The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-10-09

bgs rice, 10 bgs sample ava root,2 sam
pie bxes of ramie, IL bgs coffee and lbs
bales of wool; value S4s, 4S451.
Spreckels new tug Active, while not
being the largest, is one of the most
powerful, and certainly the handsomest
on San Francisco bay. She is 100 feet
long on the water line, and LOG feet
over all. She has beam of % feet
inches, and is IL feet inches deep in
the hold. She was built by the Union
Iron " orks. and is made entirely of
steel. The main-house, which is also
of the same material, extends 43 feet
along the main deck, and includes the
mess-room, galley and pantry, wash
room, stairway leading to the upper
deck and the upper parts of the engine
and boiler rooms. On the main house
is the pilot house and the boats, fire
buckets, engine1 skylight and fire-room
hatch. The rooms are lined with
cherry, the furniture is of ash and is
richly upholstered in plush. The floor
ing is laid with ornamental thing. The
saloon forward contains the apartments
of the captain and engineer, and num-
Der of berths for passengers, all in
cherry and ash Below the forward
saloon are the fresh-water tank and ice
house. The machinery is first class in
every respect. She has two compound
condensing engines twenty inchrs and
thirty-eight inches in diameter, with
twenty -four inch stroke. There are
639 tubes In the condenser. The crank
shaft is eight inches in diameter, with
mean pitch of thirteen feet. The Ac-
tive has seven cast-iron bits. The main
towing bitt, which is only one of cast
iron on the coast, weighs fully four tons
aud tE, E,..,, Il h,,n
The bits have highly polished brass
heads. The awning Sanctions are of
galvanized iron and fitted on fore and
aft. The Active can carry sixty tons of
fresh water, has bunker capacity of
| eighty tons, and can steam 20O0 miles
without receiving supplies, and is fin
ished with teak guard faced with iron
| and the teak rail around the boat is
faced with galvanized chatting strip to
| take the wear of the hawsers. She is
also supplied with a powerful steam
| pump, fitted for wrecking or fire pur-
poses and fitted out with full supply
of sucti II and leading hose with APP
| proved nozzles, etc, which is capable
of throwing six streams for fire pur-
| poses.
Oct g.
The schr Ke Au Hou brought a load
of fire-wood from Eva yesterday.
Rough weather is reported at Hama
kua.
The Jas King sailed for Puget
Sound this morning in ballast
This noon the bark G ID Bryant, schr
Ke Au Hou and schr Sarah 81 Eliza
were the only vessels at the wharves on
the Queen street end of the harbor.
The Daniel Barnes, w G Irwin and G
D Bryant are the only foreign traders in
the harbor which are dischargiug; none
are loading on account of there being
no sugar.
The schr Kauikeaoul which arrived
from Pohoiki, Puma, yesterday, brought
quantity of ohia wood from Rycroft's
plantation. About 1900 blocks of the
wood came for the Government and are
to be used in paving Fort street, be-
tween King and Hotel streets, as an ex-
pertinent. More of the block are to be
brought here at an early date. -Four OF
five thousand feet of ohia lumber fol-
wharves also came by the kaukeaou
as well as number of railroad ties, land
a quantity of carriage wood; the last
ment oned is for Mr.. G. " est.
Oct G.
Tne steamer Kinau will be due here
tomorrow.
The Alert had steam up to condense
water this morning.
The steamer Cummins was feeding
the blk Bryant with sugar to-day.
The Lady Lampson took sugar from
the steamer Hall this forenoon.
The Moi Wahine and Kauikeaouli
will receive freight at Allen & Robin
sons wharf.
The Lehua will take 9O-foot smoke
stack for Waiakea mill next week
The steamer Mikahaln has been tho
roughly cleaned and will sail on her
usual route next Tuesday.
The Mokolii is docked at Brewers
wharf, where she is taking in the bal
ance of the freight left over from last
week on account of her being full
A very heavy swell from the n w
prevailed at Hamakua this week. Yes
terday one of the Lehua boats was car
ried by the swell on to the rocks and
broken to splinters. Nothing of the
boat worth saving was left.
| Oct s.
The steamer Jas Makee will sail fol
Kapaa on Wednesday at p IN.
The kaala took boiler for Waianae
this morning.
The British ship Carnarvonshire, Capt
Hugh Williams, arrived yesterday 81
days from Newcastle, n $ W, Will
1889 tons of coal for M S S Co.
The steamer @ X Bishop got aground
at Heeia, Koolau, this morning. She
was expected to float off at high tide
this afternoon.
Captain William Weisbarth, formerly
master of the steamer Surprise, (now
the Pele), bought the schooner Mai.
malu for $1,000. from Hon j | Dow.
sett, on the 3rd inst. The Waimalu wai
sold to Mr Dowsett in the Pacific Navi.
CATIONS sale of vessels, not long ago fol
$1,000. Captain Weisbarlh will employ
the schooner in the inter-island trade.
The schooner w S Bown", Captain
Bluhm, arrived this morning 20 days
from San Francisco. The Bovine hat
N and N w winds the first days on
from San Francisco, latter part of pas
sage had light southerly winds; ex-
perienced several days of n w swell:
with no winds: The whole of tn,
Bowne's freight, "a large quantity o
hay and grain, lime, bricks, lumber
etc., and five large horses, one mule ant
one cow came, with the exception o.
two cases of cartridges, to John F. Col.
burn q Co. The Bovine is dOcked a
Brewers wharf.