The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-11-11
From E1ilO-Loss of the Schooner
"Kate Lee"

The steamer RiIdueG arrived yesterday morning
from windwardp ports. having been unable to effect a
landing on Maui, except at Maliko. From Hilo we
have intelligence of the loss of another of our coast
ing feet, the fine schooner Kate Lee, owned by the
Messrs. Foster and others. We are permitted to
copy the following extract from a letter from L.
Severance, Esq, Sheriff of Hawaii
81 have to report the total loss of the schooner
Kate Lee on Kalaoa Point, (about one mile this side
of Onomea) on Thursday afternoon, the End inst, at
3 O'Clock. She had got under weigh from Onomea,
where she had discharged her freight, and was going
over to Kaupakuea. She got under weigh with the
seabreeze, which is very unreliable, and abreast this
point it failed her entirely, and the swell set her on
the rocks. l went out Immediately with a
police force, and with the assistance of natives and
others we succeeded in saving her sails. most all the
cabin furniture, ropes, spars, blocks, chains, ETC.,
and got some of the Kaupakuea freight ashore. She
commenced breaking up in the night, and by Friday
she was about all gone. By order Of the
Lieut.. Governor, and at the written request of Capt.
West, l have taken charge of the wreck and have
sold it at auction this noon, Saturday to Thos.
Spencer, the highest bidder, for $50. / have taken
charge of the articles saved for the present, valued at
500 or $500"
The following is from our regular Hilo correspon-
dent. The loss to the Kaupakuea plantation by this
disaster, will probably amount to quite $4,000. The
agents, Messrs. Along & Achuck, with Characters
tic energy, made an order for new kettles, &C., i'm
mediately on receiving the news of their loss.
KAUPAKUEA, November 5, 1871.
Not a fragment of the unfortunate KATE Lee now
remains to mark the scene of her disaster. Some
valuable train kettles lie on the rocks, one broken
and two sound as yet, but in about as available a
position as when the iron of which they are made re-
manned in the mine. Two new CHARTERS of the most
approved sort slid from the hold when the schooner's
back broke in two, and now lie in deep water with
scarcely n chance for recovery. This misfortune is a
heavy blow and a great encouragement to the Kau-
pakuea plantation, where energy and mechanical
skill and unfaltering enterprise have latterly been
displayed as never before on the same estate. Works
and workmen were both awaiting the arrival of the
schooner, that no lapse might occur in the progress
of the improvements which it was confidently hoped
would be complete on the LIST of January in readiness
for crop time. The fields are in fine condition., all
showing that deep dark green which betokens care
full culture and the cleanliness which is next to god
illness, whilst 800 acres of new cane, planted since
June, present a picture unequaled elsewhere in the
Hilo district, or any where else. One cannot look
over this plantation and not desire for it and its
owners all the success it seems to deserve. Travellers
as they pass to and fro see 81 prosperity {" written
over the fair fields, and possibly deem plantation life
a happy one. They do not feel the shocks of hurri-
canes and fires and floods, hospital patients, run
Always, unfaithful lunas, scabby sheep, shipwrecks,
worms and what not, which drive pious managers
crazy or, evaporating through the tongue and hair,
turns them to gray headed sinners.