The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-01-30
SEA AND SHORE
The S. S. Nero Here
From Guam Island.

Yesterday wac busy and today VIII
be- "a buster day along the front There
viii be- good deal Of moving among
the ships taking their turns at the
wharves. The Missouri will come In TO
coal aud the Yorihime Maru leaves for
the Orient It will not be- necessary
for the Nero 90 come into the harbor,
as she Is well on as TO water and coal
All the unnecessary hands aboard the
Kinau have been brought ashore and
she will try 10 get away for Maxwell
tonight TO load. II 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-Zsg 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 80 he anchored the
steamer from the pilot boat.
Since leaving Guam which Is to be
one of the trans-Pacilc cable stations,
the Nero has been surveying and
sounding for 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 soundings 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
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
II. Roys, Assistant Surgeon Frank e.
Mccullough, Assistant Paymaster
Hugh r. Insley.
The Old 8. S. Pierre.
The fourmasted British ship Lane
ing which arrived here yesterday from
| sydney with coal for Castle & Cooke
| was at once time the French mai
steamer Pierre, running between Hayre
and New York. About nine years ago
she was converted into what is the
longest sailing vessel afloat. 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 wlnches. Water Is used
for ballast. Her dimensions are length
367 feet. beam 451a feet, draught 23k
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
Cant. Chapman was third officer OF the
Gaelic with Old Captain Pearne. This
is the first trip Of the I.ancing to this
mort she having been engaged in the
East India trade and between London
and Calcutta.