Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-08-23
WATERFRONT NOTES
Another Map with Honolulu as
Pivot.

tOHOlulu VIII Db pldCeu WI "io'"V' /
steamship map and II would appear
as IL the Paradise of the Pacific would
be found close to the center of the
spotlight when the scheme proposed
by the Pacific steamship is
completed.
The new service, II said, will OPP
crate between Vancouver, Victoria
and Oriental ports, taking in Homo
lulu
The Canadian Pacific now operates
a line between Vancouver, p. G. and
Australia, touching at this port and "
Is understood that when the new SER
vice is opened stop-over privileges
will be extended so that tourists ira
yelling on either the Oriental or the
Australian routes many spend the
time between steamers In the beauti-
full islands and proceed to Vancouver
by the ships of the other lines or may
go to Honolulu on one Of the Cana
dian Australian boats and stay over
in the islands to take the next steam
er for Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki,
Shanghai or Hongkong.
The first one of these new liners u
is said. will he completed next May
and will probably reach the coast In
June. The new steamers are to be
much larger, speedier and more luxu-
riously appointed than any now run
ring In the Canadian Pacific service.
| They will be seventeen thousand ton
vessels. according to reports. and Will
have a speed Of % knots an hour
propelled by turbine engines.
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress
of Japan holds the transatlantic speed
record OF 10 days 10 hours. going at al
average rate of II knots an hour. Ths
Pacific Mail liner Korea holds sec
und place vita n speed record of !,
days II hours and 20 minutes. ,
y Japanese viii Bar Foreign ships.
| The new japanese tariff which wen
J, into effect on July nth, having i'm
posed much higher duty on all I'm
: ported vessels plying In waters of thu
, island empire with the expectation
that foreign vessels would eventual!
5 be driven from the coasting trade ha
. resulted In Japanese merchant mar
inc acquiring considerable amour
of new and second hand tonnage. Ac
/, cording to advices received In tn
Tenyo Maru that the British steam
81 er. Dundas, which arrived at Yoke
hama from New York on the 9th q
: June has been transferred to the &c
(; ehi Kaisha iUtsunomiya Kaisoten, {
|. Japanese transport agency In Tok
Ill The steamer (3,O27 tons CROSSE wa
built in 1891 by Messrs. w. Dobson
Co., Newcastle, and her former owr
ri ers were, the.lyunedid 81 IS Cow'Th
a purchasers, who have hitherto bee
!; employing the European. Maru, ftte
with cold storage, for the Transports
ton of fish from ISaghalien. will us
the Dundas on the same service, n
naming her European Maru II.
i It Is also reported that Japanes
., have purchased the. . steamsrsl, M
! budda, ,ByculIa 4, and a Dundee, a
freighters of fair tonnage and we
y known figures In Far Eastern shi
ping. .prpI atHru -arg"
o japanese statistics show THAT
! steamers of 1871 tonnage being pu
ID chased abroad. during 1910. Durir
the same period four steamers of
II total tonnage of 27,54O were construc
o,l Ia, thrnn thn nSnln CHI
u sen Kaisha aud one, the "Kiyo Maru
FOR the Togo Kisen Kaisha. Durir
l. 1910, II steamers of 1000 or ov'
D. tons, representing . total tonnage
" 1895, were removed from the ia
anese register. either through shi
~ wreck or from becoming unfit for sc
Oh vice, the total gain In tonnage for Il
l. year thus being 3O,116. The Japa
u, csc merchant feet now cOmpris
# some 5000 vessels of an aggrega
IN tonnage OF about 100000. of whit
N over 400 are of iron or steel. ..
10 ~
Chief Engineer Rankin to Leave Hi
ct MAN.
nj Chief Engineer Harry Martin RIA
kin will leave the Matson steam
70 Hilonian upon return of that vess
NJ at the coast. Chief Rankin has be
q connected with the Matson Navigate
Company for a number of years al
A. through frequent visit at the sever
n, ports of call, has won for himself
a, host of friends. For some time
70 has heard the siren call from the d.
tern states and II Is more than like
-. that he will forsake the sea for
"a less strenuous life on shore. He IN
nd settle on farm on the Atlantic sc
% board. The definite announcement
Chief Engineer Rankin's retireme
., from the Matson service was broue
.. this morning with the arrival of