Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-05
SHIPPING 6WATERFRONT News
.HAlBOR NOTES

me next man lTOIt san FdHtiStA
is scheduled to arrive In the Persia
Maru Friday morning. :...:... III. .
Arrival at San Francisco yesterday
morning of the Wilhelmina is report
ed The steamer left here December
Sugar on Hawaii is not large in
amount. The Mauna Kea reports only
57os bags awaiting shipment at Puma
luu. .....
Due here Tuesday morning from
San Francisco is the MatsCn steamer
Lurline, bringing mail, passengers and
freight :.:.. T.. -. ....=.... ...>.
The next transport will take 1900.
tons of New York cargo, brought here
by American-Hawaiian steamers for
transshipment to Manila,
Among ships arriving at Port San
Luis, California; yesterday, was the
oil-tanker Santa Maria, from here via
Kahului December "a,
Bringing 7S4,195 feet OF lumber for
the City MIL Company. the schooner
A. F. Coats, from Grays Harbor De-
cember s, arrived here yesterday
The Inter-Island steamer w. g. Hall
arrived from Kauai this morning,
bringing passengers and cargo of
island products. -.
Tea imports into Honolulu for the
fiscal year ending June 80 last we're
365, 1892 pounds. of which 356,427 were
passed and 1866 rejected because of
poor quality. *#<
The TRANSPORT Thomas this after
noon is taking Jim Hill, chief
quartefmaster on the U. s. navyttug
Navajo, to Mare Island hospital for
treatment. He is i'll with pleurisy.
Capt. ]. W. Jory has resumed his
position as chief officer of the Mat |
sonia During the recent Matson |
shakeup when Capt. Henry F. Weeden |
resigned, he commanded the HiIonian. |
Mail for the states. Canada, and |
Europe except the Teutonic Allies
will go in the Canadian
steamer Niagara, due /
here Friday morning from Australia |
to sail the same afternoon for Van
couver.
On Monday afternoon the oil-tanker
sailed from Hilo for San |
Francisco, according to the Mauna
Kea's trip report. The vessel arr
rived at Hilo Sunday morning from
and discharged oil for the |
Hilo Railroad Company.
About January Is the U. S. coast |
guard cutter Thetis will sail for the |
islands to the westward of the Ha-
waiian group. The cutter will visit t
Laysan and other islands of the gov
ernment's bird reservation Repairs
to the vessels machinery, also the I
installation of new engine beds, have T
been completed. /
H. Hackfeld e Company, Ltd, Ho- /
uolulu agents for the China Mail, re-
ported today that six cabin passen-
gers are booked to leave here on the /
China, due to sail from San Francisco
tomorrow and to arrive here week |
from today. There is only room for |
20 steerage passengers, practically all
of which are now booked.
Passenger congestion on T. k. K.
boats for the Orient is now a thing
Of the past according to Castle & [
Cookies passenger department. which I
this morning that the Persia
Maru, due Friday, has three or~lfour (
empty first cabin staterooms and room +
for 2S4 steerage passengers from here. I
The InterlIsland's new steamer
soon to be renamed the I
Hamakua, will be commanded by Capt. /
D. F. Nicholson, general Superintend-
ent J. E. Sheedy of the corporation
announced today The steamer will
leave here on her first voyage to the I
Hamakua coast of Hawaii, a week
from Monday.
Cable adviceS to G.. Brewer & Com
pany's shipping department today said
the Oceanic steamer Sierra left Sgd
ney on time yesterday and has room
for 10 first cabin passengers from
here for San Francisco. To date II
persons are booked. he Sierra is
due here January Is, to sail the same /
afternoon for the mainland
Cart. r. Fl. Purdy, of San Francisco I
Is reported by the Chronicle as having
left en- the. Ventura for Honolulu, to
take command of the American
schooner j. NJ Weatherwax, now at
Pier 10, and sail her to Australia. The
Ventura arrived here Monday.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon (coast t
-ime), 1:30 Honolulu time, the Hill I
liner Great Northern was due to sail
rom San Francisco on her third Toy /