The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-10
News Along the Waterfront

profit IN the transportation of this COM
modify by means of sailing vessels
where the steamships would lose
money. Again the windjammers may
be put on South American run, bring
ing nitrates.
It is hardly probable that the Matson
company would dispose of its interests
IN sailing vessels entirely, the idea be-
ing merely to take the latter out of
the Hawaiian Island sugar trade.
The Andrew Welch, a Matson boat.
has her cargo about completed now
and she viii sail for the mainland to-
morrow or the next day. The Welch
has good passenger accommodations in
her cabins and it may be that Captain
Kelly viii have company on his voyage
to the mainland. She will be filed to
the brim with sugar.
Freight Rates Have Been Cut.
Notwithstanding the contradiction
published in an afternoon paper, cable
advices have been received here to the
effect that the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company positively has made cut of
one dollar per ton in freight rates be-
tween the mainland and Honolulu. F.
". Klebahn called at the Advertiser
Office last night and said that no state.
ment to the contrary had been given
out to the afternoon papers.
eve have received no official ad-
vices of cut in the rates, he said,
"but the statement that we absolutely
denied the truth of the cut is untrue.
Hackfeld & Co., the local agents for
the Pacific Mail company, has nothing
to say on the matter until word has
been received from headquarters. We
have heard the rumor that the rate
has been cut, and we know definitely
that cables have been received from
the mainland to this effect. But we
know nothing officially as YETI
The Asneriean-Hawaiian company
has met this rate by reduction to
$3.50 per ten for freight, the new order
going into effect on the Pleiades from
San Francisco. 1t has not been learn
ed as yet whether or not the Matsons
Navigation company and the Oceanic
Steamship Company will also come
down in their charges.
Inter-Island sailings.
Yesterday was big and busy day
AoI Lic 1nbcI -4sidHu otSdH NdNiSdbIUH,
Company, no less than seven of its
boats sailing away from this port. The
Kinau arrived early yesterday morn
ing, bringing G. NJ Cooke, and she
was Immediately loaded for her regu-
lar voyage. The Mauna Kea had
fair number of tourists, and was, as
usual, full Up with freight. Among
those who left on the boat were Pres
ident Smith of the Mormon Church
and a number of his followers, and
General de Negrier, Inspector General
of the French Army. The latter will
visit the volcano.
Kawailani Goes Ashore.
News was received here yesterday to
the effect that the little island schoon-
er Hawaiian had piled up on the rocks
off Mokapu Point, near Kaneohe, and
that one of the crew, a Korean, was
drowned. The schooner drifted ashore
in a dead calm, and when not far from
the shoreline, the crew took to small
boat. A monster wave picked up the
little craft in which the men were try
ing to make landing and hurled it
on the rocks, killing the Korean. It is
thought that the body has been dragged
out to sea by the undertoW. 1t is stat
ed here that. the little schooner will
probably be gotten off the rocks at
high tide.