Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-17

sail from Honolulu destined for the
coast OF Asia this evening.
The Pacific Mail liner Siberia was
TO have gotten away for Japan and
China ports al noon today. This YES,
sci Is being supplied with nearly four
hundred tons of Honolulu-made sugar
milling machinery. Some of the parts
or the sugar. mill to be forwarded TO
Formosa are very heavy and much
care is required in the handling OF
the pieces of iron and steel. This
morning the sings we're raising eight
ton wheels and twelve ton rollers
with apparent ease.
THE machinery is being slowed
AWAY In the forward matches. 1t is
70 remain there for transhipment al
Kobe, Japan, at which point the ma
chinery will be transferred to a yes.
sci bound for Keeling, Formosa. The
Siberia is being given an additional
supply of coal during the stay at this
port. All cargo brought from the
mainland. has been discharged, in
Guiding one consignment of seven
hundred bales OF hay for the local
qiartermaster department.
The Siberia is now scheduled to
6Ail for Yokohama at five o'clock this
evening.
The Togo Kiaen Kaisha freighter
nAIyo Maru, which has been in port
for the past three days in the dis,
charge of twenty-one hundred tons
nitFates, will be dispatched for Japan
and China ports this afternoon. The
RHyo Maru> is bearing several hun
dred Asiatic steerage passengers in
transit for Japan and China.
Sierra an Early Arrival Monday.
The Oceanic liner Sierra, from San
Francisco. should arrive off the port
at an early hour on Monday morning
and dock al, Oceanic wharf before 3
o'clock, according TO the present ex-
pectations OF c. Brewer & Co., the
local representatives of the steamer.
The Sierra Is bringing 2241 tons Of
general cargo, believed TO include a
number of automobiles for local i'm
porters. There is a later mail from
the mainland, amounting to ga sacks,
on board. .....-t -
The Sierra is reported to have left
the Coast port with az cabin and, 80
steerage passengers. =.
G. Brewer & Co. have booked large
list of prospective passengers for the
mainland when the vessel departs for
San Francisco next Saturday at noon.
War Junk's Lively Experience. 1..
The war Junk which was reported
HIH
yesterday in the local newspapers as
arriving at San Diego must not be
confused with the Chinese war junk
ca description OF which appeared on
this page the other day. which started
on June from Shanghai upon some
what risky voyage across the Pacific
Ocean in order to be ready to partici-
pate in the Worlds Exhibition at San
Francisco in 1915.
The latter junk, the Tai Fung, has
met with disaster, which has resulted
in the drowning Of two men. She
got ashore near Tsungming Island and
was expected to return to Shanghai.
Two of the crew, which was COM
posed entirely of foreigners, were
drowned at a time when big seas
swept over the vessel.
The Shanghai Tug & Lighter Co.
despatched one of its vessels to the
Tsungming Island Immediately on the
receipt Of the news on Sunday night
that the junk had gone ashore there,
but the tug returned oothe settle
ment on the 25th ultimo and reported
that she was quite unable to be Of
assistance. The junk. was lying in
about five feet of water in a perfectly
safe position, but the tugboat could
not get her off and she would have
TO remain until the high water car
ried her out to sea again.
The plotting of the frail war junk
ACROSS the Pacific naturally lent itself
Z TO all kinds Of adventure, but Captain
Scurr. who is in command, could hard
" have anticipated so many exciting
incidents as crowded themselves into
the journey from Woosung to Tsung-
ming Island, a distance of but twenty
five miles. In fact, from the moment
that the anchor was weighed in the
river, ill-fortune seems to have fol-
lowed the vessel.
PIeiades in Distress, Known Here.
The report that the steamship
Pleiades, is in distress, aground off
Cape Mass u, near Magdalena Bay and
a probable total loss, has awakened
more than passing interest among
Honolulu shipping men for the fact
that the vel sci was but a few years
ago a more or Tess regular caller at
this port. AS a chartered freighter in
fhe- AmPriCan-iIaW3iian service the
Pleiades visited the port with large
general cargoes The steamer was in
some respects a sister ship to the
Hyades now belonging to the Matson
line, in that the Pleaides was operated
by the Boston Tow Boat Company in
connection with the Hyades and the
I,yra in a service from Puget Sound to
the Far East, with Manila as a lrrmin-
al port.
of late years. and following the re-
lease of the Pieiades from her AmCri-
can.Hawaiian charter; the frefshter