Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-20
HARBOR notes

In yesterday morning from Kauai,
the Inter-Island steamer Maui brought
1000 bags Of Grove Farm sugar and
600 sheep. She-reported strong north
east winds both ways.
Arrival at San Francisco Saturday
of the Observation-Disclosures steamer
Alaskan with 1850 tons of island SUI
gar, for overland shipment, is report
ed.
With 664 bags of mail on board the
Matson steamer Manoa is due to ar
rive tomorrow morning from San
Francisco, docking at about 1880 at
Pier Is. ~,t
The Union Oil Company's tank
steamer La Brea made 1874 knots an
hour for four hours on her trial trip
March 5. She was built by the Union
Iron Works.
A bill providing for the leasing OF
the U. s. army transports Meade and
Sherman has been introduced in the
house by Congressman Kahn, at the
request Of the war department.
Due early Wednesday afternoon
from Victoria and Vancouver is the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. liner Niagara.
She will sail the same day for Aus
tralia.
approximately $4,000 damage to
the cargo Of the o. s. K steamer Pa
mama Maru was done by fire Feb
ruary IA at Yokohama. Water dam
aged 400 bales of cotton. The steam
er is due this week from the Orient |
The Inter-Island steamer Claudine, |
which arrived late Saturday night |
from Kahului, brought 30 head of cat |
tie, Is calves, Is bales of bags and 20 |
packages of sundries. Strong north
east winds were reported.
The T. X. K, o. s. K and n. Y. K, |
have made an agreement to raise the |
freight rate on American |
cotton to 20 cents, an increase of 25 |
cents. The new rate is effective May |
l, and will continue for six months.
Sugar awaiting shipment on Kauai I
is reported to include 500 bags of Ke- |
kaha, 10000 of Gay & Robinson, 1907 |
Of Hawaiian, 26,643 of McBryde, 49,
S29 of Koloa, 1000 of Grove Farm,
1000 of Kilauea and 5000 of Lihue.
Seven cabin and So steerage passen- |
gers are booked at the local agency, |
H. Hackfeld & Company, for the |
China Mail liner China, due some time |
Wednesday from San Francisco, to !
sail that afternoon or Thursday for |
the Orient
Next mail for San Francisco will |
go in the Oceanic steamer Sierra, due |
to sail at 5 o'clock tomorrow after
noon. Mails will close at 80 at the
postoffice. Another mail is leaving
on the Wilhelmina Wednesday morn
ing.
Capt. Johnson, we'll known in Homo
lulu, and now on the steamer Kla-
math. is to be made captain of the !
auxiliary schooner City of Portland,
now building at the st. Helens ship /
yard.
At daylight Wednesday the T. XXX.
liner Persia Maru will be on port from
San Francisco, according to radio ad-
vices today to Castle & Cooke. She
will sail the same afternoon for the /
Orient taking mail and passengers.
The JAPANESE ban cruisers ssr .tRt6ses. and |
Tokiwa, and a collier, are lying at !
anchor off Lahalna, Maui, Purser s. I
W. Kekuewa of the Shoshone reports |
today. They are believed to be coal. !
ing. The collier is reported to be the /
Takasaki Maru.
Bringing soc bags of Kilauea sugar, !
100 sheep, and 16 parcels of sundries
from Kauai. the Inter-1sland steamer
Likelike arrived this morning Pur-
ser E. j. Malaniff reports variable
winds and choppy seas encountered on |
the inward trip.
Arriving on the InterIsland steam
er Kinau yesterday morning from Ka-
uai was the following ca-go: X sugar,
$500 bags, 125 of taro, 121 of rice, 80
OF niolasses bran, SO empty barrels,
% bags of potatoes. 20 of ccconuts,
Il empty oil barrels, 15S hides, two /
autos and 1919 packages of sundries.
The Oceanic steamer Sierra, due to
sail from Honolrlu for San Francisco
at O'Clock tomorrow afternoon, viii
take So cabin and 13 steerage passen-
gers from here, G.. Brewer & Com
pany's passenge:, department reports
today. 49,
After half dozen of the crew had
tried yainly to slip a moose around
shark they had captured at Hilo, so
they could lift it from the water, the
line not being strong enough to bear
the fish's weight. Capt. Peter John
son of the Matson liner Wilhelmina
last Friday succeeded in, noosing the