The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-19
4 BIG LOSS
On BANANAS
Left on the Wharf at
Hilo When Enterprise
Sailed.

| HlIO, June lb.-N men tle E@A4'Ci ~ i@c
sailed for san Francisco last week she
left behind, for lack of space, nearly
! , OGO lunches of bananas. These will
be almost a 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 We're found
in partly decomposed condition. Some
wrapped punches of good size, when
stripped of the wrappings, We're found
to contain two and sometimes more
small punches, which have no market
able value. Agent r. T. Guard refuses
to accept this character of fruit with
out payment of freight. as he does not
believe the returns from such 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 a 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 40 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 a figure far exceeding the
limit named and the time is now ripe
for a reduction in the freight rate.
READY FOR THE RACES.
Following is the list of the officials
in whose charge the races at Hoo
lulu Park will be on July Fourth:
Judges. ]. F. Clay. w. H. C. Camp
bell and Robert Horner. Time keep
ers. ]. D. Kennedy and S. H. Webb.
Starter, Albert Horner. Clerk of the
Course, ]. D. Easton. Clerk of Pad
dock, F. Brughelli. Clerk of the
Scales, z. 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 it is !
not likely that more than one of them !
will be. He is a four year old. bred |
on SpreckeIs's ranch in California His
breeding is unknown here. The other 1,
two horses are for carriage use. |
Jimmy McAuliffe has the Mallard, !
Dixie Land, AntidOte, G.. A. r., a Ha- !
waiian pony, and Ed. MCGOWAN. Pig |
got has the we'll known Honolulu !
horse. Bruner, and DR.. Fofiand's Mi |
crobe. DR.. Jones has Egyptian Prin- |
cess. $3.50 The Fretter, Waterfall and ,
the black pony Niger. McManus has !
Nazon and a black flIy by Charles S.
1t it not yet known whether Macon /
will be entered for any of the races !
The track is suffering from the fire. !
quent rains.
HILO NOTES.
Rumor is at work on the scheme for !
beginning operations on the Kohala- !
HilO railway. B. F. Dillingham;, who
will probably promote the company
under new conditions, is expected to
be in Hilo within a couple of weeks.
The libel suit of Wolters VS.. Ma
kino and Saguso of the Kau Weekly,
which has occupied the attention of
bench. bar and plantation in Kau, was
decided by Judge Waipulani on Sat
urday last in favor of defendants
After a number of the Olaa Sugar
Co.'S cars had been loaded with cane
at Glenwood Tuesday afternoon and
the train was backing, one of the cars
is supposed to have jumped the track
and sixteen others followed. Two OF
them were smashed so badly that the
builder could not identify them and two
others had their bra kes broken.
After a seven months drouth in Kau,
which dried vegetation throughout the
district almost to parchment, several
hard showers two weeks ago freshen-
ed the cane and gave a supply of water
va-l9f Th hos h. d., d.