Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-09-15
WATERFRONT MOTIFS

They can build cargo steamers
cheaper in Great Britain than in ia
pan. according to reports which come
from the Far East. The President
of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, the new
owners of the America Maru recently
stated that the company ordered the
two new steamers from British
cheaper than the japanese dockyards.
The Japanese have made great adj
vance In the art of shipbuilding. to be
sure, but they can not construct ships
economically, 10 that while Japanese
shipmilders may be fitted for the
construction of men-of-war, they are
far behind In the building of ocean
liners. In constructing which there
should be taken into consideration
economy Of expenditure as well as
art Of construction.
The construction of cargo boats
economically In Japan IL still in an
even more backward state than that
| of passengers steamers, and many
japanese shipbulders are DESTROYS of
taking advantage OF the occasion OF
the two new boats being built for the
Osaka Shosen Kaisha In England to
learn the latest Developments In this
line of shipbuilding, and have ap
preached the company with offers q
send engineers to England to watch
the construction Of the steamers
These offers have, however. been de-
clined, and the company Is only send
ing a superintendent and two EN-.
ployees OF their own for this purpose
The Manila Cable-news says The
fruits of the incessant work on the
part of Col. II. b. Mccoy, collector
Of customs for the Philippines, In
cooperation with other officials ant
many wide awake business men II
striving to secure for Manila the Eu
ropean steamships OF the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship company. have
at last been made manifest, for yes
terday afternoon the Arm of Behn
Meyer and company. the agents here
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Singapore branch Of the firm Stains
that Manila is to have a MONTH.
sorvicc homeward bound. ,r
The first vessel IL to be the Primo,
Eitel Friedrich. which will arrive
from HongkOng February 2. To b,
followed by the Princezzin Alio'
, March Z, the Kleiss April 4, and thu
BuelOw May 2. The correspondent
departures from Yokohama are givel
In the cablegram, and read In thu
, order respectively; January 81. Feb
, ruary "a, March 20. and April 20.
) This cablegram further states tina
the steamships will leave Manili
Thursdays, and that the fare from
this city will he the same as iron
Hongkong. The magnificent servic
afforded by the North German Lloy,
steamship company IL so well know
, to travellers that any comments woul
be unnecessary.
!, ASTORIA August Slater bein
abandoned yesterday by her maste
and crew, the stranded steam schoor
err Aurelia apparently decided to res
: cue herself. During last night sh
was carried by the swells sewers
hundred feet across the spit and int
comparatively deep water. Capital
Genereaux, underwriters salyer, III
rived here last evening and has take
charge Of the vessel, He has Ell
gagged tugs and expects to haul III
Aurelia into the channel at high lid
this evening while her rudder an
rudder-post are gone, there was onl
twenty-four inches of water In Oh
stranded schooner this morning an
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