The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-25
all ALONG THE DOCKS
SHIP HITCHCOCK RAPIDLY LOAD.
ING FOR NEW YORK.
Many Sunday Arrivals With Heavy
Unlucky Fresno-Lurline Leaves.
Busy day on the water front.


German ship II. F. Glade is taking
in sugar at the Railway wharf.
on the Marine Railway this morning.
Sugar cargo by the Mikahala is he
ing piled on the Inter Island wharf.
The Claudne is at the Oceanic dock
discharging sugar into the ship Hitch
cock.
The Claudine, for port on Maui, is
the vessel on the boards to leave to-
morrow.
The Lurline did not get away Sat
urday as expected. Her departure is
uncertain.
Flags are at half mast on the Alert,
caused by the death of the Empress
Dowager of Japan.
Strong wind from the northwest
makes it disagreeable for those work
ing along the wharves.
The Ke Au Hou is alongside the w.
Ii. Dimond at Allen & Robinson's
wharf putting in sugar.
The Robert Levers, with Newcastle
coal for Wilder g. Co., will be hauled
in from the stream today and dis
charged.
British ship Gaelic has been repaired
and is now first class in every respect.
The vessel left the Orient on the 18th
for San Francisco.
Sugar brought by the w. G. Hall is
being put into the ship S. p. Hitch
cock. Two gangs of men are employed
loading the vessel.
The buoy dragged into the entrance
of the channel by the Coptic Saturday
is being put in its proper position to-
day. Piles broken by the vessel are
being repaired.
Minister King has a neat litho-
graphed invitation announcing the
launch of the Helene, the new steamer
of the Wilder Company, at the Union
Iron Works, Jan. 18th at IA a. IN.
While the steamship Monowai was
docking at San francisco the ships
carpenter fell from the deck, about
midship, into the water. He passed
dangerously close to some pilng in
his descent, but was pulled out of the
water uninjurcd.
British Columbia is going into the
Hawaiian Sugar trade, says the Call.
Parties in Victoria have purchased the
ship Fort George, and on her arrived
here she will be put in the trade be-
tween Victoria, San Francisco and the
Hawaiian Islands. The Fort George is
an OLD trader to this port and will be
a splendid vessel for the sugar trade.
A dispatch was received by the Mer-
chants Exchange at San Francisco re-
ce tly stating that the British Ship
Brablock that left port for Liverpool
with a cargo of grain on August 25th
had run aground at Almwich. She was
hauled off with little difficulty and
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Brablock arrived at San Francisco
from Newcastle, N. S. w., in May last
with her cargo of coal on fire.
The American bark Fresno from
Kobe, Japan, for Puget Sound in bal
last had terrible time of it during
the thirty-five days run and was COM
PEELED to put in at San Francisco on
the 18th in distress for repairs. She
was caught in typhoon and carried
away the foreyard, topsailyard, and
port rail. Almost all the sails were
blown from the bolt ropes and the
rudder gudgeon carried away, leaving
the vessel manageable. She was
thrown on her beam ends and the
water covered tie lee side of the
matches. Everybody on board thought
the vessel was going down and many
of the crew said their last prayer on
earth.