The Lahaina

This is an action for salvage services rendered by the steam-ship Caledonia to the schooner Lahaina and her cargo. The Caledonia was an iron steam-ship, engaged in the Mediterranean trade, and bound from New York to Glasgow with a general cargo, including 300 cattle. The day after leaving New York, when Shinnecock bore N. W. about 25 miles distant, she sighted the three-masted schooner Lahaina flying a signal of distress. The schooner was six to eight miles distant, some three points on the port bow. The steamer bore away for the schooner, and, coming along-side, found her in the trough of…