The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-15
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK OF
CITY OF PICKING TAKES \
SHIPMENT or FRUIT.
First Under New Arrangement-Ne
Lumber Charters-Glade and Kliku-
tat Sail-Gossip of the Front.

The Moana sailed from Auckland for
this port on the 4th inst.
The schooner Alice Cooke and bark
Fresno are loading lumber on the
Sound for this port.
The barkentine $. G. Wilder arrived
in San Francisco on the 9Th inst, %
days from this port.
The Robert Levers is receiving 100
tons of ballast today and will sail for
the Sound tomorrow.
The II. +. Glade sailed in ballast for
San Francisco at noon today, and the
klil>itat goes i'm ballast to the Sound
this afternoon.
When the Australia sailed from San
Francisco, the lrmgard, w. n. Dimond
and II. p Rithet were up and loading
for this port.
The schooner Transit has hauled
down to the Inter Island wharf to take
the sugar brought down by the Maui
ma Loa yesterday.
The Australia brought down 1900
tons of general merchandise. She will
have full outward cargo of sugar,
rice, fruit and hides.
The Kilauea IIou has gone on the
railway for scraping and painting.
Her timbers were found to be as sound
as the first day they were put in.
Chief Steward Seeley of the Austria
liza accompanied the Congressional
party on their flying visit to Hawaii,
as guest of President Wight of the
Wilder Steamship Company.
The Philadelphia will go to sea for
short cruise early Friday morning.
Such are the present orders, although
Captain Dyer says they may yet ne
changed. She will be absent from
port only about five days.
While in San Francisco President G..
l.. Wight of the Wilder Steamship
Cobpany, made full arrangements to
have the Claudine repaired. No def
mite date for her to go up has been
been set, but it is likely that she can
be spared next month.
The new steamer Upolu, which has
been built by II. X. Hind to trade in
the Hawaiian Islands, was locked on
yesterday at Mission wharf, says the
San Francisco Chronicle of the 9th
inst. She will take a general cargo
to Honolulu and will then ply between
the islands of the group carrying SUI
gar. Fred Revelly has been appoint
ed captain.
The City of Picking sailed last night
carrying up to San Francisco 600 bun
ches of bananas. This is the first
shipment of fruit by the Pacific Mail
line, under the special arrangement.
and there is not a little grumbling
from the Oceanic people. They say
that the shipper showed evidence of
bad faith. The arrangement was made
under the claim that the Oceanic
steamships follow each other so close
lN that there is always a long inter
val when fruit cannot be shipped eX-
cept by the Pacific Mail line. Now
fruit is being shipped by the Pacific
Nail, when the steamer sails but a
day ahead of one of the fastest of the
Oceanic liners.
The bark Alden Besse was cleared
at San Francisco on the 9Th for Hon
olulu, with Il general merchandise car
go. Among the principal shipments
were the following: 50 csks beer, 12C
bales hay, 6077 lbs corn, 1850 lbs roll.
ed barley, 30,069 lbs bran, 500 lbs feed
1920 lbs Middlings, IS ctls wheat, 81
cs hardware, 60 cs wine, 100 bales pa.
per, 2 cs dry goods, Is cs paints and
oils, 44,409 lbs sugar, 20 bbls pork %
cs hardware, 6272 redwood ties, 30 bis
salt, 2200 lbs oleomargarine, SAL lbs
Middlings. 40 ctls wheat, $500 corn
1850 lbs butter, 1915 lbs beans and 7C
cs bread, 20 cs and 81 bbls salmon, 4Oi
cs canned goods, 5000 lbs lard, 15,47S
lbs soda, 80, 900 lbs barley, $40 lbs dried
fruit, $4,000 lbs rolled barley, 10000
lbs bran, 10000 bricks, IL pkgs furni-
ture, 500 bales hay, $4,000 -four.
L. S. photographic Office, San Fran
cisco, Cali.-By communicating with
the branch photographic Office in San
Francisco, captains of vessels will COS
operate with the photographic office,
by recording the meteorological OBJ,
servations suggested by the office, can
have forward to them in any desired
port. free of expense, the monthly Pi-
lot Charts of the North Pacific Ocean.
and the latest information regarding
the dangers to navigation in the wa
ters which they frequent.
Mariners are requested to report to
the Office dangers discovered. or any
other information which can be utiliZ-
ed FOR correcting charts or sailing di-
rections, or in the publication of the
Pilot Charts or the North Pacific.
w. S. HUGHES,
Lieutenant L. S. Navy.