Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-18

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moon tomorrow. ~.@..-'
Taking freight for windward Kauai
ports the steamer Likelike has been
placed on the berth to steam for the
lGarden Island this evening. S.
A large number of Japanese are
booked for Asia in the Togo Kisen Kai,
/ sha liner Shinyo Maru, expected to
leave Honolulu on Friday evening.
The Matson steamer Wilhelmina,
due at the port tomorrow morning.
1 will bring about 20 cabin passengers
and later mail from the mainland.
Completing repairs at this port, the
barkentine Irmgard has sailed for San
Francisco. The vessel called here in
distress, with copra from the South
I Pacific. 49,. ....
A berth has been found for the Nor
wegian freighter Henrik Ibsen at the
Inter-Island bunkers. The vessel will
be discharged of 5000 tons of Austral-
ian coal. .-.. H..
With passengers and small freight
from Honolulu, the Canadian-Austra-
lasian liner Niagara is reported to
have arrived at Sydney, N. S. W., on
| hast Friday.
The steamer Lurline returned from
! Maui ports yesterday after taking SD
gar and bulk molasses destined for the
Pacific coast. The vessel received
cargo at Kahului 90 .:*....
The steamer w. G. Hall. for Kauai
this evening, will take shipments Of
lumber, fertilizer and general cargo.
The vessel will return to Honolulu
with a full cargo of sugar. r.
Rough weather is held accountable
for the delay in the arrival of the Mat
son steamer Hyades, carrying 5000
tons of supplies and merchandise from
San Francisco and Seattle for Hawai-,
ian island ports. I'D
heavy shipment OF livestock is due
TO arrive In the American Hawaiian
freighter Columbian. The vessel,
steaming from Seattle, also carries in
transit much cargo from New York by
the way Of Panama canal ~. ~
A small list OF passengers has been
booked for. the mainland In the Mat
son steamer Lurline, to steam for San
Francisco at o'clock tomorrow aft
ernoon. The vessel will go out filled
with sugar and island products.
The steamer Kinau from Kauai ports
brought 5000 sacks Of sugar, 800 head
of sheep and a quantity OF sundries.
The vessel met with fine weather go
ing and returning. Piirser Mckenzie
of the steamer Maui reported 4 the
schooner Defiance at Kahului, Maui,
where the last OF a cargo of nitrates
would soon be discharged The YES
sci Is expected to sail for Hilo to load
a shipment Of hardwood railway ties.
Scarcity Of Tonnage at San Francisco.
A scarcity Of tonnage at San Fran
cisco, reported by officers in the
steamer Mongolia, may prove a Sc
rious menace to the prompt movement
of large cargoes. Charter rates along |
the coast are mounting to much |
higher figure than that offered some !
months ago. The British ship Wis !
combe Park has been chartered by NJ. |
H. Houser for wheat from Portland /
to the United Kingdom at 40 shillings. |
She is at present at Guayaquil.
This rate marks an Improvement OF !
two and six over the rate paid some /
days ago for the two sailors. The |
grain freight market is not at all i
steady. Tonnage is scarce and prices
depend largely ON the availability of |
the vessel, consequently considerable
fluctuation may be expected
The schooner Mahukona has been
chartered by Hind, RoIph G Company
for lumber from a northern port to
South Africa at 80 shillings
Many British Ships Are Lost.
Ships entered in war risk insurance
on September 80 number
ed 4421 and the value was Isl, 469, G68
pounds, or $751;, 345,340, according to
official figures. The summary of Brit
ish ship losses from August to No.
vember is: August, Z, s3S5, 135; Sep
TENDER, II, G62S,400; October, %,
f1,048,65 November, z, E234,413.
Total, "a; value, 42,2S2,599
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