The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-04-04
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK Of
WHALING BARK ANDREW HICKS
OFF PORT.
Finds No Whales in This Vicinity
Jane $. Stanford and Diamond Head
in Port-News and Gossip.

There are about 27,OOO bags of SUI
gar left on Kauai.
The ship lroquos is receiving the
Maui's sugar at the Pacific Mail wharf.
The steamer Ke AuHou arrived yes
terday with 1000 bags of Kauai SUI
gar.
The s. s. Belgic is due from the
Coast next Saturday, and will be the
next mail boat.
The bark Alden Bessc sailed this
morning for San Francisco. with
cargo of 1,334 tons of sugar.
The next mail steamer to the Coast
will be the s. $. Rio de Janeiro due to
leave here one week from tomorrow.
The steamer Mauna Loa went on
the Marine Railway for general ov-
erhauling this morning. She will not
sail until Wednesday.
The steamer w. G. Hall arrived from
Kauai ports as usual yesterday, with
$500 bags of sugar and $50 bags of
taro, besides miscellaneous freight.
The steamer Iwalani arrived i'm this
morning, after wrestling with the big
seas off the Hamakua coast for ten
days, and then securing but 800 bags
of sugar, about half a load.
secure enough sugar from the stea-
mer W. G. Hall this morning to COM
plete her cargo for San Francisco. She
will get away either late this after
noon or tomorrow morning.
The Northern Pacific Steamship
Company's s S. Braemar will call here
on or about the 9th inst, with car
go of Oriental freight and plantation
10 h,, 70 Dn,.f
land Seattle and Sound ports, taking
freight only.
The brig w. G. Irwin will get away
for the coast about Thursday. She Is
to take the V. S. sugar from the stea-
mer w. G.. Hall, today, 200 bags from
the Cummins tomorrow and then go
over to the railroad wharf to top of
with 1000 bags there.
The four masted bnrkentine Jane
L. Stanford, Captain j. A. johnson,
arrived this morning from Newcastle,
after a fair run of 81 days. bringing
1850 tons of coal to order. The cap
tain is accompanied by his wife and
child.
The bark Diamond Head, Captain
Ward, arrived yesterday morning, af-
ter an unusually smart run of 10 days
from the SOUND. Win II cargo OF IUI.-
600 feet of lumber. consigned to Al
len g. Robinson. She will commence
discharging at once, having secured
berth at Allen g. Robinson's wharf.
The steamer Maui had another bad
week of it because of the weather, but
gathered in 1858 bags of sugar, 252
bags of potatoes, 1876 corn, 60 head of
cattle, 20 hogs and lot of miscella-
neous freight. Captain Freeman re-
ports that three rollers of the Hamoa
mill were crippled late in the week,
and will have to be brought here for
repair by the Maui this week. Two
spare rollers were utilized to grind the
necessary cane. which was Fortunate
ly a small amount.
The American whaling bark An
drew Hicks hove to off ports this
morning, and let go an anchor, while
the captain, w. T. Shorey, came on
shore for mail. The HEX; cleared from
shore for all The Hicks cleared from
San Francisco for her annual cruise
on March Bird, and has been cruising
off Molokai for about week, without
success. and will now proceed north
ward, along the coast of Japan. Cap
tain Shorey and his bark are well
known here. Once, while off this port
the Hicks looks fire. The skipper
will be obliged to enter and clear his
vessel, under ruling made by the
Collector General last year. He does
not care to come into port, for fear
of losing his men.