The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-30

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Business was pretty lively on the wa
ter front yesterday. At noon the Kinau
steamed away for Hilo and way ports,
carrying big load of general merchan-
disc and numerous passengers. At 4
and o'clock whistles were blowing flu
riously. The Claudine got away for
Maui, the Niihau for Anahola, the Mi
kahala for Makaweli, the Maui for Pa
auhau, Kukaiau and Ookala, the Kila-
and last of all, but by no means least in
size or Importance, the Hongkong Ma
ru for San Francisco. 1t was after
O'Clock when the Maru cleared the har-
Dor; she carried many passengers for
the Coast from this city, and among
other things, $500 punches of bananas.
This was the last chance the Hongkong
Maru had of doing business between
this port and San Francisco, and she
did it with vengeance. A great guam
tity Of bananas remain here all ready
for shipment by other steamers.
Early yesterday morning the Maru
shifted from the quarantine wharf over
to the Pacific Mail dock and commenced
discharging her 923 tons of Oriental
m ,rchandise The fumigating plant in
charge of Jack" McVelgh and DOC
tor" Charlock is now busy killing any
plague bacilli that may have slowed
away in the cargo.
AMONG hpr thrnno-l 10
Maru carries half dozen swell little
gentlemen from Japan. They all wear
swallowtail coats and silk hats, carry
canes, and one sports a single eye-glass.
Each is armed with a card case and
their names are printed in English
thereon. The titles and other handles
pretty nearly occupy all the space on
the pasteboards. One man was a secre-
tary of horticulture, another secretary
of agriculture, and another had the
honor of being the direc,or of the State
Stock BreeGlng Association"
Carlisle City.
Shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon the steamer Carlisle City, of
the California Oriental Steamship line
was sighted. About o'clock she was
locked at the quarantine wharf, COM
ing from Yokohama, having left that
port on the 18th. inst, many hours be-
fore the Hongkong Maru. The Carlisle
City brings 900 tons of general Oriental
merchandise for this port No passen-
gers are aboard except Captain Thomas
Athens wife and the first mates wife
and two children. The vessel carries
eleven Chinese in transit. This morn
% l,a
Hongkong Maru and come up to the
Pacific Mail wharf to discharge.
Steamer America.
The first steamer of the American
Hawaiian Steamship Company to be
dispatched from New York for Homo
lulu via San Francisco will be the Am
erican on or about August 1st., to be
followed by steamer every other
month. H. Hackfeld & Co., Ltd, are
the local agents.
The Surprise.
After being gone almost a week the
gasoline schooner Surprise came into
port yesterday morning with several
passengers, freight and some cattle
from different Kona coast ports. An
attempt was made by the Surprise to
get around South Point to load sugar
at kau port last Wednesday evening.
In this she failed, not having sufficient
power in her engine to accomplish the
task. The Surprise sails at 10 o'clock
on Friday morning for Lahaina and
Maui ports. She will begin to take
freight this afternoon at / o'clock.
Morning Star Sails.
The ex-missionary auxiliary barken-
tine Morning Star went into the stream
yesterday. She had aboard a big crowd
of passengers and full load of gem
eral merchandise for the Alaska Ex-
ploration Company, all destined for the
gold fields. Henry Peterson's tug Will
liam d. took the Morning Star into the
stream, where she was anchored and
she Will go to sea this morning under
her own steam.-S. F. Call, May II.
General Shipping.
The British steamship Accomac has
been chartered to load $500 tons of
anthracite coal at Philadelphia for
Cronstadt, Russia, at the rate of II
shlll1ngs a ton. This charter calls for
June shipment, and will be the first of
a large quantity of coal that is about
to be shipped from Philadelphia to
russian ports in the Baltic. So far as
can be recalled, the cargo will be the
first of the kind ever shipped to a Eu-
ropean port. Recently quantities of
bltuminous coal have been shipped to
Italy and france.-JournaI of Com
MERGE.
Washington May 6.-Last years
business of the Suez Canal was the
largest in its history, according to a
report to the State Department from
Nlce-Consul General Hunter at Cairo.
vessels to the number of 3,4SO of a ton
tage of 9,S93,022 passed through the
canal paying for the privilege ST.
5lO,142. The United States stood
eleventh on the list of nations with on
~ twenty-five ships, the same number
that Turkey sent through the canal.
British vessels were the most numer-
ous' the number passing the canal be-
ing 2,2O7. The Germans came next
with 31S, the French third with 223.
the Dutch fOnrt n with