The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-21

H$HE steamer Ventura arrived il
port yesterday and locked at tn
Channel wharf at about 100 il
the afternoon. She had a large list O
] passengers for this port, and a Iarg'
freight She also had a great man!
through passengers Among the pas
sengers was Joseph Tobin, who recently
was defeated as the Democratic candi
date for mayor of San Francisco. II,
will spend a couple of weeks at n,
Dimond ranch to rest himself after
the excitement and labors of the cam
paign. Among the other passengers for
this port are J. 2. Hackfeld, the Ger
man consul of this city and head OF
the firm of Hackfeld & Co, who has
been. on a six months trip TO Europe:
Miss Polly Dunn, the future bride OF
Henry Macfarlane; George P. Castle
and others. Among the passengers who
are going through is Capt Mel Sebree,
who will go 10 Page Page to succeed
| Commodore TnIey as Governor of Tu-
tuila.
a great number of people met the
Ventura at the Channel wharf, despite
! the disagreeable road which leads to
it, There was lot of shouting and
laughing. and especially the Hogan
troupe OF colored MINISTRIES was warm
ly greeted. Among the arrivals were
also a couple of Portuguese. When
they came off the vessel they were
warmly welcomed by small crowd OF
relatives who awaited them at the
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lot of embracing. kissing and weeping,
and as they completely blocked the
bottom of the gangplank. they effectu-
ally stopped traffic. Captain Flint and
the customs officers who guarded the
plank tried to get the Portuguese to
move on, but they We're too much tax
en- up with their osculatory perform
ance to be moved. The crowd, however,
took the whole affair very good ma
turedly and laughingly waited until
the Portuguese were welcomed.
On board the Ventura is one of the ,
finest stations of the blue grass region
of kentucky. 1t is being shipped to
New Zealand, where it will be received
by a wealthy resident of Osborn, Ed
win Murphy, who purchased it a short
while ago. Mr.. Murphy. on hearing of
the stallion, the name of which is
Kingston, Immediately cabled to the
owner at Mount Sterling. and
purchased it for 81. 900. The cablegram
alone cost Murphy $40 and the ex-
1ense of bringing the animal from ,
Kentucky to San Francisco by rail, and +
rom San Francisco TO Auckland, from
which place the animal will again have
o take trip of 240 miles by rail to s
each its new owner, will probably I
mount to another $1,000.
The Ventura was scheduled to sail at
0 o'clock in the evening, but she did ;
lot get away until about half an hour I
lter. There were very few people down
n the Channel wharf to see her off. ],
he Ventura left about 300 tons of coal !
n this port. '
Wilder Company Meets.
The meeting of the stockholders of
he Wilder Steamship Company final
= took place yesterday morning at
m, after having been postponed
vice on account of the absence of a Z
uorum. The principal business of the .
leeting was the discussion of the i'm
rovement of the service between Hilo p
nd Honolulu. The directors We're au- q
lorized TO either thoroughly renovate
he Kinau or build an entirely new =
oat for the Hilo service. President c. Y
. Wight states that it has not as yet I
cen decided by the directors which
Ian they will adopt. ic
The question of a consolidation Of i
lie Inter-IsIand Steam Navigation el
nd he
for the present time. The L
Ulcers of both companies feel that IL
ley could not treat the matter at
resent and do justice to their stock 10
)lders, on account of the new tariff ~
I'd the new rates which are to be
BILE to know how this matter VIII p'
orkr and what the expenses and
-rnings under the new circumstances q
i'll be. so the directors of both COM IA
mics have deemed it expedient to -
fer the matter.
a few new officers were elected at !"
q meeting. W. NJ. Gifard was elect n
vice president in the place OF W. G. u
win, and w. PfOtenhauer, auditor, in
e place of Colonel Allen, as both the Nj
signing gentlemen expect to spend III
ost of the coming year abroad. +. F. -
shop was elected a director in the =.
ace of w. Pfotenhauer. \;
Nuuanu's Long Trip.
Nov S.-The first e
ssel to be caught in Antarctic ice
is season, within 100 miles Of the hi;
Drn. was the sugar bark Nuuanu. lul
lich locked at the Spreckels Sugar -
,finery today after a run of 129 DAYS an
I'm Honolulu. After having encoun- "a
red two severe gales on the Pacific !
can, she was caught in the field of So
IA she carry part OF september uk
lille rounding Cape Horn on her way \
the Atlantic ocean. Far to the y
1th the ice could be seen The sea r-o1
Is smooth and there was no sign \
land. The weather was fair at the LOT
II 80 1tIiS eudolGu the Nuuanu TO ira
= n me- way INTO ciear water Cap SO
.atel that the L.. -. :