The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-01-05
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK Of
LUMBER CHARTERS ARE VERY
HIGH.
Frcights Advance Nearly Fifty Per
Ccnt-Morc Rough Weather Balti-
more and Adams News and Gossip.

The Iwalani sailed for Kauai yester-
day afternoon.
The barlentine Topgallant is on her
way from Port Blakely to this port,
lumber laden.
The 5. 5. China. according to the
new schedule will touch at this port
but twice in the next six months.
The L. 5 5. Adams has received sail
ing orders. and is now taking on her
stores. She will probably get away
for the Coast about Thursday or Fri
day.
The bark Nuuanu having taken in
sufficient sugar for ballast. hauled
alongside Brewers wharf this morn
ing to discharge the remainder of her
ballast.
The L. S. $. Baltimore will not go
to sea for target practice before the
14th or 18th inst, in order not to be
absent from port during the arrival
and departure of mails. In the inter
i'm there will be three mails TO and
one from the coast.
The barkentne c. +. Crocker has
been on the Sydney shipping lists for
several months and has chartered to
tpdN 'Ddl lpl lllIS IIblt' +NS d lldl'tl
of fact she has been all this time en-
gagged in the coasting trade. and is
only now loading lumber on the Sound
for Port Perrie.
The American barkentine Arago.
Captain GreenIeaf. arrived from West
port yesterday afternoon. with a coal
cargo, after a run of 40 days. On No
vember 80, in a northwest gale, while
the vessel was hove to, the top gallant
mast and head of the foretop mast
were carried away by a heavy sea.
Recent advices from the Coast say
that agents are Offering $3.50 per thou
sand for lumber charters from the
Sound to Island ports, and are finding
the greatest difficulty in securing yes
sells at any figure. Not in recent years
have charters been so high. Captain
Goodman of the Robert Levers is be-
moaning his fate that he must lie
here two months for sugar charter.
in which there is scant profit. while
the golden opportunity is slipping
away.
The wreck of the British bark
Blairbogie, bound in ballast for Delo-
goa Bay to Oregon, on Matahiva Is
land, reported in recent dispatches
from the Coast, recalls wildly to the
mind of Captain Godfrey the wreck OF
the schooner Margaret Crockett in that
vicinity more than a quarter of Il CEN
fury ago. Out of a total of % people
aboard, only s were saved. Captain
Godfrey and seven companions got off
in boat, and had been seven days
without food and water when picked
up. Matahiva Island is close by Nal
den Island, and the ship Commodore.
had she not been wrecked on the lat
ter, would probably have left her
bones there.
The Waiaeale arrived in this morn
ing from Kauai, with 271O bags of SUI
gar and 240 rice, after a rough eXpe-
rience. Yesterday morning the surf
was so bad that a landing could not
be effected at Kapaa. The he Au Hou
is weather bound again at Hanalei.
after trying in vain to effect Il landing
at kilauea. There are 10000 bags of
sugar in the warehouses at Kilauea,
and unless some of ii can be shipped,
the mill will have to close down this
week. This is the third successive
trip that the he Au Hou has been
weather bound at Kilauea. unable to
land her freight. The mill at Kapaa
has been shut down for several DAYS
for repairs. but will start up before
the end of the week