The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-15
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OVERDUE VESSEL REPORTED
SAFE,

| - ' G-IIDDE E4SSEl4 t(EPORI Ell
| SAFE.
The schooner Kineo, which had been
| given up as lost at sea. is safe at Del
! aware Breakwater. news of her arrival
| there having been received yesterday
| by Castle & Cooke from New York,
| while other advices concerning her ar
rival We're given in the Associated
| Press cables.
! The Kineo sailed from Kahului on
April 81 taking $500 tons of sugar for
| the Breakwater, consigned by Alexan-
der & Baldwin and Baldwin & Brewer.
| From that time until the receipt of
| the cables yesterday no work of her
| had been received here and she had
been posted as overdue for several
| weeks, the rate for reinsurance going
| up to fifty per cent.
| The short messages received do not
;. give any explanation of the long de-
lay experienced by the schooner in
making her port, but convey the well
come news that all on board are well.
CAPTAIN LLOYD'S LATEST.
Capt. Lloyd, master of the liner SEN
ator tells the following curious story,
says the Seattle st-Intelligencer:
Eight years ago. said he. II was
| master of the schooner Mary Humes.
bound from the Sound to Sydney. Aus
tralia, loaded with 100000 feet Of
lumber. We were just south of the
Hawaiian Islands when We struck
typical equatorial gale. The schooner
had not been on the drydock for a long
time and the result was that her seams
opened and she started to make water
at rate which threatened to sink her
in a few hours. We had the pumps
going, but they could not keep the
water down. AS last resort ordered
the big timbers which We're piled on
thrown overheard. With watch
tackles we managed to haul them be-
meath the keel of the ship. Then tim
Der after timber and plank after plank
was dashed together and thrown over
board to be hauled beneath the ships
keel. In this way we unloaded the en-
tire cargo and when it was all out the
ship was on a drydock riding easily
four feet above the water. There was
a good platform to stand ON, and had
the men caulk the seams, and after two
days work we launched her tight as d
dollar. The lumber was reloaded with
| out the loss of a single plank and we
7 in
| a bill for dockage, which the company
paid me personally. That was now
saved my ship"
| The captain did not explain how he
happened to have such a supply of
cordage on hand
ALTA LOADING AT TACOMA.
The Alta will carry a full cargo to
Callao. She has a capacity for 1000, 600
feet Work of loading the Alta will
begin at once and she will receive smart
dispatch.
This is the Atlas first visit to Ia
coma. She is an iron vessel of 1882 net
tons. of British build Formerly she
flew the Hawaiian flag but now she is
under the Stars and Stripes.
When she arrived from ftOHSkOnS
two weeks ago the barkentine COM
pleted somewhat strenuous voyage to
the Orient. Sailing from Port Gamble
for Manila. July 13. 1905, she ran into
a terrific typhoon before she made the
Philippine port during which she lost
her deckload of lumber. She arrived
at Manila September 26 last year, and
in October was reported ashore on the
beach in leaky condition. The vessel
lay at Manila last winter.-Tacoma
Ledger.
ALAMEDA TAKES BIG CARGO.
With a smaller number of cabin pas
sengers than usual but with a steer
age full of japanese and an extra
heavy cargo of freight, the S. S. Ala
media sailed yesterday morning for the
Coast. getting away on time. Her to-
tai cargo amounts to over 1000 tons and
includes 1000 cases of canned pines, 5000
punches of bananas 1900 bags of rice
and other island products.
MARINE NOTES.
The bark Edward May is loading SUI
gar at Mahukona, having arrived there
from Makaweli yesterday.
The steamer Mikahala brought in
1900 bags of sugar yesterday from Ka-
uai ports. Purser CRUDE reports $500
of he Kaka N