Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-11
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HARBOR NOTES

The Inter-IsIaGd steamer W. G. Hall,
departing for Kauai at five O'Clock
this evening, will take late mail as
well as full list OF cabin passen-
gers.
According to cables, the Pacific
Mail liner Manchuria sailed from San
Francisco for Honolulu and the coast
Of Asia ct O'Clock yesterday after
noon
A fast passage from Honolnlu to
Grays Harbor is credited to the
schooner Cecilia Sudden, which is re-
ported to have reached destination on
last Tuesday
One hundred and twenty cabin pas
sengers have been booked for the
coast in the Pacific Mail liner Mon
golia. scheduled to sail for San Fran
cisco on or about Saturday.
For the purpose Of being discharged
OF several hundred tons of mainland
cargo, and receiving shipment of
sugar. the Matson Navigation steam
er Honolulan viii sail for Kahului
this evening.
The Matson Navigation steamer
Lurline, sailing from Honolulu on
September 2, with passengers and q
full cargo OF island products, is re-
ported to have arrived at San Fran
cisco on Tuesday morning.
Taking q big shipment of supplies
for various plantations along the Kona
ard Kau coast of Hawaii, the Inter
island steamer Mauna Loa win sail
at noon tomorrow A fair-sized list
of passengers has been booked.
The last of twelve hundred tons of
coal were placed aboard the Pacific
Mail liner China last night, prepare
tory to the sailing of the vessel for
the orient at noon today. A few cab
In passengers joined the vessel at
this port.
The United States army transport
Thomas from San Francisco and en-
route to Guam and the Philippines, it
is believed. wiz reach this port Sat
urday morning and will dock at
Richards street wharf.
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SsiIinps This Day.
Two lnterJsland steamers are list |
ed for departure today. The steamer
Kauai is loading freight and supplies
for Kaanapali and Kahului, Maui; the
vessel is to sail at four o'clock. this
afternoon. Much4of the cargo will bel
confined to explosives.
The steamer w. G. Hall, with pas
sengers, mails and general cargo for,
regular ports along the coast of
Kauai, viii be dispatched at. fivel
o'clock.
little Sugar Left on Kauai.
But little sugar is left for ship
nent from plantations on Kauai ac-
5erding to report brought to this city /
with the return Of the Inter-Island I
steamer w. G. Hall. This vessel has
been discharged of 1000 sacks of su.
,ar and 2 packages OF sundries. The
Hall will be dispatched for the Gar
len Island at five o'clock this EVEN.
ng. Her officers report H. S. 1881
'acks and L. P. $500 sacks of sugar
emaining for shipment
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mperator Disaster Much Exaggerated
The story of q fire on board the I
lew Hamburg American liner Impera-i
or at New York City, August %, and
emit broadcast over the world at thatl
ime. is declared to have been great
y exaggerated, in letter from the
cad office of the Hamburg-Americanl
Inc. addressed to Fl. Hackfeld & Co,
which represents the trans Atlantic !
inc In this territory. An emphatic
enial of the statement that anything
'ordering upon stampede among
hirteen hundred steerage passengers
ook place is offered. The fire is
aid to have been confined solely to
he store room and the damage to
his compartment is stated was but
ominal. The liner sailed on her reg
lar schedule to Europe, leaving New
,ork August S0th. Following the fire,
II sailings of steamers operated by
he company have been on time. The
peal agents are also informed that
he second officer who endeavored,
Ingle-hsnded. to quell the flames,
aet death through asphyxiation
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