The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-11-26
MARINE
CFrom sundays .Advertiser.l


From Newport News to Honolulu
through the Straits Of Magellan, with
out a stop or slow down is the credit
able performance OF the British S. 5
Crown of Gaiicia which arrived hert
yesterday morning shortly after eight
O'Clock. She brings a cargo of 5l0t
tons of coal for the Navy, being dock
I ed at the Navy wharf. She will re-
main in port for probably eight to ter
days discharging, when she clears fol
Auckland, New Zealand, to load for
London. Her record from Newport
News to Honolulu is fifty three days,
a most credilable performance and one
which Captain A. s. Halliday is not a
little proud Of
The Crown OF Gaiicia is making her
first voyage in Pacific waters and this
trip is the first experience of Captain
Halliday, in the big ocean, although he
has been in command of vessels in the
West Indies trade for the past fifteen
years. The vessel is a new one, hav-
ing been commissioned only a year
ago, and is a particularly fine craft.
In her rigging she presents a sight
most peculiar TO those along the Ho-
nolulu waterfront, being fitted with
twin masts fore and aft. A reference
to the -'starboard foremost" would
have raised a smile anywhere along
the waterfront before yesterday, but
now such an expression will mean
something.
The line to which the Crown of Cali
cia belongs is the West Indies Direct
Line. all the several steamers of that
company's feet being in the West In
dies trade until the demand for bot
toms TO transport navy coal and the
prices being offered tempted the COM
pany into taking two coal charters, one
for Honolulu and one for Mare Island.
Captain Halliday, who is a decidedly
pleasant person 10 meet, brought with
him a letter from the Secretary of
Commerce and Labor to Port Collec-
tor Brown. instructing the collector 10
put no distractions in the way of the
British vessel in the discharging of
her cargo, such as were interposed
against the captain of the first British
steamer which arrived with navy coal
at San Francisco. AS a result of the
instructions so given the foreign YES
sci has been accorded almost the same
privileges as are given vessels in the
coastwise trade under the flag.
Almost the first person met by Cap
tain Halliday after his vessel was
locked was Walter Shields, of T. H.
Davies & Co.. with whom he had gone
to school in Glasgow when the two
We're boys OF thirteen. Since that time
they have not met, but each knew
the other yesterday and the friendship
of their childhood days has been re-
newed-
When the British steamer was sight
ed yesterday morning by the lookout
at Diamond Head, he reported the
Restorer. the mistake not
having been discovered until the yes
sci was off the harbor.
With the exception of a few days
OF the Horn the vessel had good
weather throughout the trip. everyone
being well on board.
RESTORER ARRIVED.
The British Cable ship Restorer,
Captain Basil c. Combe, returned
from Guam, after an absence
Of nearly two months. She sailed from
here September IS to locate and repair
a break in the cable which had oc-
Cured September 20, and which had
been located by electrical tests as be-
ing not far this side of Guam The
Restorer was thirteen days going TO
Guam. The break in the cable was
easily located. but typhoon weather
and a little hard luck in losing an end
IF the cable delayed the completion OF
repairs. The cable company announc-
ID in Honolulu on October q, thei
of repairs. 1t was expected /!
nat orders would be given sending the /
Restorer TO Nagasaki, and it was cur
emily reported here that she had /
gone. She did not. however. but on
November sailed for Honolulu meet
ng nasty conditions all the way, and |
'oming into the harbor looking like
he had been buffeting heavy seas.
she went TO the Channel wharf. At
Iuam the station ship Supply was
way.