The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-22

salvage company that Is now WORKING
on her. The wrecked Empress could
be plainly seen from the China as
they passed.
It was at first expected that the
China would be able to sail early this
afternoon, but large shipment of ba-
nanas and canned pineapples showed
up and the steamer will not be able
to get away before nine o'clock to-
morrow morning. In addition to the
1900 cases of pines and 5000 punches
of bananas she will take FIVE or six
passengers from here,
Lurline Sails.
The Matson steamer Lurline will
finish loading today and will sail for
Kahului this evening a. eight O'Clock.
Sc will take on cargo at KahuIui,
leaving there Sunday night and ar
irving here on Monday morning.
Claudine This Afternoon.
The Inter-Island steamer Claudine'
will leave for Hilo and ports with a
comfortable load of passengers and a
full cargo at five o'clock today.
Local Notice to Mariners.
Maui Island, My side, Wailuku
Coast-Spartan Reef bell buoy, l, out
of position, 1900 feet to windward of
Kahului Breakwater, will be replaced
as soon as practicable. List of Buoys,.
etc, 18th Subdistrict, 1909, p. 10. c..
& G. S. Chart, GIG.
LEO SAHM,
Lieutenant, U. S. ~, Inspector 18th
L. H. District
Arranging for Wireless.
Sydney Telegraph-On the Mariana
(says the New Zealand Herald" of
last Saturday, visitors stepped straight
into a companionway, where a notice.
board displayed "aerograms" received
during the voyage from Sydney. Some
of them were descriptive of Yelling
tons weather, some contained shipping
intelligence; long message convey
ed a good handful of worlds news,
covering disasters, the Moroccan stu
alton, and other items of interest.
From this board they gathered that the
passengers of the ship lived in the
new atmosphere. If they could sec
the fat bundle of messages handled
by the operator in his tangled little
roomful of vulcanite and metal, they
would have realised better how closely
those passengers remained in touch
with the world, though far away upon
the separating seas. On a recent
ocean trip between Sydney and Van
couver the Mariana was only out of
touch of the world for two nights out
of the "a occupied on the run.
Her plant will talk freely on any
ordinary night over a distnace of 500
miles; in favorable conditions
thousands miles is within the limits.
Last Wednesday night, for instance,
the Mariana talked with the Ulimaroa
over nearly that distance, the one be-
ing 500 miles out of Sydney and the
Ulimaroa 80 miles north of Dunedin.
On Thursday night the Mariana was
in touch with many other stations
ashore and afioat The Makura, due at
Brisbane from Vancouver to-day, was
one; Fiji was within easy reach; to
talk with Wellington was but to con-
verse with a neighbor over the fence;
and covering disasters, the Moroccan
situation, and daily bulletin of news is
served up with infrequent intervals.
The linking up of shore station and
ships by a system of communication
that fills the air with messages, and
which is used very extensively by war
ships, clearly has the disadvantage
that messages may get in each others
road That does in fact, happen very
often, and provision is made for 'tun-
ing" the receiving instruments so that
interrupting messages can, in a great
degree, be shut out. But they cannot
all be thus eliminated, and powerful
waves from sources near at hand
may defy the slender barrier of little
added resistance. The operator of the
Mariana stated yesterday that a great
deal of difficulty is avoided on the
American coasts by simple system
that, in his opinion, should be adopted
everywhere. Without it ordinary mes
sages are very apt to be interrupted
by the powerful waves from men-of-
war. The system is simplicity itself.
Each hour is divided into halves. The
first half is reserved for the ships Of
the navy, and the Second for public
service. Thus at the outside each SER
vice has not to wait more than half
an hour for it's turn, and the air is