The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-12-22
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W. note since our last issue the arrival Of the
bark Cambridge from Columbia River, with lumber,
salmon. &C.. to Messrs. Walker Allen She is
laid on for Portland.
The Austrian Frigate DonAu, 1e guns, Admiral
Petx 81 DAYS from Yokohama, arrived on the 10Th
She has experienced heavy storms 90 the passage
damaging her spars. machinery and hull
The bark r. W. Wood, Capt English, arrived on
the 10th. with forty-two Polynesian passengers,
from Danger Island
The brig Kamehameha V. from the Guano Islands,
arrived on the 10Th She brings the officers and
crew Of the Robin Hood which vessel was burned at
Bakers Island, on the 30th Of August.
The W. seaver will sail for San Francisco to-day,
with cargo Of sugar. molasses rice and pulu
The A. J. Pope sailed for Bremen yesterday. with
l22 400 gals oil, 2Zlo gals moAsses, 1oO.l92 lbs
bone ZIG lbs walrus teeth, PASS lbs talow 1ol25
lbs Hawaiian beef
The schr Lewis Perry sailed yesterday for San
Francisco with cargo Of domestic produce
The Ethan Allen, from San Francisco Dec. 18th, is
daily expected
The Flying Dart sails for Tahiti, with the first
favorable wind.
Our harbor begins to look bare Of square rugged
vessels most Of the whalemen having gone out
Some eight or ten whalers only remain, and they
will soon be ready for sea-
The grinding season Of the plantations is at hand.
many Of them have already commenced, and the
sugars are slowly making their appearance in the
market. The rainy and boisterous weather has de-
layed work 50 far.
We have no transactions in general merchandise
to note Evening sales at auction, being the prin-
eipAl goods movement
The brig Kamehameha w. reports the departures
Of the following vessels, from the islands of the
GuAno Company, since last advices:
From Bakers Island.
July 27-ship Resolute, with 2l5O tons guano.
Aug 1e-ship Ellen Goodspeed, with 1000 tons suano
Sept. BRIG Fred Thomson, with 4lO tons guano
Sept ls-Ship Golden Horn. with 1850 tons guano.
Oct g7-ship Titan, with 1850 tons guano
From HotrIands Inland.
Aug. 2o--ship Lottie Maria, with 1900 tons gusno
From RcKeaRs Island
Aug. lp-ship Atlantic with 1920 tons guano.
SEMI l7-ship Ella Norton, with 1926 tons guano.
Oct 25-Ship Rival, with 1879 tons guano
coMrouvp ESorVEs.-The most active and enterpri-
sing Clyde ship-builders Of the present time are
Mes.rs John Elder Co., Of Govan, near Giasgow,
and Messrs Card Co., at Greenock- Elder Co:
have attained great celebrity builders OF compound
engines that Is Of engines working their steam at
hofh high and low pressure. The saving in fuel is
said to be thrtythree per cent In favor OF this en-
Rne over the most approved types OF engines work
ing At low pressure. The Pacinc company, tr'ulng
10 and on the west coast Of South America, have
given Elders engines very thorough trial, and
with great success. The Company's large new screw
steamers of 1900 tons, with full oargoes on board,
kee up an average speed Of eleven knots throughout
the voyage from Liverpool to Valparaiso on an aver
age Of thrtyfve Of coal per day. The ships are
larger than the Russo, or CITY Of fnTts and VIII
stow IS much cargo those two ships combined
Compound engines are now all the fashion here and
In England and most Of the builders here and on the
TYNE are favoring their adoption in all classes OF
steam vessels. The leading steamship companies OF
the Kingdom are ordering them for their new ships,
and in some cases placing them IN old SHIPS ID
the place Of engines Of the old types Elder has Tor
many years been such ardent advocate OF the COM
pouud engine and has done so nluch TO perfect 1t,
that he Is to large extent Unidentified with its sue
cess and is now beneftng largely by his early al
herence. Ills firm have orders In hand for sixteen
steamers and at work upon eight, one Of whlch
is the colossal ship Rally. And the Royal Mail snip
EIbs 1000 tons for the West India line from South
ampton.-C6r. N T. Hnes
Telegraph rates in France reduced one
half Messages of % words will be sent anywhere
in the Empire for 20 cents and within the department
for 10.
THRFE eunken treasure ships reported at
Lloyds. One is the Hamilld Mitchell, with s25o,O0O
on board, lying at the bottom Of the China sea,
eighty miles from Shanghae. Another is the steam
er ufynatic sunk in the Gulf Of Suez, with S245OO0
The third is the LHine buried in sand bank under
sixteen fathoms Of water, with no less than 50 OOO,
900. Col Gowan who raised the sunken Russian
feet at sebastopol proposes to send divers down to
the Lntinc next Summer.
THE Glouster feet Bay Chaleur fisherman are re-
turning but their has not been profitable.
good trips being the exceptions: The shore fisher
men are doing better and their No. mackerel sells
readily for s2l per barrel, while the bay fish bring
only So, so.