Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-05

! Sugar on Hawaii is not large in
amount The Mauna Kea reports only
sos bags awaiting shipment at Puna-
tlUu. -. ~.
Due here Tuesday morning from
San Francisco is the Matson steamer
Lurline. bringing mail, passengers and
freight. -. II. j.. :.-~=.:-.<.
The next transport will take SOC
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
Kahalui December "a.
Bringing 7S4, 1875 feet of lumber for
the City Mill Company, the schooner
A. F.. Coats, from Grays Harbor De-
cember 8, arrived here yesterday
The Inter-Island steamer W. G. Hall
arrived from Kauai this morning,
bringing passengers and cargo of.
island products. ill.,. -.
Tea imports into Honolulu for the
fiscal year ending June 30 last we're
3G5,392 pounds. of which 356.42 were
passed and 1865 rejected because of
poor quality.
The TRANSPORT Thomas this after
-, Ii, IL. af
duartermaster on the u. S. navy tug
Navajo, to Mare Island hospital for
treatment He is i'll with pleurisy.
Capt j. 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 Hilonian
Mail for the states: Canada, and
Europe eXcept the TeUtonic Allies
countries, will go in the Canadian.
Australasian steamer Niagara, due
here Friday morning from Australia,
to sail the same afternoon for Van.
Couver. 49,. T.. ~
On Monday afternoon the oil-tanker
Lansing sailed from Hilo for San
Francisco, according to the Mauna
Kea's trip report The vessel ar
rived at Hilo Sunday morning from
Kahului 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
Laysan and other islands of the gov
ernment's bird reservation Repairs
to the vessels machinery, also the
installation of new engine beds, have
been completed.
H. Hackfeld & 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 a week
from today. There is only room for
rs steerage passengers, practically all
of which are now booked.
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boats for the Orient is now a thing
of the past, according to Castle &
Cookies passenger department, which
reported this morning that the Persia
Maru, due Friday, has three or four
empty first cabin staterooms and room
for ga steerage passengers from here.
The Inter,Island's new steamer
Shoshone, soon to be renamed the
Hamakua, will be commanded by Capt.
ID. F. Nicholson, general Superintend-
ent ]. E. Sheedy Of the corporation
announced today The steamer will
leave here on her first voyage to the
Hamakua coast of Hawaii, 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.
Capt. r. II. Purdy of San Francisco
is reported by the Chronicle as having
left on the Ventura for Honolulu, to
take command of the American |
schooner J. NJ Weatherwax, now at |
Pier / 6, and sail her to Australia. The |
Ventura arrived here Monday.
AT o'clock this afternoon tcoast |
time), l:3G Honolulu time, the Hill |
liner Great Northern was due to sail |
from San Francisco on her third voy,
age to Hilo and Honolulu via San
Pedro. The steamer is due here next /
Wednesday morning, January y.
The American Hawaiian steamers
Nebraskan and Neyadan have been
sold, according to *adyices received by |
C. P. Morse. general freight agents |
for the company here. The prices -e- /
ceived were not given. The boats are i
the smallest and oldest of the fleet.
To the fact that a rope checked his
fall, Henry Dahlin, a rigger for the /
Inter-fsland, owes his life The man |
fell 90 feet from the Shoshone's mast