Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-27
SAIL
FOR The Orient

flee of Castle & Cooke, for Japan and
China in the Togo Kisen Kaisha liner
Shinyo Maru, scheduled to depart for
the coast of Asia on next Tuesday
evening.
/ The big Japanese vessel is predict.
ed will sail from Honolulu with ca
lpacity number of travellers in the
isteerage, With but two or three ex-
lceptions, the crowd departing from
the Hawaiian Islands are Japanese.
The Shinyo Maru is due to arrive
from the Coast at an early hour on
(, the morning of April /. Being a for.
eign bottom the vessel has no cargo
for discharge here. The liner will
come to a berth at Alakea wharf and
will be supplied with $50 tons coal.
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Fourteen Months from New York
to Frisco.
The eighty-fiye foot gasoline yacht,
Edris, long since believed to have
been swallowed up by the sea some
where along the coast of South Ameri-
! ca, has dropped anchor at San Fran
cisco at the end OF, 425 days of hazard
GUS Yoyaging from the port of New
York.
It is the property of Captain John
Barneson. millionaire oil operator, and
: was brought to the coast port to be
his private yacht for excursions on the
Lay.
Captain Mills set out from New
York viii crew of six men. He got
into difficulties in the Straits of Ma
geIlan and gave up the command
Captain Cameron succeeded him and
the six sailors stayed
Many times storms threatened to
sink the small yacht and 1t was sever
al times given up for lost. The great
est hardship experienced was the loss
of tobacco. The supply gave out
! weeks before the crew got safely into
San Francisco harbor.
Many Booked In Sierra
In departing for San Francisco on
Saturday April 5. the Oceanic liner
Sierra is predicted will carry one Of
the largest lists Of cabin passengers
booked for that vessel in many
months.
One hundred and eighty applica-
tions have been received and the In
dications are that the steamer will
leave with travellers numbering near
the two hundred mark.
A score or more applicants for
Storage transportation have already
been turned away. This class Of;
travel appeals TO the departing Portu-
guese and Spanish immigrants and.
they will leave for the Coast to the
number OF about eighty.
Ice Stopped Navigation Of Columbia. 4
Solid ice in the middle Columbia
from MemaIoose island to Lyle, dis
lance Of one and 0ne-half miles, and
between Crates Point and The Dailes,
about five or six miles, recently
caused the suspension of navigation to
points on the upper columbia river.
One more heavy freeze and Captain
Groves, superintendent of the dredg-
ing service for the port of Portland,
claimed that the lower Columbia
would have been frozen from bank to
bank in places. New, thin ice extends
across the river in some places, and
only steel vessels were nayigated
safely.
Matscn Steamer at kahului.
But one overseas vessel remained at
Kahului during the stay of the Inter
Island steamer CIaudine, the Matson
liner Honolulan having arrived to be
discharged of cargo, and to take on a
quantity of sugar The Honolulan is
due to return to this port on Monday.
The ClaHdine brought SO head hogs, a
quantity of builders sand, crates Of
chickens, and a number of empty
drums. The vessel is reported to have
met with moderate weather and north
east wind in crossing the channel.
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SteFedores STAY with Their Jobs
No Immediate trouble between local
stevedores and the bosses is anticipat-
ed, despite the more or less frequent
demand for higher rate of pay. As in
creased shipping reaches the port, ere
ating greater demand for labor, the
talk of a general strike is brought to
the fore. A demand has been made
for an increase to 70 cents per hour
for overtime While Hawaiians are
becoming scarce as steyedores, the
ranks are rapidly being filled with
Japanese, Filipinos and Russians.
Pacific Mail Notes.
H. Hackfeld & Co have been adj
yised of the departure of the Pacific
Mail liner Siberia from San Francisco.
That vessel should arrive here on
April and viii be dispatched for the
Orient in the evening of that date.
The agents have received no particu-
lars regarding cargo for this port.
The Nile, from the Far East, is list
ed to sail from Yokohama on Saturday
and in that event should reach here
on or about April s.
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Kauai Sugar Report.
In returning from Kauai ports, OIL
GERS in the steamer W. @. Hall report
TIE following sugar as awaiting ship
ment on the Garden Island: q. f.,
NJ