The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-06-14
OPIUM is HERE
Labrador C0ltTalald Stored in.
Custom House.
500 TINS FOUND BURIED
Japanese Cook Pointed Out the
Cache-On Kahoolawe-A Stern
Watch Rewarded.
500 TINS FOUND BURIED


special vault at the Custom House.
Collector-GeneraI Mcstocker and the
police authorities are highly elated
over their success and the failure of
the latest conuaband expedition from
Victoria.
Under date Of Victoria, B. c., April
80, Collector-GeneraI McStocker was
advised that the schooner Labrador
had cleared for a sealing cruise and
that she had aboard opium that was
70 be landed in Hawaiian waters. Fur
Their, there was a man in Honolulu
supposed to be agent for the cargo
and the consignees and that he had
best be watched. The man received
such attention here that it was learn
ed that drug was to be landed on Mo-
lokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe.
The customs authorities here sent
three parties after the Labrador One
under Inspector Beckwith went to the
lee side of Maui to prospect. Capt.
Ernest Renken was provided with
whaleboat and sailed around the Mo
lokai and Lanai channel. Port Sur
veyor Suatemeyer went with the tug
10 Maui, Capt. HiIbus commanding the
Eleu.
In a couple of days Surveyor
Stratemeyer decided that a fixed bright
light on Maui, near Maizena,, marked
an opium landing place. The Labra-
dor was first sighted by officers on the
27th of May, though she had been
seen, it is now known, by the crew of
the Island schooner Ka Moi, on the
18th. When seen on the 25th the La
brador put out away from land. Sur
veyor Stratemeyer communicated con-
corning the Labrador with the other
TWO parties and the very sharpest
lookout was kept 1t was said that
once the schooner was seen between
Molokai and Kahoolawe.
On the 3rd of June the schooner was
captured near Maizena,. Native police
were going out to her in boat when
they met a boat from the schooner. In
the schooner's boat were the captain
and several others. It was just at
this point that there was failure to
carry out TO the letter plans of Col
lector-GeneraI McStocker. He had or
dered that the Labrador people be al
lowd to come ashore with goods to
The end that they should be captured
red handed. The schooner's boat and
the schooner itself were taken pos
session Of and all hands placed under
arrest. The Labrador had but one
chain and anchor. It has been learn
ed that the other We're lost or carried
away in landing the opium. After be-
ing captured the Labrador dragged her
mooring and is now ashore with a
small hole in one bow.
The Japanese cook of the Labrador
was locked in a cell by himself and
Sheriff Baldwin sent for the official
japanese interpreter Of the Island.
Overture on the basis of states evil
dence We're made to the cook. The
man described the landing place and
promised to point it out. Surveyor
Stratemeyer and Sheriff Baldwin took
The cook aboard the tug and went to
Lanai. The japanese could not show
the place and on the Sth inst. the tug
was back in Lahaina, for coal. Here
Chester Doyle from Lanai in canoe,
Joined the customs force. He had been
sent for early, but had a hard time
getting to the beach from seventeen
miles in the interior and again a
dangerous "trip in an open canoe across
The channel. Mr.. Doyle further investi-
gated the mental storehouse Of the
japanese, The prisoner added con
siderable detail to the story told sher-
if Baldwin's Japanese interpreter.
Another start with the tug was
made on the morning Of the ninth and
as they steamed near KahooIawe that
day the japanese pointed out the land
ing place, which Doyle Immediately
christened Labrador Bay. A landing
was made. The cache was shown and
the 500 tins of opium taken from the
ground.
The japanese cook says that when
the boat Of the officers from All Mis-
landing at Maizena, approached the
schooner boat, the captain Of the
schooner dropped overheard from his
boat big bundle which it is estimat-
ed contained between 200 and 300 tins
Of opium. This has not yet been found
Capt. Macaulay, Alex. Lyle and Col
lector-General McStocker have exam
med the Labrador and will recommend
to the Government that the boat be
taken of the beach, brought to Homo
lulu and sold here. 1t is believed she
win bring a very good price in this