The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-02-18
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK OF
LEHUA AND KILAUEA HoU TO BE
LAID UP.
Steamer Maui Will do Their Work.
Stormy Weather-News and Gossip.

The schooner Alice Cooke is now IL
| days out from San Francisco. She is
doubtless having head winds.
The steamer Waialeale arrived in
yesterday from Kahuku, with 5000
bags of sugar for the w. f. Babcock
The II. NJ. S. Warrimoo is confident
| ly looked for this afternoon. She
comes from Victoria, bringing three
| days later news. The p. NJ. S. s. Rio
| de Janeiro is due in the morning from
| San Francisco.
Old shippers predict that another
Kona is brewing, and preparations are
being made for it along the water
front. The wind continues from the
south, and heavy clouds are hanging
along the horizon.
The Mauna Loa due today from Ha
wall is not expected much before
nightfall, as on the up trip she could
not land Kona freight on account OF
the rough weather, and would have to
land it on her way back.
Postmaster Dat does not expect the
r. NJ. S. Aorangi before Sunday ant
as he is an authority on such. matters
the belief has become general. The
Aorangi has never been on time since
she went on the route. She is already
two days late.
The Maui came down from the Coast
| in days 20 hours, the fastest run evel
made by an Island steamer. The rur
was remarkable, when it is taken in
! to consideration that she encountered
head winds all the way, and was higf
| in the water. She is undoubtedly the
best boat yet turned out for the Will
der Company.
The American bark Alex Mcneil
which cleared yesterday for Nanaimt
to load coal for this port, says late
San Francisco Chronicle, received the
highest character rate paid on the coas
for over ten years. Her last trip sh,
! got $1.75 a ton. She is now chartered
by George Fritch to carry a cargo o
fuel at 1925 per ton.
The brig w. G. Irwin arrived yester
day afternoon, after 90 days of sail
ing against headwinds and seas. Sh,
was towed in by the Waialeale. TIL,
She will get her inward cargo out b,
tonight, commencing to load Satur
day morning. AS her cargo is all rea
dy, it is likely she will sail again OF
Tuesday.
The steamer Ke Au Hou arrived il
yesterday afternoon from Punaluu
Hawaii, with 46Os bags of sugar. Or
the outward voyage she succeeded il
landing the remainder of the new Ha
waiian Agricultural Company sugar
mill, the first half of which she took
up few weeks ago. She was just
month in TRANSFERRING the mill tc
Punaluu.
Capt. Freeman of the steamer He.
lene will be transferred to the Maui.
when he arrives from his present trip
and will then be in command of the
finest steamer of her size in the is
land trade. 1t has not been decided
who will succeed Capt. Freeman, in
the Helene, except that he will prob
ably be one of the captains now in
command of the company's steamers.
The fight between the state and
federal government officers for supre-
macy at San Francisco was taken into
the courts recently, when Capt.
Finch of the S. S. Gaelic and Pilot
Jordan were placed on trial before
Police Judge Conlon on a charge OF
having violated the state law by es.
tering the port without the permits
sion of the state quarantine officer, al
though the ships papers were prop
erly endorsed by the federal officials
When the last mail advices were dis.
patched from San Francisco the bat.
tie was still raging.
The Kilauea Hou and Lehua are to
be retired, perhaps permanently, as
soon as the Maui is put into commits.
sion and then the only wooden boats
left in the Wilder service will be the
Hawaii and Mokolii. As the Hawaii
is used principally for Tightening all
along the Hawaii coast, and the Moko-
lii as an accommodation boat, it may
be said that the Wilder Company has
practically steel steamship service.
The Maui will take the Helene's run
up the Hakalau coast, and Helene do
ing the work now done by the Kilau-
ca Hou and Lehua.