The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-03
PLUMBERS LABOR TRUST THE AORANGTS ACTION. [
AVOIDED THE POSSIBILITY OF A
LIBEL.
Stayed outside the Three Mile Limit
and Kept Her Anchor Up-Views of
the Hogan Attorneys.

The Aorangi yesterday and this morn
ing was carefully handled so that she
might avoid the possibility of libel by
the plaintiffs in the Hogan minstrel
suits against the Canadian Australian
Steamship Company, and the desire to
avoid such a libel is thought to have
been the reason for her strange be-
havior. Though she entered at the
/ Custom House late yesterday afternoon
and stayed over night, she was never
within reach of an attachment. She
was more than three miles from shore
at all times, hence the great difficulty
in reading Captain Hays signals. 1t
was also noticeable that she did not
drop an anchor, being apparently ready
to steam out if any boat approached
with attachment papers. 1t is thought
that when the London managers re-
ceived word of the result of the last
trial of the last of the twenty-seven
suits that was heard-a verdict for
$4,000 against the company-they con-
cluded that it was better to keep clear
of Honolulu.
II have no doubt that the desire to
avoid a libel was the reason for the
Aorangis conduct" said +. B. McClan-
ahan, of attorneys for the minstrels,
/ though there was really no danger that
we should attach the vessel. We dis
cussed that some time ago, and sew
eral vessels which we might have Ii
belled have been in since the suits be-
gan. However, I think the news of the
| $4,000 verdict probably alarmed the
London office, hence their cable to sgd
ney, telling the vessel not to enter Ho-
nOlulu. Unless she came within three
miles we could not libel her. If she had
approached within that distance and
we had desired to do so, we could have
sent officers out with papers that would
h laFal =.
she came"
According to some estimates. the 40
rangi was seven miles out all yester-
day, though she was nearer than that
this morning, when the passengers
from here were taken to her. The COM
pany chartered the island steamer
Upolu to take passengers this morning
/ They left the Pacific Mail wharf at
7:45 o'clock. The Aorangi could be seen
off the harbor, not with her anchor
down, awaiting the arrival of passen-
gers and clearance papers, according to
the usual custom, but under way all
the time, cruising about in a circle that
never seemed to touch the legal limit.
Passengers who arrived here on the
steamer also state that the Hogan
suits gave the reason for her staying
outside. Six MCAdoo minstrels were
I landed. One of their number said this
morning that the vessels orders not to
! touch at Honolulu We're on account of
I the Hogan suits. and that it was
/ known on board the vessel when she
3 left Sydney that she would not touch
/ at Honolulu.
| The vessels orders We're to stand off
| the harbor and find out if any later
order than the one cabled to Sydney
I had been received by the Honolulu
agents.
T. II. Davies & Co. have nothing
: tn I'D 10 CT fot lna 7 NK-nc a
matter of expenses that kept the vessel
out Yesterday afternoon the Custom
/ House sent to Davies e Co., demanding
/ to know the reason for the actions of
/ the steamer. The information was re-
] peated that she did not come in be-
cause she had no freight for Honolulu
and didn't want to pay port charges.
Whether Davies & Co. received any
later orders than those telegraphed
/ from London to Sydney is not known,
but the fact that Mr.. Irvine took the
unusual course of going to meet the
| Aorangi in the pilot boat. before he
could have been informed from shore
that she was not entering the harbor
in the ordinary way, is taken as evil
dence that London had also con'muni-
Gated its instructions TO Honolulu. The
| call here was quite a profitable one for
the Aorangi as she took a large pas
senger list away.
/ Ine statement tnat the 81 Gamer stay.
ed outside to save port charges is not
borne out by the figures nf her ectual
costs, for, as a matter of fact, she came
out on the wrong end financially by not
coming in. BY entering and clearing AT
/ the Custom House she was put to an
/ expense of 6 cents a ton on her reg
istered tonnage of 27S2. which, together
with stamp taxes and other minor eX-
penSes, amounted to about $3.50. Com
ing I'm the harbor would have cost her
800 pilot fees and between so and SGi
for wharfage and other charges The
stay outside cost her something nolc
than half a days time beyond what
would have been required If shH had
come right in. docked. taken her IN.
sengers aboard and gone on. This add
tional time it is said, was worIh more
than the expenses she escaped.
The agents r.. II. Davies d Co, did
everything in their power to facilitate
the debarkation of the passengers. n
fact, it was due to the efforts Of .he
agents that the vessel took passenger!
at all.
The Miowera, of the same line as The
Aorangi, is due tomorrow, and when
she arrives adVices may be received
that viii settle the question of the fu-
ture behavior of the Canadian steam
ers.
NEVER KNOWN CHAMRERLAINTs
COLIC, CHOLERA AND DIARR-
HrHVr me.