The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-02

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With eight days later mail, tht
s. 5 Dorie arrived at 2:10 D. m
Yesterday from San Francisco She
left the coast city on March 26 and
had an nneventful passage to port. She
brought COO bags of mail, Of which
292 bags are TO be shipped TO the Colo
MES by the next vessels from Vlcto-
ria. The Doric viii not coal at Ho-
nolufu this trip. She is scheduled TO
depart for the Orient at Ii clock
this morning. The vessel left three
stopover passengers and has fair
sized crowd of through passengers
She goes to Manila.
cAEco on DoRIc.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.-Along
with the big shipment Of Winchester
rifles and cartridges that is to be car
ried TO Japan on the liner Doric, sail
ing. tomorrow afternoon. viii be a con-
signment Of ITO cases of powder. now
stored on the Pacific Mail dock and to
be placed ii the Doric's hold today.
All the munitions are consigned to a
japanese firm at Nagasaki.
Another notable shipment on the
steamer viii be zoo or 800 mats of rice
for the famine sufferers of China.
This rice was brought here from the
Orient on the Doric, and through the
efforts of the Red Cross Society is be-
ing sent back almost before it leaves
the vessels hold. Other freight in the
Dorie's heavy cargo, includes a great
quantity OF heavy machinery and cot
ton for Japan.
The Doric, upon leaving here, will
have no chief officers. this title having
been abolished by the Pacific Mail
Company, which has recently purchas-
ed the Doric and Coptie- John Hill.
the former chief officer, will hereafter
be known as first officer, and his sub
ordinates viii be known as second,
third, fourth and fifth officers, TO con-
form to Pacific Mail rules. S. c. Mat
thews. formerly III the Coptic, goes out
in the Doric as fourth officer.
ARIzoNAN IN POET AGAIN.
The 5. =. Arizonan came into the har-
Dor yesterday morning, having had to
stop of the port overnight from Sun
day. The vessel brought the first con
signment OF freight from New York
by the Tehaantepec route. She had
GOO tons 81 this freight, and has TO- !
tons Of freight troIn Puget Sound ports.
The vessel has one shipment of 100000
feet Of lumber from the Sound The
vessel has. IN addition to the Honolulu
cargo, HOO tons of general freight for
hahulni ana Hilo. Nelson Lansing,
who went cat as purser, returned by
the vessel. He expressed himself as
delighted with the trip. Officers of the
vessel declare that there Is no yellow
fever in the Tehuantepec section of
Mexico. Seattle was her last port.
All. LINE PURCHASES.
san FRANCISCO. March 22.-The
American Hawaiian Steamship Com
AMY announced yesterday the pur-
.hase Of two steamers, which are &c
ne employed as q Reinforcement to the /
ieet Of the company in Pacific waters |
The steamers were acquired from the |
Atlantic Transportation Company OF |
Vest Virginia, and are the Maine and /
Missouri, identical in dimensions and |
onnage and sister ships in every par
ocular Both are rated at 1914 gross.
,at viii easily garry 1l.oo0 tons
reigft They were built by the Mary
and Steel Company at Sparrow Point. |
Id, in 1905, and are steel, with twin |
crew and equal in speed TO the new /
ships built for the company at the |
Union Iron Works twelve and a half |
q fifteen knots. The Missouri sailed |
rom New York February 18th and /
ughr to arrive on the Coast IN about /
! month The Maine is expected to /
rrive in New York in May, and, after /
discharge, viii at once depart for the |
Pacific Both steamers will reach the /
hawaiian islands IN time for sugar car, |
,oes. and viii at once enter Into that /
rattle The purchase of the Maine and /
dissouri viii, ii is said, cause an alter |
ton in the plans OF the American t
hawaiian Company in reference To t
uflding new ships, which the increas-
ng traffic OF the company would have t
demanded but for this new addition. t
he company. ID Is said, will only defer
citing out contracts for new ships for
time. The Mexican, launched in De,
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initial trip. and the Columbian. to be
aunched March 30th, viii add 22,ooo
ens in addition 10 the same amount
f the two new ships; so that, withiH
TX months or less the new tonnage
f the company on the Pacific viii
dual 1900 tons, not to refer to the
sthTnian, nearly ready to launch,
hitch VIII be completed before the first
{ next year With the four steamers
dded. the fleet Of the American-Ha-
-aiian Company viii number sixteen
rst-elass steamers, with a tonnage OF
os. D0o. Five steamers win remain on
he Atlantic. connecting Eastern ports
18th Tehuantepec, and the rest Of the
Get will engage III the triangular SER
ice from Salina CRUZ, Hawaiian is
,nds and Pacific coast ports.
T-1a Teh11anrepec route has ceased 10