Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-13
Shipping
DAMAGED WHEAT GOES INTO
WAITING Bins OF FARM CCRNN
Grain From German Steamer Erna Sold at Auction This
to Sail for Manila at FWe-ROnad to Take Mainland Mail

Farm Cornn the King street com.
mission man has purchased a quantity
of damaged wheat from the German
steamer Erna and the grain will be
! turned over to the purchaser as fast
as it has been passed by the inspec-
tors appointed by the Territorial
Board of Health.
The grain was put up at auction
at noon today by Auctoneer Smith.
les. 1t brought ninety cents sack
! The sale may involve the transfer OF
| between four to six hundred sacks.
/ A lot Of empty bags were also sold
they going to the Union Feed Com
| pany, shipment Of fifteen or more
bales bringing Il little over four hun
dred dollars.
This will about complete a cleanup
of the damaged grain that arrived here
by the JebSen S Gamer ten days agD
Rennie's New Appointments.
Alfred G. Nennie, for many years in
the service OF the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, has assumed the duties
of general passenger agent of the
Togo kison kaisha. His appointment
to this responsible berth came as a
surprise to his friends, who were busy
congratulating him yesterday. Rennie
has the reputation of being one OF the
best known steamship men ON this
coast, and his name is familiar
throughout the Orient. For several
years he was purser on the big liners
of the Pacific Mail Company, and
there were many who Travelled on the
steamers just because "Rennie," as he
was Familiarity known to Transpacific
travellers, was there. About two years
ago Rennie was promoted from purscr
of the liner Mongolia to the position
of chief clerk in the uptown Offices
! of the Pacific Mail Company, where
! lis popularity attracted considerable
busines SIS.
Improve Facilities Hasten Careoas.
The transit Of Hawaiian sugar at
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec has been
greatly facilitated by the improved
conditions prevailing there. BY the
recent addition of new ana more mod
ern machinery the discharge and load
ing Of freight leaves little to be de-
sired. @
The Hawaiian line which
send large percentage of freight
across the isthmus during a twelve
months is one Of several steamship
lines reaping the benefits Of the inn
proved service.
The American-H Hawaiian is now en-
abled to handle as high as one thou
sand tons of freight day owing to
the increased facilities
A report which has just reached
here states that enc thousand tons
canned salmon shipped from San
Francisco on December 10th by the
Americana Hawaiian steamer Column
hian arrived at Charleston, n C. eigh-
teen days later which is considered
the best time ever made between
these ports.
"a
HonoIulan Wireless is Heard.
Seattle papers report that the steam
schooner Lucy Neff was spoken by
wireless by the American Hawaiian
steamship Hono,ulan while that YES
sci was on her way from Baltimore
to Seattle, and reported all well
aboard The Neff was, on December
18th in degrees south latitude and
so degrees west longitude.
While the Honolulan was in con
yersation with the Neff, which left
Seattle for The Eastern coast last
month, it was learned that the desti-
nation of the vessel was New York,
and that it had been sold to enter the
Eastern coast lumber carrying trade
According to the information obtain
ed by the Honolulan, the Neff will
ply out Of New York.
"a
Distress Message Picked Up.
A bottle containing purported
message from three sailors floating
around helplessly in a small ships
boat en- the Pacific was found floating
off the heads near San Francisco, Jan
list. The letter, which is signed by
John Byrnes, explains that he and
Andrew BenSen and Charles Hansen
deserted from the British steamer
MORO Castle in December, and at the
time the letter was written they be-
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