Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-08

anic steamer Sierra.
Saturday at noon the transport Dix
will sail for Manila, unless something
unlocked for prevents her getting
away at that time.
Probably tonight the T. K K steam
er Seiyo Maru. here yesterday, will
sail from Hilo for San Francisco, San
Pedro, Salina Cruz and South Ameri-
can ports.
Making the run from this port to
the coast in five days, IA hours and
80 minutes, the Matson steamer Will
helmina reached San Francisco yes
terday.
T Expected here Friday from Maya
saki is the U. s. navy collier Proteus.
for bunkers and supplies. The collier
Nereus, now in port, hopes to sail
Friday for San Francisco. She Is
having her hull painted while in port
Much Christmas mail for the east.
ern states, Canada and Europe, except
the countries of the Teutonic Allies,
is expected to 90 Friday afternoon in
the Observation-Disclosures liner Maku-
ra, due Friday morning from Austria.
liza.
Next mail to San Francisco direct
goes in the Matsonia December Is.
Mail sent by the Makura, sailing Fri
day for Vancouver, Will reach San
Francisco December Is, three days
ahead of the Matsonia's scheduled ar
rival there.
A radio to Castle & Cooke, Matson
agents, today, said the steamer Lur-
line sailed from San Francisco yes
terday with 1876 tons of cargo for Ho-
nolulu, 773 for Kahului, CAB for Port
Allen and 1877 for Kaanapali. She is
due to arrive here Tuesday morning.
Due here the afternoon Of Decem-
Der IA is the American Hawaiian
steamer Arizonan, which sailed from,
San Francisco at $3.50 yesterday aft
ernoon. She is bringing q large
amount of Christmas merchandise to
Honolulu, having come via Magellan.
Officers of the Seiyo Maru, in port
yesterday from Yokohama for a few
hours, reported that broken propel-
Ter shaft has delayed the T. K. X.
steamer Dairen Maru, which was due
to arrive Saturday, December IL. They
thought this would delay her about
three days.
When the Matson steamer Manos
sailed for the coast at o'clock yes
terday afternoon she carried 165 bags
of mail, the accumulation between
1890 Monday night, when mails for
tie Great Northern closed, and 2::S0
yesterday afternoon, when mail for
the Manoa was gathered up.
Orders have been issued to main
land agents of the Pacific Mail Com
pany to make no more bookings on
the Panama run after December IL,
on which date the City of Para is
scheduled to said for the Mexican and
Central American west coast This
bears out the prediction that the line
would cease operation by January 1.
Preparatory to taking the Mauna
Kea's run Saturday, the Inter-Island
steamer Kilauea moved over to the
Mauna Kea's wharf this morning after
the latter boat had sailed for Hilo.
On her return from Hilo, the Mauna
Kea will go into dydock for her annual
and overhauling. She viii
60 back on her regular run December
IS.
San Francisco papers say that the
w. r. Grace Company has decided
temporarily to suspend the service of
the big four fleet until the reopening
of the Panama Canal. The vessels
which will be affected and which will
be placed in other service until the
big ditch is ready, for traffic are the
Santa Clara, the Santa Cruz, the Santa
Cecilia and the Santa Catalina.
That the Inter-Island paid $4,000
for the steamer Shoshone, which Pre-
sident J. A. Kennedy of the company
announced yesterday he had purchas-
ed while in San Francisco, is stated
by the San Francisco Examiner, which
says the Honolulu corporation bought
the vessel from the Charles R. Nc
Cormick Company of San Francisco.
The Shoshone has been engaged in
service up and down the coast for a
number of years. +.
That the steamer Shoshone, purchas-
ed by the Inter-Island, went on the
dock at San Francisco yesterday and
passed the federal inspection of her
hulls and boilers satisfactorily, was
stated in cable received today by
J. A. Kennedy, president of the com.
pany, from Norman E. Gedge, it's sec
rotary and treasurer, who is taking
a vacation in San, Francisco. Mr. /
Gedge stated in his message that the