Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-10
SHIPPING 6WKTfRFRONT News
MAKURA brings
32PASSENGERS
FOR HONOLULU


With % passengers for Honolulu and
SO through passengers, the Canadian
iAustralasian liner Makura. seven days
out from Vancouver, p. {. on her way
to the AntipOdes, docked at 9 O'Clock
Sunday morning. Thirteen OF the 30
passengers who disembarked here
were returning school teachers. and
the remainder were tourists and bust.
ness visitors. In the run the liner
{ averaged a little more than $40 miles
a day and the officers of the ship re-
ported a smooth trip. The Makura
sailed out at 80 o'clock Sunday after,
noon.
Master Horace Darlen of Victoria,
B. c., bound for Sydney, occasiOned a
little excitement among the passengers
on the evening of the fourth day out
from port when he reported to one
Of the stewards that he had seen the
light of a cruiser from the after deck.
A rush by the passengers in the vicin-
ity TO the rear and some of the Off
GERS was followed by the disclosure
that the lights of the supposed cruiser
we're nothing more than the beams OF
the moon as II rose between the clouds
on the eastern horizon. The lad was
not blamed for the scare" he caused
because the position of the moon and
the effects occasioned by its light COM
ing from behind the clouds were such
that great many passengers who wit
messed the sight would not be con-
WINGED that it was not cruiser until
the clouds scattered.
OF the Is school teachers who dis
embarked, the majority were return
ing to the islands after brief vacation
on the mainland.
Miss Rue Beatty of Minneapolis re-
turned for the term at the Mills
School, Mid Pacific Institute.
Miss Sarah Mcbride of Bellingham
Kaiulani school for the deaf, mute and
blind
Miss E. Macomber of Yonkers. N. Y,
is here to take charge of the French
course at Oahu College.
Miss c. Mitchell, who has been in
the islands three years, returned to
the Mckinley high school staff after
vacation in the East.
Miss H. Gates of Minneapolis was
not sure to which high school she
would be assigned.
Miss c. Butler spent her vacation
in Spokane, this having been her ninth
trip across the Pacific. She has spent
three years in the islands and will be
a grade teacher at Liliuokalani School
this fall.
Miss r. Mylroie after visiting Seattle
is back to take up her work at the
Kawaiahao Seminary
Miss A. Rian of BuhL Minnesota, is
here TO take position as music in
structor at the Oahu College. 4
Miss !. UnderHIl visited Seattle and
Portland during her vacation. She has
resided in the islands for five years
and will be one of the grade teachers
OF LiliuokaIani School this term.
Miss V. Eyerly, who had lived here
for two years, spent the summer in
Idaho. She will be on the teachers
roll at the Territorial Normal School
Miss NJ. Ferreira completed her
fourteenth trip across the waters yes.
terday. During her visit to the main
land she attended the National Edu-
cational Association. convention in
Portland, and later the King County
Teachers Institute meeting in Seattle.
She also visited Mr.. and Mrs. J. L
Dumas, formerly of Honolulu and now
residing at Dayton, Wash; and Rev.
r. Z. Smith, former pastor of the
Methodist church here, residing in
Portland, Oregon .-
E. Allen Creevey and Mrs. E. A
Creevey. both school teachers Of
K.uai, returned from a visit to the
mainland. They went as far east as
New York and Boston. --.
Mr.. E. G. Palmer, superintendent Of
United States Lighthouse Service for
the Nineteenth District, accompanied
by his wife returned from holiday
spent in the Pacific Coast States
spent in the Pacific coast states.
DR.. ] McCleary and Mrs. McCleary
of Chicago are here to visit DR.. and
Mrs. B. C. Woodbury. of this city.