Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-14
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lifebuoy from the ill-fated vessel and
small wreckage found on the beach
probably furnish the only details that
will ever be learned of the disaster
which destroyed the windjammer.
According to adyices received by
the marine department Of the Cham
Der of Commerce, a Chilean schooner
arrived at Stanley, Falkland Islands,
last month with two men on board
who were returning from a sealing
cruise in the cutter Caesare near the
Gulf of Sarmiento to the north of
Cape Pillar. They reported that in
latitude So south, longitude rs So
west, they found a lifebuoy marked
in black letters, Gulf Stream, Glas-
Cow; a piece of boat planking print
ed Gulf" five copper tanks from a
lifeboat, water beaker, pieces of oars,
Ratchet and boat hook. ! -
The men said the wreckage was not
much Knocked about when they found
1T December is, and they thought it.
had not been on the beach longer
than six weeks or two months. The
men had covered the same ground
SIX months before, but there was no
trace of the wreckage at that time.
They searched around after finding
the wreckage, but saw no trace of any
living man having landed there.
The Gulf Stream, which made many
visits to the Golden Gate, left Glas-
gov April 20, 1911, and was never
reported after she squared away. :.
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Maui Back with Milling Machinery.
Bringing pieces of heavy machinery
belonging to sugar plantations on Ha-
wall, the Inter-Island steamer Maui
returned this morning, bringing cargo
including three mill rollers, one fly.
wheel, six packages sundries, $50
sacks sugar, and rs head cattle.
According to report from her off
GERS, the vessel met with heavy swells
along the Hamakua coast. Occasion
al showers were encountered. The
Maui carried 1O,52S sacks sugar from
Paauhau to Hilo to be transhipped to-
the Matson, Navigation steamer Enter
prise.
Sierra Has Many Passengers.
Scheduled to arrive off quarantine
at $3.50 Monday morning, the Oceanic
liner Sierra, from San Francisco, is
reported by a late wireless as bring
ing 134 cabin and Is steerage passen-
gers for this port.
The liner has a later mail from the
mainland amounting to 206 sacks. A
general cargo for the Islands, includ-
Ing 2506 tons of merchandise, is des-
tined for discharge at Honolulu.
The Sierra will be dispatched for
the Coast at noon next Saturday, TAX
ing a large list of cabin and deck
passengers.
Nitrates for the Islands.
A shipment of nitrates for the isl,
ands has arrived at this port in the
bark Eudora, vessel which sailed
from Meijiiones At days ago. Owing
to the fact that the vessel had visited
Central and South American ports,
which are declared to be infected with
the yellow fever mosquito, the Eudora
was subjected to a thorough fumiga-
ton at the hands of the federal quar-
antine officers before being permitted
to enter the harbor to discharge.
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Special Excursion to Japan.
One of the biggest steamer excur-
sions ever held is that planned by the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, which will run
a special steerage excursion from Sc
attic and Victoria on the steamship
Sado Maru, the next steamer Of he
line due in port Two hundred Jap
afese and their wives will leaye on
the steamer to make visit to their
native land The vessel will be spe-
cially arranged for carrying the ex-I
cursionists.
Puget Sound ShipbulIding. .-
The fiscal year ending June 80 set
a record tn shipbufIding on Puget
Sound During the year 351 vessels
of various sizes were built. The gross
tonnage Of the vessels built is H.
612, an average Of a fraction over
fifty tons. Most of the vessels were
gasoline boats, built for the fishing
industry, and the fleet now engaged
in that business is the largest in the
history Of Puget Sound. T
Hawaii Sugar.
Purser Phillips Of the Inter-Island
steamer Mauna Kea on arrival from
Hawaii ports brought the following
report OF sugar awaiting shipment on
the Big Island: Olaa, 1880 sacks;
Onomea, 1924; Pepeekeo. 1850; Ho-
nonu. nuapo, 1920; Hakalau, $4,000;
Laupahoehoe, 1900; Hanakua Mill,
$500; Punaluu, 1911.
On Again, Off Again, Gone Again.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany's steamer City of Seattle, bound
from Skagway to Seattle, went ashore
on Charcoal Point, half mile north
Of Ketchikan, on August Is. She was
floated at high tide without serious
damage.
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