Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-19

.HARBOR NOTES'


The T. X. K. liner shinyo Maru
brought IS sacks Of mail from the
/ Orient yesterday. - r.. j..
Arrival at San Francisco yesterday
OF the Matsonia, from Honolulu Jan.
uary y, is reported.
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 Pago-Pago
/ this morning on the Oceanic steamer
Sierra .a..s--
Sugar awaiting shipment at Hilo is
reported by the Mauna kea to be 1850
bags of Papaikou and 1000 bags Of
! Papaaloa. -
Bringing six, days accumulation, the
Sonoma is due Monday morning with
mail, passengers and freight from San
| Francisco. -. f. ..a .+..-.. ..#
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. =. -.
The price paid by the firm of Fred
l.. Waldron, Ltd, and John Walker,
contractor, for the 100000 feet OF
lumber comprising the Setos' cargo,
was between $4,000 and $4,000, il
was learned today. = ....... .... IT.
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 8 in the
morning to $3.50 in the afternoon
Heretofore they have been 9 to 4:3O.
improvements to the harbor will
soon be made by the government. The
quarantine wharf will be moved back
about 800 feet and the space left va
cant dredged to give 35 feet of water
For removing and rebuilding the
wharf, the last Congress appropriated
$4,000. ....-.. F.. r.. .....s
The contract for interior repairs to
the Alaska Steamship Company's 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. .-~.. H." =.
Making the fastest trip recorded
last year between San Francisco and
Adelaide, Capt Sorenson brought the
schooner Snow & Burgess into the
Australian port in 65 days. The YES
sci arrived at Adelaide on December
20 with full general cargo and lum-
Der from California.
With the sale, announced this
month 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 |
FIGURING Mill Company. Price was
not stated, but is believed to have |
been close to $750,000.
The Canadian government mas de-
cfled to give every possible encour-
agement to the building of ships to
accommodate the British Columbia
lumber trade. The Dominion govern
ment is to authorize the issue or
bonds to provide for building 80 four
masted ships to be turned over TO the |
lumber manufacturers of British Co
lumbia. who will pay for the ships as |
the bonds fall due. Enough bonds |
have been subscribed for to make It
possible to lay the keels OF six OF the
new ships in the spring.
Secretary Daniels and Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt conferred Win
representative Curry over plan 10
have the government build a causeway
between Vallejo and Mare Island navy
ward. A causeway, as planned, would
cost about 100000, but it would soon
save its cost because the government
could run railway cars loaded WIN
material and supplies for the navy
from Vallejo over the causeway INTO
the Mare Island shops, whereas now
all such material has to be transport
ed by boat and has to be handled twice
to get 1t into the yard.