Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-20
Shipping
MONDAY A BUSY DAY With
/, FOUR TRANS-PACIFIC STEAMERS

$1,000 Ids DTdHy S0ff loS OSo~AS' 49,
lbs and 14S cs bread, 1874 ctls barley,
23s cs canned goods, 1900 lbs coffee,
453 lbs and 2 cs cheese, 400 lbs dried
fruit, 500 lbs hams and bacon, 1850
lis lard. 1O,100 lbs middlings, 20 lbs
salmon. so ctls wheat, 205S gals wine,
s pkgs saddIery, 500 bdls shingles. 15O
poles. 26 cs and / Dbl oils, 500 cs
kerosene. so cs and 13 drums gasoline,
325 bbls of line. 200 tons fertilizer, 100
cs dynamite, 40 coils rope, 70 cs BIAS
ing caps.
Have Agreements to Sell.
Negotiations between the commits
sion and the owners or block BIZ, the
Yesler estate and Joshua Green have
resulted in a practical agreement for
sale of the block for 100000, nearly
half of the authorized bond issue. OF
the remaining $4,000 for the Inn
proyement of the entire block, figur-
ing about $215,00O as the share OF the
Improvement to be used by the Amer
lean Hawaiian Company.
The making of a satisfactory con-
tract for the construction Of the big
pier and slip is one obstacle. The
lease calls for a slip dredged to q
depth of 30 feet below extreme low
tide, and the dock is to be of modern
construction. The commissioners be-
Heye that the work can be done, ac-
cording to the figures prepared by
their engineer The commission plans
to locate.iiN own dock on the souther-
u slip. 1t is possible that
V also be made to lease
Amer. vaiian Seattle Terminal.
Terms . proposed lease between
the port district of Seattle and the
American Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany, OF New Jersey, for the use of
one-half Of block 372, Seattle tide
lands, including pier and slip to be
constructed upon it by the port dis
trict, have been made public by the
Seattle port commission. Gen. H. nj.
Remsberg, majority of the commits
sion. have agreed with representatives
of the company on lease. Many
obstacles yet remain, however, to its
ultimate consummation.
Under this lease the company is to-
pay 100000 for term of ten years,
payable monthly at $500. The com
mission was authorized at the election.
Of March last to expend $S50.000 to-
acquire the land and erect this pro-
posed improvement on the Coast wa
terway.
Again to Seek GocOs Island Treasure.
LONDON, Eng, July 1O.-A syndi-
cate has secured a steamer for a.
expedition to Cocos
Island, which will start this week.
The principal members of the party,
including Mrs. Barry Till and Miss ].
Brockley Davis, will Join the expedi-
ton at Panama. These women, who
were with the Navajo expedition which
returned from Cocos Island a year
ago and said nothing was found but
three skeletons, claim to have located
the cave in which pirate Beuto buried
millions in gold which he had seized
from the Spanish.
Last years expedition, which was
known as the Till & Davis Company,
Limited, started from Panama in
April, 1911. 1t returned few months
later without any treasure,
Siberia 20 Sail at Four O'clock Monday
The Pacific Mail liner Siberia from
Hongkong via Japan ports is to be
dispatched for San Francisco, at four
o'clock Monoay afternoon taking
large number of passengers.
According to a wireless message re-
ceived at the agency of H. Hackfeld
and Company, the Siberia. is bringing
over one thousand tons Oriental cargo
for discharge at this port. The vessel
can accommodate one hundred addi-
tional cabin passengers from Homo
lulu to the coast.
Hawaii Sugar Report.
Purser Phillips of the steamer Ma
una Kea on arrival this morning re-
ported the following sugar as await
ing shipment on Hawaii:
Olaa, 1850; Waiakea, 5000; Hawaii
Mill, 400; Hilo Sugar Co., 10.500;
Onomea, 1852; Pepeekeo, 1900; Ho-