The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-06
MARINE NOTES.


The James Makee left for Kauai at
o'clock.
The Kaala left for Kabuku yesterda,
afternoon.
The Miiki Maru will leave for Japar
Saturday.
The Mariposa left at o'clock Thurs
day afternoon.
The w. II. Dimond has moved out
into the stream.
The Aikoku Maru has about finished
discharging her cargo. She is docked
at the Likelike wharf.
Crews from the Philadelphia and the
Champion are planning for other races
to come off in the near future.
The stowaway turned over to the
| police from the Mariposa Wednesday
Will be returned to San Francisco.
The Miiki Marus freight is being
transferred from the vessels position at
the railroad dock to the Oceanic dock.
The w. G. Hall reached port Thurs
day afternoon from Maui and Hawaii,
bringing freight and a heavy list OF pas
sengcrs.
Lieut.. B. Blish, commanding the U.
>. steamer Manzanita, reports that June
18th the Umatilla X .ef whistling buoy
was replaced ON its old bearings.
Louis Wiener, late engineer with the
]. |. S. N Company, took William
Deone's place ON the Mariposa and de-
parted with that vessel last night.
The lighthouse tender Manzanta has
set the new whistling buoy at the mouth
OF the Columbia river, to take the place
OF the one carried away some time ago.
The Belgic got away early this morn.
ing for Yokohama and Hong Kong.
The big liner was held over for the
benefit of the American Vaudeville Com
pany.
The Island Of Ascension in the Allan
tic ocean is entirely under the rule OF
the British Admiralty and is rated as a
ship OF war. 1t principal products are
turtles and land crabs.
Fifty-two Cramps are on the payroll
OF the VIM. Cramp 4 Sons Ship and En-
CINE Building Company, and every one
OF them is master Of his Department.
A new torpedo boat is now being
built at Havre for the French Govern.
ment, which is to be the fastest in the
world. The speed, if nothing is wrong
in the calculations, will be from twenty
niue to thirty knots per hour.
l. ]. NJ. S. Kongo received orders bv
the Belglc TO proceed to Japan at once.
Accordingly the vessel hastily got un-
der way and left the harbor Thursday
afternoon. The cause of this unexpect-
ed order is the Girls in affairs between
Japan and China and Corean rebels.
Captain Colin Salmond of the British
steamer Wellington, reports to the
Branch photographic Office that. at Z
a. m. of June 18th, when close to Mem
docina Reef buoy, prssed through large
quantity of oil same as the oil in Santa
Barbara channel. The strip of oil was
to II miles long by about mile wide,
extending in a N. N. w. to S. S. 4.
direction, with the buoy above men
toned about cables length abreast
and inside the strip. The smell of pc
troleum was very strong.
Advices received from Liverpool state
that the captain OF the British ship
Knight of the Garter, at Valparaiso from
Cardiff, reports that on April 9TH, in
latitude "a 80 $. longitude 66 w., about
twenty miles west OF Cape San Diego
and on the north side of the Straits OF
lie Marie he sighted an iron ship OF
about 1900 tons on a rock with nearly
all standing. She was painted black
with little white about 81 stern, aud
appeared to have been los but few
days previously.