Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 503, 22 January 1902 — STEMER SIERRA ARRIVES IN PORT AFTER VERY ROUGH TRIP. [ARTICLE]

STEMER SIERRA ARRIVES IN PORT AFTER VERY ROUGH TRIP.

Unusual Current Reported By the Officers Hawaiian Band Plays Sieaiw Otl-La® Crowd i lie Oceanic iarf-iaileTS of lie Hoiaa Company Leave lor He CoastSailed lor San Francisco Yesterday Afternoon.

Th<» Oceanic Company's Mail -t«-amer Sierra arrived at Honolulu early yesterday morning from Australian ports. She left Sydney on January 7 and had very bad weather between that port and Auckland. The seas were very heavy and the >. .sel strained a goo.] deal, the Sierra being compelled to slow down and heave to for about six hours. Between Auckland and Pago Pago t.,e Sierra experienced continual strong X. E. winds with heavy cross • as. She left Pago Pago on Jan. 13. Time from Sydney to Honolulu H days. 10 hours and 36 minutes; from Pago Pago to Honolulu 6 days and 2 b wrs At this port only pasengers

1. vances. The steamer s engines are e working in sp’.endid shape and she 1 logged between fifteen and sixteen t knots all the time except when she r was slowed down. At this speed the i current was noticed to set her to the > westward from twenty to thirty-five miles a day. ; The following freight was dischargi ed here: 1 rase manufactures. 24 cases beer, 6 vanila cuttings. 7 cases . champagne. 1 case stout. 100 sacks of onions. 0 cases billiard goods, 40 cases butter. 1 case clothing, consigned to W. G. Irwin & Co., Hawaiian t j N'ews Co. and A. Mitchell, f The Sierra sailed for San Francis- =: "o at two o'clock yesterday after- [ toon.

were aiiowed on board the vessel. The Hawaiian band played the steamer off, and the Sierra sailed amid a real battle of flowers. A part of the Hogan company went away on the Sierra, and had a great send off from their comrades of the troop Honolulu. The Sierra brought the following passengers for Honolulu: Rev. Dean Grogan. Geo. Browne, W. W. Knight W. G. Sears. Mrs. W. G. Sears, G. C. Spilsbury. The current which has been re ported here by other steamers arriving from the colonies and Orient was also noticed by the officers of the Sierra, and they say that it is growing stronger as the season ad