The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-23
and an attractive vessel of her class.
Spuds for the Fleet.

ana an attractive VeSsel OF her class.
Spuds for the Fleet.
Matson's liner Lurline arrived yes
terday forenoon after an uneventful
voyage from San Francisco with fair
sized passenger list and large cargo
of general merchandise Chief among
the items of freight is a large eonsign
ment of potatoes and onions for Davies
& Co., Ltd, to be delivered aboard the
warships of Admiral Swinburne' s fleet
next month. There are $3.50 crates of
potatoes and 259 crates of onions. Da
vies & CO., were bidders on a large
amount of foodstuffs for the fleet and
this is the first of importations from
the Coast to fill the order.
Among the passengers well known in
the islands were Mr.. Glib of Paauhau
plantation. Mr. Ward of the Olaa store
Mr.. Schoen of Hilo, Mrs. r. d. Mead,
wife of attorney Mead of Smith &
Lewis, accompanied by her child; Miss
Pettis, who is to marry the storekeeper
at Paauhau; d. Ross of Honolulu plan
tation. The Lurline has 1900 tons car
go for Honolulu, and about 5000 for
fHilo The Lurline leaves for Hilo at
clock today and will return about
Wednesday, taking on a full cargo of
sugar and canned pineapples, and leav-
ing for San Francisco about Septem-
Der l.
Death on the Aorangi.
With two important officials aboard,
the Royal Mail liner Aorangi came into
port early yesterday morning from Vic
toria and Vancouver. The Earl of Dud-
ley, the new Governor General of Aus
tralia. and DR.. Solf, the Governor of
German Samoa, being on the passenger
list. Among other more or less distin-
guished personages aboard was Captain
| Ruthven, wearer of Victoria Gross;
r. A. Alley, of the Alley line of steam
ers, and r. Mack. MacLennan, man
ager of the Union Steamship Company
, of New Zealand. Among the Honolulu
passengers were Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A.
Lyle The vessel sailed for the Colonies
at about 8 p m.
During the forenoon a passenger
named Edward Skehan, who was a con-
! sumptive, and had been quite i'll during
the entire trip, was taken with sud
den attack while on deck in his chair
and was carried below to his room,
where he presently died. He was a
home to Australia to die.
The Earl of Dudley was the best kind
of stmixer' aboard and showed his
versatility on many ways. There was
little of the naughty Earl about him
when it came to enjoying the company
of his fellow passengers but every sign
of the nobleman. He wore a sweater,
even when approaching this port yes
terday morning. and while the steamer
was awaiting her pratique he potted
away at number of sharks swimming
about the vessel. One of the sharks
was wounded When three stowaways
were found the third day out from Van
couver and were to be put to work, to
pay for their passage. the Earl dug
down into his pocketbook and paid
their passage. As he is credited with
having an income of several thousand
dollars month he could afford to do
so, but his generosity in such ease
and his public spiritedness quite capti-
waited the passengers The Earl looks
forward to Australia becoming a great
country.
Captain Ruthven, V. c., won his cross
in 1899 during the Sudan campaign.
He commanded the Camel Corps De-
tachment at the battle of Gederaf and
subsequent operations. and it was for
the saving of the life of wounded
officer under heavy fire that he receiv-
ed the coveted decoration For
Valor. - He also received the Fourth |
class Osmanieh and English and Egyp- |
tian medals and was thrice mentioned |
in the dispatches. He was gazetted to
the Cameron Highianders. He was edu-
Gated at Eton and is the second SON I
of the eighth baron of Ruthven.
The Anranoi is taking 1919 cases of |