The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-20


within q compa lively short time. The
Sierra, Sonoma and Ventura are now
lying idle in this port, with nothing in
view except in the case of the Sierra,
which is 10 take the place of the Ala
media on the san Francisco and Ho-
nolulu route for two voyages, beginning
August "a.
1t is stated that the Australian and
New Zealand governments are thor
oUghly discouraged over the mail
schedule plying to this country and
Great Britain since the withdrawal Of
the three, steamers of the Oceanic line.
The government of New Zealand,
which formerly paid the. Oceanic Com
pany a subsidy of 500, 900 a year for
carrying the mails. is said to be will
ing to pay double that amount of sub
sidy if a line of fast steamers between
the Colonies and this city is establish
ed. The Australian Government, too. is
reported to be anxious to assist a line
F! that will ply direct to this city. Even
| when a week late in arriving here the
| Oceanic steamers enabled the mails for
Great Britain to reach London in adj
vance of mail sent by any other route.
TRANSPORT BUFoRD IN PORT.
The army transport Buford arrived
/ shortly after noon yesterday from the
| Orient, having on board the officers and
men of the 10Th Infantry, returning
| home after two years service in the
| Philippines. The Buford is returning |
| from her trip to China, where she car
ried large amount of -four for the |
sufferers in the famine districts and |
many of the otncers ABOARD tell grew |
some tales of the sights to be seen
among the starving, a number of them |
having gone inlanu from Shanghai to
the flooded provinces.
The sending OF -four to many of these
people was rather doubtless blessing, |
many of them refusing to use it be-
cause unfamiliar with its use. To meet |
these conditions a large part of the
flour was not discharged at Shanghai !
but was taken to Manila with the idea
of selling it and sending the money
to the famine fund. The merchants at
Manila objected strenuously to this
-four BENG dumped on their market,
claiming that it would bear the prices
for flour too much. The cargo was
then taken to northern China and dis
charged.
Only four passengers for this port
arrived on the transport. J. L. Young,
wife and two children, and Judge Jen
kins of Manila. Mr.. Young is to be
stationed here in the Quartermaster S
department.
While in port a strict quarantine is
being kept on the vessel 50 far as let
ting citizens aboard, although many Of
the soldiers are being given shore lib
erty and allowed to roam about the
town wherever their fancy may take
them. The quarantine order was given
by Quartermaster Captain Humphrey.
AMERICAN-HAWAIIAN's CINCH.
Chronicle July 11-Press dispatches
few days ago to the effect that the
Vanderbilt system was to soon handle
traffic between New York and San
Francisco by way of the Tehuantepec
railroad has developed the fact that
the Americana Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany has an exclusive contract for ten {
years for that purpose. This contract {
was made last year with the Mexican
government, which owns the Iehuan-
tepec road The American Hawaiian
company IS a close corporation opera {
ting a line of steamers on both oceans {
in connection with the Tehuantepec .
road and is doing very large business
in competition with the all-rail lines
between the Pacific coast and the At -.
lantic seaboard. So successful is the
new rail and water route that reports
that the American Hawaiian is likely /;
to sell out to Hartman s Pacific Mail :
Company for $15,000,000 are pronoun-
ced by the American Hawaiian officials
as absurd.
From all indications neither Harri s
man nor the Vanderbilts have any pros s
poets of getting a grip on the Tehuan- s
tepec route. C. P. Huntington tried s
to do so so as to minimize it as a COM s
petitive factor against both the South
ern Pacific and Pacific Mail, but failed.
INTERIsLAND sAILINGS.
The steamer Mauna Loa carried a
full passenger list when she sailed for
Hawaii ports yesterday at noon, many
of those in the deck list being Kumeric
Portuguese, who were brought over
from the planters shed at the immigra-
ton Office on the tug Pioneer. These
go to the Haskins plantation.
The steamer Claudine, which sailed
for Hilo and way ports yesterday after
noon, took out only a small crowd,
mostly people returning to their homes
on Maui and Hawaii.
MARINE NOTES.
The British ship Sieve Roe will sail
today for Vancouver.
The S. S. Arizonan, from Salina Cruz,
and the S. S. Nebraskan, from the same
port direct, are due on Monday.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS S. S. Massa-
chusetts will sail for the Breakwater !
today from Hilo, carrying cargo OF
10000 tons of sugar.
A cable received yesterday from
Midway announced the arrival there
yesterday morning of the transport
Sherman, which sailed from here on the
18th. :
A part of the cargo of the s. S. Ko-
rea, which passed through for the ORR .,
ent early in the week, was a consign-
ment of fifty four-inch projectiles, bill
ed for Cavite.
The schooner Concord which has been