The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-13


tons of cargo for Honolulu and will
be dispatched to San Francisco on
Saturday morning. The Manchuria
will be the last boat to reach the coast
from here before Christmas.
Luline in Choppy Sea.
At halfpast nine last night the Lur-
line wirelessed that she was 279 miles
away from Honolulu and was in
chOppy sea. She will be in this after
noon some time, and will come
straight up to the Hackfeld wharf,
as she will be passed by DR.. Mccoy
of Kona. The Lurline will leave here
for San Francisco on December %,
instead of 10 as per scleuule.
Sierra Beat Wlhelmina.
The Sierra and the Wilhelmina ar
rived at San Francisco yesterday
morning The Sierra was there at
twenty minutes past four and the
Wilhelmina at ten minutes to nine.
British Steamer for Pacific Mail,
San Francisco Examiner: To take
the place of the liner Asia, which was
wrecked on the China coast several
months ago, the Pacific Mail Steam.
ship Company aus purchased the
steamer Nile, a passenger and freight
carrier, which has been operating Tor
the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com
pany between England and the east
and west coasts OF South America.
The Nile is now at Southampton pre-
pairing for the new service and VIII
shortly steam from London for the
Pacific coast by way of Suez, begin
ming her first ranspacifc voyage
| from Hongkong.
The Nile was built at Glasgow in
1893 and is of 1855 gross tons, with a
lightweight capacity of 4145 tons.
She is a single screw steamer with
| triple-eXpansio engines, 400 feet
long, % feet beam, with a depth of
335 feet.
The Nile has accommodation for
223 first class and thirty-siX second
class passengers. The addition of
this vessel gives the Pacific Mail a
/ fleet Of seven steamers for the trans
paifc trade, those now operating in
the service being the Manchurid,
Mongolia, Siberia, Korea, China and
Persia, the latter, like the Nile, flying
the British flag.
Claudine With Paving Blocks.
The Claudine was an early morning
arrival this morning from Hawaii via
Maui. She brought fourteen hogs,
eighteen sacks of corn forty-one
hides, ten cords of wood, twenty sacks
potatoes, forty crates of sewing ma
! chimes, $4,000 paving blocks, thirty
five sacks of beans, fifteen crates Of
chickens, and 155 packages of sun
dries.
w. c. Hall With Sugar.
The w. G. Hall returned from Kauai
this morning with $500 tags of sugar,
twenty-eight empty wine barrels, for
ty-seven sacks of cocoanut plants, one
automobile, one bag of coin and thirty
eight ackages of sundries.
Enterprise to Hio.
! The Enterprise will leave San Fran.
cisco on December l 3 and proceed di-
rect to Hilo. She is due there on De.
cember 90
Dredge to Pearl Harbor.
The tug Intrepid will this afternoon
| tow the dredge Pearl Bar down to
Pearl Harbor She is going down to
complete the work of dredging in the
vicinity of the old shark pen opposite
! Watertown.
Sugar on Kauai.
Purser Logan of the w. G. Hall re
ports that the following sugar was
awaiting shipment on Kauai: K. S. NJ
1900 bags NJ. A. X, 31,S50; c. G r..
1850; X X. b., 5000; X. P, 7646, and
L. p, 1850
Mexican at kahului.
The Mexican was at Kahului dis
charging freight when the Claudine
was there, reports Purser Kibling.
White Officers to Continue.
San Francisco Examiner: According
to officials of the Togo Kisen Kaisha
the rumors that have been circulated
recently to the effect that the com
pany intends soon to eliminate all
white officers on board their liners
with the exception of the captains are
branded as incorrect. The company
declares that there is no foundation &c
this story as the question never has
been discussed.
According to these rumors, it was
said that the company had about de
cided that the assistant pursers
freight clerks and other officers on
board the ships had by this time mas
tered the duties involved and could
take full charge of the work without
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