Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-03
HARBOR NOTES

Is que aopN Sntiaay from acAilCnes
for bHtkefs
Next Esaia from San Francisco will
arrive Tuesday morning in the T. X.
K. liner Korea Aaru.
The Danish steamer Delag Is due
any day from Balboa for bunker coal.
She is 20 days oat today.
The e. s. army transport Logan.
arriving Friday morning. will bring
mail from Manila and Nagasaki.
j.. The MatseH liner Matsonia, Capt.
| Charles Peterson, is discharging cargo
today at Pier 10. She Leaves for Hilo
at 5 O'Clock Thursday afternoon.
Next mail for San Francisco will
leave Friday afternoon about ) O'Clock
in the U. s, army transport Logan,
due Friday morning from Manila and
Nagasaki.
/ Expected 10 arrive about January
"a and Is respectively for bunkers are
the steamers City of Vienna from the
Canal and fphaFi Maru from San
Francisco.
Mex. mail from. Sydney, Auckland
and Suva will arrive Friday morning
im the Canadian A ustralasian liner Ma
kura, which left Suva 10 hours late.
bat is expected TO make up the delay.
The Matson steamer Manoa took
out 5000 tons of sugar, $4,000 cases
of canned pines and $500 lunches OF
bananas at noon Tuesday when she
left for San FranciscD. Cabin passen.
gers out We're g., =,
AdViees TO the Merchants Exchange
today report the Hind, Rolph schooner
| Muriel to have arrive Tuesday at Ma
| hukona With redwood lumber from.
Grays Harbor: She will return In bal
last to the Sound. -.
There are now .13 schooners in port.
the largest number In years. Three
of them entered Tuesday, the William
Olsen frpm Antofagasta, the Caroline
from Port Angeles and the DauntIess
from Grays flarbof. ....* 49,: ~.
/ Isaac Fletcher, former second stew
lard en5the WilhesmiaR, has been made
liGhief ;stewaF4 Of the inner, succeeding
George Pastor, who takes fhe Nsts0-
'nia: the last hAH nf. this voyage ana
one more rpanG ttip. "a tisoe Of r'ey'"'.
:sFilmarth. - - -.
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The. aHter-islantl steamer Mauna
Kea was ths only vessel OF the fleet
| arriving I'uesday: Her inward cargo
is repofted by Pufsef Mafltstlie Nit
eheH to hare ,ihclntsed two autos. 6s3
pieces t4afz feetl; o. ohia iamhef ana
Ess sandsies: a.: IT.; ..::t
Il. &. Stsrkabi4, i brother Of For.
lmsr Collector OF Customs q. r. Stack
ahls. BIAS resigned his position a.
fclsrk IN the customs house. The va
caacy may be filled by promoting
soneone In the service from lower
grade OF cisrkship; : =.
I Collector of Customs Malcolm A.
franklin intimates in q letter which
! Acting Collector Raymer Sharp re-
ceived In Tuesdays nail that he Will
not return to Honolulu until the mid
die OF February. He e now at his
OLD home In Columbus, Mississippi.
Bringing so cabin and 10 deck pAs-
sengeys, the Inter.Island steamer Maui
arrived from Kauai at $40. this morn.
ing Purser D. Kamaiopili reports in
ward freight to have been 5000 bags
of sugar, 81 bundles of hides, 20 sacks
OF coconuts and 40 packages of SUN.
dries.
r. G. Stackable, who resigned last
week as custom house clerk, left Sat
urday for Hiib, where, 1t Is under.
stood, he will live. Stackable has
been In the customs service about i6
years, About half the custom house
employees have been employed there
since before the time of the Republic
of Hawaii In 1893. Den man has been
in the custom house q years.
Opium prices in Honolulu for a
first class quality Of the drug are now
sos a TIN, Id the opinion of customs
experts and others knowing the stu
alton at this port Six months ago
the price was up to $3.50 a tin. 1t has
been as low here as so or $50, but
since the customs authorities have
been able to seize so many shipments
the price has stayed way up, owing to
the difficulty OF smuggling in the drug
The dry dock at Prince Rupert, part
Of the equipment of the Grand Trunk
Pacific system, and completed under
the supervision of American engineers
at cost Of $780, 900. has been IN
use for the past six weeks. The first
big ship to test the capacity of the
dry dock was the 10000 ton transport
Orbita, built for the Pacific Steam
Navigation Co. The second ship to
use the dry dock was the Otranto,
formerly, Of the Orient Line.-Com-
meree Reports.