Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-16
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!, CANFIND ROOM BIG Liners.

tween December 23rd and 9th, can
alone accommodate three. hundred
cabin passengers.
The Oceanic steamship Ventura in
departing from sydney, N. S. W., on
last Saturday will arrive at Honolulu
with ample room for two hundred
cabin passengers. This vessel is re-
ported To have left the colonies with
a small number of cabin travellers,
while the second class quarters in the
vessel is well taken up by passengers.
II. Hackfeld & Company, represent
ing the Pacific Mail steamship Siberia
have been notified that passengers TO
the number of one hundred can be
accommodated in that liner from Ho-
nolulu TO San Francisco. The Matson
Navigation steamer Eurline is sched-
uled to depart for the mainland on
December 24th This vessel has room
for about 81 ty cabin passengers
with very few persons booked thus
far.
At the offcie of the Oceanic Com
pany, less than a dozen passengers
have been booked for the Coast IN
the Ventura.
accommodation
those alleged as anxious to depart
from the islands for the mainland
would go a-begging judging from the
apparent hesitation manifested in the
enrolment at the several booking
offices.
Passenger business from the Coast
to the islands is and has for weeks
been at low ebb but local passenger
agents are in hopes that with the
first of the year, a marked increase
in the travel Honoluluward will fol-
low.
Seed Cane for Formosa Plantations.
When the Togo Kisen- kaisha
steamer Kiyo Maru departed for ia
pan, shipment of six hundred tons
OF Hawaiian seed cane was supplied
that vessel. to be. discharged at al
point in Japan for transhipment TO the
island of Formosa. The seed cane is
forwarded to the Japanese possession
upon order from the Imperioi govern
ment
The Kiyo Maru offered quick and
direct transportation ito Japan andi
an opportunity which was denied local
shippers in either the Pacific Mail or
the regular passenger liners in the
r. X. X. service. The cane that left
here on Sunday was brought to Ho-
Lolulu from Kapuna in the steamer
Maui.
lnter-lsland Departures This Day.
Four steamers in the Inter-fsland
service are listed for departure TO-DAY. 1
The Mauna Loa is to sail for Kona
and Kan ports, taking general cargo.
The w. G. Hall is on the boards for
departure at five O'Clock, taking pas
sengers and freight for Kauai The !
NDeau will be supplied with explos-
ives for practically all ports along the
coast of Kauai, the vessel sailing at
five o'clock. The Claudine, making
her first trip under the new schedule, |
will depart at five o'clock for La
haina and Kahului and the Maui
ports.
Cruise to the Bird Islands Now on.
A cruise to the several isleGs and
reefs incorporated in the Hawaiian
bird island reservation is on. The
United States revenue cutter Thetis,
provisioned and coaled for an extend
ed voyage, sailed from the harbor
late yesterday afternoon, taking a
little company of distinguished yoy.
ayers, including His Excellency Gov
ernor w. F. Frear, Territorial Attor-
ney General A. ]. Lindsay, Commo-
dore Salisbury and the three scien-
- go nh owrix 90 lF.l,,
days ago in the transport Thomas.
The Thetis is to call at Midway.
where Messrs. Fieaf and Lindsay are
to be left. The remainder of the
party viii proceed to Laysan island,
now the home for millions of birds.
The scientists expect to spend the
greater part of three months. engaged
in a campaign Of determination of
rabbits, alleged as existing there in
such numbers as TO endanger the
lives of the birds.
Alaskan VIII Omit. Hf1o. 49,.
will secure the regulation twelve
thousand tons of island sugar at
Port Allen and Kahului, and it is the
intention to omit call at Hilo or
this voyage. The Alaskan was dis
charged of a large quantity of New
York cargo during the few days that
the vessel remained here. The YES
sci did not bring freight from Pacific
coast ports. her cargo consisting of
five transhipments by the way Of the
isthmus of Tehuantepec. The Alas
kan is to be dispatched from Kahului
to Salina Cruz direct. taking besides
sugar, about two hundred tons of
pineapples. Il" III. -.
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Boisterous Scas Greet coasting Fleet.
The Inter-Is end steamers met with
q strenuous time i'll making port on
Saturday night AID Sunday morning.
Officers in several coasting vessels
report very rough trips and in one
case the loss of ships boat.
The steamer Mauna Loa parted
company with one of her whaleboats,