The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-29

tons were unfavorable or the distance
too great is not known.
= USE WIRELESS MUCH.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1s.-One
OF the busiest departments throughout
the voyage on board the transport
Sherman, which arrived yesterday
from Manila, was the wireless bureau.
On March 9 a. message was caught
flying through space which conveyed
the information that Colonel Daniel
H. Brush who was in command of the
Twenty-fourth Regiment travelling by
the steamer, had been promoted to
the rank of Brigadier-General The
appointment had been made nearly a
month earlier, but the first intfmation
received by Colonel Brush was through
the wireless message. Several COM
munications were received from he
Matson steamer Hilonian, which was
recently equipped by the United Wire
less Telegraph Company. On March
4, when the Hilonian was 835 miles
southwest of San Francisco, Captain
Peter Johnson telegraphed to the
Sherman that all was well on board.
The message was very distinct on the
Sherman's instruments. Both the
Sherman and the Hi1onian kept UP an
interchange of messages for many
hours, during which the Hilonian
transmitted much important news
from the San Francisco papers. News
comes by the Sherman that the jap
anese steamer Kasato Maru, which
was alleged to have been tapping the
wireless messages of Admiral Evans
battIeships on the South American
coast, had arrived at Honolulu, where
it was seen that she had no wireless
apparatus aboard, and her captain
ridiculed the story, out OF which so
much had been made. officers of the
Sherman report that the voyage from
Manila to Honolulu was very rough
and bleak. The transport carried 115
cabin. So second cabin and 937 steer
age passengers. Thirty-one stowaways
who had boarded the transport at va
rious points were also brought along.
TIE Sherman occupied thirty-two days
on the passage from Manila, twenty
four days from Nagasaki, and seven
Gays and fifteen hours from Honolulu.
JAP VESSELS FOR OIL TRADE.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2O.-As-
sistant General Manager w. FL. Avery
of the Togo Kisen Kaisha is expected
back in this city in a few days. Avery,
who has been for some months in Eng
land taking over several steamers
lately acquired by the company, re-
turned to New York last week. and is
only waiting in the East for the ar
rival at Philadelphia of the Buyo Maru
on her maiden voyage. The Buyo
Maru is a new steamer built recently
in England for the Japanese company
and is to join the steamer Soyo Maru
in the oil trade between Japan and
this Coast She goes to Philadelphia
to load for the Orient, whence she will
proceed via the Suez Canal. From ia
pan she will bring cargo of mer-
ehandise to this port and will then
settle down as a regular oil-carrier
between here and Japan. AS soon as
Avery is able to complete an inspec-
ton of the Buyo Maru after her ar
rival at Philadelphia, it is understood.
he will return direct to San Fran
cisco.
TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS.
The German power schooner Gaelic,
Captain Schmidt, sailed from San Fran
cisco March 90, on an extended trading
cruise among the South Sea Islands.
She will be gone a year.
THE MURIEL's CARGO.
The schooner Murie1, which sailed
yesterday from Honoipu, has cargo
of about 100 tons of Kaeleku sugar
loaded at Hama and ABOUT $50 tons of
Hawi sugar loaded at Honoipu.
THE BARK ALBERT.
The bark Albert sailed from Hilo
on Thursday for Kaanapai, and is
now there loading sugar for San
Francisco.