Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-02


shipment Of phosphate rock from the
south seas, will be dispatched to Sgd
ney, N. s. w., today, the vessel to en-
ter q drydock there for general
cleaning and re-painting. -
The Prometheus has beea under
charter for some time psse to carry
phosphate rock from Ndkatea to HS-
nolulu. The vessel has completed
several round trips but 1t is clgh ned
that the time "a covering the dBtahce
has Of late oeen materially lenftheneL
becausr of a foul bottom.
Tbs Norwegian steamer FRO go =,
noHa stranger at the port bf Homo
lEu, by any manner Of mo tns, has
yteen chartered to bring az least one
consignment Of fertilizer Material to
the islands pending the Jars to the
Prometheus. s.
The Prometheus is effected to ar
rive here on or about Z first part Of
September. T. II. DAYS. & Co. rep
resent the Prometheus IS well as the
Promise in the phf'phate-carrying
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Long Freight War arts on Pacific.
NfOopcCto tOE al ASNdlly bcItlcliicnI
OF the differences bel ;een the steam
ship companies on II , Pacific, regard
ing freight rates arr remote according
to the Vancouver (kIC.) Sun, and the
rsglt is expected pc long hard
freieht-rate war Von trans-Pacifc
frtiknts and part lllarly upon goods
from India for NE west coast of
America by way lpf the Pacific, ac-
cording to a reESrt made by u. S,
I Consul General Anderson, OF. Hong
|kong, from adyiSSs brought on the
.lonteagIe from the Orient. The chief
Iomnodity Altered is gunny sacks,
e the trade int hdes many other pro-
The trans-Pattfic freight trade. ac-
Iding 70 CongkI Anderson, espeeial-
|I1k portion concerned tn exports
tom Calcutta 70 the United States, is
1ted hg the severance of the con-
.Ifion with the Calcutta Pacific
hast freight conference OF the Nip
- Ynsen Kaisha, the subsidized Jap
4 ese company which maintains a
y lhn.Racifc service from Hongkong.
severance Is by formal action of
tx Conference lines. The action
~ NIH OUT VI lilS 0stdDltsulueul VI Ills
Ja Rnese Calcutta Kobe service, which
sod tht chiefly to reach the trade III
guilty. bags for the United States.
ION the Calcutta Hongkong Con-
ferekce lines refusing to admit the
Jabanese lines as a member. the lat
ter ANNOUNCED that the company
WQllId withdraw from the gunny
agreement. Of the Calcutta trans-Pa-
cife service 1t appears that pre-.
viobs to this announcement the COM
paIlss signed forward contracts for
kunlly business to the United States
Tor the season commencing July L,
1912 This action was taken before
the Conference had agreed UPON rates
for the season, and because of this
course by the Japanese company the
Conference took the action excluding
the Nippon concerns from the Confer
ence.
Seven Of Yacht Crew Tell Shanghai
SzNcouVER lB. c.l, July Ia
claiming that they were practically
shanghaied on board. John D. Spreck-
els yacht, the yenetia, while at
1Setchikan, Alaska, seven seamen
were landed in Vancouver today. They
kallege that their dunnage is still
aboard the floating palace, and that
Spreckels refused to hear their com
plants.
N. s. Hanson, quartermaster; C.
McCabe, Carl Johnson, Richard Eek
ardt, A. 0lstrom, Oscar Yansen and
Juiius Jorgensen shipped with the We
META at San Diego. At San Francisco
q new first mate, Harry Rainier, was
taken on. The men claimed that, he
adopted training methods of mod
ern captain Kidd. and at Ketchi-
kan two seamen we're discharged. The
remainder Of the deck crew quit but
the mate refused to lane them.
An appeal to Captain Thompson and
Spreckels resulted, they say, in a
bread-and-water diet until the ship
reached Vancouver, where the. men
were put ashore, minus dunnage and
back pay. The Venetia remained in
port two hours, sailing at 5 o'clock.
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Motor Liner from Chinese ShipyardS.
HONGKONG, China, II-:ne 25.-The
Taikoo Dock Company has received an
order for the construction of a large,
motor steamer. The order was plSS-
ed by the Asiatic Petroleum. Jom-
pany, which wishes the vesst4 for its
own service, and calls for 2/craft 21S
feet long, having 30 feet Aeam. The
vessel will be driven byIl'owerful mo-
tor engines.
The placing Of tn: order has at
tracted general atteL Zion in shipping
circles, the vessel fing the largest of
the kind to be col Etructed in the fer
east. -
Fuel for the port i" Transport
Thomas. - =
Fuel for this port, in tne form of
a large quantity of coal loaded aboard
the United States army transport
Thomas at NagaRM, Japan, is due