The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-01-11
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK Of
BIG STORM STILL RACES ONEI
THE ISLANDS.
impossible to Land on Hawaiian Coast
Largest Lumber Cargo for Hilo--
The Kinau's Quick Passage.

The Bennington's sailors were on
shore this morning drilling under the
shed on Brewers wharf.
Policeman Morton, of the Maui
force, has been appointed night man
on the boat landing, vice Valley, who
is i'll.
The brig John ID. Spreckels has fin
ished discharging lumber and is now
waiting for sugar. She will probably
commence taking on her outward car
go next week, and get away late in
the week.
The schooner Emma and Louisa,
when she sails this afternoon will have
the most curious cargo that ever left
this port. I'm addition to rice and all
manner of native fruits, she will have
curios. sugar cane and 10000 empty
bottles.
The bark Nuuanu took in few
thousand bal<s of sugar from the Ka-
uai this morning. This afternoon
she will be lowed out TO sea by the
steamer Claudine, on her way to IA
hului, where she will complete load
ing for New York
The Australia will have fair car
and the principal shipments will he
14.00O bags of sugar, 5000 bags of rice,
5000 lunches of bananas. and a lot
of hides and pine apples. The pas
senger list is rather light.
The four masted schooner Lyman
d. Foster. Captain Killman. ~ days
from the Sound. was towed into Hi1o
last Saturday night h~ the steamer
Hawaii. with Il cargo of 100000 feet
of lumber consigned to Hackfeld &
Co. This is the largest lumber cargo
ever shipped into Hilo.
The little steamer w" will sail this
afternoon for Kaena point and Wala-
/ lue ports. with all the freight she can
carry, and thirty passen Ters. CAPTAIN
Townsend boasts of hTying carried 20
passengers on trip. The passengers
must hang on. for thC"c are no cab
in accommodations
Mort Tuft sailed on the Nauna Loa
this morning as purSrr in the place of
( Mr.. Matthews. who has RESIGNED on
account of i'll health. win Simerson,
the captains son. goes as freight
/ clerk and Tom White. tho erstwhile
/ freioht clerk. will go in the Iwalani,
J
! Tuft WIS deserved.
| CAPTAIN Cameron saws that the bad
weather is pretty general all over the
| globe, according to the attest dispat-
/ ches. He does not attempt to explain
! Just why il is so. He saws he mas
never seen such heavy seas as were
! experienced in Hama harbor last trip.
! Captain Campbell of the Inter Island
! company says that never in his eX-
perience on the Islands has he seen
| such continued bad weather, with the
| wind constantly in one quarter. Dur
! ing the recent storms the wind has
been from the north and northeast
The Kinau arrived alongside from
I Hilo before II o'clock this morning.
/ having made the run over from La
haina in hours % minutes. Commo-
/ dore Beckley reports the heaviest
storm in years raging along the Ha-
! wall coast. The Helene is lying off
/ Paauhou, waiting for smooth water
! to effect ii landing. The Lehua had 20
| put into Hilo on Saturday night for
! shelter, after trying in vain to effect Il
/ landing. The Hawaii could not effect
Il landing anywhere on the coast and
! is lying at Hilo awaiting the abate-
ment of the storm. The Kinau eXpe-
rienced one of the toughest trips in her
! history both ways. She was unable
| to land anywhere on the coast. except
at Hilo. The Kinau brought the fol-
| lowing freight: 44O sacks of potatoes,
80 sacks of corn, 1S6 packages hides,
% head of cattle, 62 head of hogs, I25
packages of sundries.