The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-11
CABLE SHIP COLONIA ARRIVES FROM TANNING
ISLAND WITH WORLD NEWS ONLY FIVE DAYS OLD
Vessel UncoiIed 3455
Knots of Cable Into
Pacific.

" HoNoLULU yesterday was two
- days nearer the sources of the |
Il B worlds news than ever before in
its history. Tanning Island, the
British cable station southeast of the
Hawaiian Islands, four days distant
by steamer, is connected by cable with
Victoria, British Columbia, and when
the British cable steamer Colonia
steamed into Honolulu yesterday fore
noon she brought news of the world UP
TO October g. Even the Alameda which
came in yesterday evening. had she ar
rived at the same time as the Colonia,
had news only up to the afternoon of
October a
The cable news which the Colonia
brought from the Tanning Island sta
ton to Honolulu yesterday was brief.
There were but four messages and these
related largely to affairs in which the
British people would naturally be in
terested One was to the effect that
King Edward would have a Thanksgiv-
ing service in Westminster Abbey on
the 18th. Another told of the death of
Sir Frederick Abel. A third related
TO two new Cunarders built on the
Clyde and the last said that President
Rooseyelt's efforts to end the coal strike
were futile All were dated at Van,
icouver, October 8.
Thus month by month the outlying
FL 49, or
being linked to the rest of the world
by cable. The cable news which the
Honolulans read this morning in the
Advertiser came over the longest single
stretch of cable laia in any ocean on the
globe-a length of Bass knots. AS yet
the cable is not directly on Tanning
Island, but the end is within a mile of
the station held up by a monster buoy
which will he secured by the Anglia
which is to leave for Tanning Island
tomorrow. On the Anglia is the re-
inainder of the cable which will connect
this baoyed-up end with the cable sta
tioa The Anglia will then commence
laying the cable between Tanning and
Suva which will complete the great ALI
British cable from Vancouver to sgd
ney.
To now receive news that is only
four and a half days old is a novelty
to islanders. To the British cable COM
pany goes the credit of giving to Amer
lean Hawaii her first actual news by
cable, but it will be an American cable
within seventy days which will give
Hawaii news that is only old by few
minutes.
On October the Colonja con1nleted
the laying of the cable from Victoria,
at 2 p. m. At IL g.. m. Cable Engineer
Lucas made the following entry in his
log:
Monday 9Th October, IL a. M, sound
ed 490 fms. sent following Telcon, Lon
don: October 9th, Ii a. m, about to
buoy end one mile from Tanning Id.
cable house. Have had fine weather
all the way and the whole of this long
section has been laid out without a
check of any kind. everything and ev-
cry one has worked splendidly, length
S455 knots.k Colonia proceeds to Ho-
nolulu this afternoon All we'll.
LUCAS"
Other dispatches would have been
. taken on that day had it not been that
the station at Vancouver got out of
order
Upon arrival yesterday at Honolulu
the fine cable ship was moored along
side the Pacific Mail wharf. The An
-glia, which has aboard the cable for the
stretEh between Tanning and Suva.
steamed alongside and arrangements
were at once begun to transfer S5.05
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