Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-19
HARbOR Notes

The british steamer HeIenuS is due
to arrive here from the canal for
bunkers from the Inter-Island about
Sunday.
The Inter-island steamer Likelike
arrived today from Kauai with no pas
sengers. Her inward freight was 5000
bags of Makee sugar.
The large increases in both the tour,
list and freight business promised for
the 1917 season has caused the Off.
Gals of the White Pass and Yukon
route to order two new steamers.
Due any time from San Francisco
for bunkers from the Inter-lsland is
the Japanese steamer Yubari Maru.
She was scheduled to arrive Thurs
day.
Sugar awaiting shipment On Kauai
is reported by Purser E.. J. Malaniff
of the Likelike to be. by bags and
plantations, as follows: Kealia, 10000;
Kilauea, 5000; Lihue, 7000
| At 6 o'clock this evening the Mat
son freighter Hyades, Capt. William
NJ. Rind, will leave for Port Allen to
discharge cargo. She wilt take mail,
which will close at Ais at the post
| office.
A So years concession has been
granted for the operation of two float
ing drydacks in Valparaiso harbor.
The concession requires that the
docks will be of at least 10000 tons
| capacity.
Next mail from San Francisco, one
weeks accumulation. will arrive in
| the Siberia Maru Of the T. X. K. fleet
Tuesday morning. The liner will take
the next mail for the Orient at ) y. m.
that day. 1t.
The new OIL storage station of the
| Union OIL company at Valparaiso is
now. in operation. This gives the I'm
ion people oil stations at Tocopilla,
Taltal. Antofagasta, lquique and VAL
paraiso.-kacific Marine Review.
Due Wednesday morning from Van
couver and Victoria is the Canadian
l.Australasian steamer AGakura, from
the northern ports Thursday She
will take the next mail to Australia
and New Zealand when she leaves in
the afternoon.
Taking a capacity passenger list,
| the majority consisting of local people
going over to see the volcano, the
Matson liner Wilhelmina steamed for
Hilo at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon.
She will load 205O tons of sugar there
and return here Sunday morning.
The steel manufacturers, on account
of the difficulty in making marine
steel to the U. S. steamboat inspection
requirements, are now asking 10 cents
pound at the mill for such grade
Of material This is equal to $500
ton. One year ago this material was
selling for $40 a ton.
Heavy bookings for the Volcano are
reported by the Inter-Island. The
Mauna Kea will take out 80 passen-
gers at 3ao'elock tomorrow afternoon
for Hilo. Practically all Of them are
bound fer Kilauea crater. This is the
largest number leaving in many
| months. Wednesday about 80 went.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany recently registered its house flag
end funnel mark. The house flag is
lsWallow-tailed, divided longitudinally
into five stripes-the two outer ones
red, adjacent stripes white and center
one blue. The tunnels will be yellow
with a black band at the top with a
white band under.
Following the investigation by the
local U. S. inspectors Of hulls and
boilers, the licensed officers of the
Inter-1sland steamer Wailele have
been exonerated from blame for the
death of a Hawaiian sailor who fell
from the mast to the deck. "Testi-
mony showed the cause of death to
have been purely an accident" In
spector Joseph J. Meany said today.
The American-Hawaiian steamer
Minnesotan will be off port before day
light tomorrow at 5 or o'clock from
the canal. She was 385 miles off port
at O'Clock last night and will start
discharging her coal cargo at Pearl
Harbor tomorrow morning immediate
ly on her arrived there, as the cere-
monies at the naval station honoring
the late Admiral Dewey's memory will
not interfere with the work.
The Norwegian steamer Niels Mel
sen. which broke her propeller after
leaving Seattle for Vladivostok, is a
new steamer which had just been COM
pleted at the yard OF Skinner & Eddy,
Seattle. for B. Stolt Nielsen of Hauge-
sund. She is about $3.50 tons and is
fitted with geared turbines, insured
on value of about $1.25OO0O. Her
cargo consisted Of cotton and general
merchandise Examination of the
Niels Nielsen showed that the hub of
the propeller was not damaged and
that the missing propeller blades
could be attached without requiring
her to go into drydock. Parts of her
bridge were stove in and her compan-
ion-wayS were twisted -Shinpine IL