Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-02
SHIPPING GMKTERfRONT News
HARBOR NOIES

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Due Tuesday morning from San
Francisco is the Matson steamer Lar
line, from that port Tuesday. Lii
Next mail from San Francisco, 6s4
bags, win arrive Monday morning in
the Oceanic steamer Ventura. f..
Scheduled to arrive Tuesday from
Manila is the L. S. army transport
sheridan She will bring Philippine
mail
Late yesterday the American.Ha.
waiian steamer Alaskan sailed for
Maui ports to load sugar for San
Francisco.
The United States senate has passed
the resolution making 100000 avail
able for reqnipping the Mare Island
and New York navy yards.
The steamer Olson & Mahoney.
779 tons. was reported sold by her
owners TO Compagnie du Boleo of
Santa Rosalia, Mex, for the sum Of
$220. 900, one of the highest prices paid
for a steamer of that size. IL r..
Two well-known sea captains have
been named as members of the San
Francisco Bay pilots. The new mem.
bers of the association are Capt. w.
r. Canty, now in command of the
steamer Catania, and Capt. F. z. Fraz-
Ter, master of the steamer China.
With all repair work on her hull
completed by the Seattle Construction
ard Drydock Company, the liner
Mariposa, which went on the Lama
Passage rocks near Bella Balla last
October, has steamed for Esquimalt
for reconstruction of its interior by
the Yarrow yards.
Pulled from the Oakland mud flats,
where 1t had been lying for nearly a
year, the steamer Balboa of the
American Mexican National Steamship
Company's line has gone to the United
Engineering Works for general re-
pairs and alterations preparatory to
being placed on the southern run for
another company.
The keel of the United States tor
pedo-boat destroyer Shaw was laid at
the Mare Island navy yard, with naval
officers swinging hammers and tap
ping tight the first riyet. The Shaw
will be ready for commission the end
OF the year. The contract to build ii
has been taken at $626,670, about
100000 under private bids.
The Hill liner Northern Pacific is
due to dock at San Pedro at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning. She will
leave there at O'Clock Saturday
and will sail from San Fran
cisco on a new schedule, for the San
Francisco-F4ay run, March s, leaving
San Francisco every Wednesday and
Portland every Saturday.
Due to arrive at San Francisco at
IL o'clock this morning was the Hill |
liner Great Northern, from this port
last Saturday night, an hour earlier
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Next mail for the Northwest, border
states and Canada will be sent at mid
night tonight III the Niagara, by the
postoffice. mails closing at o'clock.
Next mails for all mainland points and
Europe go in the Persia Maru, sailing
about 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
for San Francisco. Mails will close
1T $50.
High officials of the United States
service at San Francisco
and former officers of the liner Mon
goIia are named in an indictment
voted BY the federal grand jury and
in United States District
Judge Dooling's court The indict-
ment charges conspiracy to smuggle
Chinese iaborers into San Francisco
from China. Among those indicted
are Deputy Immigration Commits
sioner w. T. Boyce, immigration In
spector Joseph X. Strand and Immi.
grafton Inspector Frank Hayes