The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-15

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life eOf customs inspector Gne of con-
slant responSib ility and activity
Largest Ma ht Go .Vod.
One of the largest, if not the largest
mails ever received in honolulu came
on the steamships Sierra and Coptic
from san Francisco on Wednesday.
The mail brought by the two boats as
gregated PSF bags. CT tits III -b-r 40
We're brought by the Sierra, VII ca ar
rived from the Coast, beating the Cop
tic by about ten hours. Needless to .
say, the postoffioe men had their hands
full and were obliged to work in a |
manner that even those busy men are |
not ordinarily accustomed to.
hmm ediste-Tra,. 4, o. .lon Ac5
The privileges of the Immediate |
Transportation Act of 1880 have been |
extended to Honolulu.
BY the last mail from San Francisco
Collector of Port Stackable received |
the following circular from the Treasa-
Ey Department:
| Treasury Department Office of the
Secretary, Washington, d. c., Feb
| ruary 3d. 1901.
To Officers of the Customs and 9th
ers Commemorative appended Act OF
Congress, approved February 10, 1901,
entitled An Act to extend the privi-
leges provided by an Act entitled An
| Act to amend the statutes IN relation
| to the immediate transportation of dn-
4 table goods, and for other purposes,
approved June tenth, eighteen hundred
| and eighty, as amended" Is published
flor the information of all concerned.
O. l.. SPAULDING,
| Assistant Secretary.
An Act to extend the privileges pro-
| Nv Act
amend the statutes in relation TO the
immediate transportation OF dutiable
goods. and for other purposes APP
proved June tenth. eighteen hundred
and eighty, as amended.
| BE it enacted by the Senate ana
| House of Representatives OF the Unit
ed States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the priv eyes or imme-
diate transportation, as provided by an
Act entitled AN Act to amend the
statutes in relation to the immediate
transportation OF dutiable goods, and
for other purposes" approved June
: tenth. eighteen hundred and eighty, as
amended by an Act entitled IAN Act
to amend the Act entitled An Act 70
amend the statutes in relation to the
. | immediate transportation of dutiable
goods, and for other purposes, ap-
proved February twenty-third, eight
cen hundred and eighty-seveN, be, a~d
5 the same are hereby, extended to the
Il port or fiolOlulu, IeIIIlOIy VI nav
Shlpbuildipg Returns.
According to the latest advices re-
ceived by Collector of Port Stackabie.
the Bureau of Navigation reports forty
vessels of 12,0S0 gross tons bdilt In the
t United States and officially numbered
. during the month of February.
: Of this number twenty-three were
sailing vessels and seventeen were
. steam; thirty-seven We're wooden YES
sells, and three We're of steel
For the Atlantic and Gulf there We're
: seventeen wooden sailing vessels, OF
: 2,13S gross, tons, and eight wooden
Il steam vessels, of 329 tons. For the
Pacific there were four wooden sailing
vessels, of 3,457 gross tons, and five
it wooden steam vessels, or 1874 groS:
It tons
e For the Great Lakes there was one
z wooden steam vessel, of 1,736 gros!
:, tons. For western rivers there Were
= one wooden sailing vessel, of twenty
le four gross tons, and one wooden steam
l. vessel, of 9S gross tons.
d One steel sailing vessel of 1,120 gros
1t tons, was made for the Atlantic Ocean
20 and two steel steamships of 1854 gros
tons.
5 The largest steel steam vessel IN
IS Guided in the above figures is the Yves
'e Point. 1928 gross tons, built at New
,r burgh, N. Y, and owned by the New
a. York Central and Hudson River Rail
he road Company.
le Revenue Cutter for Hawaii.
- The news comes from washington
'r that Senator Cullom, on February 2
lie gave notice of an amendment he WI
to propose to the sundry civil appropria
err ton bill providing for revenue cutie
q for Hawaiian waters at cost not [
~ exceed $4,000
ne Decided to Omit the Trip.
" 1t was thought that the STEAMSHIP
Peru of the Pacific Mail Steamshi
s. Company would. go on the run of tn
id wrecked City of Rio de Janeiro to tn
n. Orient, leaving out Honolulu on tn
,s@I outward trip. Unfortunately, hoWeVe
the Peru did not arrive at San Frar
ol sico from her Panama run until Ola
or two before the 9Th instant the da
to when the Rio would have started &c
de the Orient, and at the last moment
of was decided that the boat could not I
placed in commission in time to mak
y the trip. Consequently it was decide
All to abandon the attempt TO replace Il
of Rio de Janeiro on the present trip.
we The Peru or some other vessel WI
,e be dispatched to the Orient during II
at latter part of May.
he Capt. Wards Brothers.
o. John Ward, of Raleigh, N. c.,
-er brother of the late Captain Villa
d. Ward. of the Inflated City of Rio
,or Janeiro. was in San Francisco whe
lie the last steamer for Honolulu left thi
49, port c. e. Ward, of Denver, anoth
brother. arrived in San Francisco Sc
eral days previous. The two brothe
err will arrange to have the body of Z
20. captain of the Rio buried at Raleig
e's in the event of it's being recovert
ITO from the wreck.
Launches to Warsptte.
he Today, on Sunday, and on Monda
the the Young Brothers will run sever
the gasoline launches to the British ma
-, of-war Warspite, lying at anchor {
IL the harbor. The launches will ma
ms regular trips, and it is expected tn
ing many people will take this way
the going aboard the splendid cruiser.
ook A Meteorological Joke.
- The Shriners have captured Honoi
ei' lu. One of the first things they q
me after taking possession of the city w
aw to change the weather. AT east, tn
of is what has been intimated by Proft
md sor Lyons, the government meteorol
the gist. The professors forecast for
~ day is that the weather will be sho