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

craft. Japan's total shipping now in
ciUdes 2545 steamers, of !, 233, 909 gross
tons; 1892 sailing vessels of 413,720
g,oss tons, and 2z,462 junks Of 31,413,.
40 cubic feet.
Four steamers having a gross ton
mage of 1887, we're completed during
the past year under the law for en-.
C uraging shipbuIlding. The subsidized
Steamship lines now number "a, which
oLerate 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 connec'
ton with the extensive raw-cotton
freight traffic.
Captain Lancaster Reports lli 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
The American schooner w. ]. Patter
son, lumber laden with S07,113 feet
of the product from the South Bend,
Wash, mills, was 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 nc
progress was made.
Contrary to expectations the vessel
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 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. III. ..~ ...s ..-.
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 VIII
helmina is due to return to Honolulu
early Monday morning, and then prep
arations will follow for the dispatch
of the vessel for San Francisco at ten
o'clock Wednesday morning. e
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 sal
from Hilo to San francisco direct
taking a fair shipment of rice, coffee
bananas and preserved pines. ~
psnish Line For The Pacific.
Capt. Cortsen of the Danish, steamer
Arabien, which has just arrived at San
Diego, 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
fleet in the Pacific Coast, South
American and European trade.
Four twin screw steamers of 5000
tens are under construction for this
purpose and the company intends
maintaining a 50-day service between
CT penhagen, Antwerp, London and the
Pacific Coast via the Straits Of Magel
Ian until the Panama Canal is com
pleted.
Steamer Panama to Become Hulk
The Pacific Mailer City of Panama
: is to become a hulk according tc
report brought down by officers IL
the Nile. The old timer in the south
coast service has been brought, tc
San Francisco and al 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 wer'
much alarmed over the non-arriEal o
tile American schooner Eudora, which
vessel finally put in an appearance a
! Port Townsend on November 21st. Thu
vessel was forty-one days in maxim!
the passage from Honolulu to III,
| Sound. At first it was feared that thu
windiammer had been blown from
! her course.