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

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arrive Tuesday morning in the Matscn
steamer Wiihelmina. -..- .
Next mail from Australia and Pago-
Pago will come in the Oceanic steamer
Sierra Tuesday morning.
Expected here daily from Colon,
where she arrived September 1, Is the
British steamer Brinkburn. t..
The Mama Lea reports the schooner
A. F. Coats discharging lumber at
Kahnlui, Maui.
At o'clock last night the Federal
Wireless reported the Oceanic steamer
Ventura to be 220s miles from Homo.
lulu, bound for Sydney. =
After the Matson steamer WilheI.
nina Tuesday, the T. K. K liner
shinyo Maru will bring mai from San
Francisco. a@
The steam schooner Daisy Matthews
is loading canned pines ut Pier IL,
having completed discharging her
lumber cargo.
The Inter-IsIand has three steamers
for sale, the Iwalani, sent to Seattle
last year: the Noeau and Ke An Hon.
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 Telegraph.
Next mail for San Francisco will
leave Saturday afternoon about q
o'clock In the China Mail liner China,
mails closing at the post office an
hour and d half before departure.
This aftefnccn thE Canadian,Aus
tralasian steamer Makura, from Homo
lulu last Friday, was due to reach
VencOuver. 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 conveyors at Kuhio
wharf will go 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 motor schooner.
Due here October Is from Sydney,
Auckland and Suya 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 8 o'clock last night the Matson
steamer Matsonia. from Honolulu
Wednesday morning, was 1876 miles
out from this port The Wilhelmina,
coming here from San Francisco, was
then 1883 niles from Honolulu, &C.
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. 10
sacks Of mail and 79 tons Of general
cargo for Honolulu. She viii berth at
Pier 10 and steam at II D. m. that dss
for San Francisco, taking 1900 tons
of freight from this port.
Substituting for the Ciandine for n
month. the lnter-Island steamer Mairia
Loa arrived from Maui ports this
morning. bringing 80 cabin and 12
deck passengers. Inward freight in.
Guided % tons OF scrap iron, horse,
- hogs, 8 barrels of wine, 134 SACKS
OF corn, 127 bags of taro, 12 crates OF
chickens and 331 packages of sun.
cries.
Manager w. Y. Motley of the Fed.
erai 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 a severe at
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 full day since he was
taken IN. ~
Because Matson and Oceanic steam.
ers are now able to handle huge quar-.
titles of this commodity, island sugar
having been cleaned up, pineapple
men are not offering canned pine ship
ments to sailing vessels. The lumber
schooner Lily sought a shipment
Wednesday. hut could not get any, SO
will sail for San francisco Friday or
Saturday light.
A. C.. Wheeler. representing the de.
partment OF public works on the island
OF Hawaii. has informed the harbor
commissioners that the runway at
Kuhio wharf, where Inter-Islani
steamers dock. will be widened q
foot, providing this is satisfactory to
the board. Commissioner Wakefield
is of the opinion that the board does
not now have money fo SDend on work