Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-08
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|. Uniformed and plain clothes police
officers In larger numbers than usual
mingled freely in the vast crowd that
gathered at Pier Is this morn;ag to
witness the departure OF the Mat: III
Navigation liner Matsonia for San
Francisco. On board the vessel a dele
gatien CT detectives" visited all pOr-
tinaE Of the ship. the mission OF the
officers being withheld from those who
rad engaged passage in the vessel,
though their appearance caused cen
siderable comment.
Sheriff Jarrett had been advised to
keep close watch for man alleged
to have recently disappeared from the
island of Hawaii, who is declared to
be wanted upon a serious charge.
Deputy Sheriff Rose led the police
advance TO the wharf. While big,
handsome, Sergt Fred Iaukea held the
forward gangway, and scanned the
faces of all who passed before him,
Harbor Officer Carter and several men
identified with the police department
delyed into the fre-room. engine room
and crew quarters of the Matsonia.
The much-wanted individual was not
found, but the official dragnet brought
70 light half-dozen youths who had
succeeded in secluding themselves In
remote parts of the steamer. =
While the search was in progress,
frantic woman, who claimed to be
the mother OF a l6-year-old lad, APP
pealed to the officers to find her son,
who she had every reason to believe
had succeeded in slowing away. just
IS the crew were attempting to swing
off the gangway. a erestfallen youth
was ushered down the wharf, a neat
bundle tucked under his arm which
contained his scant wardrobe. The re-
union between mother and the boy was
a touching yet strenuous one
Taking 175 cabin and Is steerage
PASSENGERS. the big Matsonia with
Capt Charles Peterson on the bridge,
halted few moments after 10 o'clock
this morning to permit the Interest,"
and steamer Mauna Kea to gain suffi-
cient Roadway in steaming from out
the harbor into the channel.
Reneath the matches more than
1000 tons of sugar had been placed.
Other items of cargo included ship
ments Of rice, coffee. bananas and
fresh pines. A large percentage of the
passengers Included tourists, who
having spent a number of weeks in
the islands. took passage in the Mat.
sonia for the mainland Four private
" owned automobiles were taken as
cargo
II is seldom that a larger crowd
has assembled at the wharf than that
gathered there this morning. With
the melody from the Royal Hawaiian
hand and the gaily bedecked passen-
gers who lined the rail. the departure
|Spt0ved spectacular aseit was pleasing
and unique.
"A big outgoing mail was dispatched
to San Francisco in this vessel.
Lonely Maiden Visited BY Skipper.
The British steamer Strathallan.
Captain Scorer, which reached San
Francisco from Australia, put In at
lonely Maiden island for the purpose
of supplying the Inhabitants with pro-
visions. Captain Scorer reported that
there are three whites and so natives
living on the little dot of land in mid
ocean Thirty tons OF supplies were
left at the island. The Srathallan.
which was 33k days from Newcastle,
had a stormy passage, heavy head
winds and seas prevailing during the
entire run.
Cut Rates for the JobIess.
II fell to the lot Of Japanese oper-
ated steamship line to come to the
relief of large delegation of strand
ed Americans who through the new
order of things at Manila and other
Philippine stations were deprived of
employment through the Filipiniza-
tion of the government An announce
fnent has been made through Philip
pine government bureaus that the
Osaka Shosen Kaisha, which operates
several steamers plying between Ma
Mia and Tacoma. has just offered to
government employees returning TO
the United States a nat rate OF $50
for transportation upon their steam.
ers
In view of the increasing pressure
being brought to bear upon the Amer.
lean employees Of the insular service,
and the consequently increasing
number of designations, forced and
otherwise, IL is TO be presumed that
the offer wiz be gratefully received
by more than few Of those who have
recently resigned their positions and
themselves to the hands of fate
There are a few who are still in
clined to believe that IL they wait
long enough the Japanese govern
ment viii consent to pay a bonus to
each American leaving the islands,
but the present indacement, in view
OF existing circumstances, would ap.
pear to be quite. sufficient for those
who are inclined to travel.
.:-.e 49,. -
The Peninsuiar and Oriental Steam
ship Company has announced the sale
of the liners Borneo, Sunda. Palawan
and Sumatra, two to Japan and the
others to buyers in Bombay.
In their place are to be built six
ships of the Khiva class only double
its tonnage. The company has now
under construction vessels totalling