Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-02
IMMIGRATION FROM EUROPE To
!. COME IN KOSMOS LINE STEAMERS

thlrty-five feet of water.
Considerable discussion is heard
concerning the lack of proper salvage
facilities at this port. With the ex-
ception of the WhitelaW Wrecking
Company. which operates the wrecker
Greenwood and provides salvage
tackle, there are no other companies
able to undertake a distant salvage
job The only available vessel to as
sist in raising the Newport was the
Salyor, and she had to make a long
run of 1000 miles from the north to
Panama She was sixteen days on the
voyage -Chronicle.
"a
Three Hundred Opium Seizures
Year.
Contraband opium is handled in
large quantities at Manila, Judging
from a report from the Collector of
Customs for the fiscal year just made
public.
During the fiscal year 1912 there
was legally imported into the Phil
ippine Islands for medical purposes,
IS kilCs of opium, with a value of
SIT This represents an increase of
three kilos over the quantity so i'm
ported in 1911, and of $3.50 over the
value of that year. The high prices
which opium and similar drugs COM
mand in the local markets, however,
serve as a sharp incentive to at
tempts at evasion of the prohibitive
restrictions placed upon their fmpor-
tation, and the work of suppressingI
this illicit traffic necessarily claims
large part of the time and atten-
ton of the secret service agents Of
the bureau of customs, by whom 2S3
seizures were made during the past
year There were recovered 140I
kilos of opium, POS kilos of morphine,
and 6.73 kilos of cocaine or total
value in the local markets of approx
imats1y $164,765."
Collector Now clearinghouse
Master.
MANILA, P. l., Sept. S.-Boarding- |
house master is the new job given |
the acting collector of customs in ad-
dition to his manifold duties.
There are at present number of
foreigners whose presence in the Is !
lands is no longer desired by the au-
thorities, some of these men being |
either ex-convicts, Migrants or worth |
less characters in general.
Efforts made by the government to !
have these men deported by their re- |
spective consuls have been without !
avail, there being no money. allotted |
for this purpose. ...... :
To solve the problem of transporta- /
ton the executive secretary has call
secure berths for these men on out |
going vessels. The customs boarding |
officers have in turn been instructed |
to interview all masters of foreign |
vessels coming into this port with a |
view to securing transportation for |
these men, but it seems az if the
shippers are not anxious to hire Ma |
Mia tars.
Big Ferry Now Building.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19.-The !
new ferry steamer Contra Costa,
which the Southern Pacific is build.
ing and which, it claims, will be the
largest ferry boat in the world, is |
now in process of construction. Thej
hull is being constructed in the Oak |
land shipyards of the Southern Paci-
fic. The machinery is being made at
the Sacramento shops. The second of |
four mammoth castings for the YES !
sci, which will be placed on the Be-
nicia-Port Costa service, alternating |
with the Solano, has just been turned
out of the Sacramento shops. The !
casting was a 12,000-pound cylinder,
of which are to be installed in the
steamer. The Contra Costa will be !
larger than the Solano by few feet
in length and width and, by having |
its engines in the center instead of
on the sides, will have a greater car
rying capacity.
Hyades Will Clean Up Island Sugars.
A rather small amount of sugar, it |
is expected, will be forwarded to the |
Coast in the Matson Navigation S. S. |
Hyades, which is scheduled to sail !
from Hilo for San Francisco, on or
about Sunday. The vessel left Homo
lulu on Tuesday evening after having
a large general cargo and
a quantity of lumber. The Hyades is
to call at Port Allen, kaanapali, Ka-
hului and lastly at Hilo, leaving that
port for the Coast A considerable |
of pineapples has been sup
piled the vessel.
Siberia Has Fair Oriental Freight.
Nine hundred tons of Oriental cargo |
are to be discharged from the Pa
cific Mail liner Siberia, upon arrival
from Hongkong and Japan ports next
Tuesday. This vessel is believed to !
bring a large number of Filipinos for
the Island sugar plantations.
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HonoIuIan Off for the Islands.
The Matson Navigation steamer Ho-
nolulan, with passengers and a gen.
eral cargo from the mainland, is re-
ported to have sailed from San Fran
cisco for Honolulu at noon today.
Tho ypSSol iS dino 10 roach this mort