Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-16

has 1000 bundles of shocks for the
Standard Oil agency in Honolulu.
A large quantity of quick silver was
brought up by the shovel of the
dredger which is working on the re-
tanning wall at Pier 10. How the
quick silver got into the harbor in
such quantities is unknown.
Two vessels Of the Togo Kisen
Kaisha line are due off port tomor'
row morning. The first of these will
be the Persia Maru from San Fran.
cisco which has wirelessed her agents,
Castle & Cooke, that she will be off
port at daylight with 2S1 passengers.
The Siberia Maru is due to arrive at
o'clock and will discharge 972 tons
Of cargo here.
J. T. Boyd, who left here as chief
engineer of the former German ship
Staatskretar Kraetke, which was TAX
en- over by the U. s. shipping board,
has written to Honolulu friends that
the vessel is taking on rice and flour
at San Francisco for shipment to Ha-
vana, through the Panama Canal. At
Havana the ship Is to load sugar for
shipment to Philadelphia. He does
not expect to be back in the Pacific
for three or four months.
The Claudine came in this morn
ing from Maui ports with more than
100 passengers. She had 60 in the
first cabin and 40 deck passengers.
Her freight consisted of As head of
cattle, 20 hogs, go bundles of scrap
iron, 20 packages machinery, 10 cases
honey, 21S bags of corn, 80 bags Of
onions, seven crates Of chickens, 81
bundles or bags, 345 bags of bottles
and 34S packages Of sundries.
Three big sampans are now under
construction in Honolulu. One near
ing completion is for the %Macfarlane
cannery. Engines capable Of develop
ing 100-horsepower are. being Installed
andit 10 expected 1t VIII hayeA cruis-
ing radius which VIII permit voyages
as far as Palmyra island The others
are being constructed for the Cali.
formal awaiian Canning Co., which is
erecting a packing plant in Kakaako.
They will be 65 feet long and have
engines also Of 10o.horsepower.
a.33s't a<s1
The supervising inspector general Of
the United States steamboat inspec-
ton service has authorized the in.
spectors at Honolulu and Hilo to in
dorse for transatlantic and coastwise |
service licenses Of deck officers pre-
yiously issued for lake and inland |
steamers. The authority was granted
under provisions OF the shipping laws |
which permit such action in an emer-
gency. The action may tend to re-
lieve the shortage of licensed officers |
now existing In island waters.
Walter Macfarlane Is arranging for
q cruise Of the sampan Kenei Maru
10 Palmyra island and It is probable |
hat q number of fishermen viii make
The voyage for the pleasure OF fishing |
ID the waters which surround the Is
and. The Kenef MART can carry as
uouy % IL poOoOh6CAoB uOCIOC6 q Cop-
.ain, engineer and stewards. A fine
new 100-ton Gnome engine was re-
,ently installed in the Kenei. A fine
planned to have the Kenei sail for
Palmyra either next Monday or Tues
lay.
The schooner Louise was at an
,horage off port this morning and it
vas expected that she would sail for
Apia, Samoa sometime today. She
las experienced some trouble in get
ing crew, as have all the other
Ealing vessels in port. Seamens are
10 few that the captain Of the A. J.
Fuller agreed to pay his men in the
orecastle $40 month for the voyage
o Alaska. This is SO more than the
lnion schedule for sailors. The Louise
Ikipper also offered IS more than the
;nion schedule.
Honolulu and the territory of Ha-
vail are declared to have suffered
distinct loss when the armed Brit
Junk In the North sea recently. This
essen, DSLt6f kuOWu I'd lSIaHQ snip
ing interests as the Aotearoa, had
My shore time ago been completed
t a Clyde shipyard for the Union
steamship Co. of New Zealand. She
Eas a sister ship to the Niagara, now
perated on the Observation-Disclosures
ervice between Sydney and Vancou-
er, touching at Auckland, Suva and
honolulu. When completed she was
AIKEN over by the British admiralty
Honolulu has joined in an effort be-
1g made by business interests along
be Pacific coast of the United States
nat representation be made at Wash
lgton to bring about the assignment
I German vessels now in Asiatic wa
ers to American shipping firms OPP -,
rating in the Pacific. Figures COM I,
lied by the Chamber of Commerce
how that importations from the coast l
Asia last year were such that ad- I
itional tonnage is required to move !
ne products from Japan, China, the =
hilippine islands and India to sup 1
ly the Hawaiian island demand. II
estimated that the war will more !
ian double the requirements, and that
ne German ships now in the far east