Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-11-10


result Of meeting with much rough
weather. the little supply schooner
Flaurence ward, in service between
Honolulu and Midway has returned to
port.
The vessel was twenty three days
in making port after having left the
usual quantity of supplies at the lone
" mid.Pacihic cable station. Several
employees of The Commercial Pacific
Cable Company who had been rclicv-
ed from duty at Midway Island have
returned by the vessel Two Chinese
belonging to The culinary department
at Midway station were brought back.
The Fllurence Ward has been hauled
alongside the railway wharf where a
quantity Of white sand Is being dis.
charged. During the homeward trip,
the schooner bumped large whale
ana as n result of the encounter sew.
eral patches Of copper sheathlng were
scraped on the starbOnrd bow.
The Fllurence Ward will sail on
another trip to Midway the first part
of Deccmbr She will be The Santa
Claus ship bearing supplies and re.
membranes to the little band of ca
BILE operators and employees there.
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A number of long pill, S have been
towed to the slIpway between the Ma.
una Kea and Mauna LUa wharves he.
longing TO the lnterlsland system and
work Of widening the Mauna Kea
wharf for twenty see will commences
without further delay.
Plans call for the broadening of the
Eva side Of this wharf. The i'm
provement is one thai will be great.
ly apprc ciated by shippers as well as
those who have to do with the work.
ing of the intcrlsland steamers.
More wharf space has been greatly
needed for some time past with the
almost daily arrival of cOastinc
steamers from the various island
ports. the floor Gpnce has ut times
been extremely limited. II Is the In.
tentiOn to have the work well under
way or completed by the time that
the steamers again resume business
of moving the 1911 sugar crop.
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Better Steamers for trans Pacific.
New steamers are to be built to
replace the steamers now used by the
Nippon fusen Kaisha In the trans.
Pacific service, according TO advices
just received from the Orient. Or.
ders are being placed with the Ks.
wasaN Backyard Company of Kobe
and the Mltsu Bishl Company of Ma.
gasaki for two steamers of 1000 tons
registered tonnage, to maintain an
average speed Of ~ knots, ana these
vessels Will b. followed by four 9th.
crs TO be built for the trans Pacific
line. which will then be restored Ia
fortnlghtly service through to Hong,
kong, Instead of 1--WE vessels being
used A. present, only three of which
so through TO HOngkong. The con.
structiOn of new liners for the trans
Pacific service OF the japanese line
Is being FASTENED owing to the reyl
sion of the Deep Sea Navigation Pro,
lection law, under which subsidies
are granted. In consequence OF the
revision the Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and other large
firms are wedding out their old steam
ors of between 1000 and G,OOO tons
Tho Nippon Yusen Kaisha formerly
operated ak steamers on the trans
Pacific route engaged In fortnight
~ service between Hongkong and Vic
toria and Seattle, but when the sub
sidy law was changed last year sc
that its terms provided that steamers
bnlt less than ten years ago were Ia
enjoy the larger subsidy the newer
boats OF this service were transferred
to the European route and the Older
steamers OF the European run were
sent IL the trans Pacific service, In
and Inaba Maru run through to Hong
kong and the Kanakura Maru and
SadO Maru end their voyage in the
Orient al Kobe The Intention Is IL
replace these vessels, which do moi
attract MS many passengers as the
former type used on this run by more
modern passenger and freight liners
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Mariner Observes Phenomenon.
From San Francisco comes the re-
port that Captain Noel of the French
bark VincCnncs. which arrived from
Antwerp via Hobart, reported to the
United States branch photographic Of
! flee a strange phenomenon observed