Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-05-10
WiIhelmina to Alakea Wharf.

for transportation to barracks.
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WiiheImina to AIakea Wharf.
/ For the second time In her history
| the MatsOn Navigation steamer vii.
helmina will berth at AiaKea wharf on
arrival from San Francisco next Tues.
day morning.
, The Wilhelmina Is reported as
bringing about 600 tons United States
quartermaster supplies in the 1855
tons freight for discharge at Honolulu.
The quartermaster supplies will be
transferred to the transport Sherman
on arrival here, which vessel is Ell
route to Manila.
The .Wilhelmina was heard from
by radio-telegraph last evening while
steaming at distance of 1889 miles.
The report states that the vessel has
SO cabin and as steerage passengers.
Hilo cargo amounts to 1881 tons. In.
cluded In Honolulu freight are five au.
tomobiles, while eight machines are
destined for Hllo. Mail to the amount
of 357 sacks is due to arrive by this
vessel. Eighty packages express mat.
ter are also aboard. The Wilhelmina
goes to the Eva side of Alakea wharf.
Morse Can Point with Pride.
General Freight Agent G. p. Morse
Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS line can
point with pardonable pride to the ia.
cilities offered at the port of Honolulu
for the speedy handling of sugar.
In the Office of Mr.. Morse there Is
exhibited large photograph showing
the American-Hawaiian freighter .Vir.
ginian at her berth at railway wharf,
while alongside the huge vessel are
five lnter-lsland steamers each dis.
charging quantity of sugar into the
spacious holds of the freight.carrying
leviathan.
The claim is made that local steve.
dores sent 47,0S2 sacks sugar from the
wharf and the small steamers into the
Virginian between the hours of eight
In the morning and four in the after.
noon, on the occasion of the last visit
of the Virginian at this port.
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Barge Launched at Noon Today.
The large barge built for McCabe,
Hamilton & Kenny, local stevedores,
at the shipyards of the Inter-Island
Steam Navigation Company, as exclu.
siyely noted in the Bulletin, was
successfully launched at noon today.
The ceremony If such It might be
termed, was attended by a number of
shippingmen as well as representatives
from the builders.
The barge is a fine piece of work,
there being nothing but full.length
timber INF nrimA nnalttu L., .l.I
construction. II has a capacity of 800
tons coal or cargo. There is ample
space for freight as well as fuel, spe.
cial compartments being fitted for the
segregation Of cargo. The craft was
sent into the water from a slide near
the marine railway.
WilheInina Report.
The following wireless message has
been received by the agents of the S.
$. Wilhelmina, bound for Honolulu:
S. S. Wilhelmina, May 8, 8 D. IN. Il
1888 miles from Honolulu; fine wealth.
er; all well. For Honolulu: SO cabin
passengers, 40 steerage passengers,
357 sacks mail, 80 w. +. X. matter, 3
automobiles. 1855 tons cargo. For Hi.
10: s automobiles, 1891 tons cargo
Ship docks at the Alakea wharf
Tuesday morning, May a.
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kinau Returning with Sugar.
The lnter-lsland steamer Kinau, due
to return to port early Sunday morn.
ing from Kauai ports, will bring 700OI
sacks sugar, according to advices re,
ceiyed at the office of the Inter.Island,
The steamer lwalani Is also expected
on the same date with Kauai sugar to-
the amount of 1000 sacks and 500 bags
rice.
Noeau an Arrival Today.
Today's arrivals included the Inter.
Island steamer NoeaI from Kauai
ports with 1000 sacks sugar. Accord,
ing to report brought by her officers,
the vessel met with fine weather 60
Ing and returning from the Garden Isl.
and.
Pacific Mail Officers Dead.
Word Of the death of two men who
have been prominent in the service of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
for years has been received. They are
George w. Maxwell, formerly purser
and lately agent for the Pacific Mail
at Acapulco, and A. II. Heney, who
held the position of purser on various
vessels of the company's fleet for ten
years or more. Heney. who was
pnugin nf Fra N ole I Jana,, Jio1 =, .