Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-11
SHIPPERS GET
RAISE in PAY

Pacific Mall liner China had occasion
to wear a broad and thoroughly
genuine smile-the kind that will not
fade. by exposure to wind and sun
when he began the present voyage
! to the Far East
The China's skipper, is counted
among the favored delegation of YES
sci masters with the Pacific Mail
company who have received a sub
stantAl increase in salary commene-
ing with the first of the month.
With the arrival of the China from
San Francisco this morning came the
cheering information that all nayiga-
ton officers with the Mail company
would be in line for better pay, 1t is
understood that in the case of the
several captains, each will henceforth
receive a twenty-five dollar increase.
Purser Acheson was pleased to re-
port fine trip down from the Coast.
He blushingly admitted that the
China was carrying seven newly mar
ried couples The China Is easily en-
titled to the record of a honeymoon
Ship according to the calculations
of her officers.
And this is not all 1t is now
rumored that there are two fascinat-
ing, clever girls aboard, who are
j0urneying to the Philippines, there
to meet two excellent young men now
with the government service, who it
is predicted will not lose any time
in hunting up the friendly offices of
justice of the peace.
twenty-five cabin passengers left
the liner at Honolulu. Other pas
sengers for this port included six
second class and 3 steerage s
The through list included AZ cabin,
s second class and 81 Asiatics in the
steerage.
A general roundup OF the ship
shortly after leaving San Francisco
developed no stowaways.
A large mall arrived in the China.
The vessel is to be held here until
ten O'Clock tomorrow morning, pend
ing the loading of several hundred
tons sugar milling machinery, des-
tined for the Philippines, the dis
charge of sixty tons general cargo
brought from San Francisco and the
supplying of six hundred tons coal to
the China bunkers.
In sailing from Alakea wharf, the
China viii carry a few cabin and a
score Of Asiatic steerage passengers
to the Orient, who have been booked
through the agency of H. Hackfeld
& Company.
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Bills Of Lading Will Be Uniform.
Uniform bills of lading to be used
by all of the steamship companies
viii come into immediate use as re-
suit of an effort for the reform made
by the foreign trade committee Of
the San Francisco chamber of com
merce. Heretofore, each steamship
company has used its own idea of a
bill of lading, resulting in many of
them being a size too large to be
handled in the ordinary typewriter
and of such poor quality that they
would not take ink or retain legibil-
ity.
The foreign trade committee an
nounced that practically all of the
companies operating vessels in the
fereigh trade in and out of San Fran
cisco have agreed to use uniform
bill of lading, as far as size and
quality of paper go. Among these
companies are the Americana Hawai-
ian, the Pacific Mail, the Togo Kisen
Kaisha, the Union, Kosmos, the Har-
riman direct line, the Oceanic, the
Dollar and the New, York & Pacific
steamship companies. The Pacific
Mail company has already adopted
the new size bill OF lading and the
others will adopt it as soon as they
canfget the forms supplied.
British Liners Not for Frisco.
The Observation-Disclosures liners
will not make San Francisco a port
of call, despite the oft-repeatcd rumor
to this effect, appearing with refresh.
ing regularity in the California press.
At least, ]. c. Irons. agent for the
British line wIsh headquarters at
Vancouver, comes forward with a
most emphatic denial to the story
that the new Niagara was to make
San Francisco terminal port in thei
australian service. The route from
Victoria and Victoria to Sydney by
hhNf way vi AOuNd AuCh-
Land is declared WILDE faithfully fol-
lowed in future as in the past.
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Cape Finnisterre Here With Coal.
Coal, consigned to the Inter-Island
TO the amount OF 500 tons has arrived
as cargo in the British steamship Cape
Finnisterre, which was sent to the
quarantine wharf for general fumi-
cation, upon reaching the port this
morning.
The coal was loaded aboard at New: !
castle. n. S. W The vessel covered ;
the distance to the islands In twenty
two days. Captain Mcneil, master of
the British tramp, reports a fair trip
up from the antisodes. The vessel
is TO be shifted to the coal wharf this /,
afternoon.
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The Y. S. naval transport Buffalo
is reported will soon be dispatched
from Mare Island for the far east by
The way of Honolulu This vessel is
20 be stumbled with general cargo as