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Show STEAMSHIP RACE ON PACIFIC. An ocean liner race is a novelty in the Pacific, but there was one Friday and Saturday morning and It was a beauty. The American-Australian line sent out their steamer Sonoma at f o'clock last -Saturday morning, from San Francisco bound for Honolulu. At 1 o'clock the same afternoon the Pacific Mall liner Manchuria started for the same port, bound for the Orient. With a seven-hour handicap the Manchuria Man-churia nevertheless overhauled the Sonoma So-noma on Friday morning, and then began be-gan the tug of war. Coal was piled into the furnaces and smoke rolled out of the funnels of the Sonoma. Gradually the Manchuria's lead was overcome and the Sonoma again cut the water first. But the Manchuria had coal to spare, also, and her funnels soon darkened the heavens heav-ens with their outpourings of rage at the Insolence of the smaller boat. Australia, however, does not believe In being outrun by any Oriental, and again the Sonoma passed the Manchuria's pig-tall, pig-tall, and then her waist. and finally her nose fell behind the Sonoma. But the Oriental Is a newer boat and supposed to be a faster one. snd the sea fairly foamed while she developed her speed snd finally showed her heels to the Australian. This waa kept up hour by hour, until this port was reached. The Manchuria finally beat, however, almost "by a neck." It was said on the dock that the chief engineer of the Sonoma was the maddest man outside of Russia, and blamed It all to the firemen. Anyhow, the colonial had to take on XO tons of coal here to fill up the hole made In her bankers by her spurt and to provide for the trip to Sydney. Syd-ney. Honolulu Commercial Advertiser. |