The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-05-12

Captain Kalua, of the schooner
| Kawailani, has sold his half-inter-
est in the Kawailani to Sing Chong
IL Co, and has bought the little
schooner Mokuola, which has been
| plying between Eva and this port
the last six or seven years, for
$500. He is repairing and reno
waiting her. Two new masts will
soon replace the old ones. Mr..
Kalua's intention is TO enter the
paiai trade business between Maui
and Hawaii. That is Il more pro-
titable business than carrying rice,
he thinks. The captain is a good
business man, and he is quite con-
fident of his success in his new
undertaking.
The Norwegian bark Poseidon
was locked at the Fort street pier
yesterday afternoon. She will
begin discharging her cargo of coal
to-day.
The bark Colusa and barkentine
Discovery will leave for California
tomorrow afternoon.
The banks Sonoma and Forest
Queen left San Francisco for Homo
lulu April Odd, day ahead of the
barkentine S. n. Castle and bark
Columbia. The Sonoma, Capt. J.
Lee, arrived last night, Is days
out, and anchored off port for the
night. The Sonoma will come in
this morning.
Nearly 10000 bags of sugar were
brought to Honolulu by the diff
ferent coasting steamers and
schooners yesterday.
The steamer Kaala leaves this
afternoon for Lahaina.
The Norwegian brig Dato has
completed unloading coal. She
has gone over to the Claudine's
wharf to take ballast.
One of the fastest Transatlantic
trips ever made by a sailing vessel
was completed on February %,
when the four-masted British sail
ing ship Howard D. Troop reached
New York on her maiden voyage
from Greenock, Scotland. The ship
in ballast made the trip in IA days.
Captain Parker said the greatest
single days run was $50 miles.
The Howard D. Troop was built by
Robert Duncan & Son, in Glasgow,
and she registers 2180 gross tons.
She is 2O2 feet long, AZ feet beam,
and "a feet depth of hold. She has
a cargo capacity of $500 TONS
Elk.
The 'tank steamers" which are
so ingeniously planned to carry
mineral oil safely, are now said to
number about seventy, of which
about twenty are employed in the
Russian trade. The rest carry oil
from New York and Philadelphia
to every part of Europe. A sailing
vessel of the old days conveyed on
an average some 5000 barrels only,
but the German tank ship, the
Brilliant, has capacity of $4,000
barrels, equal to 1900 tons of oil
This is supposed to be the largest
craft of its kind atioat, but the En-
glish steamers Bayonne and Man
haitian and the Dutch steamer Bre'
merhaven come very near it. 1t is
calculated that the fifty American
vessels alone carry 100000 bar
rels of oil yearly.-[Ex.
Many years ago a Spanish gal
leon, caught in a sudden storm a
nightfall, was sunk off the coast O.
Portugal because every rope thai
was handled in the effort to shorter
sail refused to run through it:
block. "The devil is in those
sheaves," cried the captain as thu
ship went down. In consequence
of that calamity the admiral ISSUED
an order that every day at sunse
the men should be sent aloft 1T,
chase the devil out of the sheaves.
tt is said that the order is still reli
giously obeyed in the Spanish
navy.-[Ex.
A whale from which whalebone i
taken is property worth $4,000
They are scarce at that.
From a private letter received j
is learned that the well-known In
man line steamer City of Richmon'
has been purchased by a Liverpoc
firm, will be transformed into
fve-masted sailing ship, and b
placed in the California trade. He
machinery is now being taken on
The dimensions of the steamer are
Length 440, beam 4S, depth 3
feet gross tonnage $3.50, net 295
After her engines are out, of cours
her net tonnage will be muc
larger. The City of Richmond We
built at Glasgow in 1878 Ex.
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