The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-10-27

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The p NJ. S. S. Mongolia will arrive
today from Yokohama, and may pro-
coed to San Francisco tomorrow MORN
ing. She has 1900 tons of freight for
Honolulu and it will take overnight
TO discharge the same. The vessel has
accommodations for about $50 passen-
gers, but only about half this number
have booked.
Under a ruling of DIR. Hobby of the
Quarantine service. no Honolulans. ex-
cept they be intending passengers, will
be allowed to 50 aboard, and no one
except passengers may go further than
the dock gates. All adieus will have
20 be said at home or at the dock
gates.
This rule will be strictly adhered to.
No permission to go inside the gates
ill be given, and only tickets for pas
sage will prevail with the man who
tends the gate.
All. s. s. CO.'S PLANS.
MAZATLAN, Mex, Oct. 15.-Repre-
sentatives of the American Hawaiian
Steamship Company who stopped in
this port on their way from San Fran
cisco to Santa Cruz say their company
expects to ship at least 100000 tons of
Hawaiian sugar annually across the
Mexican isthmus under the contract re-
Gently entered into with the National
Railroad of Tehuantepec, pending the
completion of the Panama canal. Two
new steamships are being built for the
company at California yards.
DREDGING NEXT WEEK.
The dredge Pacific, which was
brought here from the Coast to do the
dredging of the harbor under the Fed
eral contract, will start work next
week at the rear of the Naval docks.
The dredge Reclamation of the Ha-
waiian Dredging Company, will begin
work at the entrance to the channel.
Whenever the weather is rough out
side, the dredge will be put to work
on the inner end of the channel.
ERNEST REYER LEAKING.
The hull of the French ship Ernest
Reyer, now moored at the Channel
wharf, is leaking slightly and taking
in water at the rate of about an inch
every twelve hours. AS soon as the
coal, comprising 3OS7 tons, consigned to
the Inter-Island company, Is discharg
ed, an examination of the hull will be
made.
ENGLISH LINE TO CUBA.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-There is a good
chance that the passenger rates be-
tween New York and the West Indies
will be considerably reduced this win
ter.
Hitherto the business has been In
the hands of the Quebec Steamship
Company and the Atlas Company ou
of New York and the United Fruit
Company from Boston and Phil
adelphia. The Royal Mail Steam Pack.
ct Company of Southampton, England
has decided to compete with these lines
and established fast mail service be-
tween New York and Jamaica. Their
first steamship, the Tagus, will sal
from New York IN Oct. 2S for Kings
ton, Coon, Puerto. Cabello, La Guayra
Trinidad, Barbados, Cherbourg and
southampton. The return trip is by
the same route. The service will be q
fortnightly one. 1t will be carried
out by the Tagus and the company's
trans Atlantic steamers Atrato, Ii
Plata and Trent. They are splendid!
equipped 5000-ton vessels, with a speed
of seventeen knots.
In addition TO q fast service to the
West Indies passengers will be able tC
continue the voyage on to Cherboure
or southampton and avoid the cold
stormy trip across the North Atlantic
in winter. There will be three classes
of passengers. The, time occupied in
the passage from New York to South
ampton by this route will be twenty
six days. The run from New York to
Jamaica vii be five dayls.
The Hamburg American Company
which bought out the Atlas line about
three years ago, will not receive the
newcomers with open arms. The agent
of the Hamburg American said yester-
day:
I'VE have not decided on taking any
action in the matter until we see how
things develop when the Royal Mail
start their service. We may come to
some arrangement, but l do not think
it likely There is not sufficient trade foi
three direct steamship lines between
the United States and Jamaica. We
do not count the Quebec line as rival
Early next year we are putting on ou
new steamers, the Prinz August VIII
helm and the Prinz Joachim, on thi
run"
TO RAISE SUEZ RATE.
NEW YORK, October 13.-It wa
stated yesterday, says the Journal o
Commerce, by an official of promi
nent house carrying on a large trad
with the Orient, that representative
of the leading SueZ steamship compan
les and transcontinental lines had de