Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-28

| HARBOR NOTES
Next mail for San Francisco leaves
Wednesday at 10 a. m. in the Matson
steamer Wilhelmina.
Due here October from Manila and
Nagasaki is the o. s. army transport
Logan. She left Nagasaki September
81.
wednesday the lumber schooner
Robert Levers sailed for Port
Townsend. She brought lumber for
Levers & Cooke September IL
Next mail for Samoa and Australia
will leave here Monday afternoon in
the Oceanic steamer Sonoma. due
that morning from San Francisco with
mail.
The steamer Republic, formerly the
German steamer Walkure, owned by
the Guggenheim interests, has been
chartered by the American Smelter
Steamship Company to carry lumber
from the Columbia river to South Am
erica.
AS a natural consequence to the re-
cent increase OF war risks in the Med
iterranean Sea, steamer freight for
Marseilles from japan has risen sud-
denly and the foreign and Japanese
tramp steamer freights are quoted at
10 shillings per ton.
Next mail from San Francisco will
arrive tomorrow morning on the T.
X. X. liner Shinyo Maru. Steaming
for the Orient about tomorrow after
noon she will take the next mail for
Japan and China There are 749 pas
sengers aboard the Shinyo.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha has de-
cided to inaugurate a regular steam
ship service between Japan and Aus
tralia and has recently despatched to
Australia the manager. of its Kobe
branch to make preliminary arrange
ments. The proposed line probably
will be opened next spring, with three
vessels of the 5000 tons class.
The hulk of the steamer Victorian,
at one time the finest passenger craft
plying on Puget Sound, win be dis
mantled and burned. The vessel was
built In 1891 in Portland for the o. r.
& NJ Co., under the supervision of
Capt. j. w. Troop, now manager of
coast steamship service of the Can
adam Pacific Railway Company.
Two refrigerated cargo-carriers are
now under construction to the order
of the Union Steamship Company OF |
New Zealand. One is being built by
Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, |
the other by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co,
and when completed 1t is. the inten-
ton of the company to place them
In the Australia Pacific Coast trade.
The German surveying vessel Bru-
nette, 600 tons gross, which was |
blown up near zap Island and sunk |
at the outbreak of hostilities, has !
been offered for sale by the Japanese
Naval Department. She lies close to /,
the shore, and it is estimated that the |
sum of yen 100000 would be required |
to refloat her. So lar no bid has been |
made.
The steam-schooner Bandon, which |
went ashore September 1 near Port /
Oxford while bound from San Fran
cisco to BandoE, Or, believed total
loss. may yet be saved, according to a.
despatch received from Capt. Curtiss,
marine surveyor. Previous attempts /
to get The Bandon free have been I'm.
successful. holes in her hull having
filled her with water:
The price Of fuel oil sold to steam
ships at the canal ports by the Pana-
ma canal will be increased to $l.75
per barrel at Balboa and 81 per bar
rel at Cristobal. effective October 1,
1916 This is an increase OF So cents /
per barrel at both terminals, the cur
rent prices being $40 at Balboa and !
s165 at Cristobal This will be the
second advance this year, as prior to
May l The price was $s25 per barrel
at either terminal
What will be the fastest boat on /
San Francisco bay when completed
was launched this month at Kneass
shipyard in South San Francisco. The |!
speedboat was built for the Union
Iron Works. The length Of the new
craft is 40 feet, and she has a BEAM
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