The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-10-11
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK Of
THE SPOKANE AND w. II. DIMOND
IN PORT.
Mates of the Lyman ID. Foster Get the
ck-FIahnemann' Long Voyage
Water Front Gossip.

The Rufus L. Wood will sail this af-
ternoon for the Sound.
The Phuger has hauled over to the
railroad wharf to discharge fertilizer
stuffs.
The German bark II. Hackfeld sail
ed from Liverpool for this port on the
25th ult.
The Mikahala arrived yesterday
with one thousand bags of sugar for
Hackfeld d Co., and some miscella-
neous freight.
Captain Campbell returned yester-
day from ten days outing at Hanam-
aulu. where he was the guest of Al
bert Wilcox. He has some big hunt
ing yarns to spin.
The Hawaii will be ready to go on
the railway tomorrow or on Wednes-
day, and will be ready to go to sea
by the first of the week. She has had
a pretty thorough overhaulng.
The Helene completed her first trip
on the Claudine's route yesterday,
bringing down in her freight list 315
sacks sugar, 275 sacks potatoes, 81
sacks corn, ia sacks bones, 80 head
of cattle, 1 roller and so packages of
sundries. Captain Freeman reports
smooth passage.
The Australia is expected in before
8 o'clock tomorrow morning. The Bel
gc ought to be here tonight and will
probably not sail before noon tomor-
row, so that there will be ample time
to reply to correspondence from the
coast. The Alameda is due from the
n IL. Al
Thursday.
The barkentine w. II. Diamond ar
rived yesterday, II days from San
Francisco, with 500 tons of general
merchandise to Irwin & Co. She also
brought $50 hogs and five horses.
Thomas Dyer was the only passenger.
Captain Nilsson reports pleasant wea-
Their. The Dimond is discharging at
the Irmgard wharf.
The American schooner Spokane,
Captain Jamison, arrived this morn
ing from the Sound, after a passage
of % days, with a cargo of 600,0 900 feet
of lumber for Allen d Robinson. Fine
weather was experienced on the trip.
twenty foot sloop with a tiny cabin
arrived on the Spokane. 1t is the
property of Captain Jamison, and is
said to be racer
There have been several changes on
the schooner Lyman d. Foster since
her arrival in port The second mate
was disrated on the way up from Aus
traiia for sleeping on his watch. and
discharged at this port. The first
mate and captain failed to agree. with
the result that the former has also
received his walking paper The first
mate of the steamer Hawaii will 90 as
mate in the Foster. having had his
fill of the steamer business.
The British war ship Wild Swan ar
rived at Esuuimalt from Behring Sea
on the 29th ult. y party of officers of
the Wild Swan landed on the Pribylov
Islands about the middle of August
and found large herds of seals. There
were some seventeen or eighteen rock
cries. and in one visited there was as
many as 900. The stencil was too
great to allow the officers to go very
near. On the 25th the Wild Swan en-
countered severe gale and had her
foresail torn into shreds and carried
| away. She was obliged to lay to on
account of the storm for seventeen
| hours.
The British ship Hahnemann arriv-
ed in San Francisco on the 25th ult.
after passage of PA days from New
castle-on-Tyne-one of the longest
passages ever recorded between the
English and American coasts. During
the last three months of her voyage
she was short of provisions and sour
Wy attacked the crew. Captain Bin
don died under the equator and was
buried at sea. Mate Green took
charge of the ship. On September 10
while the crew were on food allow
ance of one sea biscuit day, the L.
). training ship Adams was sighted
and gave the vessel enough provisions
for the remainder of the voyage. On
the same day favorable wind sprang
up and the Hahnemann safely made
port.