The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29

tgot stuck on them and got them to
p marry them for bunch Of bananas
and cocoanut plantations. We had the
time Of our lives after we landed at
Anaa. The natives met us on The
= beach with open arms. They had not
seen a white man in a long time and
only few of them could speak broken
English, but they could tell we were up
against it. | thought the men would
XIII themselves eating, and myself,
TOO. They sat us down to a regular
native feast with roast pig, cooked in
native oven in the sand on the beach.
all kinds of tropical fruit and some
great cake. We certainly made up for
the lack of food we had in the boats
We had practically the same ex-
lLerience related by Captain Chairman.
We reached land two days after he
did, as we got into squally weather
which made things worse for us. Those
were terrible days and nights. but
they are over now. Second Mate Col
Inns and the other men have returned
to New Zealand and we come here to
get paid off, as this is the port we
shipped from"
This was not First Mate Hatfelds
FIRST experience in an open boat. Sew
eral years ago he was with the crew
that abandoned the British bark Had
dington in the Bay of Bengal after the
vessel took fire. The men spent five
days in the boats and suffered great
hardships before they reached shore.
The members of the Puritan's crew
arriving on the Aorangi were: Boats
vain II, Carlson, Carpenter c.. Peter
son and Seamen w. Anderson, c. An
derson, John Johnson, S. Peterson, G.
johnson, William Duvel, Fritz Gros-
sawske, Frank Gustavson and William
| Marshall.
Logan Next Transport.
San Francisco Chronicle, August II.
The transport Buford, which arrived
! Tuesday from the Philippines, will re-
turn to her resting place in Mission
Bay, which she occupied for some time
before making the voyage which she
has just completed. The Logan will
take the September sailing to the
islands, leaving here in the 9Th of
next month. She has been on the dry
dock at Mare Island, being cleaned
and painted and paced in condition
for the service again.
Aorangi Still Breaks Down.
Many people will wonder when the
management of the Union Steamship
Company of New Zealand will replace
the Aorangi with an up-to-date and re-
liable boat. Thus the San Francisco
Chronicle of August says: Despite
the fact that it broke down three or
four times on the long run from the
Antipodes, the royal mail steamer
Aorangi, aptain Evans, of the Union
Steamship Company arrived in roru -
yesterday morning a day ahead of it's
schedule. The mishaps which caused
the liner to stop were not of a serious
nature, being minor defects in the en-
gine-room. Outside of this the vessel
had an uneventful voyage. The
Aorangi brought eleven first-class,
twenty-fOur second-class and forty-one
steerage passengers. Among the trav-
elers was John Patton, formerly in the
postal service in New Zealand, and
his bride. They are on their honey
moon, which the proud groom says he
is enjoying very much, although he
good naturedly admits that he has
seen eighty-three years and has a son
who is past the fifty-ninth milestone.
The Aorangis cargo included forty
nine sacks of fungus, S33 sacks of
cocoanuts and shipments of kauri gum
and vanilla beans.
To Prevent Opium Smuggling.
San Francisco Chronicle: The Of
tcials of the Togo Kisen Kaisha have
adopted plan to STOP the smuggling
OF opium into this port, which, if it
does not entirely do away with the
contraband traffic, will act as a strong
curb In the future every officer or
other employee of the company who
nnds opium aboard one of these boats
and notifies the captain will be paid q
bonus of 20 yen for each tael.
Captain Morton Finds Anomaly.
San Francisco Call: An apparent
conflict in the federal laws came to
light yesterday in the custom house
when Acting Customs Collector Will
am B. Hamilton imposed fine OF
$1,000 upon Captain Harry R. Morton
of the steamship Mongolia for violat
ng a provision of the criminal code Of
me United States which prohibits
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