The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-10


custom house, may attend to all three
visits; but if the importer is not sick
or absent he must personally make the
first visit. If the importer is unable
to appear personally, his attorney-in-
fact will be required to give bonds to
produce the personal declaration of the
importer in the first transaction. in
every case where the merchandise is
dutiable and exceeds 500 in value.
But the other two visits can be dis
pensed with if the importer has duly
appointed an attorney-in-fact, in which
case this attorney can attend to the
second and third transactions.
In case the importer is a corporation
the attorney-in-fact can attend to al
transactions, as heretofore, without
giving the bond mentioned
A duly appointed attorney-in-fact
may make declaration and transact all
business for a firm or an individual
when the entry covers only free goods
(regardless of value) and dutiable
goods not exceeding 500 in value; and
in these cases bonds will not be exact
ed to produce the personal declaration
of the owner
For many years past It has been the
practice for brokers to file entries, and,
when estimated duties were figured
and bonds written, the importer ap-
peared at the custom house and made
his declaration, signed the required
bonds and paid the duty.
Under the instructions referred to
the importer or his broker cannot
handle the entry after it is filed. it
will be carried to the various desks
by customs messengers,
Therefore, the Australian government
is hardly likely to avail itself of the
Oceanic service to any great extent
for the sake of saving day in land
ing the mails in London.
This is what contract of this ma
ture would mean at the best. The
Oceanic boats, if they follow the old
times, will leave Sydney every third
Monday. 1t will take them twenty
one days to get to San Francisco.
The mails will have to go overland to
New York, then on to London by one
of the ocean greyhounds. Take IL
that exactly thirty days have been |
consumed from Sydney to London. |
The performance is an excellent one |
Take the London mail. The boat !
leaves Sydney on Saturday and The !
mails leave on the following Tuesday :
three days afterwards, They are
sent overland to Adelaide, where they
are taken on board the outgoing YES !
sci, At the first favorable point OIL |
the Continent they are again taken
overland, and then fast steamer
runs them across the channel to Lon
don. This is accomplished in about !
the same time as the Oceanic steam
ers would do it. Where, then, is the
saving in time?
The Oceanic steamers will have
only a three-weekly service, and a
saving of day or two could be eli ,
fected every three weeks. But that
is not all. The states of Victoria,
South Australia and Western Austria I
liza are better off than New South
Wales and Queensland, so that these y
latter two are the ones that would
benefit by any reduction in time. Toe
only real benefit would accrue to New
Zealand. At present the little domin-
ion in wrapped up in the All Red
business, and are striving to help the
Union Steamship Company of New
Zealand with it's Canadian-Australian
and New Zealand-San Francisco sery. +
ices.
From an impartial standpoint it
would seem that the opportunities for
big business-passenger and cargo
between Australia and San Francisco !
are excellent, but the mail service,
except between Australia and the
United States, will not play very
important part. The Australians want
the service resumed, and it is I'M !
doubtedly due to their efforts that it
is to be taken up again, but the Lon
don mail question has not played any
part in the negotiations.
The United States are a great az !
traction to Australians, and the trip
to London via the mainland is one
that all those who can afford to do
so will make. An itinerary that takes !
in the states is a very comprehensive
one, for with the resumption of the
Oceanic boats tourists will be able to
leave Australia with through ticket
via the states and returning by way
of the Suez canal, or vice versa. I
The class of boats, however, will be