NIPSIC AND ALERT. ALERT AT HONOLULU. NIPSIC AT FANNING'S ISLAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 388, 27 July 1889, Page 6

NIPSIC AND ALERT. ALERT AT HONOLULU. NIPSIC AT FANNING'S ISLAND.

The IT. S. s. Alerb, J. G. Green, Commander, 'arrived off Honolulu harbour on Monday evening, June 24bh, nine days from Farming's Island. Had strong noi'theast winds tho entiro passage, and steamed all the way. The Alerb sailed from Honplulu on the 18th of last April, and arrived at Apia, Samoa, after a two weeks' passage. After remaining there one week, she left for Auckland, New Zealand, May 2nd, with the U.S.s. Nipsic in tow ; bub whon about 400 miles trom land, the weather became unsettled, on accoui-^ of which tho temporary rudder of the Nip>ic parted, and the Alert and the Nipeio put back for the land. On returning to Apia, Rear- Admiral Kimbeily ordered them to leave for Pagol'ago, on the island of Tutuila, about 70 miles from Apia, to have needed repairs attended to. They remained .ab tnat port for several days, and on June Ist, in company w ith 11.8.M.5. Rapid, left for San Fianeisco via Hobarf. On the way hither the weather was somewhat unfavourable, find falling short of coal, they called at Farming's Island, 400 miles South of Honolulu, arriving there on Friday, June 14th, and anchored the Nipsic in the lagoon. On Sunday, June 26tb, the Aleib sailed for Honolulu, arriving here a& above. TheAleit will remain in Honolulu several days, and then will return to Farming' s Island with coal for tbe.N'ipsic, and tho two vessels will then come here. An oiheer on board the Alerb stated that the steamship Zealandia, which did not call ab Tutuila on her last trip to Honolulu, left there two na\al officers in very low condition, one of them not expected to live long-. And what added to -their discomferta and miseries was ,the fact that there are only a lew white residents aa Tutuila and no doctor.—" Hawaiian Gazette."

Tun Tapanui Courier states that whatever may have been tho result of smalli bush settlements elsewhere, the small area of bush land opened ior deferred paymenfe settlement on the boundary of the town is likely to be a success. A new industry in the City of Auckland, in tho fhapo of a flax mill, is just about to be started in operation by Air J. C. Cairns. The mill ia being: erected on the harbour edge off Custom-street West, on the site of the old Sh or bland Timber Co.'s Mill, and is expected to be completed in a short time. Mr Cairns, to provide steam-power for the flax-pieparing works, has purchased the litfcle harbour steamer Black Diamond from the Bay of Islands Coal Co., and will utilise her engines, of 18 horse power, foi the mill. A great drawback to flax-milling operations in the heart of a town is the want of bleaching ground, and in this case it appears that very little space for bleaching purposes is at the disposal of theproprietor. The green flax for tho. establishment will most likely be transported to the mill by coasting cutters Iron* various flax-grovying localities along the: Hauraki and Waitemata, from the Miranda, and Wairoa flats, and elsewhere, with a. little from Waiheke and the head of theWaitenjat.a,