The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-03-28
WHARF AND WAVE.

There arrived from Lanai on Sat
urday seventy sheep by the Mokolii
and four lepers 10y the Waimanalo.
The tern Mary Dodge left Kahului
last Monday in ballast for Mahukoua,
where she will load sugar for San
Francisco.
The Pacific Mail Company's
steamer City of Peking. which left
here on Friday night to make a trial
test trip of speed, returned to port on
Saturday afternoon. Her test course
was from Point Sur to Pigeon Point,
a distance of 5St miles. and this dis
lance she covered at the rate of 1927
knots an hour. This places her in the
third class. The company Is well
pleased with her performance, as it
was not expected that she would de-
velop a greater speed than Is knots,
if that s. f. Com. News, Mar. Ii.
Mr.. L. Wilhelm has finished build
ing the new Government shed at the
Queen street landing. Naval officers
and visitors to the warships will no
longer be obliged to stand in the sun
or rain while waiting for the arrival
of their boats. The boat boys, too,
will join heartily in thanking the
Government for its recognition OF
their long-felt want--a common roof
for all to share.
The catch of the whaling barks
Alice Knowles and Triton, both owned
by the same parties in New Bedford,
amounted to S753 gallons of sperm
oil; of this Il. o. Hall 81 Son have
purchased 6731 gallons; 1925 gallons
will be shipped to San Francisco on
the owners account, per barkentine
Irmgard, to sail soon.
The American bark Coryphene,
Captain Townsend, arrived on Sun
day, March 9th, with a cargo of coal
from Newcs -, n S. w. She will
dock at Fort street wharf this morn
ing.
Fears are beginning to be felt as
TO the safety of the British ship Earl
lille, which left Glasgow III
day ago for this port. The Earl
Granville has on board q cargo Of
Scottish splint coal, consigned to II.
NJ Ncwhall & Go. 1t will be remem-
bered that last year no less than
four vessels-the Khersonese, Carr
Rock, Wamphray and Josephine
Troop-laden with the same kind of
coal and bound to this port, were
burned at sea.-[S. +. Commercial
News, March IA.
From Maui, per Claudine, March
27-3444 sacks sugar, 102 sacks taro,
as head cattle, Is hogs, 20 packages
hides, 90 packages sundries and 1866
feet lumber.
From Kauai, per Mikahala, March
27-5493 bags sugar, GO bags rice
and "a green hides.
The mail steamer China, the larg
est and fastest of the fleet owned by
the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany, will soon be withdrawn from
the China route and laid up. Her
place will be taken by the new
steamer Peru, now on stocks at the
Union Iron Works. The China is a
British ship and cannot carry the
mails under the new law S. F. Call.
The steamer Premier has been
libeled at Seattle by the Norwegian
bark Fristad, with which she collided
some time ago, for $4,000. The
Board of Local Inspectors decided
that the Fristad was to blame for the
collision.
The steamer Claudine will leave
for Maui this afternoon. Ii the
weather permits she will tow up to
Kahului the barkentine Skagit.
The 0. S. S. Co.'s crack brigantine
Consuelo, Captain Jacobsen, arrived
on the afternoon of March 9th,
about AL days from San Francisco,
with cargo of general freight.