The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-31

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object Uf The company b. b. anuatruet
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u.n.gfs hr0 friEu.t W.f Tiyior.
JH ln -t.riina Taylor aud john p
Lewis. al of Philadelphia.
\ maritime exhibition ~ soon i1 bu
held I'm Tho great marble haf f the
Antwerp geological Garupn society.
Ihe exhibition viii consist " models
ana groups N models ~ an tho steam
ers ~ the maritime companies trading
with Antwerp Maritime companies
ana individual owners are urgently re-
quested TO take part In the exhibition.
The British steamer Rosario has been
awarded $4,000 for snlVeginV the Nor
ngiWn steamer Fulsip ian March last
The fulsjo. from New York TOR Oporto.
Ead her shaft broken ana was towed
into st. Mchaels. Azores Islands.
March 8. by the Rosario.
The Peruvian Government has grant
ed I'm part the petition VI the mer-
chants respecting the application OF
the new customs tariff, which went
into force yesterday. Goods on board
ships that have touched at any Peru
Wan port up to and including April
70 are to be subject to the old tariff.
The Richmond Locomotive Works
shipped twelve 16 in by "a In. ten
wheeled passenger locomotives 10 the
Finland State Railways. Helsingfors
Finland on Wilson Line steamer
"Consuelo" which sailed May Sd. These
locomotives are duplicates of ten en-
gines built by the Richmond Works
FOR the Finland State Railways during
last year, and is the third order re-
ceived from the same source
The United Steamship Company OF
Copenhagen has ordered six new
steamers of 10000 tons each for the
United States trade. On account of the
increase in American exports It has
been decided to open a regular line to
Boston and increase the number of
steamers on the New York and New
Orleans routes.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company, 1t is reported from San
Francisco, is going into the fight for
the carrying trade of the Orient. The
British steamer Indrapura from Cal
cutta has been chartered by the com
pany for three years and will shortly
proceed to Portland to load flour for
Hong Kong and other Asiatlc ports.
The company also has chartered the
Indravelli, a sister steamer to the In
drapura.
The American Bureau of Shipping
classed and rated the following yes
sells in the Record of American and
Foreign Shipping: '-American screw
Esperanza, American schooners ]. C.
Strawbridge, Martha p. Small and
Clara Barton American bark Carrie
WinSlow, American three masted
schooner Susie b. Dentzler, British
screw steamer iceland, British schoon-
er Zeta, British schooner j. B. Martin
and Swedish bark Karuna.
The German steamer Nicomedia.
launched at West Hartlepool on April
IL for the Hamburg American Line OF
Hamburg, is fitted with side tanks
which extend through the main and
after holds and engine room distance
of 271 feet. These tanks have a ca
pacity of $50 tons, and allow her space
for 1900 tons of water ballast in all.
They also give her double sides, which
adds to her strength and safety The
side tanks also improve the behavior
and speed of vessels running light, be-
sides considerably reducing the racing
of the engines. The dimensions of the
steamer are: Length over all, 1903
feet; breadth, So feet, and depth %
feet inches.
A new twin-screw steamer for the
Tyser Line for the service between
New York and Australasia is building
at the yards of Workman & Clark,
Belfast, and is expected to be finished
in November or December. She will be
$50 feet long about 81 feet beam, with
depth Of about S6 feet, of 1000 tons
gross and cargo capacity of some
$4,000 tons. She is expected to have a
speed of 10 knots. Another new steam
er. the Indralema, is also being built
for the Tyser Line and will probably
be ready for service some time in
June. She is being finished at the
yards of Charles Connell & Co, Glas-
gov. This boat will be of about 10000
tons dead weight, with a cargo ca
pacity of about 10000 or Is, 900 tons, and
a speed Of about II knots.
Nagasaki shlbuilding.
The Sanyo Railway Companys ferry
boats Shimonoseki-maru and Oseto-
maru and the American liner Kaga-
maru, all of which have been construct
ed at the Nagasaki Mitsu Bishi Ship
building Yard, are now receiving the
final touches at the Akunoura Engine
Works, and are expected to be complet-
ed in a few days. These vessels will
leave in another ten days. the Kaga-
maru for Kobe, and the ferryboats for
Shimonoseki. Besides the above there
are seven vessels now in course of con-
struction at the Mitsu Bishi yard. They
are the American liner Iyo-maru; two
dredgers ordered by the Wakamatsu
Dredging Company; a shallow draught
steamer Taitei-maru, to be employed on
the Chinklang service of the Osaka
Shosen Kaisha; two steamers to be
used by the Government Iron Foundry
for the transportation of iron ore from
Hankow to Moi, and another steamer
fitted with salvage plant for the
Mitsu Bishis own use-Nagasaki
Press.
An Accident at Koloa.
The steamer James Makee, Captain
Tullett, arriving from Kauai yester-
day, brought news of n probably fatal
accident at Koloa.
While the steamers he Au Hou and