Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-01
HARB0R NOTES

The G dian-Australasian liner Nj
asara was due to leave Suva today LOT
Honolulu. She is due here a week
from today.
Next mail from San Francisco, 81
bags, one Oh the biggest this year VIII
arrive Monday morning IL the Oceanic
steamer Sonoma.
Adyices to the Associated Oil Com
pany say the tanker Frank II. BUCK
win arrive here next Wednesday, De
cember 6, from San Francisco, Win
cargo of oil for Honolulu.
Advices to the Inter-Island say he
Jaranese areighter Kongosan Maru
will call here for bunker coal about
December II. She left the canal No
vember 81.
Collector of Customs Malcolm A.
Franklin has written Acting Collect
or Raymer Sharp complaining of the
cold weather in New York and Wash
ington, Il am sticking close to the
hotel" he writes.
Tomorrow the lnter-Island steamer
Kilauea will go on the Mauna kea's
run until December 20 or the first 81
the year. The Mauna Kea will go on
the dock after tomorrow to have new
boiler tubes installed.
The Matson steamer Manoa Will re-
turn early Sunday morning from kG-
hului. She will not leave there until
10 o'clock Saturday night, to accom-
modate Governor Pinkham and party,
who are attendin gthe first annual
Maui County Fair.
Bringing 1912 tons of cargo to Ho-
noIulu, the T. K K chartered freight
er Shinyo Maru No. arrived Thurs
day morning from Yokohama. She
left today for San Francisco Strict
quarantine regulations were observed
while the freighter was in port.
According to Nichols Chouvaldjy, q
canal engineer who arrived here IN
the Gozan Maru Thursday morning
from Panama, the big ditch is being
/ kept navigable by the use OF heavy
dredging equipment which can remove
some $4,000 cubic yards of dirt and
rock in "a hours.
Letters received by Honolulu
friends OF Oscar Nordman, former por
ter on the Oceanic steamer Sonora,
( say he is now a commission merchant
in San Francisco. dealing in products
from Tahiti. Nordman is Talitian
by birth. he was last spring acquit-
ted by a jury in this port of charges
Of opium smuggling.
No radios were received today from
the China Mail steamer China or the
II. X. X. steamer Persia Maru. No
word is looked for before Monday or
Tuesday. The China is due December
or 5 and the Persia Maru December
; or s. The latter steamer has 1ll5
tons of cargo aud 16S. Asiatics for Ho-
nolulu. The China has only $50 tons
of freight for this port.
At 5 O'Clock Thursday afternoon tie
japanese tramp steamer Kenkon Ma
ru No. resumed her voyage to Yoke
hama and Kobe. after taking bunkers
here. She called at this port in dis
tress Wednesday, as reported by the
Star-Bulletin, coming here for bunk.
ers because she had run short of coal
on the Great Circle route from San
Francisco to the Orient.
The large number of steerage pas
sengers coming here on the Great Nor
thern this voyage from California, "a,
is taken by local shipping men to
mean thet the Portuguese, Spanish
and Filipinos who left their sugar
plantation jobs last spring to make
their fortunes in California are COM
ing back to Hawaii TO stay, not having
found employment particularly pientl-
full or profitable in the Golden State.
only four hours and Is minutes
were passed here by the Canadian
Australasian liner Makura, which ar
rived at $3.50 Thursday morning from
Victoria and Vancouver. one day late,
and left at 1916 in the afternoon
She made up half day coming down
and expects TO reach Sydney on time.
The Makura brought SO passengers to
Honolulu, among them c.. c. Kennedy
! OF Hilo. Mrs. Kennedy accompanied
her husband down, but went on TO
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