Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-12

ceLe grown in the hawaiian Islands.
With this end in view and following
the recommended from q corps OF
experts who ave been conducting d
general investigation throughout the
territory, a large shipment OF seed
cane is ready TO be Forwarded TO IN"
sugar estates on the islands o. or
mosa.
One problem that at pre-. eat con-
fronts the parties who would snip tho
cane to the Japanese possession, IL
the apparent scarcity OF tonnage now
offered.
For months, the Pacific Mail liners
upon leaving San FrancisCo have been
filed to the hatch covers with main
land cargo, for the most part consist
ing Of cotton.
The steamers in the Togo Kisen
Kaisha service have been sailing
across the Pacific with equally extern
sive consignments of merchandise and
supplies of raw material for the orient.
At Honolulu, there awaits lone
three hundred tons OF seed cane which
is expected will mark an initial ship
ment intended for Formosan sugar
planters. The Nippon Maru, one of
the smaller vessels in the Japanese
Inc is to arrive at Honolulu from the
coast at or about noon tomorrow. From
advance wireless reports this vessel
sailed from San Fancisco with full
cargo, and just where the much want
ed seed cane is to be stored is a prob.
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agents and others interested in dis
patching the consignment. The Nip
pom Maru is bringing fewsi amy slay
over passengers for Honolulu The
vessel carries l66 passengers in the
several classes. The vessel should
bring later mail from the mainland.
Ii is the present intention of Castle
and Cooke to dispatch the liner sfor
Japan and China ports, at five OF clock
taking aboutSthirty cabin and seore
ot steerage passengers.
The members of the Hughes Comedy
Company who are on d world tour and
who will close a brief engagement at
local theaters will take Massage ihsthe
liner for Japan and the Philippines.
20 aN
Mainland Freight in the Alaskan. r.
A general average has been declar-
ed on all cargo that has arrived at
Honolulu this morning in the Amerl-
can-Hawaiian freighter Alaskan. This
vessel will be remembered as having
met with an accident to her tail shaft
which caused a material delay in the
departure of the steamer from San
Francisco. The time consumed in ef-
fecting repairs, prevented the Alas
kan in calling at the regular Puget
Sound ports. The steamer reached
Honolulu this morning with five sep
arate west bound cargoes, from New
York that were transhipped at Tehu-
antepec from vessels in the American
Hawaiian atlantic service.
Captain Hillman reports pleasant
trip down from San Francisco. The
steamer is to be given prompt dis.
patch and it is the present expecta-
ton that the vessel will sail for island
ports on Sunday evening. calling at
Port Allen and Kahului. The Alaskan
is to depart from Kahului to Salina
Cruz direct, taking twelve thousand
tons 1918 sugar, besides about 200
tons pineapples.
coftfns Concealed 5eauteous Maids.
When four Chinese slave girls We
captured coming off the Nippon Maru
at San Francisco. ii was believed that
they had been secerted in the. coal
luInkers during the voyage from
Shanghai to that city. Customs In
snector Verney while searching the
ship for opium discovered what he be-
heved was the hiding place Of the
girls. He found in the rice locker on
the steerage deck on the starboard
side a nook covered with a Chinese
coffin, which had been turned upside
down and placed in a hole in a pie
O. mats of rice and concealed by mats
CT rice piled on top of it.
Parts of dress worn by Chinese
women and toilet articles were found
under the crtfi2.
Tho only person who had key to
this room, according to a statement
made by Vcr3ey to Deputy United
States Surveyor Charles A. Stephens,
was he ChinCSc cook of the steerage,
VINO cccrpiec 4 room opposite the rice
locker with L3El% Neon, the Chinese
interpreter, under arrest for attempt
ing to SInuyslc the women into this
country,
The matter w; s token up .or irv2s-
tiC&tior by Special Treasury Agent
W. Il. Tidwe't, with view o. securing
evidence that would warrant the ar
rest and prosecution Of the cook.
Japanese in the Colonies
Further particulars have now been
received in Sydney regarding the de-
cision of the board of the Nippon
Yusen kaisha 10 place larger steam
ers on the Australian service.
The new steamers will be between
5000 and 5000 tons net. and it is the
intention OF the board to extend the
services to New Zealand. and AIDE
laide.
Accordine to the Japanese files re-
Gently to hand. a meeting of the di-
rectors of the Yokohama chamber of
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