Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-08
China IS TAKING
GOLD TO THE
Orient

Carrying enough gold in her strong
box to shame the. proudest of Span
ish galleons, the China Mail steamer
China arrived this morning from San
Francisco en- route to japan, China
and the Philippine ISLANDS. She ar
rived off port at daybreaE, locked at
Pier at 1880 and will sail for the
Orient at o'clock this afternoon,
taking mail
Passengers for Honolulu numbered
only two first-cabin, three second cab
in and one stecrage, and freight left
here was five tons and 81 packages of
express matter. Through freight is
1000 tons and passengers are 122 cab
In, 80 second cabin and 260 steerage.
Mail for Honolulu was $50 bags.
Through freight consists OF steel,
building material and canned goods.
From here the China will take three
cabin, two second cabin and so steer
age passengers and approximately so
tons Of freight.
Incoming passengers were VIM. l..
Morgan and c. A. Woodward. Pas
sengers booked are Mrs. n. Lamberts
and two children and Miss Emma
Weaver.
Fortune In Strong Box. A.
In the strong box the China has
100000 for Shanghai and $3.50, 0o0 for
Hongkong. This money is being sent
from the mainland banks to those in
China, as the money supply there is
low, according to Purser c. P. James.
Two new officers are on board the
China this trip, j. K. Farrell, for a
number Of years chief steward on the
Matson steamer Manoa, holds SINH
lar position on the China, and Karl
A. Heyum is the new freight clerk.
tnterned Vessels Not Wanted.
When asked concerning the report
that the China Mail Steamship Com
pany was planning to buy two of the
three interned Austrian steamers ly-
ing in Shanghai harbor, Capt. T. J.
Dobson said: "The steamers were
offered to the company and was or
dered to examine them, and found
that they were not suited for our SER
vice. One lis an old passenger boat
and the other is freighter. II the
company does buy any more, steamers
they want new passenger liners and
not old ones, which these are"
Among the passengers on the China
are six Pacific Mail agents who are
going 70 Japan and China to take up
their duties ana prepare for the Paci-
fic Mail service, which, according to
these men, has been put back on the
Pacific to stay. The company will not
be owned by a railroad. They are:
j. E. Gardner, E. Thorp and s. r.
Sheppard, who will be stationed at
Yokohama; r. l. Goldsmith and H. F,
Palmer, who have been assigned to
Kobe, and w. B. Davenport, who is
going 40 Hongkong. Davenport for
many years was general passenger
agent at San Francisco for the old
company and Is we'll known in Homo
lulu, where he has often visited. His
family will follow him on latter
steamer.
Best Of Service Promised. "a.
These steamers" said Davenport, |
ARE absolutely new and the service |
will be the very best A special fea- |
ture OF the service will be that not
more than two people will be placed !
in q stateroom. The steamers are |
1t,VVV tOnS BtOSs anu INC o0iFlS0 hos |
come to stay"
When asked concerning former re-
port that the ManchEria and Mongolia |
are to be put back on this run he said
that 1t was in the hands of the direc-
tors and he had nothing to say.
Other passengers on the China |
were: Miss Mildred Robertson, who !
is going to Yokohama to marry I. F. |
Cobbs, manager of the British-Ameri- |
can Tobacco Company; Joseph Eich- |
void, also connected with the tobacco
company, who is returning with his |
bride: v. Moroai, late manager of the
Aston house in Shanghai; L, l. Sher-
man, real estate man of New York
who is going to India, and .Yee Ling,
director OF the China Mail Steamship |
Contrary |