The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-25

i y, II. Hazelton, Jack Moir. Jno T.
Moir Miss d. Payne, S. Splitter, B.
Fernandez Ben de Mello, K. Kurabe
! I, Osah, T. Shibata, John Isaacs.
Rev w. F. Merrill and wife, w. T.
Frost NJ. Farral, F. Baering, A. e
Cohn, J. r. Reid, Rev. Yee Bew. wife
and three children, Rev T. Hori. s
s. Paxson, H. w. Kinney, D. S. Mac
alister, DR.. L. M. Care, J. Joegensen
A. Crop and wife, c. Wilcox, M. G
Parchol, J. f. Miranda, Rev. X. Kogf
ma, Rev. Shin, Yin Chin, F. c. Borden
G. w. Steel, j. c. Souza, Park Sing
Chas Sang.
FIRST CANAL LINE.
NEW YORK, May 13-The first
American steamship company to be
formed for the purpose of maintaining
direct service between New York and
San Francisco by way of the Panama
canal has just been incorporated in
Delaware. Its name is the American
Transportation Company. Three Amer.
ican-built steel steamships, to be ready
! for service by September of this year,
have been contracted for and are being
built in Detroit.
UNION co.'s HISTORY.
In view Of the rumors that are going
the rounds as to a merger between the
Union Company and one of the English
shipping firms the following history of
the Union Company is interesting:
The Union Company was grated on
to the older Harbor Steam Company,
which was started by Mr.. John Jones
in Dunedin in 1861, and one of the
chief causes of it's success and Of it's
present prominence among Austria.
lasian shipping companies lies in the
fact that, beginning with small things,
it has so adapted itself to the grow.
ing needs of the New Zealand trade
that the growth and prosperity of the
company have kept pace with the adj
vance of the Dominion itself, as well
IS of the other countries to which it
has extended its operations.
: The Harbor Steamship Company be-
gan with the small paddle steamer Col
den Age The increased trade conse-
, quent on the opening of the Otago gold
I fields soon induced the proprietors to
extend its operations, hitherto confined
H. 10 u, 4ba afrb
of Dunedin, r. more distant New Yea.
land ports. On Mr.. Joness death In
1869, Sir (then Mr. James Mills be-
came large proprietor, and undertook
the active management of the COM
pany. This marked an active epoch
in it's history, and this period may be
looked upon as the starting point Of
the company, which in 1875 developed
into what is now the extensive Union
S. S. Company of New Zealand, Limit
ed. BY this time the trade of the COM.
pany had grown so much it was felt
that in order to give it full scope for
the possible development that lay be-
fore, the proprietary must be so eX-
tended as to enlist the interest of the
more influential men in the commun-
ity, and accordingly in 1875 the Harbor
Steamship Company was merged into
the Union Steamship Company, with
an influential directorate. Until 1878
j the operations of the company were
/ confined to services between the coast
al ports of New Zealand and between
New Zealand and Sydney. but in No
yember of that year the intercolonial
fleet Of Messrs. McMeclan, Blackwood
d Co, was purchased and the entire
intercolonial and New Zealand coastal
trade, which is now shared by the Hud-
dart, Parker Company, passed into
the hands of the company Since that
time the progress of the company has
been continuous and steady. Steamer
after steamer, each more luxuriously
fitted up than its predecessor, has been
added to the fleet. Every scientific
improvement either in the machinery
or the fittings Of the vessels has been
brought into requisition for their con.
structioD, until from small beginnings
the feet of the Union Company has
grown 10 be the largest and most pow.
, erful in the southern hemisphere It
comprises seventy vessels, of an aggre
gate tonnage of 191 ,798.
CHANGES IN LIGHTS.
The following changes in local
lights appear in the Federal publica'
, ton. Notice to Mariners, for Nav 10:
Hawaiian Islands-Molokai Island
south shore Kaunakakai Range
Lights to be exhibited from new tow
'ers and characteristics changed about
June IS. 1912
Front Light to be changed from fix,
ed to flashing white light OF about 24O
candlepower. showing thus: Flash,
O.2 sec. eclipse, IL Sec, about q