The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-06-20
4 BIG LOSS
ON BANANAS

HILO, June 16.--when the Enterprise
left behind, for lack of space, nearly
1000 punches of bananas. These will
be almost total loss to the shippers,
as there is no local market and no
steamer to transport them to the
coast Efforts were made to have the
surplus shipped via Honolulu on the
Alameda. but arrangements could not
be made. No blame attaches to the
Matson Navigation Co., as Agent
| Guard, after canvassing the shippers,
reserved space only for 1000 punches,
but when the train loads of fruit ar
rived from Olaa and Puma the ware
house was deluged The loss falls
principally on the Hilo Mercantile Co..
Ltd, and some of the larger Japanese
shippers, 1t has since been discover
ed that the latter have been shipping
understood and unsaleable fruit, many
of the punches of bananas left behind
being over-ripe, and others were found
in a partly decomposed condition. Some
wrapped punches of good size, when
stripped OF the wrappings. were found
to contain two and sometimes more
small punches, which have no market
able vaIue Agent y ~ Cuara refuses
A.. $500 IT. -.
w N' "a W."
out payment Oh treight' as he does not
believe the returns from sucn punches
will cover cost of transportation. 1t is
also stated that such shipments are
likely to injure the Hilo trade in the
San Francisco market, which Is re-
garded by those interested in the ba-
mana industry as very unfortunate
situation.
The lack of space on the Enterprise
to carry the 1900 punches of bananas
loses to that vessel about 5000 in
freight, based on the freight charges
OF As cents per bunch. Under the
agreement of Captain Matson and the
Hilo banana growers when the regular
monthly shipments amount to 10000
punches he has agreed to reduce the
freight rate to 80 cents per bunch. 1t
is stated that the regular monthly
product from now will steadily in
crease to figure far exceeding the
limit named and the time is now ripe
for a reduction in the freight rate.
READY FOR THE RACES
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T., ,,hosa ohar,r- ,ho roos =. L.
I'M, pn,i, iii, Ia ~, nj, I,,.,h.
Judges, ]. f CLAY w. Fl. G. Camp-
bell and Robert Horner. Time-keep
ers, j. ID. Kennedy and S. II. Webb.
Starter, Albert Horner. Clerk of the
Course, ]. d. Easton. Clerk of Pad
dock. j.. Brugheli. Clerk Of the
Scales, T.. F. Nicholas.
The horses that came down on the
Rhoderick Dhu, and which are said to
belong to Geo. S. Mckenzie, have not
yet been sent to the track and 1t is
not likely that more than one OF them
will be. He is n four year old, bred
on Spreckels's ranch in California. His
breeding is unknown here. The other
two horses are for carriage use.
Jimmy McAuiffe has the Mallard,
Dixie Land. Antldote, G. A. r., a Ha-
waiian pony, and Ed. MCGOWAN. Pig
got has the well known Honolulu
horse Bruner, and DIR. Hollands Mi
croDe l)r. Jones mas egyptian Irln-
cess, $3.50, The Fretter, Waterfall and
the black pony Niger. McManus has
Macon and black filly by Charles s.
1t 1t not yet known whether Macon
will be entered for any of the races.
The track Is suffering from the fire.
4 quent rains.
HII.O NOTES.
Run,or 10 az worl, an tba sobar,o Tor
hepinninp oneratIons On tha KoboIa.
uiIo railway n II Dr,tnghan who
,,ul nrohah,, ,,uo,,,o,, ~ ,',,,,.
under now cond,,ions 10 oxnaotad 10
Ia In uiIo within a counIa of ,.aal,s
The libel suIt NJ wnltars we Mo-
kino ond cagneo of Tho Kou yyaa,,I,,
which has occ,,nied Tho attention ~
bench bor ana nlontation q, ~ NO.,
decided nv Tudga woinuIoni on cat