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

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The Japanese steamer Nankai Maru
IS due about Sunday from Mejillones
for bunkers.
| Next mail from San Francisco viii
arrive Tuesday morning in the T. h.
X. liner Korea Maru.
The Danish steamer Delagoa is due
any day from Balboa for bunker coal.
She is 20 days out today.
The L. S. army transport Logan.
! arriving Friday morning, will bring
! mail from Manila and Nagasaki
The MatSon liner Matsonia, Capt
! Charles Peterson, is discharging cargo
! today at Pier 10. She leaves for Hilo
al o'clock Thursday afternoon.
Next mail for San Francisco will
leave Friday afternoon about o'clock
in the L. S. army transport Logan.
due Friday morning from Manila and
! Naeasaki
| Expected to arrive about January
IA and Is respectively for bunkers are
the steamers City Of Vienna from the
Canal and Yubari Maru from San
Francisco.
Next mail from Sydney, Auckland
and SuVa will arrive Friday morning
in the Canadian Australasian liner Ma.
kura, which left Suva 10 hours late.
but is expected to make up the delay.
The MatsoH steamer Manoa took
Of canned pines and $500 punches OF
bananas at noon Tuesday when she
left for San Francisco. Cabin passen-
gers out were 90.
Advices to the Merchants Exchange
today report the Hind, Rolph schooner
Muriel to have arrive Tuesday at Ma
hikona with redwood lumber f1Sm
Grays Harbor. She will return in bal
last to the Sound.
There are now Is schooners in port,
the largest number in years. Three
of them entered Tuesday, the William
Olsen from Antofagasta, the Caroline
from Port Angeles and the DauntEess
from Grays Harbor.
isaac Fletcher, former second stew
ard on the Wilhelmina, has been made
chief steward Of the liner. succeeding
George Pastor, who takes the Matso-
MIA the last half Of this voyage and
one more round trip, in place of "Cy"
Wilmarth.
The InterIsland steamer Mauna
Kea was the only vessel of the fleet
arriving Tuesday. Her inward cargo
is reported by Purser Montague Nit
chell to have Included two autos, 824
pieces (42l2 feet) Of ohia lumber and
80 suldries. 9TE ~ ...' l. "A
re. Stackable, brother. of For
mer Collector of Customs e. R. Stack:
able. has resigned his position as
clerk in the customs house. The va
cancy may be filled by promoting
someone in the service from a lower
grade of clerkship.
Collector of Customs Malcolm A.
Franklin intimates in q letter which
Acting COLLECTORS Raymer Sharp re-
ceived in Tuesdays mail that he viii
not return to Honolulu until the mid
die of February. He Is now at his
old home in Columbus, Mississippi.
b Bringing 60 cabin and 10 deck pas
sengers, the 1nter.Island steamer Maui
arrived from Kauai at 6: 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 Hilo, where, it is under.
stood. he will live. Stackable has
been in the customs service about 16
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 |
SOB tin, I'm the opinion of customs /
experts and others knowing the stu.
alton at this port. Six months ago
the price was up to 1920 a tin. 1t has
been as low here as $40 or $50, but |
since the customs authorities have
been able to seize so many shipments
the price has stayed way DIP, 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 a cost or $2,500,O00, 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
Co. The second ship to
use the dry dock was the Otranto,
formerly of the Orient Line.-Com.
nerce Reports.
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