The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-12-07
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK Of
BAR\COUTA AND AUSTRALIA
ARRIVE.
Former Here for Her Registry
Steamer Maui Eaunched-The Latest
Shipping Ncws-Gossip.

The Mauna Loa's sugar is for Irwin
d Co., and will go into the Australia.
The Bryant has moved down to the
Brewer wharf. She stil lacks half
cargo.
The barkentine John Smith sailed
from Newcastle on the Goth ult., for
Kahului.
The Lehua sails this afternoon with
cargo of piling and timber for the
new Hilo wharf.
The S. s. Moana sailed from Aucl<-
land on the 9th ult. Eighty passen-
gers are booked for her from this
port.
The schooner j. VI. Coleman. AL
tons, has been chartered at San Fran
cisco by j. ID. Sprecllels & Co., to go
to Hilo in ballast to take sugar to
San Francisco.
Nine sailing vessels are due. some
of them from the Atlantic seaboard,
some from California and some from
the sound, and two from Europe. If
they should arrive in a bunch. the
harbor would be very much crowded.
The Mauna Loa arrived in before
breakfast this morning, bringing the
President and his party home. She
had pleasant weather all the way. The
freight shipment by the Mauna Loa
was $500 bags of sugar, SOC bags of
coffee, 1913 bags ava, 30 hides, 90 head
of cattle and 1875 packages of sum
dries.
Quite a Record was made by the
German bark j. c. Pfuger, which ar
rived at Astoria, November 5th, from
Honolulu says the San Francisco Com
mercial News. She made the trip i'm
Is days. which the captain said would
have been reduced to thirteen days
had he been able to see the sun every
day for observations.
The S. S. Australia arrived alongside
the dock at 1880 this morning, after
a fine trip of 6 days and II hours.
Summer weather was experienced all
the way. with moderate northwest
and westerly winds until the 3rd, and
thence to port light southeast to south
erly winds. She brought a fair car
go, SO passengers and thirty bags of
mail. Chief Steward Seeley is the
biggest man aboard on account of that
new baby.
Sixty days ago the keel of the Inter
Island steamer Maui, built to the or
der of the Wilder Steamship Company
of Honolulu, was stretched at the big
Union Iron Works, and promptly at
12:45 p. m. Saturday, the vessel was
launched, says the San Francisco
Commercial News of the Goth inst.
Thirty minutes later she was along
the wharf and one of her big boilers
landed in her hold. The vessel is 100
feet in length, 30 feet beam and 14.1O
feet depth of hold. with register Of
600 tons. She has been built of steel,
fully up to the rules of Bureau Veritas
under the special survey of Captain T.
f. Thayer, inspector. No one visiting
the Union Iron Works will endeavor
to croak about dull times. The WORKS
are crowded with orders
The Pacific Mail steamship Baracou-
ia. Captain Irwin, arrived from Nan
| aimo this morning, after n hard trip
of - days. She experienced success
sion of southwest to easterly gales
for nine days, with very high cross
seas, that washed over the decks and
| threatened at times to swamp the ves-
sci. There were times, Captain r.
win says, when he never expected to
see PoI'' Inc baracouta brings loUO
tons of coal, which she will discharge
at the coal wharf The Baracouta is
now sailing under a provisional Ha.
waiian registry, but will have a per-
manent registry when she leaves, as
the necessary arrangements were all
made by Colonel Macfarlane before he
left here. After discharging her coal
the Barracuda will sail for Panama.
calling at several ports on the Central
American coast. The Baracouta I'M
derwent extensive repairs in San
Francisco. on her way up the coast.