The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-29
The All Red Cable
May Come
Here.
Assistant Superintendent
of Tanning Station
Arrives.

Two British cable steamers will ar
rive in Honolulu during the course of
the next few days. One is the Colonia
which left Victoria on Sept 10Th to lay
3,54O miles of cable to near Tanning Is
land and then return to Honolulu. The
other is the steamer Anglia which left
London on August third and after MAX
ing the long voyage around through the
Suez canal is due here on October third.
The latter vessel is to lay the cable be-
tween Tanning Island and Suva, Fiji.
The Colonia is laying the new Pacific
cable at a smart rate She left Bam-
field Creek on the nineteenth and is
putting the cable on the sea bottom at
the rate of seven and half miles an
hour. Her cable only reaches to with
IN hundred and seventy-five miles of
Tanning Island and when she gets to
that point she will attach the cable end
to buoy and leave it there for the
Anglia to connect and lay It in to Fam
ming Island and thence to Suva. The
Anglia comes here to meet the Colonia
so that the engineers who are laying
the cable may be transferred to her
from the Colonia and also some of the
cable laying machinery. Both are large
steamers and should excite considerable
interest while they remain in port as
it is seldom that a cable vessel is seen
in Pacific waters.
WILL THE CABLE COME HERE?
]. E. Dicketts, of Halifax, Nova Sco-
tia arrived on the "all-red" liner 40
rangi yesterday from Victoria Mr..
Dicketts is on his way to Tanning Is
land where he is to be assistant super
intendent of the Pacific cable station.
Mr.. Dicketts is now at the Moana Ho-
tel and will remain here until the ar
rival of the Anglia from London as he
is to go to Tanning Island by that
steamer Mr.. Dicketts states that the
cable from Bamt1eld creek, Vancouver
Island, to Tanning Island will be laid
very near the Hawaiian Islands but
could not state definitely whether the
cable would be laid into Honolulu. If
the Pacific Gable Board could make ar
rangements with the Commercial Gable
Company, which is to lay the American
cable to Honolulu, it is likely that the
cable which passes by the islands to
Tanning Island will be taken up, cut,
the two ends laid into Honolulu. and
transmitting station established here.
If this is done Honolulu would always
be sure of a cable service for If one line
broke the other could be used by both
companies until repairs could be effect
ed to the broken one.
Mr.. Dicketts thinks that the new
"aIl-rcd" cable will get tremendous
amount of business. He says that there
is a great deal of sentiment behind the
cable and that Britishers will. give it
great support Australia has for years
been in the hands of the Eastern Gable
Company and now that an all British
line is being put through Australian
and English merchants will use it in
preference to the old one.
"The cable" says Mr.. Dicketts, will
be completed before the end of Novem-
Der. Already the line has been laid and
is being used between Queensland and
Norfolk Island, distance of S35 miles.
and between Norfolk Island and Fiji,
9S1 miles, and between Norfolk and
New Zealand, SIS miles, or 1884 miles in
all, which is now in working order. In
two weeks tins the section as far as
Tanning Island will be nearly complete
and few weeks more will see it con-
structcd to Fiji, completing the work
and forming one of the finest cable
services in existence"
Mr.. Dicketts is going to Tanning for
a. two years stay. He expects his wife
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