New Year Was Whistled In
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Papeete, Jan. 3.
FOR the first time in its history, Tahiti welcomed in the New Year with a long blast on a steamer’s siren.
Captain A. van Cromphaut, of the American steamship “Charles C. Jones” was dining ashore on New Year’s Eve, and he sent one of the guests to an nounce midnight with a very long, echo ing blast on his ship’s siren.
The “Charles C. Jones” sailed to-day for Marseilles with a capacity cargo of copra and vanilla beans.