Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-07-06
WATERFRONT NOTES


gagged H. the Far Eastern trade with
wireless installations.
Some of the wireless installations are
now In IlonRkong and will he In
stalled on those vessels which do not
make the home trip. IL is expect
ed that the Coblenz PriTz Sigismund
and Prinz Waldemar will he supplied
at IIongkong.
The Telefunken system Is said to
be one of the best wireless systems
in the world, and recent installa-
tlons on some of the German steam
ers have made record dispatches.
The longest distance was covered
by the German mail steamer Klist.
whi.h sent, message from the Med.
iterranean Sea TO North Sea, across
the Alps of Switzerland. $500 kilo.
meters distant. Another steamer,
Aolger, of the Roland Line of Brem-
en-, has made another record by send
ing q message from Valparaiso across
the Andes to Buenos Ayres.
ERNEST II. w. COSSLEP of Mel
bourne has invented u device con-
cerning navigation. which he de-
Gcribes: II Is claimed that the In
vention will indicate the location of
a wrecked vessel. the date when It
met with disaster. the depth at which
the wreck lies, and also the course
that the vessel was taking ana tx
port that Il was making for when
II me with disaster. The apparatus,
which is II! the form Of buoy, Is re
leased automatically from tue bridge
deck when the vessel meets with dis.
aster, and wire attachment holds
II over the spot where the vessel
disappears. The apparatus would
prove useful, the inventor claims,
should vessel become helpless in
mldocean through an accident to her
ma :hinery, as specially floating mes
sengers" could be set adrift In pre-.
vailing currents. Plans and speclil
cations of the invention have been
filed in the government patent office
and patent applied for.
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THE TENDER of $4,000 made
by the Australian Wireless Telegraph
Co. for the construction Of wire.
less telegraph installation at Ere
mantle, w. A., and Sydney has been
accepted. The plant must be capa-
BILE OF communicating with British
warships and mail and other steam
ers up to 1000 miles. and 1t IL slip.
ulated in the contract that only Brit
ish subjects may be employed upon
the construction works.
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AMONG RECENT sales of well
known vessels is that of the British
bark Pass Of Killicrankle. which has
been taken by the Norwcglans 70
sl6,500, The Killicrankie was built II
1898 by X. Duncan d Son on tn,
Clyde and was owned by Gibson &
Clark of Glasgow. The sale of thi.
vessel marks the passing of the las
square rlgger owned by this firm. l.
formerly had the Pass of Balmaha
Pass of Leny and Pass of Mefort II
addition to the Killicrankie.
1T is REPORTED that the new
United States naval collier Prone
theus now enroute from San Fran
cisco to Honolulu Is not bringing
down the two coal lighters which
were assigned the cause OF her accl
dental breaking down and delay II
leaving the California port. II Il
believed that tho collier can make tho
voyage TO Honolulu in eight or min,
days.
ESTABLISHMENT of Govern
ment.owned steamship line on tho
Pacific Coast, TO be operated In con
junction with the line now owned by
the Government on the Atlantic II
connection with the Panama Railroad
was advocated In the House Of Repre-
sentatives on June 16 by Represen
tative McI.achlan of California.
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THE. SHIPPERS Clipper Line. op
Grating between Philadelphia, New
York and San Francisco, is confront
ed by rate war preclpitated by thu
American-Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany, which controls the Tehuantepec
Isthmus route from San Francisco tt
Philadelphia and New York.
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PRIOR TO THE departure of tho
United States revenue cutter Theti'
ON cruise to the neighboring blri
islands yesterday that vessel was Wis
tied by Captains Rodman and Melon
aid of the Cleveland and Chattanooga
Captain Cochrane Of the Thetis prov
ed an agreeable host.
THE SIERRA. of the Oceanic Line
Is reported TO have arrived at San
Francisco at six o'clock yesterday
morning,
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