Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-31

wharf from San Francisco. Monday
morning with IS passengers and 275
sacks of mail.
Salvage Law Interests Shipping Men
Copies of the new salvage law, an
act of congress that has just been ap.
proved and signed by President Tai,
have been received by number of To-
cal shipping firms in this city. It is
the intention that the act harmonic
the national law Of salvage with the
provisions of the international con.
vention for the unifcation Of certain
rules with respect to assistance and
salvage at sea.
This act provides that the right to
remuneration for assistance or salvage
services shall not be affected by COM
mon ownership of the vessels render.
ing and receiving such assistance or
salvage services.
The master shall, so far as he can
do so without serious danger to his
own vessel, crew or passengers, rem
der assistance to every person who
Is found at sea in danger Of being lost;
and IL he fails to do SO he shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000
or Imprisonment not exceeding two
years, or both.
Salyors Of human life, who have
rendered services on the occasion or
the accident giving rise to salvage,
are entitled to fair share Of the re-
enumeration awarded to the salyeFs OF
the vessel, her cargo and accessor-
les.
Suits must be began with two years
from date of rendering assistance or
salvage unless there has not, In the
judgment OF the curt, been any rea-
sonable opportunity of arresting the
assisted or salyed vessel within the
Jurisdiction of the court or within the
territorial waters of the country In
which the libelant resides, or has his
principal place of business.
This act, which is now effective,
does not apply to war vessels or to
Government ships appropriated exclu-
sively to a public service
Music sooths Soul 81 Rithe,'s skip.
per.
Music hath charms for. many and
mt the least for Captain Nels on, the
'skipper in the bark r. p. Rithet, now
enroute from San Francisco to Homo
lnlu wieh a sipment of merchandise,
and a list of a half dozen cabin pas
sengers. -. ". -.--
The wife of the well known skipper
ia a passenger on the voyage to Ha-
wafi mel, and in order to ASSIST in she
Willing away of time. on the long
voyage. Captain, Nilsson purchased
fine piano. The Rithet will come to
this port to the agency of F. A.
Schaefer & Company, ~*.- 49,
Seeks Millions In Wrecks. <.s&
A project to salFe number OF
wrecked vessels in New Zealand wat
ers in being formed by E. C. May. a
salvage operator of New York. VINO
was passenger on the liner Sierra.
May says he intends to attempt to
raise three sunken vessels whose loca-
ton. he is familiar with. He is N'nfd-
ent Of success and comes here. he
says, to procure the proper wrecking
apparatus. there being no efficient
gear available in the Antipodes. One
of the craft which May will endeaVor
to bring to the surface is said to con-
tain 1,500, 900 in bullion.
Schooner Ida May Meets Approval.
The little schooner Ida May, the
property of John II. Wilson made the
trip from Seattle and Sound ports to
Honolulu in twenty-one days. The YES
sci is an arrival this morning, with
general cargo. The Ida May lies at
the foot of Fort street where the
freight from the mainland will be dis
charged. Wilson proposes to employ
the schooner in an inter-island trade.
IA ..E
Interisiand Steamers Make Early
Return, h.
Several Interisland steamers arr1v-
&c at the port this morning. IN eacn
instance bringing an assortment or the
products of the islands. The steamer
Lwalani is back from. a round trip to
Ahukini with 5000 sacks sugar, a guam
tity of emDties and some packages
sundries. The steamer Noeau was re-
ported at Anahola on August 18th.
Electric Vessel Newest Type.
MONTREAL, Can, Aug. 13.-Con-
tracts have just been let by the Mon
treal Transportation Co., by which the
Canadian canal trade will have the
first electrically propelled merchant
vessel ever built. The ship will take
its place in the trade next spring.
The new vessel will be a develop