The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-10-13
WHARF AND WAVE.
DIAMOND HEAD, Oct. y g p. NJ.
Weather, cloudy; wind, fresh \. E.

Weather, cloudy; wind, fresh \. E.
The steamer James Makee ar
rived on Wednesday morning from
Kauai. She reported fine weather.
After taking aboard 140 tons of
coal, she left again in the afternoon
for Kappa direct.
The steamship Australia took to
San Francisco, October 18th. do
nestle produce to the value of near
ly $4,000. The cargo consisted
Of 8,275 punches bananas, 344 tons
of wool, 1896 bags rice, 1890 bags
sugar, etc.
The steamer Pele sailed yester-
day afternoon for Makaweli with
cargo of coal and ten pieces of ma
chinery, ex bark j. c. Glade.
The barkentiRe Discovery will
leave for San Francisco about the
latter part of this month. She is
now lying at the Fish Market
wharf.
The steamer c. R. Bishop re-
turned from Koolau and Waialua
yesterday afternoon with a cargo
of rice and paddy. She will re-
ceive a thorough overhauling to-
day and tomorrow.
HALIFAX On. S., Sept. Odd
Thomas Bently, spar-maker, has
left here for the Pacific Coast,
where he will load a large vessel
with Oregon pine masts for Nova
Scotia. This will be the first i'm
portation of this wood to the mari
time provinces, in quantity, for the
spar-making trade. The spar
makers have for some years past
been combating the rising popular
ity of Oregon pine by advocating
the Canadian soft and white pines,
but to no purpose, and they will
now have to import spars to satisfy
their patrons.
Four thousand two hundred and
seven ships, only twenty-six of
which carried the American flag,
passed through the Suez Canal in
1891.
Close in the wake of the new
600-foot steamer Campania, which
was launched lately for the Cunard
Line, comes the item that the
| White Star Line has contracted for
steamer that will beat the record
in size and speed. She has already
been named Gigantic, and will be
700 feet long, 65 feet y inches
beam, and IA, 5O0-horse power. 1t
is calculated that she will steam p
knots an hour, with a maximum
speed of 81 knots, The Gigantic
is apparently a bold experiment,
in view of former experience with
the Great Eastern; but both mar
inc architecture and ocean travel
have developed immensely since
that leviathan had her day, and
the new conditions are much more
favorable for the operation and
maintenance of huge ocean-going
craft. There were neither passen-
gers nor cargoes enough to keep the
Great Eastern proftably employed
The Gigantic will find all her re-
sources taxed to meet the demands
upon her. The limits of marine
construction have by no means
been reached, and with the intro,
duction of aluminium this genera
ton may yet see a 1OOO-foot steam
ship Philadelphia Record.
1t is proposed to unite all of the
islands of Japan by system o.
submarine telegraph cables, at ar
estimated cost of 100000.
That must be a very seaworthy
tug which bears the name of Inter
national, and belongs to Peter
Wright & Sons, Of Philadelphia
She was sent to sea recently in
search of an abandoned bark, anG
found her $50 miles seward O
Delaware Breakwater. The vesse
afterward sunk while in tow. Or
the internationally return she hac
steamed 1900 miles, and had Goa
enough in her bunkers for Is day;
more easy steaming. This is RECORD
for fuel capacity and tug boat en-
durance hard to beat.-Marint
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