Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-01
HARBOR NOTES

Honolulu today
The Inter.Island steamer Kaiulani
will arrive this afternoon from Hilo
with firewood.
The next mail for San Francisco
goes Friday, August 4, on the U. 5.
army transport Sherman
The Matson steamer Enterprise
left Hilo Sunday with a full cargo OF
sugar for San Francisco.
The next mail from San Francisco
will arrive on the China Mail steamer
China due here Tuesday. August 5.
The British steamer Kestrel will
rot leave for Tanning Island before
August Is, according to Fred L. Wal.
dron & Co.
The schooner A. F. Coats arrived
at Port Townsend Sunday Is days
from Hilo. She will load lumber at
Port Angeles for Kahului.
The China Mail steamer China is
due to leave San Francisco today for
Honolulu. She will arrive here Aug
uSt s and sail the same day for the
Orient.
The T. K. K. steamer Dairen Maru
arrived at San Francisco Sunday IA
days from here. This Is very slow sail
ing time and she must have been de-
layed by strong winds.
No word has been received from the
American steamer Santa Rita, Captain
Lancaster, but according to cable
gram from San Pedro, CAL. she
SHOULD arrive here Wednesday morn.
irg from that port.
According to advices from San
Francisco the Matson docks at that,
port are badly congcsted with freight.
On July "a, say the reports, 100 teams
were in fine outside the docks and
eight barges were tied up alongside
waiting for an opportunity to unload
No more orders for ships are being
taken by the Union Iron Works of
San Francisco, according to an an
nouncement made by ]. j. lyman, the
manager. The company, according to
lyman, is not in the market for the
building of any more vessels and is
not likely to be for some time.
The Commercial Pacific Cable
schooner Flaurence Ward arrived late
Monday afternoon from Midway is
land 20 days out. She brought two
operators, Gordon Pfmley and T. F.
McTighe. According to Captain Piltz,
the schooner ran into number of
severe squalls.
At midnight last night the Oceanic
steamer Sonoma was 118 miles from
Honolulu, according to the Federal
wireless. The Oceanic steamer ST.
ezra arrived at San Francisco Mon
day at $3.50. making the run in days
and 90 minutes, according to a radio
received this morning at c. Brewer.
& CO.
The Inter-Island steamer Mauna Kea
from Hilo and Lahaina arrived here
this morning with II cabin and SO
deck passengers. Her cargo consist.
ed OF two automobiles, Is bales OF
vegetables, Is bundles of flooring. "a
bags of telephone pins. 142 bags cot
fee. 500 bags sugar, q cord wood and
2o7 Packages sundries.
The Mauna Kea reported the fol-
lowing sugar waiting shipment on the
island Of Hawaii: Olaa 1900 bags,
Waiakea $500, Wainaku 800, 0nomea
10,37S, Pepeekeo 5000, Honomu 500,
Hskalau 1912, Laupahoehoe 1892, Kai
wiki 501S, Kukaiau Oils, Hamakua
1884. Paauhau IS, Honokaa 27,745
and Punaluu 6007.
A new steamship line between San
Francisco and New York via the ca
nal and touching at Cuban ports. will
be inaugurated by the Alaska Steam
ship Company in November. The
first steamer, the Alaska, will sail
from San Francisco November 26,
and win carry both passengers and
freight. A 27-day service is planned
by the company. which has its head
quarters at Seattle. The company
operates % vessels.
E After lying at the bottom of the sea
for more than year off Fenwick is
land the American-Hawaiian steamer
Washingtonian may again be floated
Capt. Lester H. Blake, formerly mas.
ter Of the Observation-Disclosures steam
ers Californian and Ohian, Is at the
head Of a syndicate which will at
tempt to raise the vessel. The Wash
ingtcnian was launched in the latter
part OF 1914. and is of $3.50 gross tons.
She was sunk January %. 1915.
Tuesday, August s, will be one OF
the busiest days the harbor has seen
in a number of years. with seven
steamers scheduled to arrive. They
arc the Matson steamer Manoa from
San Francisco, the China Mail steam.
er China from San Francisco, the T.
X. K. South American steamer Anyo
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