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

this morning from Kahului, where
she has been discharging cargo. She
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 Kiser
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 of
port at daylight with PSI passengers
The Siberia Maru is due to arrive al
o'clock, and will discharge 912 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 81 in the
first cabin and 40 deck passengers.
Her freight consisted of IS head of
cattle, 20 hogs, go bundles OF scrap
iron, 90 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 a00.horsepower are being installed
4nd is expected it viii nave b cr1is.
Ing radius which will permit voyages
as fr as Palmyra island. The others
are being constructed for the Cali
fornia-Hawaiian Canning Co., which is
erecting a packing plant in Kakaako.
They will be IS feet long and have
engines also of 100-horsepower.
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-
viously 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.
Heve the shortage Of licensed officers
now existing in island waters.
Walter Macfarlane is arranging for
a cruise of the sampan Kenei Maru
to Palmyra island and it is probable
that a number Of fishermen win make
the voyage for the pleasure Of fishing
in the waters which surround the Is
land. The Kenei Maru can carry as
many as IL passengers, besides a cap
tain, engineer and stewards. A fine
new 100-ton Gnome engine was re.
Gently installed in the Kenei. A fine
planned to have the Kenei sail for
Palmyra either next Monday or Tues
day.
The schooner Louise was at an
chorage off port this morning and it !
was expected that she would sail for |
Apia, Samoa sometime today. She
has experienced some trouble in get |
ting a crew, as have all the other |
sailing vessels in port. Seamen are
20 few that the captain Of the A. J.
Fuller agreed to pay his men in the !
rorecastle SO month for the voyage |
10 Alaska. This is $40 more than the |
union schedule for sailors. The Louise |
skipper also offered IS more than the
Union schedule.
Honolulu and the territory of Ha-
vail are declared to have suffered
/ distinct loss when the armed Brit
sh merchant cruiser Avenger was
sunk In the North sea recently. This
Tessel, better known to island ship
,ing interests as the Aotearoa, had
,nly a shorc time ago been completed
It Clyde shipyard for the Union
Co. Of New Zealand. She
vas a sister ship to the Niagara, now
operated on the Canadian-Australasia
service 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-
ng made by business interests along
he Pacific coast Of the United States
hat representation be made at Wash.
ngton to bring about the assignment
4 German vessels now in Asiatic wa
ers to American shipping firms OPP
rating in the Pacific. Figures com.
lied by the Chamber of Commerce
how that importations from the coast
t Asia last year were such that ad-
itional tonnage is required to move
he products from Japan, China, the
Philippine islands and India to sup
ly the Hawaiian island demand. II
) estimated that the war will more
han double the requirements, and that
he German ships now in the far east