The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-11-10
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK Of
THE MICHIGAN ARRIVES AFTER A
SMART PASSAGE.
Repairs on the Rio de Janeiro Alice
Cooke to Dry Dock-Babcock About
News and Gossip.

l'Nl' aNtNN anu bbSSlD.
The bark Martha Davis sailed at
noon for San Francisco.
The schooner Maaweema will sail
for the Sound in ballatsootm hrdthtt
The Mohican brought down a ship
ment of 1873 fine hogs and one COW.
The big dredgcr will go on the ma
rine railway for Il general overhaul
ing today.
The little schooner Waialua brought
700 bags of paddy from Waialua ports
this morning.
The Tillic +. Starbuck will finish
discharging her coal cargo about Sat
urday or Monday next.
The Australia is discharging her in
ward cargo rapidly. She needs lots
of paint this trip and is getting it,
The bark Il. p. Rithet. Captain
( Thompson, arrived at San Francisco,
on the day that the Australia sailed,
| after Il smart passage of - days, the
/ fastest she has made since she was put
in the island trade.
The steamer Waialeale will be the
next Inter Island vessel to go on the
railway. She has had Il boiler put in
and lot of work done on her. Cap
tain Campbell hopes to get her on
the dry dock about Friday.
Things have quieted down aboard
the British bark Iredale. Four of the
fractions sailors are to be tried in the
police court for assault on the stew
ard, and then the case will likely be
dropped, provided the men remain on
their good behavior.
The Alice Cooke will 90 on the ma
rine railway about the latter part IF
next week. after her cargo is out. She
will have a scraping and painting,
and Il general overhauling, so as to be
ready to take a sugar cargo to San
Francisco as soon as the new season
opens.
The American ship Babcock. which
sailed from Baltimore on August 20
with Il cargo of coal for the United
bunkerS here. is expected about the
Goth inst. Complaints of the poor
quality of the coal shipped here from
the coast are general among the ma
val engineers. The eastern product
comes a little higher, but they say it
will make third more steam and is
least expensive in the end.
The p. NJ. S. S. Rio de Janeiro came
into port late Yesterday afternoon.
after bucking head winds and heavy
seas all the way from Yokohama. She
brought 260 tons of general merchan-
disc. and 36l Orientals. and took away
several hundred lunches of bananas
1t was 10 o'clock this morning before
/ oh, l..
| ed for San Francisco. The govern
! ment band was at the wharf to Sere-
/ made departing passengers.
The Mohican, Captain Saunders. ar
rived from the coast this morning. af-
/ ter good passage of l6 days, bring
ing 1000 tons of general merchandise
to Castle O. Cooke. During the last
six days very strong northeast trades
were experienced, and the bark COW
cred 1926 miles during that time. The
sea was heavy, but the weather fine.
! Captain Saunders is accompanied by
his wife. Chief Mate hurry. who was
| laid off last trip on account of an
anonymous charge of smuggling OPT
UNI, is back again. He was not only
completely eNonerated of the charge.
but Welch O. Co. paid all his expenses
while in port and full salary. hurry
is popular here.
| The Rio de Janeiro has been laid up
in Hong Kong during the past four
months, after meeting with a quite
serious accident in the China sea. The
Japan Advertiser says of her repairs:
'''rhe Pacific Mail Company's steamer
City of Rio de Janeiro, after extensive
repairs in the Kowloon dock, made a
very successful trial trip on Oct Dber
! 18th. She left the dock with q party
of visitors on board and returned ar 5
p. IN. Her engines worked smoothly,
and generally the work on the vessel
gave the greatest satisfaction and re-
! Elected much credit IN the Dock com
pany. She has been fitted with a
new stern post and has been cOns:d-
erably strengthened aft in the rrn.
Her rudder was unshipped and new
| lignum vitae bushes AMI brass sleeves
| fitted, and the gudgc 1ns were also ia
ken out aud true1 up