Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-21
SHIPPING 6WATERFRONT News
HARBOR Notes

steamer Wilhelmina " ~ -.
Next mail from Australia and Pago-
Pago will come in the Oceanic steamer
Sierra Tuesday morning. - 81
Expected here daily from Colon,
where she arrived September /, is the
British steamer Brinkburn. g. :
The Mama Loa reports the schooner
A. +. Coats discharging lumber at
Kahului, Maui. -. ~.
At 8 O'Clock last night the Federal.
Wireless reported the Oceanic steamer
Ventura to be 22eS miles from Homo
lulu, bound for Sydney r. =.
After the Aatson steamer Wilhel-
nina Tuesday, the T. X. X. liner
shinyo Maru will bring mail from San
Francisco.
The steam schooner Daisy Matthews
is loading canned pines at Pier IL.
having completed discharging her
lumber cargo E$sa r z
The Inter-Island has three steamers
for sale, the Iwalani, sent to Seattle
last year; the Noeau and Ke An Hou
They are all old vessels.
The steamer Orissa, from Calcutta
for Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney,
broke her rudder head recently. II
was repaired at Singapore, according
to the Sydney Daily Telegrapl8
Next mail for San Francisco viii
leave Saturday afternoon about q
o'clock in the China Mail liner China,
mails closing at the post office an
hour and half before departure.
This afternoon the Canadfaii-Aus.
tralasian steamer Makura, from Homo
lulu last Friday, was due to reach
v-ncouver. She was scheduled to
dock at Victoria this morning.
The Hawaiian Electric Company
has written TO the harbor board stat
ing that the first shipment of ma
chinery for sugar c0nveyors at Kuhio
wharf will 60 forward at once.
Loading at Mahukona is the Matscn
power schooner r. P. Rithet. She is
going to Hama to complete her cargo
for San Francisco after she finishes
loading at Mahukona. This is her
first voyage as a motor schooner.
que here October 13 from Sydney.
Auckland and Suva is the Canadian.
Australasian liner Niagara. She will
leave the same day in the afternoon
for Victoria and Vancouver. Only 10
cabin passengers are booked at the
local agency, Theo H. Davies & Co,
to date. ~
AT s O'Clock last night the Matson
steamer Matsonia. from Honolulu
Wednesday morning, was 1876 miles
cut from this port. The Wilhelmina,
coming here from San Francisco. was
then 1889 rifles from Honolulu. ac.
ccrding to Marconi reports from the
liners.
A wireless from the Oceanic steari.
er Sierra, due off port at daylight
Tuesday from Australia and Page.
Page. says she has two passengers, f6l
sacks OF mail and ~ tons of general
cargo for Honolulu. She VIII berth III
Pier 10 and steam at IL ps M. that de-
for San Francisco, taking 1900 tons
Of freight from this port.
Substituting for the Claudine for 4
month. the lnter-Island steamer Mauna
Boa arrived from Maui ports this
morning, bringing 80. cabin and II
deck passengers. Inward freight in.
cluded - tons of scrap iron, horse.
IL hogs, barrels of wine, 1874 SACKS
OF corn. 127 bags Of taro, IL crates OF
chickens and 3S1 packages of sun.
dries.
Manager w. Y. Motley of the Fed
eral Wireless came to work this morn
ing at his usual early hour, for the
first time in almost seven weeks. He
has just recovered from severe st
tack OF blood poisoning in one foot.
Motley has done several hours work
daily at the office for the last week
or more, but today is the first time
he has put in a full. day since he was
taken i'll
Because Matson and Oceanic steam.
ers are now able to handle huge qual.
titles of this commodity, island sugar
having been cleaned up. pineapple
men are not offering canned pine ship
n1ents to sailing vessels The lumber
schooner Lily sought a shipment
Wednesday, but could not get any, sd
will sail for San francisco Friday or
Saturday light a
A. G. Wheeler. representing the de-
partment OF public works en- the island
of Hawaii. has informed the harbor
commissioners that the runway at
Kuhio wharf. where Inter-Islani
steamers dock, win be widened a
foot, providing this is satisfactory to-
the board. Commissioner Wakefield
is of the opinion that the board does
not now have money to spend on work
at the wharf
s A despatch from Fremantle to the
Cvdnov naiIv Tolnoranh of AupuSt 20