Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-19
SHIPPING 6WAT[RfRONT News
.HARBOR NOTES

The T. K. X. liner Shinyo Mart
/ brought As sacks Of mail from tbs
Orient yesterday. ~. -. s.-..
Arrival at San Francisco yesterday
! Of the Matsonia. from. Honolulu Jan
uary Il, is reported. II
| Due this week from Guam for Brem
erton is the L. S. cruiser Saratoga
coming for bunkers and supplies.
! A dozen sacks OF mail for Honolulu
arrived from Sydney and Page Page
this morning on the. Oceanic steamer
Sierra. ""* -: r.
Sugar awaiting shipment at Hilo is
reported by the Mauna Kea to be1150
bags of Papaikou and 1000 bags of
Papaaloa. - -. ...,~-. III:
Bringing six days accumulation, the
Sonoma is due Monday morning with
mail, passengers and freight from San
Francisco. .>. ~
Harbor Officer Sanderson reports
the casualties" from yesterdays kona
gale and flood to have been one dog
and one chicken drowned Their bod.
les were seen floating in the water
near Pier IA. .:... ..s@ T.. -. %..#.
The price paid by the firm of Fred
l.. Waldron, Ltd. and John Walker,
contractor, for the s3,500,000 feet of
lumber comprising the Setos' cargo,
was between $4,000 and $4,000, it
was learned today, =. =: ri. II. ..:.:
Collector OF Customs Malcolm A.
Franklin has received authority from
the treasury department to change
working hours in the custom-house.
The new hours will be from in the
morning to $3.50 in the afternoon.
Heretofore they have been 9 to 4:30.
improvements to the harbor will
soon be made by the government. The
quarantine wharf will be moved back
about geo feet and the space left va
cant dredged to give 35 feet Of water.
Fer removing and rebuilding the
wharf, the last Congress appropriated
$4,000. ~. T.. 81: 49,. 49,. :~.=... p
The contract for interior repairs to
the Alaska Steamship Companys Mar
iposa, whose hull is now being re-
paired by the Seattle Construction and
Drydock Company, has been let to
Yarrows of Esquimalt, for $4,000.
The interior work will be done at
Esquimalt. -..... ...>.-@
Making the fastest trip recorded
last year between San Francisco and
Capt. Sorenson brought the
schooner Snow & Burgess into the
port in 65 days. The YES
sci arrived at Adelaide on December
90 with full general cargo and lum-
Der from California. ...:
With the sale, announced this
at San Francisco, the new An
nette Rolph, the second of the freight
ers built or under construction at the
Union Iron Works for Mayor Rolph,
has gone to new owners. The pur-
chaser of the second vessel, which is
to be delivered in May. is Theodore
B. Wilcox, president. of the Portland
Mill Company. Price was
not stated, but is believed to have
been close to $75O,0O0. -.
The Canadian government has de-
cfded to give every possible encour-
agement to the building of ships to
accommodate the British Columbia |
lumber trade. The Dominion govern
nent is to authorize the issue of
bonds to provide for building 80 four
masted ships to be turned over to the
lumber manufacturers of British CO.
umbia, who will pay for the ships as
he bonds fall due Enough bonds |
nave been subscribed for to make 1t
to lay the keels of six of the |
new ships in the spring.
Secretary Daniels and Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt conferred With
representative Curry over a plan TO
lave the government build causeway
between Vallejo and Mare Island navy
yard A causeway, as planned, would
,ost about 100000, but it would soon
ave its cost because the government
,ould run railway cars loaded with
Material and supplies for the navy
rom Vallejo over the causeway into
he Mare Island shops, whereas now
m such material has to be transport
a nv boat and has to be handled twice
o get it into the yard. .-.*<:
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.