The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-03
all ALONG THE DOCKS
ARRIVAL OF AUSTRALIA DELAYED
BY BAD WEATHER.
The Alameda VIII BE Due Tomorrow
from the Colonies-Ship Glade TAX
ing on Sugar-SiX Vessels in Stream.

Alameda from the Colonies tomor-
row.
The dredger resumed work this
morning.
The Andvake left today for Port
| Townsend.
The Kona steamer Mauna Loa will
be due Friday.
Wilder's steamer Kilauea Hou is ex-
pected to arrive tomorrow
German ship j. C. Glade commenced
loading sugar this morning.
Bark Albert is dischargng general
merchandise at Brewer wharf.
Southwest wind prevails today and
the harbor is somewhat choppy.
Six vessels are anchored in the
stream, waiting their turn to load and
unload
Kilauea sugar, to the number of 4O0S
sacks, arrived this morning per steam
er Ike Au Hou.
Bark Ceylon, Capt. Calhoun, sailed
this morning for San Francisco with
042 tons sugar.
Wilder's new steamer Helene will
leave San Francisco about the latter
part of this month.
Most of the freight brought by the
last japanese steamer has been re-
moved from the Pacific Mail wharf.
Work of driving new piles and other
repairs are being made to the Pacific
Mail wharf, caused by the steamer
Coptic.
But little sugar arrived today. In
consequence but little signs of activ-
ity are apparent along the different
wharves.
The steamer Iwalani is to come off
the Marine Railway today. The vessel
is on the boards to sail some time to-
morrow
The James Makee came in this
morning from Kappa with 1850 bags
sugar. 1t is being discharged into the
German ship j. c. Glade.
The cruiser Detroit has been ordered
to return to San Francisco from the
Asiatic station. She will probably put
in here on her way home.
The ship Hawaiian Isles recently ar
rived at San Francisco from New
castle. Captain Kustel states that
man resembling Butler, the murderer,
tried to ship in his vessel.
Henry p. Bowen, third mate of the
whaler Balaena, who was charged
with numbering Frank Jones, second
mate of the same vessel, was ac-
quilted at San Francisco recently.
Captain Houdlette says he has
never experienced such rough weather
as that against which the Australia
contended for five days. 1t was an
experience he did not care to go
through again.
The Australia left San Francisco !
January Goth, 1897, at p. m. with
fifty-tive cabin and thirty-four steer
age passengers and siXty-five bags of |
mail. Experienced moderate South |
and southwest gales, with heavy
squalls and rough sea, until January
31st, thence to port light east and
southeast winds and smooth sea; ar
rived February 2, 1897. Time Z days,
2 hours, 80 minutes.
81 christen thee Helene!" said Miss
Flora Dickson, as she dashed a bottle
of wine against the bows of a pretty
little steel steamer on the 18th ult., as
the vessel started down the ways on
which she was built at the Union Iron
Works. The steamer was built for the
Wilder Steamship Company of Honolu-
lu, and in another month her builders
expect to have her ready for her trial
trip. About 500 guests of the build
ers and of the steamship company
were present at the launching. AS
soon as the vessel was in the water
and safely moored alongside the wharf
near the ways, they We're entertained
at luncheon. The vessel is IT'S feet in
length, 80 feet beam and Is feet depth
of hold. She will have a displacement
of 700 tons. Her engines are calcu-
lated to develop $50 horsepower. She
will steam about twelve knots an hour
under ordinary steam pressure. Amid
ships she will be fitted with comfort
able cabins for the accommodation of
about fifty passengers.
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