Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-09
SHIPPING 6WAT[RFRONT News
HARBOR notes

Due any time from AnIofagasta
with 1916 tons OF nitrate for the Ha-
waiIan Fertilizer Company Is the
schooner William Olsen, 81 days out
today.
The Associated OH tanker Frank
". Buck reported to the Federal wire
less that she was 362 miles from Ho-
nolaln al last night and would ar
rive 5oIae time tomorrow from San
Francisco.
At loon Frilay the Oceanic liner
Sonoma. from this port Monday even
fng al Z O'Clock. was 1863 miles from
Honolulu. bound for Pago-Pago and
Sydney, according TO Federal wire.
less radio.
To be given general oyerhauling,
the Oahu Shipping Company power
schooner j. A. Cummins Is in drydock
today, in preparation for her winters
work, bringing canned pines here from
LiLbyville, windward Oahu.
81
To late lG0 cabin and &c Storage
passengers are booked TO leave at
10 Wednesday morning on the Mat
son liner Matsonii for San Francisco.
The Matsonia VIII return early to-
morrow morning from Hilo.
Taking freight for the Tanning Is
land cable station, Judge Henry F.
Cooper's schooner Luka. Captain Emil
E. Piltz, was due to sail today. From
Tanning she may go to Manihiki and
Raratonga, returning in about 6 weeks.
At 2 O'Clock Friday afternoon the
r. K. *. turbiner Shinyo Maru left
San Francisco on time for Honolulu
and the Orient. She will arrive here
Friday morning, to leave about 5 that
afternoon for Yokohama and taking
the next mail.
The old quarantine launch Oahu has
been overhauled and refitted with
standard engines. She will be used
as a reserve boat by the health sery-
ice when the Pelican, the swiftest
launch in the fleet, Is ION the shelf
for cleaning or repairs.
The American ship John Ena is
discharging about 200 tons Of nitrate
a day and will be discharged about
December 20 or so. She has not re-
ceived sailing orders and the local
Hind, Rolph & Company agency does
not know to what port she will san.
Bringing 6 cabin and deck pas
sengers from Kauai ports. the Inter
Island steamer Maui arrived. Her
inward freight included 800 cases OF
canned pines and 13 sundries. Pur-
ser e. w. Thompson reports north
east winds and northwest swell on
the inward trip.
On a practise cruise the U. S. s.
8. Louis, submarine tender Alert and
the four boats of the third submar-
inc division. KS, K-4, KIT, and KS.
arrived at Hilo at daylight Friday,
Purser NJ. w. Mitchell Of the III
lauea reports. The men Of the di-i
vision and the st. Louis are seeing
Kilauea volcano today and viewing
other sights on the Big Island.
Next mail for San Francisco will
leave in the Matson liner Matsonia at
10 o'clock Wednesday morning. She
will be the last mail steamer to take
Christmas mails to the coast in time
for delivery In California and the mid
die and western states before De-
cember %, The Matsonia will reach
san Francisco, December 10.
At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
u. s. army transport Thomas steam
ed FOR San Francisco, taking the usual
number OF passengers and 400 tons of
freight from this port. She is three
DAYS late, having left Nagasah a day
behind schedule, owing to bad weather
from Manila there. Another day was
lost because of more head winds and
seas steaming here from Nagasaki.
with 81 cabin, way cabin, lie
deck and II way deck passengers. the
Inter-Island steamer Kilauea, taking
the Mauna Kea's run temporarily. ar
rived rom Hilo and way ports. Her
inward cargo included two autos. two