Fast Loading Of Ships
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Papeete, July 10.
IT is not generally known that this port probably holds the record for the fast loading and dis charging of vessels.
Captain Malcolm, of the steamer
Sonoma, reported to his Company when he returned to San Francisco recently that when he arrived at Papeete on May 8 there was a strike of stevedores. But the authorities quickly organised a team of militia and marines and these men handled the Sonoma’s cargo in even quicker time than that of the usual workers.