Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-31
SHIPPING 6NKTfRfRONT News
HARBOR NOTES

The next mail for San Francisco
will not go until Tuesday, September
! 5. on the Oceanic steamer Sonona.
At 1880 this morning the Japanese
steamer Wada MaTu sailed from Pier
G for adelaide, after taking bunker
coal here
At 10 O'Clock this morning the o.
s. X. steamer Seattle Maru sailed for
San Francisco. Her cargo was IN
loaded by $3.50.
The next mail from San Francisco
will arrive Friday morning in the T.
! X. X. steamer Tenyo Maru and Sun.
day in the Pacific Mail steamer
Ecuador.
The American-Hawaiian steamer
| Floridian is expected to finish dis
charging coal Saturday and start load
ing sugar in time to sail for San
Francisco late Tuesday or Wednesday
morning. H.: .."..@s.
This morning the interned German
cruiser Geier was shifted over to
Naval Slip 2 TO make room for the
swimming races. After the races the
Geier will remain at 2 and the Lark.
spur will be brought ever to Slip /.
During the month of July, accord
ing to records compiled by the marine
department Of the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce the total ton
mage of steam vessels that entered
San Francisco harbor was 584, 761 and
total sail tonnage was 1929. p.
The Inter-Island steamer Wailele
came in this morning from Hawaii
ports. Her inward freight consisted
tof 5000 sacks Of x sugar from the
Hawaiian Agricultural Mil, 9 empty
gasoline drums, % empty barrels and
IS head OF Huehue ranch cattle.
s T.. g,
All brass work of the i'll fated
Chinyo Maru at Lima Island near
Hongkong was salvaged and shipped
to Hongkong by the Marine Insurance
Company and sold there at a high
price. A second shipment has been
postponed on account of bad weather
To discharge the rest of her cargo
OF 938 tons, tbs Matson steamer VII.
helmina left for Hilo this afternoon
at o'clock from Pier 49,. At Hilo
she will load sugar and return Sunday
morning and sail for San Francisco at
10 O'Clock Wednesday morning from
Pier Is. 81 q
Coming here for bunkers, the
steamer Transyaal arrived off port
from Chilean ports at $3.50 this morn
ing, and was fumigated later in the
day. She will enter port some time
this afternoon to take coal from the
E1nteflsland The Transvaal. is bound
to Vladiyostok with nitrates.
Six Mexican merchant steamers,
owned by the Mexican Navigation
Company, have been purchased by
Senior Carlos L Parraga, a citizen of
Cuba, and have been registered under
the Cuban flag. They are the Jalisco,
Mexico, Sonora, Sinaloa, 0axaca and
Tahasco and their total tonnage is
El1.2E. rs
+ y Z
Awaiting itself of the great strides
made in Japan's trade with Australia
and India since the war, the shipping
department OF the Mitsui BussaR Kai-
sha is now contemplating the in
anguration of a regular monthly
steamship service to those countries.
The new service will probably begin
early In September, according to g.
Abe. manager. =. stas .@Ess.ss. - =
According to the Asahi, a new
steamship company is to be estab-
lished in Japan with a capital of L.
100000 yen This company will be
styled the Teikcku Kisen Kaisha and
comprise in its fleet two IL 600 ton
steamers, six 5000 ton steamers, two
5000 ton and four of 1000 tons. All
the steamers will be finished during
next year. One of the 1900 steamers
has already been launched.
As Monday, September 4, is Labor
Day, the InterIsland will not receive
freight for shipment on that day.
Merchants who have freight to ship
to Maui on, the Claudine and to Kauai
on the Lixe,.ke and Maui should get
Ii in Saturday All steamers will oe
despatched on their regular schedule
Monday.