The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17
WATERFRONT NEWS

With heavy list of passengers both
for Honolulu and the Colonies the Cana
dian-Australian steamship Aorangi ar
rived in port about three clock yes
terday afternoon and departed for the
Colonies, via Tanning Island and Suva,
at ten clock last night. The vessel
has about fifty tons of freight for Fan
ming and viii make longer stay there
than usual.
The Aorangi experienced moderate to
light variable winds on the trip down
from Victoria and Vancouver, although
she encountered high westerly sweIls.
She rolled considerably, but that is an
old failing of the Aorangi.
Whether the Aorangi is to be kept
on the Victoria Honolulu Colonies run
is indefinite She and the Miowera are
extremely old boats, in painfully sharp
contrast to the palatial Mariana, Ma
kura and Manuka. 1t is said that If
the Aorangi is taken off she will be
replaced by the Miowera or Weary Mary
as she is frequently dubbed.
Principal among the through passen-
gers is a Mr.. Brook, a member of the
bTIIlSn pdTlldLnSnt. w uO ID u
pleasure trip to the Colonies.
The passenger list for Honolulu was
unusually large including thirty four
persons. Among them were NJ. c. Web
ster of the linotype department of The
Advertiser, who has been on a vaea-
ton in Cornwall; NJ Woon, formerly
of Hollister Drug Company; Mrs. W.
W. Gilbert, wife of the chief book
keeper of the Young Hotel, and Mrs.
st. C. Savers, wife of the manager of
the Rainier Bottling Works.
Through passengers were Messrs. Nc
Loughlin and Long, American tennis
champions en- route to the Colonies to
play series of games for the world S
championship.
Pursers and Agents.
There is a big difference in pursers
on the steamships which call at this
port. Most of them are popular not
only with those whom they come in
contact here, but with their passen-
gers. There are degrees of popularity,
of course, and it is certain that where
steamship company has very pop
ular purser on board, on that steamship
may be found full lists of passengers
and many who have travelled back and
forth across the Pacific many times and
generally with the same purser.
Some pursers are eramped for oppor-
tunities to be courteous to those whom
business requires them to come In con-
tact with here. The Australian steam
ship company pursers are a lot of good
fellows, but when reporters and other
local people here 60 aboard in search
of information or on other business, the
purser is about the last man to be seen.
| The agents representatives here wait
, until the boat is locked before they go
aboard with the mail and mass OF
! miscellaneous papers which they and
the purser have to go over, and the con
sequence is that the purser is required
to sort out the mail for passengers and
crew and look after the papers. He
| has no time for outsiders. Agents rep
resentatives for other companies save
time by going out in the customs launch
| TO incoming vessels, carrying the mail:
| for the people aboard and the papers
| and by the time the vessel is alongside
| the wharf all the mail is sorted ant
in the hands of addresses and the paper'
| in shape so that the agents can g
ashore at once, leaving the purser t.
attend to the thousand and one in
quiries which reach him after the gang
way is up.
| Passengers arriving on the Aorang
Yesterday, who wanted to see as mucl
of Honolulu as possible during the thre'
hours of daylight left to them. had t
wait in the corridor near the purser
cabin, after the vessel had docked