Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-21

'HARBOR NOTES

The Mira. British oil tanker, left
at noon today after taking coal from
the Inter-Island bunkers.
The Matsonia is due To return here
tomorrow from Hilo with big load
Of sugar. She viii sail Wednesday
for San Francisco.
Tolls collected in July at the Pa
mama Canal totaled $573,365 against
the previous record Of $560,784 made
in March.
At Hilo loading sugar, the Matson
liner Matsonia will return to this port
Sunday morning. She sails for San
Francisco Wednesday. The Matsonia
carried nearly 100 cabin passengers
to Hilo.
Monday at noon the Pacific Mail
liner Persia will sail for San Francis
leo, taking Honolulu mail with her
The liner is due to dock here about
5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Pier
6 from the Orient.
Supplies for the Tanning Island
cable station will be loaded Monday
Eby the British steamer Kestrel. Capt
Tindall. The boat Is expected to leave
for the island either Monday after
noon or Tuesday morning.
i Haclxfeld & Company reported to-
day that the Pacific Mail liner Per-
STA will dock here about 5 O'Clock to-
morrow afternoon from the Orient
She will leave Monday at noon, car.
frying mail for San Francisco.
Repairs to the Georgian win now
delay her arriving from San Francisco
until September instead of August
20. the originally date set. The boat
leaves the Bay City September I.
The British oil tanker Mira arriy-
ed in port yesterday, to take coal at
the Inter-Island bunkers. She locked
about IL o'clock The boat is carry
ing oil to the Orient, and Is q coal
/ burner.
The American-Hawaiia steamer
4 Minnesotan is at Port Allen today
loading sugar. She takes on more
Of the white sweetness at Hilo, Ka-
anapali and Kahului, and will carry
5000 tons to Delaware Breakwater.
The Matson steamer Lurline will
probably not dock here until Tuesday
AFTERNOON. The liner left San Fran
cisco Is hours late. due to fog in the
Fbay and along the: coast. She will
bring mail from the mainland.
Five boats viii come in one after
the other at the InterIsland for bunk
ers, starting August 80 and continuing
through September 4. They are the.
Bolton Castle, due August 30; City of
/ lincoln, August 81 Rondo, Septem-
Der i; Bertrand, September 2, and
Indradeo, September 4.
A wireless from Captain Edwards
'of the Matson liner Lurline today to
Castle & Cooke stated that the ship
viii arrive here late Tuesday after.
noon with SO cabin passengers II
Storage and as bags of mail for
Honolulu. The cargo weighs 3422
tons of which 10 is for Kahului. The
Lurline will dock at Pier is.
Both Harbormaster W. r. Foster
and his assistant, NJ A. Madsen, are
personal friends of Captain w. r.
.Rinch of the White Star liner Arabic,
the big passenger vessel summarized
Thursday by the Germans Captain
Finch is big, jolly Englishman," said
Harbormaster Foster today "He.
hasn't been in Honolulu since 1905,
but everyone who knew him here re-
members him as a fine fellow"
Leaving here shortly after o'clock
yesterday afternoon, the Canadian
Austfalaslan steamer Makura carried
So passengers from Honolulu for Van
1couver. Half a dozen of them were
persons who wanted TO go to San
Francisco, but who took the Vancou-
yer route because they could not get
accommodations on the next boat to
San Francisco They will reach the
bay city by train from Vancouver.
49,
More than a million jute bags, pack
ed together In bales of 800 each, are
now at Pier s, having been unloaded
few days ago by the Shfnyo Maru.
which brought the bags to Honolulu
from Hongkong after they had been
freighted there from Calcutta. There
are 1900 bales in the consignment,
which has 500 sacks to the bale. The
bags are for sugar, and go to every
sugar plantation in the Hawaiian is
lands,
Loose rock was struck in the Guile
bra cut, Panama canal, by the Anglo
Saxon oil tanker Mira, which arrived |
yesterday and sailed today after TAX
ing on bunker coal at the Inter-Island. |
Captain j. Evans said his ship draws |
only 271s feet, but that her keel graf |
ed over loose rock in Culebra cut at |
a point where the water is supposed |
to be 40 feet deep. The Mira has
been around the world since her last |
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