The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-22

from Iquique; the British ship Sierra
Estrella, out fifty days from Callao: the
British ship Maxwell, out 1853 days from
/ Newcastle, England, and the British
ship Toxteth. out eighty-six days from
Newcastle, New South Wales.
Hancock to Garry Teachers.
1t is the present intention of the
transport officials to prepare the Hanz
cock for sailing from San Francisco on
July 1st for Manila with several hun
bred school teachers Both hospitals in
the transport will be fitted up as state
rooms, and special attention is to be
given to securing the comfort of the
large number of teachers who have
been booked to sail.
More Steamers for FRISCO.
A special to the New York World
Beveridge has been comforting with the
Russian Foreign Ministry relative to
concessions for steamship service be-
tween Vladivostok or Port Arthur and
some port on the Pacific Coast of the
! United States.
He found the Russian Government
already prepared to open up this route
by starting a line of steamers between
Vladivostok and San Francisco for car
rying the transpacific mails in connec-
ton with the Transsiberian Railway.
which will be completed by the end of
| this year, it is thought.
Two steamers, the Manchuria and
| Mongolia, each 345 feet long, of 5000
! tons burden, 4,075 horsepower and
sixteen-knot- speed, are building at
Trieste; Austria, for the East China
Railway Company which already has a
fleet of twenty-eight steamers for the
Yellow Sea traffic. The Manchufia has
falready been launched. and will be de-
| livered to the Russian Commissioners
lin July The Mongolia will be finished
in the autumn. The opening of the
new service has been fixed for Deem
Der.
The passage between Vladivostok
and San Francisco is expected to occu-
Ply twelve days.
The Trieste Shipbuilding Company
has just signed further contract with
the commissioners of the Russian Gov
eminent for the construction of two
other steamers of $500 tons and 400
feet long for the same service.
Revenue Cutters Delayed.
The strike of machinists on Puget
Sound is almost certain to interfere
with the work mapped out for the rev.
enue cutter patrol fleet of this Govern
ment The Manning and Bear. now on
the sound. were under repair when the
strike interfered. and the Thetis has not
sailed from San Francisco. AS re-
suit of the vessels delay in reaching
the northern waters peIagic sealing is
expected to be unusually active.
Passenger on Mohican.
A passenger on the bark Mohioan
from San Francisco to Honolulu was
D. Raymond Jones, son of Captain
Jones of the ferryboat Berkeley. The
young man was recently graduated
from the California State University,
and is on a vacation trip. The Mohican
left the coast on June 9Th.
Coming to Honolulu.
The schooner Helene is almost ready
to sail again for Honolulu from San
Francisco. She has now been year
in commission, and Captain Christen-
sen is more than pleased with her. She
is not the fastest Of the sugar fleet
but she can always be depended upon.
and there is not more handsomely
fitted out vessel in the fleet.
Pilot Jordan Sued.
Catherine Brady, widow of Second
Assistant Engineer Thomas H. Brady.
who was drowned on the occasion of
the wreck of the Rio de Janeiro on the
22d of last February, filed suit in the
United States District Court in San
Francisco on June 18th, against Freder-
lex w. Jordan and nineteen other pilots
of her husband.
The complaint alleges that the wreck
of the Rio was caused by the negli-
gence and unskllfulness of Pilot Jor-
dan, who was in exclusive command of
the vessel at the time she struck. Her
four children are parties plaintiff to the
suit.
A similar suit for $50, 900 damages for
Tie otdtH VI w dlGT 1SnuST y. 4.
Smith was filed against the same defend
ants by the family of the dead man. It
is alleged that all the defendants are
partners.
Another Accident to Goldsborough.
The torpedo-boat Goldsborough, built
by Wolf e Zwicker of Portland, which
for the past two years has been hav-
ing trials and falling, went out from
Seattle on the 18th instant on what
was to have been her final official test,
and broke her rock shaft. The acct
dent happened when the craft was un-
der full speed. 1t is expected that the
break will be repaired in ten days or
SO. The Goldsborough has successfully
passed two tests, and was near the
end of her course when the accident
occurred.
Wreck of German Bark Ot1Ide.
The German bark Otnde, Captain
Plate, has been wrecked on the rocks
in Gigantic Bay, near San Juan del
Sur. The officers and crew We're saved.
After New Eastern Record.
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