Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-03
Shipping
zEALANDIAFROM COLONIES HERE;
PURsER COXALI DEAD AT SYDNEY

Purser p Coxa = Until two months
ago connected with the Lire" lea
landia and for the past fifteen years
a regular visitor al the port OF Homo
lulu as an official in Canadian-Ans-
tralian liners died at Sydney, =. ).
w, on November 10th.
Such was the news brought, to this
city this morning with the arrival Of
the Zealandia which completed fine
run from the colonies TO Honolulu by
the way of Auckland and Suya.
Prior TO the placing of the Zea-
landia on the Vancouver Honolulu
SuVa-Auckland-Sydn run, Coxall
was identified with the official family
on board the old steamship Aorangi.
Commander ]. S. ID. Phillips was
much affected over the loss of we'll
liked officer, the news of death hay-
ing been sent to the Zealandia
through wireless the second day fol-
lowing the departure of the liner from
Sydney TO Auckland.
Coxall is said TO have been about
forty years old. He was man OF
a family, widow and one child sur
-yiving He made his home at Sgd
ney during the greater part of his
service with the Union Steamship
Company.
From what could. be learned this
morning the popular steamship man
passed away as the result of tubercu-
losis When the official last visited
Honolulu, two trips ago, he appeared
Il al. -
It was shortly after his arrival at
Sydney that he is said to have con-
tracted sudden cold that rapidly
developed into something far more
serious.
H. S. Faulkner, prominent in Union
Steamship circles and rater as an ac-
commodating and obliging officer has
been appointed to take over the
duties of purser in the Zealandia.
He returned in that capacity in the
Zealandia this morning
The death of Purser Coxall received
at sea served 70 cast a deep seated
speel of gloom about the vessel:
Charters Continue to Bring
Stiff Rates
Tacoma, Nov. lin spite of the
freights prevailing in the shipping
world, the charter retains marked
activity. The list OF charters made
last week includes fifteen or twenty
fixtures in the foreign trade from the
North Pacific. Comparisons OF rates
paid in 1911 and those now paid bring
out some interesting figures. The old
union rate of % shillings s pence that
prevailed in 1911 is now about donb-
led for grain to the United Kingdom.
: In the lumber trade sailing vessels
were receiving in 1911 81 shillings 8
pence to SO shillings for the voyage
from the Sound to the United King
dom. The Schiffbek, German bark
now at Vancouver loading. is receiv-
ing so. shillings for the voyage. In
March, 1911, she was on Puget Sound
loading for practically the same voy-
age at 81 shillings 3 pence. At the
same period in 1911 the French bark
lie Perouse was at Eureka loading
for the United Kingdom at 81 shifl-
ings 8 pence. Tramp steamers are
also receiving rate as high in COM
parison for time charters. In last
weeks charter list was announced the
British bark Jordan Hill to load lum-
Der on Puget Sound for the United
Kingdom, for which she is to receive
S5 shillings. She is chartered by
comyn, Mackall & Co.
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Persia Due at Daylight.
With four hundred tons of cargo
from the Orient, the Pacific Mailer
Persia from Hongkong by the way
of Japan ports is to arrive at the
port at daylight tomorrow morning
according to a wireless received to-
day at the agency of H. Hackfeld and
Company. The Persia viii berth at
Alakea wharf, where two hundred and
fifty tens of coal will he supplied the
vessel. The Persia is understood as
booked full with cabin passengers.
For Honolulu there is a number of
Asiatics, including Filipinos and Japa.
nese.. 1t is expected that the vessel
will be dispatched for San Francisco
on or about three o'clock Wednesday
afternoon.
Japanese Freighter Has Coal for
Port.
Sailing from Japan on Nov. 20, the
Japanese freighter Tokai Maru is
proceeding towards Honolulu with
600 tons of coal consigned to the
United States quartermaster depart.
ment The vessel and cargo win be
handled through the Interisland
Steam Navigation Company. The
freighter is expected to arrive here
enzor about Dec. 10.
g.
Windjammers Depart for the Coast.
Two deep-water vessels sailed from
i9Iio for the coast last Friday evening
leaving that port deserted of overseas
tonnage. The American schooner
: 0konogan AM the barkentine S. G.
Wilder havirg been discharged of car
goes of mmter, departed for the north
Pacific coast.
Interisland Saiiinss This Day.
Following the departure of the In
terisland steamer Kilauea for Kona
and Kan ports at noon TODAY with the