The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-11-17
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK Of
RUNOR or THE ROANOKE'S LOSS
DENIED.
Probably Fake Story Big Shipment
of steel Rails-Freight Blockade on
the Docks Notes and Gossip.

The Hawaii sailed this morning
with an unusually heavy cargo.
\ well known skipper predicts big
blow from the south tonight and also
plenty of rain.
The Title +. Starbuck hauled into
the stream this morning and moored
off Sorenson's wharf.
The Adam W. Spies left New York
only month behind the Nuuanu,
and is expected daily. She has i'm her
cargo one of the new thirty ton loco
motives for the Oahu railroad.
The Australia will sail on schedule
time, at o'clock this afternoon. with
the lghtest freight and passenger Est
of the year. She takes up Il consider
able quantity of fruit. Only fourteen
passengers had booked up to noon TO-
day.
The rush of freight on the wharves
has been so great that the draying
companies have been unable to han
die it. For two days the Aloha could
get but one truck day. Today the
trucks are hauling from the Aloha,
but there is Il blockade on Brewers
wharf. where the lredale and Ceylon
are discharging general cargoes, and
both crews have had to knock off UNI
til their stuff is hauled to the ware
house. 1t looks as if the jam would
continue for several vessels are due.
There was a rumor along the docks
this morning to the effect that the
big ship Roanoke which sailed from
here for New York on July 31St, with
a cargo of sugar, was wrecked on the
Atlantic seaboard. No credence is
given to the report at the offices Of
w. G.. Irwin &, Co. BY the latest adj
vices from the coast the Roanoke has
not been seen or heard of since she
sailed from this port She is not eX-
pected at New York before December
list. 1t is believed that the rumor was
started by some idle person as a
Joke
The Star was little bit premature
yesterday in announcing that the
British bark Aethelbert had been
chartered to carry sugar. She was
given an option on a sugar charter,
but when Captain Garrick learned
that he must wait until the first of the
year for cargo. he decided, so he
said this morning, to go to the Coast
and take his chances in securing y
wheat charter to Europe. He has
been absent from home for twenty
months, going first to India and then
to Peru. and is anxious to get home
The Aethelbert will probably finish
discharging her nitrate cargo by to-
morrow evening. She already has in
200 tons of rock ballast. and will finish
up by the end of the week. ready to
sail about the first of next week.
During the past ten days the o. r..
& l.. Co. carpenters have been busily
engaged in building a scow landing
mauka of the railway wharf, to facili-
tate the handling of inward freight
expected and outward freight engag
ed. Two 20O-ton scows are in course
of construction for the work, and
will soon be finished. They will have
tracks upon them, and by means Of
"A switch and an adjustable slip, cars
can be rolled upon them and carried.
The railway Company expects a big
winters work. and has no dock facil-
tiles. The bark Iredale has ten miles
of steel rails for the railway extern
sion, and the bark Nuuanu seven mites
more of rails, and an 1S-ton yard en-
CINE. These vessels will probably go
alongside of the railway wharf, but
the Adam w. Spies is due here with
a lot more rails and Bottom locomo-
tive; besides, the sugar shipments
will soon commence and there is still
lot of fertilizer to be shipped out.
DEPARTURES.
Wednesday, November II.
Stmr. Hawaii, Mcdonald, for Homo
mu and Pouakumanu, at 10 a. m.
Stmr. Kaena, Parker, for Waialua
ports, at II IN.