Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-09

Hall was sent to Honolulu on spe-
cial trip, to assist in keeping down the
large accumulation of freight intended
for the Garden Island. The vessel
brought no cargo, and her officers re.
port 1900 sacks sugar as awaiting
shipment at Hanamaulu. r4IIs
Sweetness from Valley Isle.
Much STIFFNESS comes to Honolulu
from Maui isle The steamer Iwalani
is an arrival with one item in her car
go consisting of $50 cases of honey,
The product represents one of the
largest shipments of this commodity
TO be received here. in many months.
The Iwalani reached port yesterday
morning after pleasant passage. The
freight included 1850 sacks sugar, SO
Packages sundries and number Of
empty gasoline drums
The vessel is on the boards for de-
parture this afternoon or tomorrow
morning.
Niihau Brought Cattle.
From Hawaii ports with a shipment
of sixty head cattle the steamer Nil
hau is an arrival in port, The vessel
met with fine weather on the home
ward trip. The Niihau has been -plac-
ed on the berth to return to Hawaii
at 5 o'clock this evening.
Sailing Vessel Carried Sugar for the
Coast.
A shipment of sugar was forwarded
to the coast in the American schooner
Annie Johnson, which vessel sailed
from Mahukona for San Francisco
yesterday. according to the receipt of
wireless message. The Annie John
son arrived at the Hawaii port with a
consignment of lumber
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Hall Sails for Kauai This Evening.
Taking passengers, general cargo
and late mail the Inter Island steam
er w. G. Hall is to be dispatched for
Kauai ports this evening, sailing at
S o'clock.
Canal Completed Next July.
PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 29.-That
the Panama canal practically will be
completed BY July T.. 1913, or in less
than a year from now, is the opinion
of F. c. Schubert, assistant United
States engineer, who has just return
led from the big ditch. He made a
close Inspection of the great water
way. which he reports is being pushed
to completion with remarkable rapid
lily. Engineer Schubert was gone
from Portland six weeks and eleven
days of that time he spent at the, ca
nal. He says that 95 per cent. of the
Gatun locks has been completed, and
the lock gates were being erected
when he left. The locks of Pedro Mi
guel are about finished. As is the
case with all others who go down that
! way, the gigantic magnitude of the un-
dertaking is what appealed to him
most. On small scale the same
IDEAS are being carried out in the con-
struction of The Dalles-Celilo canal, a
project with which Engineer Schubert
! is identified. He returned on a Pacific
Mail liner as far as San Francisco
where he took the Beaver for Port
! land.
Grain Charters Bring High Figure,
PORTLAND. Ore, Aug. 29.-At the
highest rates paid this season, and in
fact for number Of years, Kerr, Gift
ford & Co. have chartered the British
steamship Willesden and Balfour,
Guthrie & Co. the Danish steamship
Arabien to load wheat at Portland for
the United Kingdom. The Willesden
/ was taken at rate of ASS Sd and the
Arabien at AIS Sd, according to adj
i vices received here this morning. Be
cause of the difficulty of securing adj
equate tonnage it is predicted that il
will not be great while until the
quotations reach the 50-shilling mark
1 Practically all of the available sailing
! vessels have been chartered and dis
engaged steam tonnage is reported as
not being any too plentiful.
Chinese Form New Company.
The native Press OF Shanghai states
that the terms in connection with the
sale of the fleet of the China Merchants
S. N. Co. to new Company have been
settled on the basis that the new Com.
ipany is to pay $4,000. 900 to the old
shareholders, including 100000 to be
distributed as follows:-$4OO,0 900, to
the Company's old stan as bonuses
100000 as indemnity to cover the
losses at Hankow incurred last year
and 100000 as a reserve to cover any
losses or costs, o. any, resulting from
the redemption of those shares mort
gagged for loans. As to the Company
!; creditors for the sem of several mil
lion taeIs, it will be the duty OF tn,
new Company to admit its liability tc
pay them in due course. Solicitors Wal
&C engaged to draft an agreement, il
which clause, forbidding the incju
). sion of foreign money in the capita
i OF the new Company, shall be insert
ed; any contravention of this clause
, win render the agreement null and
|, void. Shareholders in Canton, Hong
kong and Chefoo, however. have II
protested against the sale being Car
ried out, in vigorous terms.