Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-30
WATERFRONT NOTES
THAT BAGGAGE inspection of !

THAT BAGGAbE inspection OF pas
sengcrs coming into Honolulu from
san Francisco or other coast ports
win over be ordered Is SO near the
impossible as To be almost ridiculous,
according to those well informed in
the matter
The talk that opium is coming in
from the coast may be true. but Il H.
IL coming from that direction instead
Ct from the Orient II Is not generally
concealed in the baggage of cabin pas.
sengers arriving here from coast
ports.
II Is known that one time Collector
Stackable proposed to Washington au.
thorlties that the baggage of all per.
sons coming from coast ports be ex.
amined here the same as that from
foreign ports. but the Treasury De.
partmcnt declined TO permit It and the
refusal was stated in no unmistakablc
terms.
II was held ut that time that pas.
sengcrs coming here from coast ports
should no more be subject to baggage
examination than those coming To san
Francisco from Portland. or to New
Orleans from New York.
900 With the preson, high price. Of
opium in the local market II would be
profitable business If the dope could
be taken from Oriental steamers in
San Francisco and brought to Homo
lulu ON other vessels. but II this were
done II Is more likely that II would be
done by crews Of the vessels them.
selves who could see easy money in
II as long as they were not caught,
rather than by passengers travelling In
the cabins of the vessels.
To make the business profitable for
person TO engage in, II would he
necessary for the poppy product to he
brought here In large quantities. and
| that this could be done by any person
regularly without exciting the suspi-
cions Of customs men IA unlikely.
N
WHEN IT became known that the
two liners Rubi and Zafiro of the
China Manila steamship Company ply.
in gbetween Manila and Hongkong
were to be transferred to the Ameri
can flag in order that they might call
pines the market price of the stock
Of the company more than doubled
| The liners will change to American
ana Filipino crews instead of British
officers and Chinese crews which have
manned them In the past and the
routes will be extended go as to make
three ports in the Philippines. Manila
Ccbu and llOilo instead Of running on.
~ between Manila and IIongkong as
in the past.
INTERNATIONAL congress of sea.
men in session ut Copenhagen last
| month advanced the proposition of a
worldwide strike TO enforce certain
| demands Of the men. Tho German
delegation AT the congress objected 10
this plan hut the delegation from
Great Britain said that the scamen of
tho world had many grievances which
must be set right. They served no
| ticc that II the other delegates did not
| give COuntcnance to the demand they
would return home ana urge a gen.
cral strike Of all British seamcn.
~
NEXT WEEK will be a busy one
in the shipping world of Honolulu as
there will he two ships in from the
| Rnnuf h. ntsgE
sailing for tho coast during the first
four days OF the week
The week starts In with the Man.
churia arriving Monday from San
Francisco, Tuesday the Wilhelmina Is
due from San Francisco and the Lur
line sails for that port, Wednesday tn
Sheridan may arrive from Manila and
Thursday tho Mongolia Is due from
the Orient.
, CRUISER BEDFORD of the British
| Asiaiic fleet went ashore off the coast
of Korea on August % and could not
he roAoatcd. IIongkong advlces Of
the following day state that all efforts
to float the cruiser were unavailing
and that the hull would have TO be
left on the rocks aztec stripping and
I dismantlIng had been finished
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TARGET PRACTICE at Lahaina
/ Is the purpose of the present cruise of
the revenue cutter Thetls which left
three days ago. The vessel is to do
I the practice near I.ahana and will.
I return to Honolulu tomorrow II is OK.
, pected.
! NEXT SAII.INGS of the American
Hawaiian freighters from the Sound
for Honolulu will be the Virglnlan on
October (, the Mexican on October ~
and the Missourlan ON October 2S. all
these vessels coming direct to Homo.
lulu.
THE FLAURENCE Ward sailed
CStorday for Midway with eu,,,Iio,