The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-20

struggled ashore, the ship started to
move from the wharf.
Suddenly a cry went UP from the
deck, ana two or three tottering and
very jolly roustabouts came to the rail
ana made it known that they wanted
to get off. By this time the BOAT was
several feet from the wharf, and only
a single line remained to be cast
loose. The Stevedores started to come
ashore. They got out on the line and
cunglng to it with hands and legs,
managed to wor ktheir way. A crowd
of men were ready to receive them ana
held on to the shore end of the line
to sway it nearer to the wharf as each
man came off the ship.
After these men had been disposed OF
others fastened to the side. 1t seems
that there were a dozen StevedoreS who
had been forgotten when the matches
were put on forward. The men were
as TO what transpired that, after their
work had been completed, they had
paid no attention to the gong. They
had been practically imprisoned below,
for it was not known that they were
there when the matches We're closed
They found their way on deck by going
aft, however, after they had been in
formed that they were on their way to
San Francisco. Then their turn came
to take hold of the rope.
The crowd on the wharf was highly
amused at the way the merry steve
dores disembarked. Some of them
could hardly walk after they got on
the wharf although they all managed
to wriggle down the rope without ac-
cident.
There may be one or Two OF them
still below decks on the Nippon for all
anybody knows, getting free ride to
Frisco, and recovering from the effects
of sandpaper GIN
The little native boys who dive for
nickels had good day of II yesterday.
Minister Conger seemed to be very
much interested in them, and kept
them busy picking coins out of the
water. There were several others who
nickels before going aboard the ship.
The diving boys seem to be one of the
famous attractions of Honolulu.
Claim They Discovered an Island.
When the steamer Mauna Loa arriv-
ed in port from Hawaii ports yester-
day morning several members OF her
crew were full of most graphic pipe
dream story of having discovered an
island in the middle of the channel be-
tween the islands of Hawaii and Maui.
They said that soon after the Mauna
Loa had left Hawaii land was sighted
in the middle of the channel. Nobody
had ever heard of an island being there.
According to certain members of the
crew the island was a comparatively
low affair, sticking up out or the water
only a few feet. There were no trees
on it, nor was there sign or anything
green. The island was probably a lit
tie less than a mile in length, by
something over half a mile across. 1t
cleaned white in the sunlight, and the
waves broke around it as if the dry
land was protected by reef.
The crew say they thought that
some great submarine volcano had
broken out and that the island had
been born but the night before. They
were somewhat troubled over the ar
fair, for they did not know but what
the Goddess Pele was angry at some
thing, and was about to make changes
in topography which might prove any
thing but healthful for the inhabi-
tants.
In support of their story Of the new
island in mid-channel and the theory
that it was born in a single night the
natives say that at Kona their friends
have of late been catching great deep
water fish right in near shore, with
nets. The theory is that the same
volcanic action which produced the
new island, disturbed the deep-watel
fish and drove them out of their regu-
lar grounds, to be caught along the
Kona shore.
Captain Simerson, of the Nauna Loa
was seen last night. He knew nothing
of any island having been discovered
May Be Captain of the Klnross.
The British bark Kinross, now in
ENGLAND, and which, as was stated the
other day, will load coal at Cardiff
for Honolulu having haer ra11rn h n cod