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

HARBOR NOTES

The Inter-Island steamer w. G. Hall,
departing for Kauai al five o'clock
this evening, will take late mail as
well as a full list Of cabin passen-
gers.
According~.t to cables, the Pacific
Mail liner Manchuria sailed from San
Francisco for Honolulu and the coast
of Asia at O'Clock yesterday after
noon.
A fast passage from Honolulu 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
cisco on or about Saturday.
For the purpose of being discharged
of several hundred tons OF mainland
cargo. and receiving q shipment of
sugar. the Matson Navigation steam
er HonoluIar will sail for Kahuiui
this evening.
The Matson Navigation steamer
Lurline. sailing from Honolulu on
September 2, with passengers and a
full cargo of island products, is re-
ported to have arrived at San Fran
cisco on Tuesday morning.
Taking big shipment Of supplies
for various plantations along the Kona
ard Kau coast of Hawaii, the Inter
Island steamer Mauna Loa will sail
at noon tomorrow. A fair-sized list
of passengers has been booked.
The last Of twelve hundred tons OF
coal we're 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
lis believed. win roach this port Sat
urday morning and will dock at
Richards street wharf.
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Inter-IsIand sailinqs This Day.
Two Inter-Island steamers are list
ed for departure today. The steamer
Hauai is loading freight and supplies
for Kaanapali and Kahnlui, Maui; the
vessel is to sail at four O'Clock this
afternoon Much Of the cargo will be
confined to explosives
The steamer W. g. Hail, with pas
sengers, mails and general cargo for
regular ports along the coast Of
Kauai will be dispatched at five
O'Clock.
Little Sugar Left on Kauai.
But little sugar Is left for ship
ment from plantations on Kauai &C.
cording to report brought to this city
with the return of the Inter-Island
steamer W. G. Han. This vessel has
been discharged of 1000 sacks Of SUI
gar and 2 packages Of sundries. The
Hall viii be dispatched for the Gar
den Island at five o'clock this even.
ing. Her officers report H. s.. 1913
sacks and L. P. $500 sacks OF sugar
remaining for shipment.
N
Imperator Disaster Much Exauaerated
The story Of fire on board the
new Hamburg American liner Impera-a
tor at New York City. August IS, and
sent broadcast over the world at that
time, is declared to have been great
~ exaggerated, in q letter from the
Lead office Of the Hamburg American
line, addressed to II. Hackfeld &.Co.,
which represents the trans-A Atlantic
line in this territory. An emphatic
denial Of the statement that anything
bordering upon stampede among
thirteen hundred steerage passengers
took place is offered. The fire is
said to have been confined solely to
the store room and the damage to
This compartment is stated was but
nominal The liner sailed on her reg
ular schedule TO Europe. leaving New
York August 30th Following the fire,
al sailings Of steamers operated by
the company have been on time. The
local agents are also informed that
the second officer who endeavored,
to queil the flames,
met death through asphyxiation.
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