The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-01-01

MAUNA LoA TOSSED ABOUT.

MAUNA LoA TOSSED ABOUT.
The Inter-Island steamer Mauna Loa
arrived In port Friday morning from
Maui and Hawaii ports, bringing If
teen cabin and forty-eight deck pas
sengers and large amount OF freight.
The steamer had rough time of IT at
Hawaii along the Kau coast and at
Punaluu especially. heavy swells pre-,
venting the landing of freight for two
days. The incoming freight brought
in yesterday was 72s bags OF coffee, 45
bags taro u bags ginger, II bags pota-
toes, 10 kegs butter, IA barrels oranges,
so punches bananas, IS bales ava, %
barrels of fish, 81 hogs, 81 head of live
stock and 2s5 packages.
Purser Friel reports the following
sugar available on Hawaii: Kukuiha-
Gle. 800 bags; Pahuhau, 5000; Honuapo,
1000; Punaluu, 3545.
EVA LOADING FOR HONOLULU
Bringing accounts of the worst
storms they have ever encountered on
this coast, two little fore-an' -afters,
the schooners Eva and Alice, arrived Ia
port yesterday morning from San Fran
cisco seventeen and twenty-five days
out respectively. only the ablest kind
OF seamanship brought the two little
schooners safely through furious storms
that wrecked far larger and ADLER YES
sells.
The Eva is a three-master registers
ing 1858 tons and is in command of Cap
tain p. II. Bjornstrom. she was sew
enteen days coming up the coast from
San Francisco and master and crew
went through the same trying expert
ences as beset the Alice in Mondays
furious gale.
This is the first time Captain Born.
strom has been in Tacoma in fifteen
years and he is amazed at the growth
of the city in that time. After walk
ing through the business district yes
terday afternoon he stated that he
could find but little to remind him of
the Tacoma of 1891 and Whereabouts
He has been six years master of the
Eva.
This voyage the Eva will go to Ho-
nolulu. She docked at the st. Paul
mills yesterday and will begin taking
cargo at once. She has on board 10000
feet of redwood which she loaded at
Humboldt, Cal, before going to San
Francisco, and finishes out her cargo
of 100000 feet with fir. Tacoma
Ledger. December 16.
VITAL INTEREST TO OCEANIC co.
OF vital interest to the future of the
Oceanic Steamship Company is the ac-
ton of Congress on the proposed ship
subsidy bill, by which companies run.
ming steamships engaged in foreign
commerce will be greatly benefited, says
the San Francisco Commercial, Were
the proposed bill as at present construc-
ted without eliminations or amend
ments, to become law, the Oceanic
would be benefited, it is said, by about
$2l7 900 year. This amount would
go far toward making up the present
deficit and add immensely to the value
of the securities, which, when last sold,
brought $64; the value of the common
stock is merely nominal, probably not
more than $3.50 could be had for the
800 share if put upon the market to-
day. The payment of n subsidy would
stimulate the company to energetic eff
forts to increase its traffic and to trans
form the permanent loss to its income
account into n surplus, and, possibly,
allow resumption of dividends.
The steamship Sonoma is now on her
way to port, and ought to arrive on the
18th inst. in thoroughly renovated
condition, with boilers and machinery
in the best possible shape, and the pas
senger accommodation improved to an
extent that will add greatly to the
comfort of travellers.
The Ventura is again in commission |
after AN entire renovation and is due |