The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-10-24
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Llewelyn Gay has been appointed an
inspector Of customs. b..
The steamer Lehua Ii on the marine
railway. She will be painted and the
machinery repaired.
Word was brought by the America
Maru that the China would not be
needed by the United States Govern
ment as a transport.
The bark Foohng Suey sailed for
Shanghai yesterday, where she will
load general cargo for New York. Fred.
Iaukea Of this city was one Of the
crew. .et
Captain Searle of the j. A. Cummins
has taken advantage of q slack time
during the past month to overhaul and
paint his steamer. A newforemast has
been put In.
The German ship Marie Hackfeld,
for San Francisco last Sunday, carried
1896 bags Of sugar, 2,015,1S0 pounds,
valued at 376,9I1.65. and 1888 bales wool,
203, lat pounds, valued at 31S.27S.9S.
The Russian steamship Dalnyvostok
has been chartered by the Government
at San Francisco. She is now on her
way from Yokohama to Honolulu with
lot OF Japanese contract laborers and
coal.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-THE
auxiliary cruiser Badger went up to
Mare Island yesterday to At out for her
voyage to Manila.
The newly chartered transport Vic
tOria pumped her water ballast tanks
ont yesterday, inwhich Is to be loaded
railway iron for building a Govern
ment railway In Manila. On her decks
she will carry thirty ambulances.
| VICTORIA, Oct 1O.--The barkentine
Uncle John, bound from Honolulu to
Puget Sound, went ashore on Sunday
night on the west shore Of Vancouver
Island. She is a total loss. The Uncle
John left Honolulu on September IS
and made q good passage toward Port
Townsend, wnere she was to receive
orders. She was driven ashore during
the gale OF Sunday night. The officers
and men escaped by taking to the
boats.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13.--The
Hawaiian ship Star Of Russia Is out
twenty-one days from Port Gamble
w,.h a cargo of lumber for Algoa bay
and the Hawaiian ship John Ena Is
out twenty-eight days from Port
Blakeley with lumber for Delagoa bay.
The American ship NJ. p. Grace arrived
from Port Blakeley at DelagOa bay on
the 9Th. and the British ship Ancaios
sailed from here for Cape Town on
August 20, with SO, 100 centals OF wheat
valued at $4,000. What fate remains
in store for the two Hawaiian ships is
problepatical. 1t is possible that their
cargOes may be seized.
| SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. l4.-Tht
American ship Charles Il. Moody, Cap
tain Woodside. out IFS days from Nor
folk. Va, and bound for Honolulu with
a cargo OF coal consigned to the Gov
eminent. is reported as overdue. Sh,
was reinsured yesterday at As per cen
premium on the risk. The Moody Il
; a fine wooden vessel and was recent!
; purchased from Eastern owners b!
; Lewis Anderson L. Co. to ply between
this port and the Hawaiian Islands
The bark Alden Besse reached por
yesterday afternoon from Honolulu
making the voyage in seventeen days
This is considered very fair trip TO
this season of the year, other sailin.
vessels making 1t in from twenty L
twenty-five days. She carried ligh
cargo. 1000 odd sacks of sugar. 1t !!
almost the end of the sugar season IL
the islands, and the shipments here
after will be light.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 18th,
Oceanic Steamship Company's steamer
Australia arrived from Honolulu yes
terday after a stormy voyage. The
last two days she shipped sea after sea
; and the decks were awash all the
time. The steamer came into port
with very little coal in her bunkers
There Is coal famine at Honolulu
!. and the steamers officers found grea'
difficulty in getting fuel to replenisf
her scant supply when she arrived
there from this port. Finally, after
diminishing around they succeeded II
getting some from the United States
Government. The small amount In the
bunkers when the steamer arrived
there and the few tons secured from
the Government luckily proved sum
cient for the voyage to this port. Or
her next trip to the islands the bunk
ers will be filled to their capacity
The storm which the Australia en-
countered came up Sunday afternoon
and lasted until she passed the Heads
yesterday morning. All the cabins
were flooded, heavy seas continual!
washing the decks. Captain Houdlett
stated yesterday that 1t was the rough
est October gale he ever struck.