The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-03-08
No COAST MAIL Until RIHEXTRA SESSION IS CALLED
THE PACIFIC MAIL BOAT SKIPS
HONOLULU THIS TRIP.
Peru Has Taken Place of Lost Rio But
Left San Francisco one Week Be
hind Time.

Unless a transport arrives there will
be no mail from the Coast before next
Tuesday the l2th. The cause Tor this
delay is the withdrawal of one of the
Pacific Mail steamers from her regular
run. This change was made necessary
by the loss of the Rio de Janeiro last
month, and the news of the change in
schedule was brought this morning by
the city of Picking from the Orient.
According TO the adviCes which came
from San Francisco via the MaripOsa,
February 23rd, the morning after the
wreck OF the Rio the managers of the
company expected to replace her on
the China run with either the Peru or
the City OF Para. The Peru is praCti-
cally "a sister ship to the Rio and of
about the same speed, so 1t was not
expected the change would be accom-
phshed by any trouble.
Evidently the Peru was not i'm port
at the time or else could not Doe gotten
ready for the sailing of that vessel so
/ that run has had to be postponed one
week The Rio was scheduled to have
/ left San Francisco on the return to
/ the Orient February o. This would
/ have made her reach Honolulu. last
/ Wednesday, March 9Th. With the post
| poning of the run came the further
necessity of shortening the route in or
/ der to reach HOngkOng and start on
time on the return trip with the big
|Consignments The only way by which
/ this could be done was To leave out Ho-
nolulu and it was so ordered
l Official adViCes 20 this effect had been
received by the Pacific Mail Agents in
/ Yokohama when the city of Picking
was i'm that port The dispatches in
formed the agents that the Peru would
/ take the Rios run one week later,
/ leaving san Francisco for the Orient,
/ March eth She would take the Great
I l.. 1UHNH ~
| order to make up the time lost in
leaving the States The agents We're
Informed they could advertise that the
vessel would leave Hongkong for the
States in sufficient time to take the
! freight and passengers on the regular
return trip.
Whether the Peru will stop here on
the return trip is not quite certain
but inasmuCh as that will be in April
1t will probably not seriously incon-
venience anybody here as other ar
arrangements can be made in time. The
delay of one of the vessels to the orient
will no doubt cause much annoyance
to the various houses having business
with that quarter There will probably
be a big rush of passengers for the
Coptic of the O. and O. line which VIII
reach here on the afternoon of the 18th
or the morning Of, the nth from San
Francisco en- route to the Orient
The Sierra is Jne llrSJ NtSSSl SCllcu'
uled to arrive from San Francisco. she
is due on Tuesday the 18th and goes tc
the Colonies. This means that there
Twill be no more communication with
1.-THE outside world for at least three
days more if she beats her schedule
time. and four days if she takes the
ALLOTTED time to make the run down
There will be mail on her from Febru
airy %, and news from the oath as one
days later news was brought this
morning by the Centennial which san
ed from Seattle on February oath.
The only chance there is that mai
and news from the Coast will reacl
here before the next week is that tn
regular army transport which leaves
San Francisco the LIST of every month
should arrive. According to the las
advices received by Quartermaste
Robinson on mention was made of an!
such vessel sailing for Manila on Marcl
list. Inasmuch as nearly every trans
port now in San Francisco is undergo
ing repairs of some kind no transpor
is expected before the end of the month