The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-08


NEW STEAMERS FOR HONOLULU.
The promised new line of steamers
for Honolulu is soon to become real
ity if reports in the Tacoma Ledger are
to be believed.
r. A. Alley & Co have been contem-
plating the establishment of Van
couver-Australian line for some time,
and Mr.. Alley was in Honolulu few
The Ledger says:
THE first vessel of the new steam
ship line between Tacoma and Austria
liza and New Zealand, the establishment
of which, in connection with the opera
ton of the New Observation-Disclosures
Wooden company has been given pre-
vious announcement in The Ledger,
will arrive in this port in October, and
there will be sailings every four weeks
hereafter.
| THE new line includes four big
steamships and is to be known as the
Aus .ralian, Canadian & Puget Sound
line Tacoma will be the home port
for the liners on this side, and r. A.
Alley & Co. will be the general agents,
with offices in this city.
4 THE company has made arrange
ments with the Northern Pacific rail-
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the same manner as do the Oriental
! liners; the railway company soliciting
and booking business for it all over
| the country, and acting as carrier for
the eastbound freight brought in.
Freight for the new line is already
being booked by the agents here.
| 1.-The route to be travelled by the line
: is almost a straight one from Puget
! Sound to Auckland, New Zealand. On
! this side the liners will make Tacoma
the home port and will call regularly
! both going and coming at Vancouver
B. c., and when there is freight offer
ing for outward cargo at Seattle.
THE only stop between Vancouver,
B. c., and Auckland, is at Honolulu,
though of course this new line of boats
being of British flag will not be allowed
| to take freight from Tacoma for there.
| They may, however, carry cargo from
| Vancouver for the Hawaiian Islands.
In New Zealand the liners will call at
| Wellington, besides Auckland, and
from thence go to Sydney, N. S. W,
where they will make connections with
| the New Zealand and South African
line steamers for all the principal ports
of Australia and South Africa.
THE homeward voyage is to be made
from Sydney up the Australian coast
| to Brisbane and thence to Suva, Fiji
| Islands, from there to Honolulu and on
to Tacoma.
1.-The establishment of the new line
is the result of more than years work
by Mr. Alley, who initiated the project
as part of the big wooden mills en-
terprise. The line is not only backed
by the Northern Pacific railway and
the wooden mills company at this end
of the line, but by the big stock and
wool growers and some of the strongest
financial institutions of the Australian
:, islands Mr. Alley is now in England,
where he went to complete the deal
! the financing of the big wooden COM
pany. He is expected to return this
fall, and plans will be completed for
erecting the immense wooden mills in
West Tacoma the first thing in the
spring"
SOLACE TO BE HERE SATURDAY.
The United States naval transport
Solace was at Midway on Saturday.
Paymaster Rhodes received a private
cablegram yesterday from Ensign
Bricker who is on the solace saying
Am coming on the Solace VIII be
in Friday or Saturday" The cable
i gram was sent from Midway.
Bricker and Rhodes were together in
Asiatic waters.
The Solace will probably not make
very long stay in Honolulu. She
has been on a voyage through the Phil
/ ippines and Orient and is returning to
the States with officers and men. She
stopped at Midway on the return trip
to take mail.
i THOMAS MAY GET IN TO-DAY.
! The transport Thomas may arrive
this afternoon from San Francisco.
| She left San Francisco on September
1st and should make the run down in
seven days, though Captain William
son does not expect her until tomor-
row. There has been a good deal Of
speculation over the fact that the
| Thomas is to stop here, as she brings
neither passengers nor freight for this
| port. She will not take coal, and it is
| the belief in some quarters that the
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