The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-25


| The S. S. Nippon Maru arrived from
the Orient yesterday afternoon with
one of the smallest list of passenger.
she has ever carried through here. She
locked at the Hackfeld wharf shortly
after o'clock, and will sail this morn
ing at 10 o'clock for San Francisco.
There were three passengers for Ho.
nolulu. K. Ono, H. H. Scovel and c. A
beall' the latter coming from Shang-
mai TO join the local staff of cable
operators. There were also 1888 Japa-
hese laborers for Hawaii in the steer.
Iage, who were taken over to the quar-
Iantine shed
Among the through passengers are
two prominent tea merchants, H
Winter, of Germany and w J. Smith
a Chicago importer. Another beverag &c
was represented aboard by A. Mclean
who has been booming the virtues OF
FDewar's whisky through the Orient.
NV. Mertzsch, P. Thurner and H.
IWintzer are German tourists, bound for
I'South America
| Freight to the amount of PA tons was
unloaded last night. The Maru is TAX
| ing a large cargo of through freight
Ito the Coast
| MANCHURIA PROBABLY FOR
| NAGASAKI.
| No definite orders regarding the des-
Etination of the 5. S. Manchuria. when
| she sails from here, have been receiv-
led but it is the general opinion
tamong her officers that she win &c to
Nagasah to be repaired on the dry
dock. There are several reasons why
the big liner should go east instead
of to the Coast and more especially
since her sister ship has got into pill
kia and is also in need of dry docking
For vessels of the Manchuria and
Mongolia class there are only two dry
docks in the Pacific available, one at
Hunters Point. at the Coast. and the
ly two with a length sufficient TO ac-
'commodate the big liners, which re-
|quire So feet between the perpendicu-
lars. The great dry dock Dewey.
which can accommodate the greatest
warship atioat, is not long enough for
the Manchurja, neither is the British
naval dry dock at Esquimalt. The
Mongolia, which has freight aboard for
San Francisco and must go there in
any event to discharge. naturally has
the precedence over the Manchuria for
the first call on the Hunters Point re-
pair yard, While the Manchuria, by
--<~s,, n.~so~
dergo repairs at the same time and be
on the proper end OF her run to resume
her regular schedule when the time
arrives.
1t will probably be a couple of weeks
before the Manchuria is ready to go
anywhere, and in the meanwhile as
much repair work upon her as can pos
sibly be done here will be done.
UNRULY FIREMEN.
The Oceanic S. S. Sonoma was un-
fortunate in leaving Sydney on her
present trip with an unruly gang of |
firemen, trouble with whom was con-
tinuous on the voyage up from the |
and because of whom the |
liner arrived nearly twenty-four hours |
late yesterday morning. After the ar
rival of the vessel in port the worst of |
expectation OF trouble with them. {
threats of violence against the chief |
engineer having been made, a police |
officer stayed on board during her stay
here. Nor was the trouble ended |
when the vessel resumed her voyage,
the firemen coming on drunk and rel
fusing to perform their duty, making it /
necessary for the liner to return to
the dock after getting only a short way |
out. Other firemen were signed on
and the majority of the old crew dis
Seven passengers for Honolulu arriv-
ed on the Sonoma and there was a
large number of through passengers.
From here the vessel took the
members of the Southern California
editorial party and a large number of
other passengers. She got away final
~ about 80 p. m.
There was a big crowd present at
the sailing to speed the parting guests
the editors. on their way, cheering
hem heartily as the vessel pulled
away fror the dock. an answering
cheer coming back from those who t.
ined the rail aboard. while leis show
4red down upon the crowd left behind.
STATUS OF THE SHERIDAN. |,
Naval officers have been amused that ]
some papers have held the Navy re-
,ponsible for the loss of the transport |,
sheridan The fact is that the Navy
lad nothing whatever To do with the
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