Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-11
new Liners in
COLONIAL TRADE

ship Company is considering the pos
sibility OF entering the south seas and
colonial trade has now reached stage
beyond the borderland of mere rumoT
is said by officials connected with
Canadian -Australasian liners that pass
through Honolulu.
For some little time rltT1or has been
in the air OF possible closer agree
ment between the Union Steamship
Company OF New Zealand and the Ca
nadian-Pacffic Railway Company for
the development Of the passenger and
freight trade of the Pacific. IL is a
well-known fact that the G. p. r. prac-
tically controls the outward freight on
the Canadian Pacific coast, and 1t is
argued therefore that an organization
SO comprehensive in it's operations as
the G. p. r. would look for some say
IN the carriage Of freight oversee from
its trucks at Vancouver and other Ca
madam Pacific ports il possesses a
fine line of passenger steamers on the
Pacific, and carries on large and in
creasing trade between Canada and ia
pan and China. for which two further
new 1S,000-ton steamers are being
commissioned this year. The rumor
therefore that the growing possibilities
of trade with Australasia is drawing
the attention OF this powerful and
wealthy company, and that, unless the
Union Company Is willing to extend
the limit Of cooperation, the G. p. r.
viii sooner or later become formidable
competitors OF the New Zealand COM
pany has some color lent to it, espe-
cialiy In view of the growing opinion
that there is room for the development
Of the freight trade between Australia
STA and the Pacific coast of America.
II Is even limited in some quarters that
q mutual arrangement may be arrived
ut between the two companies by
which an alternative passenger sery-
ice would be run between Vancouver
and Australasia, via Japan and China,
which would probably mean the APP
pearance in our waters of the Empress
line OF steamers.
AZ the Pacific coast headquarters Of
the canadian Australasia line at Van
couyer it was pointed out that there is
every probability OF an extension of the
Union Steamship Company's services
In the Pacific being made within the
next years or so. 1t is understood the
extension will be to the Vancouver
and 'F'riaco services. "a prominent Of
fetal of the Union Company is leaving
New Zealand for Canada early in
April and one Of the objects of his
visit to Canada and America will be
the making of arrangements for extern
siFe additions to the; fleet of mail
steamers which are now run between
Vancouver, San Francisco, and New
Zealand ports. 1t is also reported that
the Canadian Pacific Railway lCompa-
nv Intends either to place a vessel on.
the run between Auckland and Van
couver or to substitute the service so
that it will be extended.
Trans-Pacific Liners AS Golfers.
Once in the transit Pacific passenger
service, operating from Seattle to
Japan, China ports and Manila, the
FORMER Boston Steamship Company
liners Shawmut and fremont, now en-
gagged in the movement of supplies
between New York and Panama, are
predicted may soon become full fledg-l
ed navy coal carriers. As both liners
formerly operated between the Paci-
nc coast and the orient, local ship
ping men are Interested in the ques-
ton raised concerning the future OF
the steamers Cristibal and Ancon, for
lnerly the Shawmut and fremont. IL
Is said that the United States navy is
considering their conversion into col
hers
Many Steamers Built at Portland.
PORTLAND, April 2.-Nine steam
ers are under construction here and
two have just been completed for
placing in the coastwise lumber trade
-Four or five of them will run regu-
larly to California ports, returning
with general cargoes.
The fleet nearing completion and
which will be ready soon to go into
service, includes the Afoline, Cricket,
%. M CLARK. San Ramon. Mary Olson.
MERGED, Rosalia Mahony, Solano and
u. II. Vance, while those placed in
commission recently are the Henry
T. Scott and A. NJ Simpson.
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Immigrants Crosse the Harbor.
In the tender Pioneer, large dele
cation of Spanish and Portuguese i'm
migrants have been transferred from
Federal quarantine island to the q.
S. Immigration station. Two hun
dred immigrants now released are
undergoing rigid examination before
they are admitted to the territory.
They are expected to remain at the
territorial immigration station until
sent to the several plantations.
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Beware of Floating Timber.
Floating about on the Pacific ocean
in the track of ships and a menace
to navigation are eight huge timbers,
ACCORDING to a report received by the
San Francisco branch photographic
office, Captain Albert, master of the
american steamship Lansing. reports
that on March Is he encountered the
logs in latitude SO Az north, longi-
tude 124o So west.
Indications point to brisk passen-