The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-27

kura, Captain John Glib arrived this
morning from Sydney and anchored
outside at $50, docking about 9 |
O'Clock. According to Captain Gibbs
report there was nothing unusual or
sensational in the voyage either in
the way of weather or happenings on
board ship. The strong northwest |
trade winds prevailed during the lat
ter half of the trip but never stirred
up anything which could be properly
called a storm. The Makura which
stops here en- route to Vancouver, left
Sydney February Y, Auckland Feb.
ruary 16 and Suva February 90 From
sydney to Auckland the Makua en-
countered fresh southerly winds. but
from New Zealand to Fiji the weather
was smooth and calm.
The Makua carries 1886 through pas
sengers in the cabin and eight in the
steerage, in addition to thirty-five pas
sengers for Hawaii or for San Fran
cisco by way of Honolulu. The
through freight cargo is largely made
up of refrigerated Australian meat
and general freight.
The following are the items of the
freight cargo discharged in this port;
Two cases books, ten cases marble,
/ six sacks grass seed, 562 cases onions.
$50 sacks dried blood, two cases sad
dlery, twenty chests tea, 1894 pack
ages frozen meat two crates frozen
rabbits, niuety-fve cases frozen but
ter, $40 sacks sulphate ammonia,
thirty cases jam, three cases smoked
/ fish
The first and second-class passen-
wers from Australian ports who were
booked for Honolulu are:
First Class-Misses NJ. Putney, \.
! c. Afleck, Schuett, Priestley Ward
Humphries; Mesdames Trumbull, Hut
ton, Schutt; Messrs. j. Hecketh A. \.
Burch II, F. Hartley, T. b. Trumbul
il. V. Richardson, r. Sharp, W. Smart
Fl. G. Reid, NJ Gaudry, c. H. Hutton
F. r. Pratt, A. Uglow, c. H. st. HILL
Schutt, Dr. l.. w Brown. l.. G. Brown
. j. Thompson, H. Thompson. r. Rim
mer.
> Second Glass Misses Slater, Munro
81; Mesdames Raymond, Munro and
. child; Messrs, II. Western, A. f.
tombstone, J. r. Munro.
J. V. Richardson is the United
States vice consul general stationed
at Sydney and w. Smart is the super
intending engineer of the Canadian
Australian company.
When the Makura left this port for
Australia some weeks ago a morning
paper printed an account of the land
ing OF arms by the Makura ON Fan
ming island This story Captain Glib
branded as wholly absurd this morn
ing.
we did stop at Tanning" said he,
but We were there about two hours,
and in that time it would have been
impossible to have landed the guns
and ammunition we were said to have
on board We landed few stores
and supplies of the most harmless
character and steamed away"
Captain Glib is very proud of the
fashion in which he cared for the
Hawaiian fish which were shipped on
the Makura from this port and is
severely critical of the methods
adopted by the officials in Sydney to
whom he entrusted them, At the end
of the long sea voyage Captain
Glib WIS able to turn over to 1t
Scout nineteen fourishng, healthy
fish, and within a few days after they
had been landed there was but one,
the squirrel fish, alive On board the
Makura the pumps were kept going
in the fish tank and a constant sup
them, but after they were landed the
Sydney officials undertook to keep
them alive by pumping oxygen into
the water. The sole survivor of this
treatment is now occupying a tank
of his own in the Sydney geological
garden, while the less hardy ones
who persisted are stuffed and mounted