The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-11

sold to the Insular transportation
Company. Captain Helbig, of the
firm named, is the purchasing agent,
and the work of fitting her up for her
long trip across to her new home is
well under way. A bowsprit is being
fitted to her. 1t is not yet known
when she will start, but the work OF
getting a crew together is going on.
She will sail over, and will use her
gasoline engines as auxiliaries.
She was built by Captain Turner
for the Won Hamm-Young Company,
from whom she was purchased by the
Inter-Island Company. She has a Her
cules engine of 1875 horsepower In
1901, when this installation was made,
the engine was considered about the
finest of it's class, but since those
days it has been superseded.
Captain Helbig hopes to get away
within the next two weeks.
Mariana Due Tuesday.
..
on Tuesday from Sydney, N. S. W.,
via Auckland, ~ r., and Suva, Fiji.
She will, in all probability, be dis
patched for Vancouver the same day.
w. Buchanan of Theo. Davies & Co.,
has not yet Heard from the boat by
wireless, but by cablegram from
Suva he received the information
that she has room for seventy first
class passengers, twenty-eight in the
second-class and twenty in the steer
age. There are several bookings from
this port, including some of the men,
bers of the late Norton Comedy Com
pany.
Andrew WEIGH from San Francisco.
The bark Andrew Welch reached
Honolulu early this morning after a
fine voyage which lasted nearly nine
teen days. Captain Kelly's ship has
become popular as a passenger car
rier and in addition to a full cargo,
has eight passengers.
The voyage, Kelly stated, was with
out incident. The cargo includes
| 1912 posts, 5000 cases of kerosene OIL
about $50 tons of moulding sand, 2OOJ
bags of flour, 721 bales of hay, 5000
drums of gasoline, 1884 feet of lum'
Der, 1900 bags of rolled barley among
her cargo. In addition to this she has
the following lines from the w. H
Marston, which sprang leak pretty
badly and had to be repaired: -Four
thousand seven hundred and twenty
nine posts, 617 railroad ties, 9SI
buches shingles and 335 packages of
sundries.
Gus E. Engleman worked his pas
sage away in the bark from here, but
as he had signed on for longer tern
on the revenue cruiser Thetis, Cap
tain Corcoran of that cruiser, re
solved to bring him back. 1t was
known that he was on the Andrew
Welch as a workaway, and a telegram
was sent to the San Francisco officials
notifying them that Englemann was
on a visit to them. The Thetis lef
shortly after the Andrew WEIGH, anc
when the bark got there a Lieutenant
from the cruiser was in San Fran
cisco with a marshal waiting for En-
glemann He was accordingly taker
in charge on a charge of having de
! serted.
Helene for Hawaii.
The Helene will leave tomorrow a
noon for Kohalalele, Laupahoehoe and
Papaaloa, with explosives.
Foreign Flags on American Ships.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Advance
proofs of the Pacific Marine Reviews
July issue contain a large number of
interesting articles on questions con
corning the shipping world.
Among the questions discussed
are: The Suez and Panama Canals,
Their Connections, Relative Admins
trations and Influences" "The Neces-
sity In and Opportunity For the De-
yelopment of Local Commerce With
Our Latin American Republics" "The
Recent Works of the Canadian Gov,
eminent for the Protection Of Life