The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-13
I'LL ALONG THE DOCKS
PERU AND ZEALANDIA WILL BE
DUE TOMORROW.
Schooner General Mcpherson Arrives
from MeNico-Nessels Chartered for
the Sugar Trade-Front Gossip.

The schooner w. II. Dimond expects
to finish discharging today.
The Waaleale will leave at p. m.
today for Kilauea and Hanalei.
The Samoa will not get away today,
as the Waialeale brought no sugar.
An unusually large amount of bana-
mas will be shipped up on the Aus
trala.
At the Pacific Mail wharf freight is
still piled high. The Cheney is along
side but will get away today in ballast.
Minister DENLY of Pekin has cabled
that the Chinese Government has ac-
cepted the amended international reg
ulations to prevent collisions at sea.
Both the Peru and Zealandia are
due from San Francisco tomorrow.
reason that she does not wait for mail.
The Miliahala reports that there is
an ppuibuhNN VI sugar waiting
ment at her ports, but she preferred
cleaning up all the rice and paddy
first.
The new Z. S. cutter Hugh McCul-
loch is now on her way to San Fran
cisco to relieve the Bear. The McCul-
loch will make the long Alaskan and
Arctic cruises, and will have ten Off
GERS and crew of seventy-five men.
The new Inter Island steamer has
been christened "Noeau," which means
swift" The officers have not yet been
selected. The Noeau will be a much
faster boat than her companion, the
Ke Au Hou, being supplied with more
powerful engines.
The ship Marie Hackfeld was
brought over from the Railroad wharf
this morning to the Fort street wharf
and commenced unloading her cargo
of coal and general merchandise. The
schooner Alice Cooke was moved out
to make room for the Hackfeld.
According to the San Francisco Bull
letin, the following vessels have been
chartered to load sugar at Honolulu
for Atlantic ports: BENZ F. Packard,
f. B. Sutton, George Stetson, Henry b..
Hyde, Indiana, Iroquos, Reaper, st.
Nicholas, Susquehanna, w. f. Babcock.
On board the Samoa is a Japanese
boy learning to be an able seaman. His
parents are well to do, and he is al
most through his apprenticeship.
When capable he will be appointed on
a japanese steamer sailing between
Seattle and Yokohama. Upon another
vessel of the same line three more
youths are fitting themselves for SIM
liar positions.
In a letter to the secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce at San Francis
co, a member of the New York Stock
Exchange declares that the duty of
securing the rapid completion of the
Nicaragua canal now devolves primar-
lily uDOH SodSt
and their constituents are most to be
benefited by it.
The American schooner, General Nc
Pherson, Capt. F. E. Carter, arrived
yesterday at ,4:30 p. m. from Ensenada,
Mexico. She left early in September,
calling at San Francisco, from which
port she left on December 18th, being
thirty days out. The Mcpherson is a
small boat, 20 feet long and was orig
inally a steamer. Her cargo consisted
of 1873 tons of guano.
The most extensive repairs are re-
CURED on the cruiser Charleston on
the Pacific station. She was one of the
earliest of the new naval vessels to go
into commission, and has seen much
hard service. Such repairs as have
been made upon her have sutficed to
keep her in service, but she is now in
need of general overhauling, and this
will cost for construction alone no less
than $97, 300.