The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-04

Japan in connection WIN Jne uduspOl-
tation of raw silk direct to European
markets, news of which has already
been published in Honolulu, were
available on the steamer Nile this
morning.
Kinoshita, of the Japanese Railway
department, has returned from his
trip to Vladivostok where he conduct
ed negotiations with the Russian au'
thorities on the question. He is quot
ed by the Toxic papers as saying that
the conference was successful in every
respect and that the Russian author
tiles were willing to comply with the
Japanese view by reducing the freight
rate to a certain extent.
There are still many matters to be
taken under consideration, however,
and nothing definite will be done for
some time. The scheme, it Will pei
remembered, was to take the raw silk
across by the Siberian railway.
NILE IN PORT.
Bringing over forty passengers Tor
this port and $50 tons of cargo the
Pacific Mail steamer Nile arrived this
morning and berthed at the Alakea
street dock She will leave at five
o'clock this afternoon in continuation
OF her voyage to San Francisco,
r' Her through cargo consists Of 1904
tons included in which is a parcel of
500 bales of raw silk. She brings
over a hundred Asiatic passengers for
this port
Purser J. T. Bloomer reports
fine passage throughout and says that
as far as amusement goes the trip is
the best he has ever had on the
run. for there was something doing
every night.
Sport programs, dances. fancy
dress balls and even a full dress
theatrical performance were all Civ
en- during the eleven days. The pro-
gram of the vaudeville performance
for which a proper stage and fix
ings were rugged up is as follows:
Vaudeville performance given by
The Hughes Musical Comedy Com
pany, on board the S. S. Nile, Anti
podes, May 31st, the second, 1912.
The proceeds of the same to be devot-
ed to charity.
Program:
Opening Chorus-We Are Tourists
Misses Phillips, Sherlock, Bidekoff,
Pearl, Gray Leonard and Mahr.
Miss Fritzee de Guy-Assisted by the
Hughes Musical Comedy Co. Chorus.
Just MISUNDERSTANDING Blanc
Lydston.
Madame Pearl Lloyd-In selected
operate solos.
Miss Hollis Hughes-In dances.
Miss Lizzie Weller--Trick Piano
Playing.
Sketch: In Society-Cast Mr. Louis
Myer, Mr.. Paul Stanhope; Mr. OPP
penheimer, Mr.. Bert lie Blanc Mr.
Wheelman Hall, Mr. c. c. Lydston:
Miss Waldemar, Madame Pearl
Lloyd.
Mr.. Albert Leonard and Company
ON THE NILE.
Geo. F. Fox, accompanied by Mrs
Fox, is a through passenger in the
steamer Nile He is connected with
the British American Tobacco Co. of
Shanghai and is returning home to
New York for a six-month visit.
DR.. L. Knox and wife of Manila are
on a visit to the States. DR.. w. A.
McVean, well known in Manila, is off
to the States for vacation. He is
accompanied by his sister, Miss L.
McVean
Thomas W. Kydd, well-known
Oregon lumber man, accompanied by
Mrs Kydd, is returning from one Of
his regular trips to the Orient.
H. Petersen is a mining man who
struck it rich and is now bound for
Morocco where he will look into some
mining ventures. Mrs. H, c. Scofield,
who halls from Ames, Iowa, is a we'll
known Orient passenger making the
trip frequently. She goes to meet her
husband in San Francisco on this oc.
casion.
w. A. Steehler and wife are maxi
ing a trip to the States, Steehler is
connected with the British American
Tobacco Co.
Mrs, S, NJ. Trayers goes to Seattle
to settle up an estate. She lives in
a town about a hundred miles the
other side of Vladivostok and will
return as soon as the legal require
ments have been fulfilled.
Prof S. Shiga, one of the leading
bacteriologists of Japan, goes to Call.
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