The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-02-04
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK OF
LEAK IN THE SHIP HITCHCOCK is
DISCOVERED.
May be Easily Repaired-Sugar Being
Moved Rapidly-Coal for the War
ships-News and Gossip.

The S. S. Australia will have only
about half "A cargo this trip, owing to
her hasty departure.
The Henry b. Hyde is tied up in the
old fish market slip, receiving "A gen
eral ovprhauling above decks.
The British bark Gynedd will prob
ably sail tomorrow in ballast for Port
land Ore. to load what for the Unit
ed Kingdom.
The Tille +. Starbuck will get off
for New York with Il full cargo of SUI
gar about the 18th inst, according to
Capt. Curtis present calculations.
The Baltimore is receiving $50 tons
to replace that burned ON her recent
trip. Half of it is to be Pennsylvania
and the other half British Columbia
coal.
The Alden Bcsse will receive enough
sugar from the Kauai this morning 10
top off her sugar cargo. and will prob
ably get away for the coast in the
morning.
The French cruiser Duguay Trouin
commenced taking coal this morning,
and Capt. Pugibet hopes to get COG
tons into her bunllers in time to sail
next Wednesday morning.
Considerable progress has been made
on the new wharf at the Eva end of
theharbor, about fifty feet having been
completed. When finished, it will pro
iect out from the main dock line about
eighty feet.
A meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Inter Island Steamship Compd.
ny was called this morning to con
slider proposition for a new steamer
to replace the Kaala, but a quorum
could not be secured and no action was
taken.
The he Au IIou arrived this morn
ing from Honol<aa after an absence o1
eighteen days from this port. During
the first two weeks out. she coult
not land the heavy freight she had fol
the Kau coast. on account of the hea
Wy weather.
Four Inter Island steamers arrived
this morning with full cargoes of su
gar. and all report the finest kind o
weather. both on the Kauai and I1a
wall coasts. The James Makee carr
ed down 2710 bags for the Rithet; tn
Ke Au Hou. from IIonokaa, 4544 bag
! for the S. G.. Wilder: the Mikahal
5000 bags of Kilauea sugar, for TIL
| Australia. and the Kauai 1910 bags 70
the. Alden Besse and S. G. Wilder.
The boat landing is far too small
to accommodate the increased traffic
! There are now twenty-seven license
shore boats tied up there, and launch
es and bHrges are constantly landing
! to say nothing of boats from ships an
| chored in the stream, and all must u
accommodated in a slip about twent
feet i'm length and less than two boa
! lengths in width. If steps were on1
! built down the makai end of the land
| ing it would afford nearly double III
actual landing space now available.
Soon after Pilot Saunders left the
5. Mariposa. outside, yesterday after
noon, she was observed to put about
and steam back slowly almost to tn
entrance of the harbor, stop for abou
| ten minutes and then resume her reg
ular course. Several glasses were OF
her from the shore, but no inkling o
] the tHUSt VI IltG Strange pei lpl ma III
could be gained. 1t is supposed tina
somebody must have tumbled over
| board, although watchers on the shor
could see no boat lowered.
Divers were at work on the ship 5
| u. Hitchcock, at anchorage in tn
stream, yesterday afternoon trying t
! discover an annoying leak that, it i
said, let water into the hold at tn
rate of about twelve inches a day. Lat
in the afternoon the leak was fortu
nately discovered. 1t is not of grea
Importance, and is so located that i
can be easily repaired without DIR.
docking the vessel. The Hitchcock j
chartered to go to New York, and sh
must be staunch and sound for sue
long rip.
The snip w. F. Babcock finished dis
charging her inward coal corgo at tn
coal wharf this morning, and is nov
being washed out preparatory to re
ceiving sugar, as she will be next o
the berth for New York. No ballas
has been put in her hold, but she
held up by heavy logs swung over he
sides in chains. Although she sets II
enormously high out of the water an
has decided list to port, Capt. Gra
ham does not fear that she will toppl
over. A heavy wind might do the jo
but there is little likelihood of such
catastrophy
I have given Chamberlain's Coug
Remedy a fair test and consider
one of the best medicines for crou