The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-26

/
With a big coal cargo of 5000 tons for
! this port, the British steamship Aotea
arrived yesterday morning, twenty
| days out from sydney. This is the first
visit of this steamship to Honolulu. al
! though Captain Prosser, her master, is
! known here, having been formerly with
| the Arawa. The visit OF the Aotea is
the result of a shipping combine among
the Federal, Tyser and Shfres com
panies, the object of which is to drive
the Shaw, Savill and Albion steamers
out of the New Zealand trade. AS a
result of the competition and the low
! rates accepted for British freights by
the combine boats, the Aotea was tax
en- off her regular run and sent to New
castle under a coal charter for this
| port.
The regular run OF this vessel is from
London to New Zealand by the Cape,
touching at the African and Australian
| ports en- route and returning to Lon
| don around the Horn, calling at some
of the South American ports. She is
large steamer, having a registered
! tonnage Of 1916 tons. She was former
! ly a Royal Mail liner on the Colonial
! run and is fitted up for the accommo-
! dation of a limited number of saloon
passengers and 400 Storage passengers.
! closely connected with the White Star
! line, the latter being in fact two-thirds
owners of the Aotea, as they were of
the Coptic and Doric.
| The Aotea had a good run Up from
Sydney, where she loaded her bunker
+ coal and took on some 700 tons of other
freight after leaving Newcastle.
In latitude 3:15 north, longitude 172:40
west, piece of wreckage was sighted,
a topmast apparently, possibly the only
evidence remaining of some ocean trag-
edy. The smoke of two southbound
steamers was seen, but no vessels were
spoken. She win discharge her coal
cargo at the Hackfeld wharf, and will
wait here for orders, which are expect
ed as soon as the vessel will be ready
to sail. What the next port of call viii
be the officers do not know.
Four days out from Honolulu the
Aotea encountered a strong northerly
set, which continued until Honolulu
was sighted. So strong was this that
the night orders issued on Wednesday
allowed five degrees for the current.
During the latter part of the run the
vessel was also delayed somewhat by
strong northeast trades.
The officers of the steamship COM
plain of the insufficient lighting of the
coast and harbor. Approaching the
harbor early yesterday morning the
, lights of the town were seen for an
hour before it was possible to pick up
the Diamond Head light.
The officers Of the Aotea are: Cap
tain Prosser, who is accompanied by
his wife and family; Chief Officer Kir-
, by, Chief Engineer Campbell, Second
Officer Bulleid. Third Officer Heslop
and Fourth Officer Robertson.
With the exception of Captain Pros
ser, none of the officers of the Aotea
have before visited Honolulu, although
they expect to meet several friends
here.
Just before starting out on this cruise
the Aotea received her new Plimsoll
mark, several inches higher than her
former one. The raising of this mark
on nearly all British vessels has been
bitterly opposed by many of the Brit
ish trade unions.
LANSING DISCHARGES ONE TANK
One of the six tanks of oil of the
steamer Lansing's cargo was dis
charged yesterday afternoon with the
full approval of the government Off
Gals. the tests made showing that por-
ton of the oil to test as high as 10 IL
degrees. The oil in the other five was
also tested again and gave consider
ably better results than those shown
at the first tests, samples from one
tank flashing at an even 100 degrees.
The gas in the oil is evidently rapidly
evaporating, so that in a short time
there will probably be no objection
made to landing all of the OIL
CROWDING OUT THE SAILERS.
The changing conditions in shipping
and marine circles are evidenced
strongly al the present time in a COM
parison of the number of steam and
sailing vessels in port. At the present
time the steamers outnumber the sail
ers by ten to two, the old-time power
being represented by the bark Gerard
c. Tobey and the German ship Marie
Hackfeld alone. This is without con-
sidering the steamers of the local In
ter-Island fleet.
on this date. october 26. for the past
four years the number of vessels in the
harbor were: 1905; Sailing vessels, IA;
steamships 5. 1904: Sailing vessels, |
5; steamships, .. 1903: Sailing vessels, |
Il: steamships. 10. 1902: Sailing yes
sells Il; steamships, l.
SHIPPING NOTES.