The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-01-22
WHARF AND WAVE.


Kinau was relieved of 5000 on the voy
age from Hilo.
Commodore George Beckley expect:
to arrive with the steamer Helene
about February 25th.
AS the Coptic is a fast boat, she viii
likely be along Friday evening. She
will fall due on Saturday.
About $40 tons of general freight
came by the Miowera. The liner tool
on $50 tons of coal at this port.
Capt. H. H. Smyth will be assistant
wharf superintendent for the 1. l. S.
N. Co. under Captain Campbell.
A coast dispatch states that the ship
Fort George has been chartered by R.
P. Rithet & Co. for the Hawaiian trade.
Two large steam plows for Llhue
plantation were taken to Kauai By the
steamer Kauai, sailing yesterday aft
ernoon.
Fifty tons of fertilizer were taken by
the Claudine yesterday afternoon to
Kauai. The Likelike took 80 tons to
Kipahula.
News arrived by the Miowera that
H B. H. S. Icarus had sailed from Es-
quimault for Honolulu. The Icarus is
a small vessel.
Captain Brown states that repairs
to the Lurline will cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. Most of the work
was done along her bilge
If the Coptic cleared from San Fran
cisco on time, she should be in during
the afternoon. She should have about
seven days later news.
Monday morning the Consuelo was
reported at Mahukona She took a
cargo to that port and will load sugar
thence for San Francisco.
An outward passenger by the Mauna
Loa on her last trip writes from IIa-
waii that that vessel is one of the
steadiest sailers he ever travelled Oh.
Two large sugar boats and so sets
of oars arrived by the bark Alden |
Besse for the Wilder Steamship Com |
pany They were made in San Fran
cisco.
A. w. Keech was engaged yester-
day afternoon arranging places in the
little steamer Kaena for her new ma
The Kaena will go back on
the Oahu route.
Besides a promotion from an office |
OF mate to that of master to think of |
Sunday morning, Captain Tullett of the |
James Makee was promoted to the Of
fee of papa" 1t is son.
Vessels sailing tomorrow: P. NJ. S.
S. Coptic, for Yokohama and Hong
Kong; brig w. G. Irwin, for San Fran
cisco; bktne Matilda, for Port Town
send; brig Lurline, for Kahului.
Several days of cutting in hard rock |
so choked up the neck of the dredger |
that she had to lay off yesterday for |
cleaning. In the meantime her smoke
stack was given a new coat of paint
At Hilo: The Annie Johnson is dis
charging; the Santiago sails tomorrow |
with full load of sugar; the schooner
will begin taking sugar aft
er the Santiago clears out. Weather is
fine.
The chief officer of the Miowera had
bottle, in which were quite a num-
Der of salmon eggs. He is particular
ly careful of them, and expects to have
some fish to show on the return trip
from the Colonies.
In the Kauai line, the clipper James
Makee returned yesterday morning
from Kappa. She brought 260O bags
of Kealia. Fine weather all over the
island and business is rushing. The
Makee sailed again at 4 p. m. for the
same port.
Kaala's report: Left at Punaluu, 430
bags rice and SO do rice flour; Hauula,
300 bags paddy; Waialua, 1000 bags
paddy; Puiki, 1000 bags sugar; Moko-
LEILA, 952 bags paddy; Kahuku, 1850
bags sugar; Kawaihapai and Keawa-
nui, 5000 bags paddy.
Report of the James Makee of sugar
left on Kauai: Kappa, 5000 bags; Ha
namaulu, $500; Lihue, 5000; Makaweli,
$500; Waimea, $500; Kekaha, 5000;
Eleele, 2,700 Total, 25,900 bags. Lett
Ke Au Hou at Eleele; w. G. Hall was
discharging at Waimea."
Captain Gates of the ship S. P Hitch
cock, and Captain Scribner of the Hen
ry B. Hyde, accompanied by Mr.. Fred
Whitney, visited the Executive build
ing yesterday morning They were re-
ceived by Minister King and shown
through the departments.
Early yesterday morning the Lur-
line was discharged from the marine
railway and the Alice Cooke went mp.
The Lurline will sail tomorrow morn
ing for Kahului to load sugar for San
Francisco. She is at present lying at
the foot of Nuuanu street.
Scows are being employed to dis
charge the ]. NJ Griffiths near the Rail
way wharf Flat cars are taken ON
the scows, loaded with lumber and
transported back to the railroad. This
is a slow process, but better than
waiting for a berth at the wharf.
A new life-buoy, invented by an
officer of the Austro-Hungarian Navy,
consists of a hollow metal ball, filled
with compressed air, and a pair of
semi-globular wings of rubber-covered
cloth. On turning a screw, the air in
fiates the wings, which then exert in
water lifting force of SO pounds.
A sight near the Pacific Mail wharf
yesterday was gang of four white
men under Japanese luna, removing
flag pole The pole was taken to
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