The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-21
VANCOUVER MAY LOSE MAIL STEAMERS
Freight Steamers To That Port, Only
Passenger Boats To Colon And Great
Britain---Chiyo Maru An Arrival
Flaurence Ward At Anchorage
Quiet On Waterfront

That the Canadisn-Australian line
may go out of existence as far asI
passenger and mail service is concern
ed is the news that reached here onI
the Malzura this week. The rumorI
is that when the Panama canal isl
opened the New Zealand company
will inaugurate a line between New
Zealand and Great Britain via the
canal which will be under subsidy
from both governments. Vancouver
will be dropped as a port of call and
will only be served by vessels of
the C. p. r. transhipping at Colon.
Further color is given to the rumor
by the fact that the New Zealand
company is now building several
freighters especially fitted for carry
ing frozen produce. These vessels are
supposed to be for the inauguration
Of freight service between New
Zealand and Australian ports and
Vancouver and Victoria. They will
take the place of the present line
and may of course carry a few pas
sengers.
A fast line of steamers will run
between New Zealand and Great Brit
ain, carrying mails, passengers and
freight for Vancouver and Victoria.
The boats will call at Colon and con
&c hn
inaugurated specially for the new
route
The talk of the Union company
entering the British mail and pas
senger service is of course by no
means new, as the company ranks
third largest in the British Empire.
cHIYo MARU FROM COAST.
Bringing a small list of passengers
and about the usual amount of freight,
the T. X. K. steamer Chiyo Maru, un-
der command of the newly married
Captain w. w. Greene, arrived oil
port early this morning and pulled
into the Alakea dock.
Purser w. A. Chapman tells of {
quiet passage on the way from The
Coast city and of no excitement out
side the ordinary sports and con
certs.
Among the passengers is Baron =
Ozawa, consul general for Japan in
Canada, who is returning to Japan
There are also a number of the Pod
Cross Society members on board who
are returning to Japan again.
Only three passengers are booked
for the layover at Honolulu. They
are B. Knapp and Mr. and Mrs. M
b. Megie
LOST AT SEA.
The number of vessels which have
so mysteriously disappeared at sea
that not a trace of them, or of their
crew or passengers, has ever been
found is larger than most people i'm
agine. In the North Atlantic SER
vice alone, from the year 1871, when
the President disappeared with one
hundred and thirty-six souls, to 1890,
when the Thanemore of the Johnston
Line, with forty-three lives, never
came to port, there have been-inclus-
i've of those-no fewer than twenty
four big steamers absolutely and tot
ally blotted out of human knowledge,
together with their crews and passen.
gers, numbering in all one thousand
four hundred and fifty-three. At a
very moderate estimate, the value OF
these vessels with their cargoes could
not have been less than $4,000, O0O
The sum of human agony involved is
terrible to contemplate. And every
year vessels are posted as missing
The President, one of the earliest
Atlantic liners, was the first steamer
to be lost and never heard of again
She sailed from New York on March
II, 1871, with one hundred and thirty
new vessel, having left the Mersey on
her first voyage on July II, 1910. The
commander was Lieut. Roberts, R. n.
man of iron will and resource. He
had taken the Sirius on her first voy
age from Queenstown to New York
in 1888 in Is 1-2 days. The Sirius was
the first steamer owned by an Eng
lish company which crossed the At
lantic, and but for the determination
of Lieut. Roberts, the crew would not
have proceeded; they became mu
tinous, and said 1t was utter madness
to go in 30 small a craft. He insist.
ed, and had resort to firearms, and
30 brought the little vessel to her
destination.
After the loss of the President in
1841, 10 years elapsed In which only
one life was lost by the wreck of an
Atlantic steamer. 1t is a curious CO.
incidence that, after the President