Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-24
HALCYON, Once A LOCAL OPIUM
! CARRIER, ENTERS LAWFUL ROLE

been renamed the Luzon Maru, has
been purchased by the Japanese COM
pany to be used as an extra vessel
when conditions demand and will very
likely make this port and Seattle a
port of call The vessel is now on the
Tyne. where she arrived from Havre
on May 2, and will be thoroughly ov-
erhauled and made ready for her long
voyage to Japan.
CAPTAIN Yamomoto, formerly skip
per of the Tacoma Maru. we'll known
in Puget Sound ports, has been de-
spatehed to Newcastle-on-Tyne to take
the ship over. and is expected to ar
rive at Osaka some time during the
first week in August.
The new addition to the Osaka Sho-
sen Kaisha is a steel screw steamer
with one steel deck and spar deck
with deep framing and has a register
of 1912 tons. She was built by Russell
e. Sons, of Port Glasgow, in 1902. The
dimensions are: length, 345.1 feet;
breadth, 1879 feet; depth, 17.9 feet and
a cargo capacity of 1000 tons.
Many old-time British freighters
have been purchased the last few
years by Japanese firms, as shipping
in eastern Pacific waters has been
very brisk, and owing to the. specula-
ton which took place in Japan before
the tariff revision act went into effect,
serviceable vessels for charter were
very scarce.
Mute Evidence Of Fate Of Gulf Stream
Mute evidence of the tragedy which
befell the British bark Gulf Stream
last winter, posted as missing while
enroute from Glasgow to the Pacific
Coast, has been discovered by sealers
off the South American coast. A float
ing life buoy from the Inflated vessel
and small wreckage found on the
beach probably furnish the only de.
tails that will ever be learned of the
disaster which destroyed the familiar
windjammer.
According to adyices received by
the marine department of the Cham.
Der of Commerce Chilean schooner
arrived at Stanley, Falkland Islands,
last month with two men on board
who we're returning from sealing
cruise in the cutter Caesare near the
Gulf of Sarmiento to the north of Cape
Pillar. They reported that in latitude
SO 8 south, longitude rs So west, they
found life buoy marked in black let
tiers Gulf Stream, Glasgow" a piece
of boat planking printed Gulf" five
copper tanks from life boat, water
beaker. pieces of oars, Ratchet and
boat hook
The men said the wreckage was not
much knocked about when they found
it December 18th and they think it,
lad not been on the beach longer
than six weeks to two months. The
men had covered the same ground six
months before, but there was no trace
of the wreckage at that time. They
searched around after finding the
wreekage, but saw no trace of any
living man having landed there.
The Gulf Stream, which made many
visits to the Golden Gate, left Glas-
gov April 20, 1911, and was never re-
ported after she squared away.
Months of anxious waiting passed and
finally the bell at Lloyds sounded her
knell, the vessel being posted as miss.
ing February 21st of this year.
European-HonoIulu Freight Rates.
LIVERPOOL, July S.-Steam-Out-
ward Goals pay full figures for early
boats from the Bristol Channel, but
July and later can be got at lower fig
ures. East Coast ports report a fair
inquiry at generally firm rates for
early tonnage. Time chartering
steady, e1,400 paid for 800 tonner
in Baltic-White Sea trades for four
Homeward-Philippin paid
40s coprah to u. K, Continent, or
States, and Cos 3 d also done on d. W.
Rice ports dull, and Java very slow
East Indies steady, and from Karachi
demand is fairly brisk for early to
August loading. Black Sea dull for
early boats; lbs paid Azoff to Rotter-
dam for Sept.-Oct America very slow,
los paid Goals to BraZils. River Platte
has eased back again, and only 19sI
was quoting from up river for July.
Sail-Quite brisk for outward; 26s
Cd paid Tyne to Port Nolloth, and
Wales booked Goals freely to Platte
and West Coast. Salt paid 1Ss Cadiz
to, Monte Video for July, Hamburg
paid 22s Cd to Honolulu. Homewards
quiet, but 27s Cd paid Oct.-Nov. for
Pacific Mail StewardesS Now a Bride.
Upon the arrival of the Pacific Mail
er Korea from the Orient Monday
the stewardess was still being called
Mrs. Leonora Ward. That was be-
cause the officers and passengers on
the ship were unaware of the fact that
the day before the liner left the other
side. she became Mrs. Captain James
ID. Smith. Mrs. Smith had intended
keeping it a secret some time longer,
but secrets will out, and now she will
be the recipient of many congratula-
tons and good wishes, for her friends
on the trans-Paeific run are legion
When Mrs. Smith sails again on the
Korea it will be as passenger. She