Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-11-06
Philippines After Direct Japan Service

Philippines After Direct Japan service
That the Philippine Insular govern
ment will make q determined EFFORT
to secure direct commercial steam-
| ship line between Japanese ports and
Manila is the announcement purport-
ed to have been made by the Manila
Times. the official mouthpiece of Gov
ernor General Forbes.
A special committee. consisting Of
the Governor General, vice-Governor
Newton w. Gilbert, Secretary Charles
b. Elliott of the department of COM
merce and police, and a representative
of trans-Pacifc commercial steamship
lines, met at the Office of the Gov
ernor General this morning and dis
cussed the matter in detail.
In view of the coming opening Of
the New Manila hotel and the conse-
quent probable great influx Of tour
lists - the islands, the idea Of di-
rect Steamship line between Japan
and Manila, for the accommodation of
large number of tourists who do
not wish to lose ten days by the trip
to and from the China coast, which
is now necessary will push the plan.
The various details of the scheme
were gone over this morning by the
special committee. and efforts will
now be made by the government to
induce steamship lines to make this
charge in their schedules.
Australian Steamer Is Delayed.
The Canadian Australian steamer
Mariana from Sydney by the way Of
Auckland and Suva has been delayed
in arrival at Honolulu through rough
weather and strong head seas. Ac-
Cording to late wireless received to-
day through the agency Of T. II. Da-
vies and Company the Mariana Is due
to arrive at the port on or about six
o'clock tomorrow evening and, win be
idlsliatchsd tor Victoria ana lvancou-
yer at eleven O'Clock. The vessel is
reported as having plenty OF room for
passengers out o. this port. 50 far
less than fifteen applications for trans
poftation to the coast by the Ma
1 rama have, been received The YES
lsel win b supplied with about one
hundred TONS goal, ddrihs the stay
here. ''"NHS W " ' ..,.
Few Passengers for Sierra.
There are very few passengers
booked for the next trip OF the Sierra
to the Coast according to the list OF
applications that have been enrolled
at the Office Of c. Brewer and Com
pany. The indications are that when
the Sierra sails for San Francisco on
Il week from Wednesday morning that
small number of passengers will
take their departure. The vessel will
take fair general cargo OF Hawaiian
products.
Three Passengers for the Persia.
The British steamship Persia of the
Pacific Mail line is due to arrive at
The port on Thursday with four hun
dred tons Oriental cargo and Is listed
Tor speedy dispatch at the hands of
II. Hackfeld and Company, the local
agents. Three passengers are thus
far booked for passage to San Fran
cisco by this steamer. The vessel be-
ing a foreign bottom of course can
accommodate only layover passengers
Big Shipment Of Coffee Received.
A large shipment of coffee from
Kona ports was received yesterday
with the arrival OF the Inter-Island
steamer Niihau. This vessel returned
to port with 1857 sacks coffee, 7l5
cases of pineapples. a lot of empty
gasoline drums, one auto and 1877
packages of sundries. The vessel
met with fair weather on the voyage.
Kauai Sugar Arrived.
Sugar from Kauai ports to the
amount of 4150 sacks was included In