Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-11-29

craft Japan's total shipping now in
Guides 2545 steamers, Of ] .233, 900 gross
tons; 1892 sailing vessels of 1920
g,oss tons, and %, 462 junks OF 31,413,-
10 cubic feet.
Four steamers having a gross tom
mage Of 1887, were completed during
the past year under the law for en-
cCuraging shipbuilding. The subsidized
Steamship lines now number "a, which
operate on most commercial routes
throughout the world except those on
tie Atlantic Ocean. With the compile
ton of the Panama Canal, japanese
steamships will probably visit the At
lantic seaboard, particularly in eonnec-
ton with the extensive raw-cotton
freight traffic.
Captain Lancaster Reports ~ Winds.
1t was an i'll wind that the good ship
w. J. Patterson encountered on the
most of the way down to the islands.
son, lumber laden with S07, 113 feet
of the product from the South Bend,
Wash, mills, was a Thanksgiving Day
arrival at the port. The vessel and
cargo consigned to Levers & Cooke
was sent to the Channel wharf, there
to discharge. E-..
Captain Lancaster stated that un-
favorable winds practically from the
date of leaving on Oct. %, kept the
vessel back and at times little or no
progress was made.
a. Tof hn voaool
met with no damage. Her sails were
found intact, and deck load laid end
for. end as on the day she pulled
away from the Washington lumber
port +. /.
The skipper told the boarding Off
GERS that he sighted a four-masted
barkentine on Oct. 80 and judging
from signals believed the vessel was
the Amazon bound for South America.
According to report brought here in
the Patterson the schooner Repeat
was towed to sea the same date as the
windjammer that arrived here yester-
day. 80
Matson Fleet Takes Departure.
Thanksgiving dinner In the Matson
liner Wilhelmina was served at sea,
the vessel departing for Hilo at five
o'clock last evening, taking forty or
more cabin passengers for the Hawaii
metropolis. The Wilhelmina is to be
discharged of two thousand tons Of
general cargo while away and may re-
ceive a small consignment of products
destined for the mainland. The Will
helmina is due to return to Honolulu
early Monday morning, and then prep
arations viii follow for the dispatch
of the vessel for San Francisco at ten
o'clock Wednesday morning. ~l
The Hilonian in the Matson TRAN
gular service also took her departure
last night, this vessel to call at Port
Allen, thence to Kahului, Kaanapali
and Hilo. At all island ports con-
siderable quantities of cargo will be
left. The Hilonian is expected to sail
from Hilo to San Francisco direct,
taking a fair shipment of rice, coffee,
bananas and preserved pines.
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csnlsh Line For The Pacific.
Capt Cortsen of the Danish steamer
.Arabien, which has just arrived at San
Die go, stated that the East Asiatic
Steamship Company of Copenhagen
sent the Arabien to the Pacific Coast
for the purpose of working up trade in
advance of the opening of the Panama
Canal. The company intends to engage
a fleet in the Pacific Coast, South
American and European trade.
Four twin screw steamers Of 5000
tons are under construction for this
purpose and the company intends
maintaining a 50-day service between
&C penhagen, Antwerp, London and the
Pacific Coast via the Straits of Magel-
Ian until. the Panama Canal is COM
pieted.
Steamer Panama to Become Hulk
The Pacific Mailer City of Panama
is to become a hulk according to
report brought down by officers in
the Nile. The old timer In the south
coast service has been brought to
San Francisco and at the time the
Nile departed for Honolulu and the
Far East, the vessel was being dis
mantled. Several of her officers have
found berths in trans-Pacific steamers
so it is said.
Much Alarm Over Fate Of Eudora.
Puget Sound shipping men were
much alarmed over the non-arrival OF
the American schooner Eudora, which
vessel finally put in an appearance at
Port Townsend on November 21st. The
vessel was forty-one days in making
the passage from Honolulu TO the
Sound. At first it was feared that the
windjammer had been blown from
her course.