The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-01

port under Lne law. MT. &AlInS Su5-
gests that. if a shipwrecked crew from
an American vessel should reach Ma
Mia, which is now an American port.
they might not consider it a "horne"
port in any sense contemplated by the
law.
KENNEDY's TRIP TO SAN FRAN
CISCO.
President kennedy has not gone o
New York, as has been stated. He
left on the Alameda Wednesday for
San Francisco to look after the COM
pletion of the S. S. Mauna Kea. VIII
liam A. Johnston, the experimenting
engineer of the vessel. who has been
experimenting its construction, has
been very in in hospital in San
Francisco for some time. He is very
much better now, but not fully re-
covered, and as the vessel is about 70
be completed and delivered to the
Inter-Island Company, it was thought
best that President Kennedy go up,
in case Mr.. Johnston should not be
sufficiently recovered to take charge
and responsibility for the company.
NITRATE AND PHOSPHATE SHIPS.
: The Pacific Guano and Fertilizer
Company has received word that the
charter of the S S. Llanguihui, to
bring nitrates here from one of the
nitrate ports, has been Cancelled, and
in it's place the Japanese S, S. Kas-
sado Maru has been chartered and is
expected to arrive here about the mid-
die of February,
The S. S. Orlando, from Ocean Is
land with phosphates, is expected here
by the same company in March.
THE FORT GEORGES COAL.
The ship Fort George brought about
500 tons of coal here from San Fran
cisco. Shipments of coal to this port
from San Francisco are not very fire.
quent, as San Francisco draws it's
supply of coal largely from the same
source that supplies the. larger part
of the coal used in these islands, Aus
tralia. The Fort George is getting
along rapidly with the discharge Of
this coal, and will soon be ready to
take on sugar for New York.
VALUABLE AS FERTILIZER.
The bark Gerard C. Tobey, which
arrived here Thursday, began dis
charging her cargo yesterday. In her
cargo is large quantity of bone
dust, said to be the bone black from
the Crockett refinery, after it has been
used for refining sugar. 1t is shipped
down here TO the fertilizer works. it
being considered a very valuable in
gredient for fertilizers. Tt looks just
like coal dust, and comes in 150-pound
sacks, and is. quite expensive.
THE ALLEN TO SAIL.
Captain. willer of the bark S. G..
Allen is about ready to sail for the
Crockett refinery with a cargo of SUI
gar. He is practically loaded now and
his. vessel sits low in the water. He
completed his crew yesterday by ship
ping four men before United states
Shipping Commissioner Amy.
THE MARsToN LOADING.
The schooner William H. Marston,
Captain Peabody, began. loading sugar
yesterday at the railroad wharf. The
sugar loaded was sugar brought in
from Oahu plantations by the railroad.
She win load some mores today, and
| then she will probably have to wait
for the Mexican and the Nebraskan,
which are due today.
FREIGHT.
Per stmr. w. G. Hall from Kauai,
| 800 bags of sugar.
Per stmr. Mauna Loa from Hawaii,
62l0 bags sugar, S73 bags coffee, rs
bags taro, 46 bags beans, s bags ginger,
3 bales ava, 5 bags wool, 6 bales wool
81 bbls. oranges, 80 eases oranges, :
bbls. dried fish, + cases dried fish, 1C
cases preserves, 4 cases lines, cases
! eggs, 46 punches. bananas, 10 kegs but
ter. bundles hides, l canoe, 6 crates
chickens, 9 crates pigs, 81 crates hogs
/ horse, 30 head of cattle and Is calves
to the metropolitan Meat Company, s.
pieces koa lumber, 145 packages sun
dries.
SUGAR ON kauai.
Purser CRUDE of the W. G. Hall re-
ports good weather on Kauai and the
following sugar awaiting shipment
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