The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-08-08
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tfry. which now run between Ran
Francisco and iiiio may come 20 Hone
uIu. and that this line. which has made
a big suceesA To- mat service. will make
az EFFORT 90 capture portion Of the
Honolulu export trade.
The Maison Company has purchased
the Kaimiloa. an Old vessel which has
been half filled with water FOE some
time. from the Inter-Island Steamship
Company, and II will be fitted up TO re-
ccive oil II will BE- used as a lighter
W this port TO supply oil to the oil
burning steamers and chiefly TO those
OF her owners line.
The Kaimlloa was towed over to the
Rover. and will be thoroughly over
hauled. The copper sheathing has been
torn from her bottom and her hull will
now be repaired. She has leaked a
great deal. and Il will take a lot OF
caulking to make her sound.
CAREER OF THE KAIMILoA.
! OF all the stories that the novel and
romantic South Seas have produced.
perhaps the most interesting could be
told by the kaimiloa, once a Hawaii
an man-of- war, but now a sorrowful
looking old wreck. whose very name
has been beaten off her prov and stern
by action of the clements. The man
of-war was originally owned by a firm
i'm sydney and engaged in the copra
trade IN the islands. In 1887 she was
purchased by King Kalakaua, and after
being fitted up as man-of-war. was
sent on a mission to Samoa. This mis-
sion was a failure, ana for years after
her return the ship lay in the stream
in Honolulu harbor. with thousands Of
specimens of sea life being added to the
mass of stuff on her bottom. Then the
Inter-Island Steamship Company
bought her and tried to use her in the
island trade, and on June G of this
year she was sold by that company to
the Matson Navigation Company of
Hilo and will DO converted into an oil
hulk. t-'.t
No one knows, how many sins were
committed aboard the vessel while
trading in the South Seas. but many
people have heard something OF the
story of her remarkable cruise as o
man-of-war to Samoa. King Ralakaua
had just returned from a trip around
the world. sundry people at all the
places he stopped filled him with hot
Pacific. on his peturn to Honolulu he
, promptly set about the work of trying
to get control u all the islands which
had not yet been seized by European
rulers. go
His Prime Minister. Gibson, induced
f ship and send it on a diplomatic mis-
, sion to Samoa. where Ambassador
! Ned" Bush was instructed to either
| annex the place or induce the King Of
: Samoa to make a treaty acknowledging
that Kalakaua was the supreme ruler
, of Pacific Island confederacy. On
board the warship was Admiral Jack
, son. Ambassador Bush, Henry Poor
secretary CT the legation, big crew, an
enormous quantity of gin. a band, and
plenty of The Kings dreamy ideas OF q
Pacific confederacy. "Nf
To this day the mystery OF how the
$ vessel ever re ached Samoa has not been
t solved and it Is g wonder that she evei
1 got there at ell. for gin and other drink
a never nowe'l freer on a private Graf,
than it did on the Kalmiloa- Amb&Ssa-
dor Bush went ashore at Apia to pay
his respects to the King. Admiral
. jackson was non compOs mentib be
cause OF the pleasures" of the tOy'
age. Then wild with the dissipation o'
the voyage, the crew mutinied. and cap
3 turing Secretary Poor. chained him II
the deck. The German warship Olga
was in the harbor at the time. and heI
captain. noticing the row on the Ha
waiian vessel. sent a iongboat over. re
leased Poor, and threatened to tow tn
whole outfit back to Hawaii unless thu
trouble subsidized. Meanwhile Busf
worked hard on shore, got the king t.
sign the treaty and Apia celebrated IL
a royal and unroyal fashion with luaus
But the Samoan king got tired o
things and wrote letter to Kalakaus
telling him that the Hawaiians hat
taught his people bad habits and wer'
worse than volcanoes in their effect OF
his country. The story is related tina
Bush had tempestuouS career as al
ambassador. On the occasion Of tn
German emperor's birthday he was in
Vited 20 a big celebration aboard tn
warshlp. At the banquet, while every
one was eagerly gazing into stems tina
cheered Bush arose to give toast. III
was in a happy go-luciSy mood ant
shouted: D the Emperor of Ger
many" One can imagine how Busl
looked as. attired in ambassadors dres
uniform, he escaped from angry Ger
mans into the Samoan thicket and re
manned there for a while. Then kala
kaua got sore. He sent a peremptor,
order to Bush to return and bring tn
whole outfit with him. The vessel sail
ed out of Apa hsrbor all right, bu
later put into PagoPago, and there ev
cry movable thing of her equipmen