The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-04-01
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK (F.
STEAMER MAUNA LOA GETS IN
EARLY.
Heavy Weather on Kauai Continues
Kauai in Port-Newcastle Shipping
News and Gossip.

The bark Neritas arrived at New
castle on the 18th inst, to load coal
for this port.
The German bark II. lIackfeld got
away for San Francisco this morning
with a full cargo of sugar.
Three masts of the barkentine Ara
go are already in place, and the rig
gers are now busy with the foremost.
The barkentine lrmgard still wants
5000 bags to complete her cargo. and
Captain Schmidt does not expect to
get it much before Tuesday.
The steamer Waialcale, after being
held for two days on account of the
weather. was finally dispatched this
morning for punaluu and Kahuku.
The bark Alden Besse hauled over
this morning to the railroad wharf.
where she will take on 1000 bags of
Waianae sugar to complete her cargo
She will probably get away tomorrow.
The weather is so rough on the Ila-
maliua coast that the Iwalani has
been unable to do any work there at
all. At last accounts she was lying at
Waipeo gulch.
The British ship Western Monarch
has been chartered to load sugar for
any more of her inward cargo until
she gets sugar ballast.
The steamer Kauai arrived this
morning from llanapepe and Waimea,
with 1886 bags of sugar, which she
will discharge into the schooner. Will
liam Bowden. in the stream.
The American schooner Repeat, o.
+. Olsen master. sailed from Honoipu
on the Goth ult. for San Francisco,
with 10000 bags of sugar, CSC tons,
value S52 ,355.35. Theo. II. Davies &
Co., agents and shippers.
The American schooner Lizzie
Vance, chartered to load coal at New
castle for this port. was at Sydney at
last accounts. The schooners Katie
Flickinger, Golden Shore and +. X.
Wood, and barkentine c. +. Croker,
had not arrived up to the 18th inst.
All are to load for Honolulu. Vessels
now on the way from Newcastle are:
Schr. Carrier Dove. 81 days; blltn.
Jane l.. Stanford. So days; schr. King
Cyrus. PC days, and bktn. Robert Sud
den. - days.
The rough weather on Kauai still
continues. according to reports
brought by the Kauai this morning.
The Noeau has been unable to work
Kilauea. so is lying at Kalihiwai.
waiting for the weather to moderate.
The Mikahala was having hard
time of it at Hanamaulu at last ac-
counts. but was managing to load SUI
gar slowly. The Hall was at Waimea
taking on 5000 bags of sugar. There
are $4,000 bags of sugar left on Ka-
ua.
Lieutenant Thomas Free. r. \. r..
commander of the II. NJ. s. Miowera.
one of the best known and most pop
ular shipmasters trading at Sydney,
does not intend returning after the
voyage to Vancouver. upon which he
started on Monday afternoon, as ur-
gent business calls him to England,
says "A Sydney Commercial News of
recent date. Captain Frees future
movements are not certain, but he
hopes, after finishing his business in
England, to pay another visit to Aus
tralia at the end of the year.
The steamer Mauna Loa arrived in
bright and early this morning with a
cargo consisting of 1,223 bags of su-
gar, 14S coffee, 1926 taro, rs ava, 20
head of cattle, 10 bundles of hides
and miscellaneous freight. She had
a hard week of it on the Hawaii
coast, as the wind blew gale all the
week. One boat was upset at Puma
luu, but no one was hurt. The Mauna
Loa will go on the marine railway
for general overhauling as soon as
she is discharged For this reason,
she will not sail until next Wednes-
day, a day later than her schedule
time.