The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-06-04
local ~COlINERCT4L.

The bark y. c. Murray sailed on Thursday Tor san Fran-
cisco, taking q fI cargo % produce, which viii he found re-
ported below
The CoH,et Is the only vessel on The Lerth Tor the above port.
While in san Francisco she was taken on the marine ways
and Inspected By the underwriters, and found in good eondi-
tiou, AMI a certificate furnished which allows her 70 load her
full capacity, Ia fest
Mr. Barlow hid on Thur-Iay one of tire most attractive
auction sales that We have had Er many months The style
q goods offered was so novel and unique, that il attracted the
attention % i1bberS and rtaI ieIIsE-, ami the prices obtained
we're sai-irtor, e~1usbl-dns tie season Of the year, AMI the
state O trade
yr. Barlow soil On Saturday last a twelve acre pasture
Iot Iorafed Tu: beyond the Catholic burial ground, which
realized $3.50. There was 4 valuable fsh-pond included,
which aEue il sail u be wostI the sum paid Mr. q T. Ward
was the purchaser
The regular victoria packet RoEt. CowaH arrived from Vic
t1ria on the Ist with 4 full cargo, consisting mainly Of lumber.
She viii return {, the same port With dispatch
By the ship Cor Norton We have San Francisco advires TO
the 10th Of May. The American tariff had been laid aside in
Congress, and VIII probably not be passed, 50 that the present
dutis viii remain in frec- IL i thought that the prospects Of
the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty would by this postpOnement
be improved
Sugars continued heavy in the san Francisco market, with
perhaps a prospect Of Improvement Latest sales, 1OIc. for
ehotcc5 IOGIO!c. for good 6a1c. for darker grades. Coffee.
firm At 1sl9Ioe. Rice, johbtns At Sc. Pull, dull at Sc
Coll,
We have the following whaling reports: Bark julian,
Heppiugstone, at sypan, Marrh 22l, $50 bbls- hunPbaek. Had
parted from ! whales and lost another large whale Reports
California, Willis, 40 sperm, los humpback- GGgOdG, swit,
$50 h~umpbaek- Minerva, Alien, 81 ~humpback- At Yoke
hama, April 18th, Janus, Green Norman, Lowell no re-
ports. January 26th, south latitude 357 so, vest longitude
I5g= IS. Europa, % months out, 1000 bbls. sperm, 900 bbls.
whale -
ITEMS.
TnE WHALE FIsHERY.-The value q the catchings Of the
whale fishery imported into New Bedford during the year
1852, was SLO67, 500
has Mt since been 6earI tom AERss q Wig suSf1rf fr p rfleebbbba iaQph1le
in 1856, registered 1853 tons, and was owned by Pope d Talbot.
The Colorado sailed 6r Panama with 500 passengers, $685.
600 IN treasure. and merchandise for New York TO the value Of
$4,000. including 500 centals Of mustard seed, 5000 hides,
352O1O lbs wool, and SEQ cases Of Lusk's canned fruit
An event in American commerce was the recent arrival At
Liverpool Of ths Iron Age, the first iron sailing vessel built in
the United States She took n cargo q cotton from Galveston
AMI attracted considerable attention at Liverpool She is rated
A l Tor twenty years
Henry John Murray, British Consul at Portland, Maine.
promuIgates, by order q Her Majestyfs Government, an an
nouncemeut issued by the Governor General Of India, offering
j prize % $4,000 in gold fr the invention Of some machinery
or process Tor separating the fibre and bark Of the Ramie, or
China grass plant, au article the demand for which is increasing.
The bark KafggeS, Captain Atkinson, sailed from Belling-
ham Bay November 18th, 1869, with a cargo Of coal for San
Francisco, since which time nothing has been heard from her.
The KutEs0B was built at New Bedford in 1884, was formerly
a whaler, registered 40 tons, and belonged 10 Pope & Talbot,
Of san Francisco