Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-08-31
Shipping
STRATHLyON CLOSE CALL
FROM TYPHOON'S FURY
British Tramp Freghter Here With Sulphur and General Car
go-0n Portland AsiatC Run-Maui Takes Regulars for
HaWai-Santa Maria In ort With Large Consignment
of Fuel OIL -.

Francisco To Honolulu. s y. m.-S20
miles from Honolulu; moderate trade
winds; smooth sea; rainy; all we'll
y. NJ s. S. Mongolia, en- route Ho-
nolulu to Yokohama, s y. m. - 776
miles out: all well.
=. NJ. S. s. Korea, en- route Yoko-
hama to Honolulu s p. m.--51O miles
OF; strong breeze: all well.
U. s. A. T. Sherman. en- route Ma
Mia and Nagasaki to Honolulu, s
p. m.-10S6 miles out: all well.
Korea Here In the Morning.
II Is expected that the Pacific Mail
liner Korea with seven hundred tons
Oriental freight for Honolulu will be
off the port on or about eight o'clock
tomorrow morning and this vessel
should be alongside Alakea wharf by
ten o'clock. The Korea Is on the
boards for an early dispatch to San
Francisco II being the present in
tention that the vessel depart for the
coast at Ave O'clock that afternoon
A late wireless from the Korea was
To the effect that the liner was $40
miles of the port at eight O'Clock
last night. meeting with strong breeze.
There is room for one hundred cab
in passengers from this port.
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Another New OH Tanker. t..
Another large oil tank steamer is
being built for the Union Oil Com
pany of California. She will he de-
livercd early In 1912. Recently the
company purchased the oleum. which
is being used TO transport oil to yari-
Gus places along the Coast, and when
the new steamer Is completed the
company win have fleet Of fourteen
large vessels. The vessel is being
constructed by Swan, Hunter Il Wig
ham. English shipbuilders and engi-
neers, In the Woolls-End shipyard on
the Tyne. She will have q tank
capacity OF $4,000 gallons. and will
require Il crew OF twenty-five sea-
men.
Company Branches Out.
The standard American Dredging
Company who hold contracts for work
In and about Honolulu are branching
out and but recently have acquired
large additions to their already eX-
tensivc equipment. One OF the big
gest dredging combinations In the
history of the Pacific Coast will he
formed as result of negotiations
that have been practically closed.
The deal involves the purchase of all
the dredgers and contracts OF the
North American Dredging Company
Of Nevada by the Standard Ameri-
can Dredging Company OF San Fran
cisco. .a.
Passing OF the America Maru.
The fast japanese liner America
Maru, which is due to arrive here
from San Francisco Oh next Tuesday
will probably not be seen here for
some time to come following the pre-
sent visit. The America Maru has
been sold to the Osaka Shosen Kai-
sha and the vessel is to be put into
the trade between Kobe and For
mosa, probably extending its run to|
Hongkong. The ship is an eighteen
knotter and its presence in this trade
plainly indicates to what extent the
trade between the island of Formosa
and Japan proper has developed.
A Mad and Merry Day at the Gus
toms House.
A husky ghost stalked through the
corridors of tho customs house today
It was the maddest and mcrriest of
days, in that Uncle Sam authorized
the payment of the monthly and
princely stipends to his sixty or more
young men who look after the, bust
ness Of the treasury department here.
Pay day at the customs house Is ever
an enjoyable event Its coming isl
not exactly regulated by the moon