Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-01
HARBOR notes

The Canadian Australasian liner Nj
agara was due to leave Suva today Tor
Honolulu. She is due here week
from today.
Nexf mail from San Francisco, S3l
bags, one o, the biggest this year, VIII
arrive Monday morning ir the Oceanic
steamer Sonoma.
Adgices to the Associated Oil Com
pany say the tanker Frank H. Buck
will arrive here next Wednesday,, De
eember 6. from San Francisco, with
cargo Of oil for Honolulu.
Advices to the Inter-Island say The
Japanese areighter Kongosan Maru
will call here for bunker coal about
December IL. She left the canal M.
vember %.
Collector OF Customs Malcolm A.
Franklin has written Acting Collect
or Raymer Sharp complaining of the
cold weather in New York and Wash
ington. Il am sticking close to the
hotel, he writes.
Tomorrow the lnter-Island steamer
Kilauea will go on the Mauna keas
run until December 20 or the first Of
the year. The Mauna Kea will go on
the dock after tomorrow to have new
boiler tubes installed.
The Matson steamer Manoa will re-
turn early Sunday morning from KG-
hului. She will not leave there until
10 O'Clock Saturday night, to accom-.
modate Governor Pinkham and party,
who are attendin gthe first annual
Maui County Fair.
Bringing 1912 tons of cargo to Ho-
nolulu,. the T. K K chartered freight
er Shinyo Mar,l No. 2 arrived Thurs
day morning from Yokohama. She
left today for San Francisco. Strict
quarantine regulations were observed
while the freighter was in port.
According to Nichols Chouvaldjy, q
canal engineer who arrived here IN
the Gozan Maru Thursday morning
from Panama, the big ditch is being
kept nayigable by the use of heavy
dredging equipment which can remove
some $4,000 cubic yards of dirt and
rock in "a hours.
Letters received by Honolulu
friends o. Oscar Nordman, former pot
ter on the Oceanic steamer SonoIaa,
in San Francisco. dealing in products
from Tahiti. Nordman is Tahitian
by birth. lie was last spring acquit-
ted by jury in this port of charges
OF opium smuggling.
No radios were received today from
the China Mail steamer China or the
T. X. X steamer Persia Maru. No
word is looked for before Monday or
Tuesday The China is due December
4 or 5 and the Persia Maru December
) or g. The latter steamer has Ills
tons of cargo and 16S Asiatics for Ho-
.nolulu. The China has only $50 tons
of freight for this port.
At o'clock Thursday afternoon tie
japanese tramp steamer Kenkon Ma
III No. 3 resumed her voyage to YolIo-
hama and Kobe. after taking bunkers
here. She called at this port in dis.
tress Wednesday, as reported by the
Star-Bulletin. coming here for bunk.
ers because she had run short of coal
on the Great Circle route from San
Francisco to the Orient.
The large number of steerage pas
sengers coming here on the Great Nor
thern this voyage from California. "a.
is taken by local shipping men to
mean that the Portuguese. Spanish
and Filipinos who left their sugar
plantation jobs last spring to make
their fortunes in California are COM !
ing back to Hawaii TO stay. not having
found employment particularly plenti- |
full or profitable in the Golden State.
only four hours and Is minutes
were passed here by the Canadian
Australasian liner Makura, which ar
rived at $50 Thursday morning from
Victoria and Vancouver. one day late,
and left at 12:45 in the afternoon
She made up half day coming down !
and expects TO reach Sydney on time. |
The Aiakura brought 33 passengers to
Honolulu, among them C.. C. Kennedy !
of Hiio Mrs. Kennedy accompanied
her husband down, but went on to
Australia on the steamer