The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-07
WHAT SAILOR MIN TALK OF
STEAMER KlLNUEA not HAD \
BAD LEAK.
Barscly Made port-Captain Cameron
Notes an Unusually Strong Current
shipping Gossip.

The Kinau was reported 90 miles
east at 9:5j a. an.
The Albert is out 13 days from San
Francisco, and is surely expected in
Tomorrow.
The Naniwa sailed for Yokohama at
o'clock this morning. Her progress,
once outside, was noticeably slow, on
account of her foul bottom.
The Mauna Loa did not get away
until after II o'clock this morning on
account of heavy freight shipments.
She carried lot of passengers.
The Archer is tied up at the Kinau
wharf waiting to receive sugar from
the Kinau this afternoon. Captain Cal
houn hopes TO get away before the end
of the week.
The Coptic may be along from the
coast almost any time after luncheon
tomorrow. She can make it easily by
shutdown. provided she left San Fran
cisco at the usual hour.
The schooner Jessie Minor is the
trimmist little craft visiting this har-
Dor. Captain Whitney spares neither
paint nor pains to keep her looking
as bright and clean as "A pleasure
yacht.
The Manson may get away for the
Coast this afternoon, but it is not like
w that she will go to sea before to-
morrow. She has a leak that required
two hours pumping in twenty-four
to keep her dry on the voyage over
from Newcastle.
The schooner Aloha took the Claud-
ines sugar at the Kinau wharf this
morning. and then moved down to the
Mail dock to take a lot piled up there.
She will then have 10000 bags in her.
Captain babel does not expect to get
a full cargo this trip.
On the last trip down of the Clau-
dine Captain Cameron noted two
knot current from Paahau on the Ha-
wall coast, across the Hawaii channel
and along the north coast of Maui,
running northwest by west. The di-
rection of the current was usual, but
it has never been known to be so
strong.
Captain Cameron of the Claudine re-
Gently sent to the NJ. S. photographic
office a report of piece of the wreck
age of the steamer Lilielilie, wrecked
on the north coast of Hawaii, that had
Deell DlchtU up Oll lHt hOlOhdl QUASI.
six miles north of Pul<oo. 1t had been
carried by the current a distance of
ninety miles and the indications were
that it had drifted about seven or
eight miles a day.
Captain Paul Smith said this morn
ing that the dredger has been doing
the best work she ever did on the
present job. She has scooped the har-
Dor our from the old fish market
wharf to Brewers, to a depth of 2S
/ feet at low water, extending outward
from the dock line to past the red
buoy. The mud taken out has filled
up the flats across the river from st
! Louis college TO a foot above the grade
level. clear past the Vineyard street
bridge.
When the Kilauea Hou came into
port few days ago she had two feet
of water in her hold. and it kept the
pumps busy to save her fire, so fast
did the water come in. The leak was
an old one, on the port side, above heI
waterine when light, but below il
when loaded. In some heavy weather
which she encountered the seam open
ed up, and the water came in with {
rush. 1t is said that it kept every
man on board on the keen jump tC
keep the water down, and if she hat
been much longer at sea it would have
been necessary to iettison some of hel
cargo to keep her afloat.