The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-16
FL0TSAM AND JETSAM.
THE PFLUGER'S DAMAGED
CEMENT.
Captain Wolters is Proud OF His Ship
The Peles Cargo-A Surf Boat
Not a Ram.

The 1000 barrels of Portland cement
which arrived by The ]. c. phuger has
been found to be more or less damaged
by water, and to determine the exten,
of the damage, Captain Fuller will hold
a survey some time during the day
Captain Workers is Of the opinion tina,
the damage will be but slight, as the
cement was in the lower hold, and the
general cargo between decks was in
good order when discharged. No bids
have been received so far for making
the necessary repairs to the vessels
rigging The extent of the damage,
the captain says, cannot be learned till
everything aloft on the main and mzzen
masts is lowered to the deck. Captain
Workers is full of praise for his ship and
says there are fifteen vessels in San
Francisco harbor which encountered
the same gaze as the Phuger and all are
much worse damaged.
Last Saturday while several small
boats and sloops were engaged in
transferring coal from the boats of divers
in the vicinity of the wreck, native
with large surf boat ran into the
sloops Kahaku and Colleen Bawn, and
succeeded in doing considerable dam.
age The Kahaku's bobstay was
carried away and her forefoot splintered,
and the topmast of the Colleen Bawn
was carried away and her rail split.
In the general tangle that occurred at
the time the Kahsku fouled the scow
in tow Of the tug and it is supposed
received the damage to her forefoot at
that time. Although the surf boat was
not intended by the builders to be
used as a ram, it is capable of great
execution in that direction.
The blasting Saturday at Brewers
wharf was not brilliant success in the
matter of results expected, as only
three of the four blasts put in were
exploded, the cap on the fourth having
been dragged off in some way when the
pipe was remove d.
The man who first said: "Run for
your life, here comes a sprinkling cart,
should visit the vicinity of the Pilots
boat landing when the sprinkling cart
makes its rounds, and he would prob
ably have been drowned before he
had time to speak
The steamer Pele will probably sail
Wednesday for Makaweli. She will
take 200 tons of the railroad iron re-
ceived by the Paul Isenberg for the
Hawaiian Sugar Company. Altogether
there are 3a46 rails to be sent to the
plantation.
The discharging of the Paul Isen
berg's cargo was delayed last week by
the necessity of shifting the vessel.
position. The cargo will be all on
this evening when she will haul into
the stream to clean up, and will sail
Friday.
This morning the bark Ceylon left
her berth at the Fish market and hauled
down to Allen & Robinson's wharf
where she received the first instalment
of her cargo from the schooner Moi
wahine.
This morning as the Philadelphia
launch was coming into the boat land
ing her propeller was again fouled by {
ships bow line. A few minutes della,
was the only result, as no damage wa
done.
The steamers Iwalani and Waialealt
will sail for the usual ports tomorrow
at S P. M. and the James Makee vii
cave for Kappa at 4 P. NJ.
The steamer c. r. Bishop, nov
being overhauled at the Inter Islant
dock, will probably resume her regula
run sometime next week.
The four-masted schooer Transi
hauled into the stream this mornin
where she will wait her turn to receiv
return cargo.
The steamer Kaala will probably sa
Tomorrow at 9 A. Nj. for her usual cir
cult of the island.
The ] A. Cummins sails for Waims
nalo to-day.
The steamer Mokoli will sail Q