The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-30
SEA AND SHORE
The S. S. Nero Here
From Guam Island.

Yesterday was busy and today Will
be buster day along the front. There
will be a good deal of moving among
the ships taking their turns at the
wharves. The Missouri will come in to
coal and the Yorihime Msru leaves for
the Orient. 1t viii not be necessary
for the Nero to come into the harbor,
as she is we'll of as to water and coal.
All the unnecessary hands aboard the
Kinau have been brought ashore and
she will try to get away for Makaweli
tonight to load. 1t Is not known yet
whether she will go direct from there
or return and clear at this port. A
system of pontoons for carrying hose
to supply clean steamers with water
from the wharf has been adopted by
the Inter-Island Company.
A zig-Zag Trip.
The armed collier and survey ship
Nero, after a voyage of eighty days
from Guam, reached this port yester-
day. Pilot Macaulay, when he told
them Of the sickness here, was not ia
ken aboard, and so he anchored the
steamer from the pilot boat.
Since leaving Guam, which is to be
one of the trans-Pacifc cable stations.
the Nero has been surveying and
sounding for a route for the proposed
cable. A zig-zag course was followed,
so that the general topography of the
ocean bed could be noted. Several
thousand soundfngs were made during
the trip. Many questions were asked
of the pilot and Captain Merry, who
went out to the ship in the steam
launch.
The officers wanted to know the
news from Manila and Guam and the
result of the late international yacht
race. The news of the Boer war was
a surprise to them. A great deal of
mail has accumulated here for them
and this was the direct cause of the
stop here.
AS the Nero has sufficient coal, wa
ter and supplies aboard, she did not
enter the harbor. She will probably
| get away today.
The officers of the Nero are Lieut..
] Commander Harry NJ. Hodges. Lieuts.
John Hood, Marbury Johnston and
John p. McGuinness, Ensigns Daniel
NJ. Garrison, James p. Raby and John
Fl. Roys, Assistant Surgeon Frank E.
Mccullough, Assistant Paymaster
Hugh r. Insley.
The Old s. s. Pierre.
The four-masted British ship Lane
ing which arrived here yesterday from
Sydney with coal for Castle & Cooke
was at once time the French mail
steamer Pierre, running between Havre
and New York. About nine years ago
she was converted into what is the
/ longest sailing vessel afioat. She is
most commodiously fitted for the ac-
commodation of passengers, her deck
rooms having been left as they were
when she was a steamer. She has a
very large carrying capacity being able
/ to take two and one-fourth million feet
/ of lumber or 1900 tons freight The
Lancing is built of iron, has a double
/ bottom and six water tight compart-
| ments. She is a quick and easy ship
/ to discharge having four matches and
three steam wInches. Water is used
| for ballast. Her dimensions are length
367 feet. beam 451a feet, draught 231s
| feet. She spreads $4,000 yards
of canvas and has a crew all told of
| thirty. Captain Chapman, the skipper
| Of the Lancing, has his wife and two
| year old daughter aboard. The ship is
| their home and very coy home their
| part of the vessel is. Five years ago
| Capt. Chapman was third officer of the
Gaelic with old Captain Pearne. This
| is the first trip of the Lancing to this
port she having been engaged in the
East India trade and between London
\ and Calcutta.
Japs Deported.
Immigrant Inspector John w. Short
and his assistant Jas. Hakuole made
quite a roundup of Japs unfit to labor
| On the plantations and yesterday put
/ them aboard the Yorihime Maru which
| leaves for Japan today. They number
/ one hundred and ten people who have
! been rejected by the inspectors, twenty
/ four of the number being women. Some
IF these people have been on Quaran-
| tine Island a long time and their ex-
Oenses, while there and passage money
/ home will have to be paid by the Jap
| anese immigration companies that
| brought them here. One of the men
| ordered back is suffering with beri-beri
and was refused by the Captain Of the
| Yorihime. He was sent to the Queens
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