The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-28
SEA AND SHORE
The Coptic Departs for
the Coast.
Alameda Arrives - Czarina of for
Frisco--Mary E. Foster Here.
Island Shipping.

There was a rush for berths on the
steamer Coptic. The agents had book
ed a great many people anxious to get
away but found at the last minute that
there were a great many more Sassen-
gers aboard from the Orient than were
twenty-five cabin passengers from this
port however and when the steamer left
every officer on the ship except the
captain had given up his room to a pas
senger for a consideration. The pur-
ser with an eye to business had made
a dicker with his fellowofficers to rent
him their rooms and he sublet them at
rates that would make a summer hotel
keeper blush for shame and envy. One
man got a room for fifty dollars. That
was the night the steamer arrived
however and by yesterday noon the
premium on rooms had risen with much
steadiness until a hundred and fifty dol
lars was talked of. Those who did not
get away were very disappointed and
up to a few minutes before the steamer
sailed the unfortunate would be passen-
gers beseiged the agents Office and
bowling and gnashing OF teeth but
all to no avail. There was room for
just so many and those who had book
ed first went; the others had to wait.
The Coptic was kept in strict quaran-
tine as the captain did not wish to take
any chances at San Francisco upon ar
rival. Nobody was allowed ashore from
the ship and nobody went aboard except
the passengers from here who had all
complied with the regulations and were
well sprayed before going aboard.
The big transport Hancock finished
coaling yesterday shortly after noon
and taking advantage Of the high tide
went outside and anchored. She is to
leave early this morning for Hongkong.
10 was necessary to move her at high
tide on account OF her great depth in
the water. She was drawing about
twenty-eight and a half feet forward
and twenty-nine feet aft. She will re-
turn this way with Major General Otis
in about two months.
The schooner Mary Z. Foster case
into the harbor yesterday early and
went to Brewers wharf to discharge
her live stock. She made a slow trip
down this time being seventeen days
on the trip; she usually makes the run
in less than fifteen days. Her cargo
consists of about 1000 tons of general
merchandise. The Czarina for San
Francisco got away about noon yester-
day with n full cargo of sugar. She
was very deep laden and experienced
some little trouble in getting out from
the railroad wharf. A good
deal of dredging is necessary I'm the
vicinity of the railroad and Oceanic
hot -
to be filling up very quickly.
Mauna Loa's Report.
Purser Tuft of the Mauna Loa, which
arrived yesterday, reports as follows:
Fine weather at Kona and Kau all
week. Considerable rain in the noun
tains during the week but none 10
speak OF at the mills. III. A. Co. was
turning out about $50 bags day and
Honuapo and Naalehu about 500 be-
tween them. Hamakua has had con-
siderable rain during the past few days
and il looked like rain when they tel
ephoned Wednesday.
The Noeau was at Honuapo dis
charging her freight and will likely get
away for Hilo with a load of sugar,
Friday evening, April u. Weather
pretty fair. The Iwalani was loading
sugar at kukulhaele and was to leave
for Hilo Thursday evening, April &c.
Plenty of rain in Kona. The Sur
prise and Upolu were at Kailua when
the Mauna Loa was there. The Niihau
will leave for Honolulu Friday,
April q.
Sugar on Hawaii as follows: Pu-
naluu. $4,000; Honuapo, $500: Homo
kaa, $4,000; Kukuihaele, 1000 Total.
81 800 bags"
Island Shipping.
HILO.-Departed, April II, ship John
Mcdonald, Storer, for New York, sugar
valued at s2SS, 64S.26; April Is, bark
Iolani, Mcclure, for San Francisco with
sugar valued at S112, SS2.70; April Is,
steamer Cleveland, Klitgard, for San
Francisco with sugar. Arrived. April
10, schooner o. NJ. kellogg, Iverson,
from Tacoma with lumber, schooner
Lizzie Vance, Hardwick, from Eureka
with lumber.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, April II,
schooner John G.. North, Austin, for
San Francisco: S,S3S bags sugar, value
s45 .2O3.S1. 420 hides.
MAHUKONA.-Depa April IL,