The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-19
FAMOUS MAN
IN COMPANY
Lord Stanmore Is
Head Of Guano
Concern.
Formerly Governor Of
Fiji, New Zealand
and Ceylon.
Gilbert islanders Spend Day on
IsIeworth Holding Prayer
Meetings.

Not in many years has such a men,
orable expedition set forth from Ho-
nolulu for the South Seas as that in
volving the departure yesterday of the
British S. S. Isleworth crowded with
the last of the Gilbert Islanders who
are going back to their island home.
yesterdays voyage was a short one,
chorage outside the harbor near the
bell buoy. There the vessel remained
throughout the day. The delay in set
ting out in the long voyage was due
to Mr. Arundel waiting for private
cablegrams from London. Early this
morning Mr.. Arundel will go aboard,
and within half an hour later the an
Choir will be weighed.
The 22O Gilbert Islanders were a hap
Ply lot on board yesterday. They spent
the day in talking over the prospect
of their arrival and in rearranging
their deck space with a view to OBJ
tanning the most comfort out of the
hard planks. This done they held pray
er meetings under the direction of
their missionary, Mr.. Isaia. Psalm
singing occupied the afternoon and last
night they huddled down to their last
slumbers in Hawaii nei.
The vessels chartered by the Paci-
fic Islands Company may frequently
be seen in this port loaded with qua
no from Ocean Island, as the compa-
ny holds itself in readiness to supply
the local fertilizer company with car
goes at any time. The company,
through it's experts, have blocked out,
on Ocean Island alone, 100000 tons
of phosphates. 1t expects to work out
the coming year 100000 tons for Ha-
wall, Australia, New Zealand, CONT
country sending it's own steamship,
the Arachi Maru, for cargoes. AS
the Isleworth brought only 1000 tons
here. some idea can be gained of the
iildSHltuue ol the company opera
tions. The company also controls
Pleasant Island and Clipperton Island,
the latter off the coast of Mexico in
the Pacific ocean.
Mr.. Arundel was recently in Mexico
and secured the permission of the
government of that country to ship
the Clipperton Island phosphates Mr..
Arundel had audience with President
Diaz, and it was through this modern
ruler of the land of the Montezumas
that the concession was gained Clip
France, but diplomacy, with the Mon
roe doctrine hazily apparent, prevent
ed the tri-color from floating over it.
A claim was advanced at one time
that the island belonged to the United
States but an objection was made by
Mexico and the result was that it
1t is the opinion of Mr. Arundel that
Clipperton Island would be a magni-
flcent coaling station for any power
with interests in or bordering on the
Pacific, with the shelter it affords for
a vast number of vessels.
The Pacific Islands Company, of
which Mr.. Arundel is Deputy Chair
man, has for its chairman, noble
connection of one of England's most
interesting personages. This is Lord
Stanmore, formerly Sir Arthur Gordon,
the first British Governor of the Fiji
Islands. Lord Stannore is the uncle
Of the present Lord Aberdeen. His
father was prime minister of England
during the Crimean war After max
ing an exemplary record as Governor
of Fiji, Lord Stanmore was Governor
Of New Zealand, and lastly of Ceylon,
when he retired from public service.
AS Governor of Fiji Lord Stanmore
stamped his native policy of the group
in a manner which made him the be-
loved of the islanders. For the pay
ment of taxes the natives turned into
the government cocoanuts and various
products of the soil, his object being
to cause them to turn their minds and
hands to the cultivation of the islands.
He was always interested in these
natives said Mr.. Arundel yesterday,
and I'm sure he will be most pleased
to learn that it was in one of our
company's boats that these Gilbertese
are made happy by being taken back
to their homes
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