The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-03-27
(From Thursdays Daily)

| W i'iii Sths i'hilNJ
The Alameda is due from the Coast
on Friday with two days later mai
than is on the Coptic.
The S. G. Wilder sailed for San Fran.
cisco yesterday afternoon with -four
passengers and her hold full of sugar.
The Wilder steamer Lehua came in
from the leper isle yesterday, and the
Maui from ports on the island of that
name.
The Inter-Island steamer Mikahala
came in from Kauai ports yesterday,
bringing q good list of passengers but
no sugar.
Having been given a pretty thorough
overhauling. the big steamer Hanalei,
of the Inter-Island line, has gone back
into the Row. for the present.
About the middle OF April, cable
steamer will leave San Francisco and
Honolulu with supplies for the propos-
ed station on Midway island.
| The whaling bark Gayhead was off
| the port again last night, and the sup
| plies purchased by her skipper will in
all probability be put on board her to-
day.
I ne bdl helllllt WHICH lei
here on March 20 for Eleele, has not
got wind enough yet to make that port,
although She has been sighted from
there drifting about in the channel.
| The r. p. Rithet was taking sugar
from two steamers at once at the In
ter-Island wharf yesterday. When the
Rthet goes away, and the bark Alden
Besse, the only square rigger left in
port will he the Ivanhoe-that is. unless
some of the coal fleet come in in the
meantime. OF course there is the Para
mta, but she is a cripple in the Row,
and does not count.
The San Francisco Chronicle OF
March is has this: The large freight
steamship American, Captain Nichols,
sailing Monday for Puget Sound Homo
lulu and New York, was principally
laden with freight for Honolulu. not
able consignment being 10000 cases OF
coal oil. Other large shipments were
made for the islands. At Honolulu the
American is to take aboard large car
go of sugar for New York"
The San Francisco Cali of March IA
has this: The Matson Navigation Conn
pany's ship Marion Chilcott has just
a cargo of fuel oil for Honolulu. Cap
tain Johnson, formerly commander of
the Roderick Dhu and at present act
ing as marine superintendent for the
company, supervised the loading. He
says the oil was placed on board at the
rate of 1000 barrels an hour. The load
ing apparatus was designed specially
for the Matson Company and has prov
ed big success.
The San Francisco Chronicle of
March is says: Following its custom,
the Togo Ksen Kaisha has begun an
overhaulng of its liner while in port,
in this instance the steamship being
the America Maru. An expensive in
laid oak floor is being placed in the
dining saloon, and artisans are employ
ed elsewhere in the vessel making not
able improvements. The America Maru
is the last of the company's three lin
ers coming here to receive thorough
overhaulirg, though all are corpara-
lively new steamers and apparently In
no need of alterations
The steamship Alameda Is due in port
early this morning from San Francisco.
The bark Alden Besse will sail for
San Francisco this forenoon.
A dredger is at work scSoping out
mud at the entrance to the Railway
and Observation-Disclosures steamship
wharves
1t was quite noticeable that the wom-
en- passengers on the Coptic We're, on
an average, handsome types of Ameri-
can femininity. Mrs. Partridge, wife
of Bishop Partridge, was one of the
prettiest of the women aboard the
liner