Launching of a Big Schooner Up at Vancouver

Vancouver. Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 25, 1895.— Early this morning the three-masted schooner Queen City, 300 tons register, was launched. This vessel is the largest ever built in this province, and her place on the stocks is to be filled by a barkentine of 600 tons. The Provincial Government is considering the advisability of granting a bonus of $6 a ton to vessels built here and if this is done several vessels will be built. The Queen City will fly the Hawaiian flag and engage in the sugar trade between Honolulu and San Francisco. She has already been chartered to load lumber at Hastings Mills for Kobe, Japan, where she will load rice for Manilla and then bring sugar to the refinery here. She will then go to San Francisco. She is commanded by Captain Bjerre, a well-known sealing captain.

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