The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-12-30
CHOPPY SEAS OFF THE ISLAND
PREVENTED CABLE SPLICING
ON REEF
AND OFF
AGAIN

Inc lnE Nacna, captain Wetsbarth,
was ashore on the Miowera reef dur
ing the heavy wind about half past
nine O'Clock last night. but through
good handling In some way managed
TO get OFF. after pounding on the coral
rock for half an hour. and proceeded
on her trip TO Pearl Harbor. where
she is employed in the dredging work.
1t will not be known how she happen
ed to go ashore. or what damage SHE
sustained until communication may be
had with the dredge at Pearl Harbor
this morning.
Captain Weisbarth, master of the
tug. has been sailing around the Is
lands as skipper of different vessels
for over twenty years, and is said to
know them about as well as any mar
liner here.
When the pilot boat was returning
from the cable steamer Silvertown a
little after 8 O'Clock Pilots Lorenseu
and Macauley heard the Kaena S
whistle making a lot of noise. They
realized at once that the vessel was
on the reef and pulling over to her
found that she was on the rock some
distance Eva OF the point where the
NtNdudu SlTuCk. mere WIS no en-
citement on board the tug, and in ar
swer to inquiries, 1t was stated that
there was boat on board large enough
to accommodate the crew in case they
had to be taken ashore. but they re-
quested that the tug Fearless be no
tilted and asked to come to their as
sistance. The pilot boat started FOR
town at once. but before they reached
the harbor the tug got clear of the
reef and could be seen making for
Pearl Harbor.
Mr.. Agassiz. manager for Cotton
Brothers. was said to have been aboard
of the vessel.
10000. .p.s.s.,S.AS .s.r.sr.,.%.o9c
islands. Some of them are the sons of
the former ladies in waiting to the de-
posed Queen Liliuokalani.
Their music is such as God teaches
to the sea and wind and the birds-full
of the tenderest pathos, deep with the
sound of the sea and the high tenor of
the wind. Their love songs need no
translation. All the ecstasy and plead
ing and tears are so plainly voiced, we
know. one sweet song, "Kanilehua"
was composed, not written, by Makia,
whose beautiful young wife developed
the fatal little spot of leprosy He beg
ged to go as a nurse to the lepers, to
Molokai, with her, and his grief and
pleading won permission. The little
spot did not spread, but for many
months that beautiful girl lived among
those dying people. Makia stole her
away, and In IA little open boat crossed
the channel to Honolulu, where he hid
| her and himself up on the Pail Noun
tain. Tourists found them, told of the
! beauty Of the girl, and the authorities,
who thought they had been drowned in
| trying to escape from Molokai, took her
again from him. This song is the fare
well he sang to her across the sea.
AT the Pan American Gen. Miles never
! tired of hearing them sing "Okahoi,"
only One" composed by King Kala-
kaua. They always sing for their last
number aloha Oe," the farewell to her
flag. her land, and her beloved people
which Liliuokalani composed during her
imprisonment, and their national an
them.
The leis of yellow they wear round
their necks and hats Is an indication
of the royal lima flower which they
make into lels at home. No native so
poor or so sad but strings himself a
wreath of flowers every day and wears
1t round his neck. When their Queen
comes home they bring to greet her
hundreds of leis, as expression of their
love. Their very greeting and good-by,
Aloha, My love to YOU" shows how
kindly their hearts are and some one
who has spent many months in Homo
lulu and Waikiki, said at all times, day
or night, If they listened, somewhere
they heard the natives slnpinp on land