The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-18
DORIC HAS
RICH CARGO


Doric arrived off port yesterday after
noon from the Orient and took her pilot
at 4:4S p. m, thus completing her voy-
age from Yokohama in nine days,
twenty hours and twelve minutes. The
liner left Hongkong on the 9th ultimo,
Shanghai list instant, Nagasaki 3rd,
Kobe 5th and Yokohama Sth This is
the steamers forty-second voyage east
ward. For Honolulu she has seven
cabin passengers, 1 Chinese, 80 Korean
and 1876 Japanese steerage passengers.
The cargo for this port consists of 1854
packages, 416 tons. all general freight.
nine cabin and four steerage and SO
Chinese and rs Japanese. The through
cargo consists of 34.179 packages, S747
tons, the principal items being: Tea,
SS7; silk goods, 3179; raw silly, 10; wild
silk, 275; waste silk. 1886; merchandise
1851; mating, 1925; rice, 20s specie and
II parcels
Purser Niswander gives the following
report of the voyage and account of the
cargo:
1.-THE raw silk shipment is the second
largest ever carried by trans-Pacific
steamer, being some 300 bales less than
the last Mongolias lot through sud
den fall at Yokohama, sailing day. 1t
was expected that $500 bales would be
laden there. but cable advices cut down
the quantity One million Japanese
Yen. or 100000 gold, is aboard for San
Francisco banks. All in all, the Doric |
has one of the most valuable cargoes |
to have passed through this port, the |
silk. silk goods and specie alone exceed /
ing s2,300,O00 value, gold.
Generally good weather was expert |
enced on the trip, though not exactly
favorable. otherwise the o. and o. flag
ship would have made a record, being
Just out of dock. War news remains
as scarce in Japan as it has been"
Among the passengers for Honolulu
is Mr.. A. *. Ozawa, the labor agent
Tor the Hawaiian Planters Association,
who returns from a business trip to
Japan. He is accompanied by Mr.. J.
who is a member of Parlia-
nent in Japan and is to remain a
month in Honolulu for his health. He
will return to Japan in time for the
opening of the Diet in the winter. Mr..
T. Uyeno is prominent Honolulu
banker. Mrs. Uyeno accompanies her
husband and Mrs. Y. Ishikawa returns
. join her husband.
OF the through passengers Lieutenant
:. r. Fortescue is in the United States
,avalry and has been an attache with !
he Japanese army at Port Arthur. He
5 nephew of President Roosevelt. 7
Lieutenant Thomas II. Brown is an Of
cer in the U. S. Marine Corps and I
vas recently on the u. S. S. Raleigh s
t Chemu1po. He was here with the
eet last winter and is very popular
18th Honolulu people. A. V. Penalva
a lieutenant in the Portuguese navy
n a tour.
Mr.. j. w. Copmann is the agent of t
he Standard. Oil Company at Yoko-
anna. Mr.. J, V. K. Thompson is just ]
ompleting a tour of the world with his c
ife. He is coal operator of Union
,wn, Pa. Mr.. ]. E. McGrath has been ]
lgaged in survey work connected with s
lie United States Coast and Geodetic I
urvey in the Philippines for three b
ears. Ee is accompanied by his Wife. S
Mr.. L. L. Bailey is an American Il
lining engineer from the Orient. Mrs. &
alley accompanies him. Mr.. H. H. .
OK was lately British Consul on the
Test River, above Canton.
David Fraser was correspondent OF
le London Times with the Japanese
my He left after the battle of Lao
ing.
Mr.. w. NJ. Smith is a civil engineer n
it'll the British railway construction a
China. y
H. F. Poland and c. B. Perkins are tC
merican merchants of Singapore and 50
anila. They are accompanied by their d.
ives. y
Mr.. T. shibata is San Francisco W
rio dealer. W
Messrs. Suekawa, Takenouchi and T.
zawa are exhibitors en- route TO the h
Louis Fair. pa
The Doric brought one of the largest fl
ais ever received from the Orient
ID will take out an enormous mail TO Is
e coast today the accumulation of
n days. She sails from the Hacdeld
narf at Il a. m.