The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-11-22
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK Of
BARkENTtNE AMELIA ARRIVES
IN PORT.
Rough Weather on All the Islands
Movement of Sugar Vessels--Gossip
of Wharf and Wave.

mers from all quarters.
The Alice Cooke is receiving new
coat of paint, and is to be a beauti-
full olive green. She is still lying in
the stream.
The Aloha took sugar from the w.
G.. Hall this morning. She will sail
for San Francisco with enough for
ballast tomorrow afternoon.
Captain NJ. \. Sanders. the pilot,
sailed on the S. s. Gaelic Saturday ev-
ening. for San Francisco, to visit his
wife. who is dangerously i'll there.
The Mohican has received some SUI
gar, but will not wait for anything
like a cargo. Captain Saunders is fig
uring upon getting away for the Coast
tomorrow.
1t is now likely that the bark Cev-
lon will remain in port until the Ar
cher. consigned to the same agents,
arrives. The Archer is expected al
most any hour.
The dredger has buckled down TO
business again and is now masticating
crushed rock at the upper end of the
new slip. The steam drill is at the
lower end, working at the deepest lev
ell there.
The American barkentine Amelia
arrived Saturday night from Seattle,
after a passage of % days, and dock
ed at Allen & Robnson's wharf, to
discharge 100000 feet of lumber con-
signed to that firm.
The James Makee made rather
clipping passage across the Kauai
channel on Saturday night, knocking
Is minutes off of her previous record,
and covering the distance from IA
paa to Honolulu in hours Is min
utes.
The Pacific Mail wharf boys did
themselves proud on Saturday by taxi
I ing 900 tons of general merchandise
from the S. S. Gaelic in a little less
I than nine hours. They surprised ev-
on themselves by the way they got
the cargo out.
The Helene could not land her Paa-
uhou freight on account of the very
heavy surf, and had to bring it back
She found rough weather all around
Maui coast, too. The Helene brought
46 hogs, / horse, 233 corn, 225 pota-
toes, 80 hides. 80 bags of bones and 50
packages of sundries. She will sail
again on the Maui run tomorrow.
Kauai steamers arriving yesterday
report heavy weather all along the
coast of the Garden Ise. The w. G.
Hall brought down 1880 bags of su-
gar, 305 bags of rice, Q bales of hides
| and 2 horses. She reports. 1000 bags
| of sugar left on Kauai. and Lehua to
start grinding on Wednesday. Eleele
will commence grinding some time
next week.
The "a foot steam launch formerly
| run by Charles Gay on the Kauai
coast was brought to town by the
w. G. Hall yesterday. and will be
put into shape to do general passen-
ger business about the harbor. rat
Murphy is to captain the craft. She
can carry twenty people, and will be
available for fishing excursions ana
the like. The launch will be ready
for her trial trip by next Sunday. ac-
cording to the present calculations.
On her trip down the Claudine's best
days run was 27s miles. Captain
Cameron says she is better boat
than ever before. Her new deck is a
dandy, some of the planks used being
| tifty-four feet in length. While she
lay at the Union Iron Works yarcs
day and night gangs worked on her.
Captain Cameron was too busy to get
up town at all. 1t is likely that the
! Claudine will sail in few days for
Mahukona, to deliver big lot of
freight she has aboard for that port.
She will go back on the Maui route
next week.
The kaala which arrived yesterday
from Lahaina had a rough time of it
discharging piping at Kaanapali. The
surf was very heavy, and "A surf line
run ashore parted, throwing two of
the boats on the beach and burying
them in the sand. In trying to save
the piping two Chinese and two Japa-
nest were injured, one of the former
sustaining a broken leg. The boats
were afterwards towed off. but found
to be badly damaged. The Kaala took
off the Mauna Loa's Lahaina freight
last Friday night.