almost TO Kauai. The Pc
king had over four hundred tons OF
freight for this port and on account
OF the rough weather had TO take on
three hundred tons of coal, which de
layed her departure for San Fran
cisco until after midnight
The German steamer Samoa, after
a pleasant trip OF nine days from
Pago Pago. arrived as the first steam
er OF the new line lately inaugurated
between Apia and this port. G.. kunst
well-knowE here. is at the back OF
the new venture and he arrived in the
steamer yesterday accompanied by
his secretary. It is the intention tC
make the Samoa the pioneer steamer
in new line which will supply Apis
and the new firm which Mr.. Kunst
has established there with goods
From Samoa she viii bring copra and
other freight which offers, taking in
return goods brought here from the
East and San Francisco. She viii
not have room for much more than 1
couple OF hundred tons of freight from
Samoa here, as most of her available
space will be taken up with the Goa
she must carry TO make the rounC
trip. Her capacity for freight from
this port, however. Will be about foui
hundred and fifty tons.
The Samoa was recently purchased
In Sydney for her new owners. Sh'
was formerly one OF the boats of tbs
Union Steamship Company and EN-
gagged in the intercolonial trade
For several years she has been laiS
up and when she was turned over I,
her new owners it was found neces
sary 10 spend many thousand dollars
on her in repairs and alterations L
III her for the new trade In which sh,
has been placed. Under the British
flag she was known Is the Ringarooma
She is about twenty years old and II
her time has been a fast vessel. Al
she has been laid up for such Ions
time her speed is not very great q
present and II will be two or thre'
trips before she attains her forme
capacity of doing from twelve to thir
teen knots an hour. Her officers ar
mostly all old employees of the Uniol
Steamship Co. but are strangers a
this port