Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-02

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Damage to the steamer Harvard.
estimated at about $4,000, resulted
when she was rammed by her sister
ship, the Yale, at San Pedro on No
vember II.
The dredge Chinook has left the
mouth of the Columbia river for Port
land, where she is to be oyerhauled.
She will resume operations on the bar
early next spring.
The Great Northern will be locked
at Pier tomorrow morning when she
arrives here from Hilo, according to
announcement made today by Harbor-
.maste., William r. Foster.
:. The freight rush from Seattle to
San Francisco this fall is one of the
sensations Of the year in shipping cir
cles. Every vessel sailing for the
south is packed to its limit with car
60.
Wireless advices received at army
| Headquarters state that the transport
Sheridan was out 992 miles from port
at s o'clock last night and is expected
to arrive on the morning OF Decem-
Der s.
Repairs are being made to the
steamer Bankoku Maru at Pier II
where she tied up yesterday after
noon. The damages suffered in Sc
we're storm while en- route to Portland
from Shanghai will require more than
a week Of repair work.
1t was reported that the North Pa
cific Steamship Company had pufchas-
ed the steamer Breakwater from the
Southern Pacific Company to replace
the wrecked Santa Clara on the Port
land-Coos Bay-San Francisco run. The
price paid was said to have been
500, 000.
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Forty thousand dollars is to be
spent in refitting the steamer Kansas
City before putting her on the Alaska
run from Seattle, according to an an
nouncement Of the Alaska Steamship
Company IN. the northern city, The
vessel was bought recently from the
Union Iron Works.
Chinese witnesses before the feder-
al grand jury investigating the Mon
golia smuggling cases at San Fran
cisco have requested Of the United
States district attorney that their
names be not made public for fear
they may be assassinateds and their
killing result in tong war.
A.. M. Garland has been appointed
general freight agent and assistant
general manager of the new China
| Mail Steamship Compahyy and H. N.
Thomas has been appointed general
passenger agent Both men have for
merly been connected with the Paci.
fic Mail Steamship Company and are
held in high esteem by shipping men
along the coast. Ct
Only three white officers are now
left on the Japanese liner Shinyo
Maru as result Of the policy of the
company to substitute Japanese Off.
GERS for the white men they have pre-
viously employed as officers Of yes
sells. J. iB. Wheeler, for several years
freight clerk on the Shinyo, has been
recently discharged and his place TAX
en- by NJ Koike. as
Operations with the dog salmon in
waters tributary to Hood Canal, Puget
Sound, have been conducted by the
United States Bureau Of Fisheries at
the Brinnon, Duckabush, and Quilcene
stations, and with the improved facil-
tiles which have been provided at
those stations ii is expected that the
collection of eggs of the deg salmon
win be greater than heretofore.
i After lying on the beach at Mazat-
Ian for four years as wreck, the
Danish bark Prins Vlademar has been
i floated and towed to San Francisco
by the tug Hercules. The vessel has
been bought by G. w. McNear & Co.,
and arrived here as an American yes
sci named Prince Valdemar. 1t is said
that she will be rerigged and put in
shape to go into service as a grain
ship between San Francisco and Eu-
rope. q
1 Just 13 days remain for Honolulu
Christmas shoppers to get mail to the
coast in time for the holidays, the
last possible date being December Is.
when the Matsonia sails for San Fran
cisco. Mail on the Matsonia will prob
ably reach the middle of the contin.
ent by Christmas, but it is doubtful
If it will get as far as the Atlantic.
Last mail for Australia before Christ
mas left today on the Niagara, and the
Ventura, sailing tomorrow, will take
Christmas mail to England, with fair
chance of it arriving on time.
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