The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-18

Things were as lively along the wa
terfront yesterday as they were dull
the day previous.
Those Island steamers preparing to
get away for the other Islands were
chiefly responsible for the hustling and
bustling, for the amount of freight
which they had to carry was far in
excess of the usual quantity.
The usual large number of Island
steamers leave on their regular runs
today and they will be loaded to the
utmost with goods of every description.
IOf course the Christmas season is re-
sponsible for the unusually big cargoes
shipper.
The Inter-Island Company's steam
ers Noeau and Kauai went out yester-
day, the Noeau for Eleele and Hama
pepe and the Kauai for Lahaina, Ho-
nokaa and Kukuihaele.
On Fort street and the Esplanade yes
terday afternoon there were as many
as 25 or 80 drays and wagons waiting
for a chance to go onto the Inter-Island
wharves to deposit their loads for
shipment on the steamers which leave
today and which left yesterday after
noon On the wharyes, boxes and bar
rels and packages of all kinds We're
piled high and as many as four or five
drays were on one wharf at time.
AS soon as one dray would come off
the wharf by one entrance, dray at
the head of the long waiting line. at
the other entrance. would make rush
for a place on the wharf and all those
drays behind would crowd on the heels
of the first one. pushing up against
each other and crowding each other for
the next chance at the entrance.
THE SIERRA TO-DAY.
Anywhere between sunrise and moor
this morning the Sierra, the splendid
new boat of the Oceanic Company, may
be looked for from San Francisco. "Sht
must be near at hand" said the wise
ones along the waterfront last night
"for it is unusually chilly tonight ant
there is only one way that that car
be accounted for and that is that tbs
big refrigerator of the Sierra is close
at hand"
The Sierra sailed from San francisco
on December II at about 8 o'clock il
the evening, and if she arrives earl!
this morning she will have made th'
trip in about five and half days. Sh,
brings six and a half days later news
of the outside world. William G. Ir
win of w. C. Irwin & Co will be on
of her passengers for this port. Sh
will dock at the Oceanic wharf and viii
bring a large amount of freight for Ho
nolulu. including about $50 tons of mer
Ichandise in cold storage.
ALAMEDA FROM THE COLONIES
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon tn
steamship Alameda of the America
and Australian line arrived in this por
and docked at the Oceanic wharf.
She sailed from Sydney on the frs
day of this month. She arrived a
Auckland, New Zealand, at noon o.
the 5th, sailing thence on the following
day at Z o'clock in the evening. On tn
10th. at o'clock in the afternoon, sh
arrived at Apia, Samoa, sailing theme
for this port at o'clock in the evenin
lof the same day.
Thomas w. Horsley Mrs. Jane Hors
Hey and Miss Helen Bayn We're the onl
passengers from the Colonies for thi
lport.
Importations for Honolulu by tn
Alameda were seven cases of cham
payne thirty-five cases of butter, eigh
teen bundles of leather, three COWS. tw
lcalves, five cases of drugs, one hundre
leases of cooling composition and on
hundred cases of mullet. The consign
ees We're Alexander & Baldwin, Hart [
Co. California Feed Company, Ere
Whitney and Hollister Drug Company
K. Van Oterendorp is the commando
of the Alameda, r. Mikleson is her frs
officer and Thomas @. Smith is the eve
obliging purser.
The following is list of those peopl
who passed through here on the Ala
media from the Colonies for San Fran
cisco:
Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett, Mr. and Mrs
A. c.. Camp, John Coates, NJ. B. Gibt
j. l.. McCammon, w w Virtue. III. G
Spencer David Reid, NJ Dyer, ]. s
Florsheim, w. II. Leonard. Mr.. an
Mrs. Geo. Chowler, Mr.. and Mrs. G
Gardner, Mr.. and Misses 90 Mantey
Mrs. Olney, Moses David, Oscar Maui
ITheo La Gourski James Halloway
Ivan Monson, David Wade, James Jen
son, Herman Ficke, F. Schmidt. Eide
III. X. Aldons, Elder r. K. Hardy an
j. Begley.
The Auckland. New Zealand Herald
speaking of the arrival of the Alamed
at that port, says:
The American mail steamer Alamo
da arrived from Sydney yesterday af
ter quick passage across, pleasan
weather being experienced all the way
the sea being described as smooth a
glass. The steamer had a fair mum
Der of passengers for this port and ais
Tor San Francisco. The cargo bv th
lsteamer includes the usual lines @
hides, skins. etc, and also the frs
shipment of wool for the season fror
Australia for the United States. con
lsistlng of sixty-four bales At this por
several passengers will Join the steam
er and she will also take on boar
shipments of flax, hides and produce
The Alameda leaves at O'Clock thi
afternoon for Apia, Honolulu and Sa
Francisco"
Aboard the Alameda there is 81. 500 on
In gold in transit from Australia +
the States.
The Alameda sailed for San Francis