The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-18
WHARF AND WAVE.
Arrival of the Monowai-Late
Foreign Marine Items.
DIAMOND HEAD, Nov. 17.-9 Pm. 4:
Weather, thick wind, calm.

The Union Steamship Co.'S R.
NJ. S. s. Monowai, $500 tons, NJ.
Carey, commander, arrived on No
yember II, at 80 P. NJ, from
Sydney. Sailed from Sydney on
October 81, at PM, and arrived
in Auckland on the 4th inst, at
midnight. Left on the 9Th, at
P NJ, and took pilot off Apia on the
9th, at midnight. Sailed again on
the 10th, at 3 A. NJ, and arrived as
above. Throughout the entire pas
sage the Monowai has had to con-
tend against strong head winds and
sea, which greatly delayed pro-
gress. Passengers: 3 Storage for
Honolulu, and so in transit for San
Francisco.
The bark Martha Davis COM
menced unloading cargo at Brew
er's wharf yesterday morning.
The steamer Iwalani took to
Makaweli, Kauai, on Wednesday
evening, the last of the machinery
for the Makaweli Mill, ex bark j.
c. Glade.
The Monowai had on board as
cargo a large shipment of wool
| (23S3 bales) which had been pur-
| chased at Sydney during the recent
wool sales there, and is under con-
signment to Boston.
The bark Ceylon has been moved
to Fort street wharf to discharge
the balance of her cargo-about
$4,000 bricks.
/ The brigantine w. G.. Irwin viii
leave tomorrow at noon for San
| Francisco.
The steamer Hawaii is expected
at Kalaupapa, Molokai, this even
ing, with cattle from Kawaihae.
She will probably arrive here to-
morrow evening with a cargo of
sugar.
The bark Matilda has finished
unloading cargo. She will leave
tomorrow in ballast for Port
Townsend.
The steamship Monowai sailed
for San Francisco little after Z
o'clock yesterday evening. She
took 800 bundles hides and 5000
punches bananas from this port.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The British warship Horne
struck on reef at F'erroI, in Spain,
on the ID inst, and is in a danger
Gus position.
Fifty junks have been burnt at
Ichang, China, and 200 lives lost.
The Melbourne bark Maroon,
bound from Chefoo to Olga Bay,
has been wrecked on the coast of
Japan. The crew were saved.
| Terrific gales have been expert
enced recently in the Atlantic, with
seas said to be the heaviest known.
The Shipping Federation is form
ing British Labor Exchange in
London, with branches at all sea-
ports. The object is to further the
interest of free labor and all I'M
skilled Industries.
Two Atlantic liners, which were
a week overdue at London, and foI
whose safety some uneasiness was
felt owing to the recent severe
/ rro lac howe +I7rYoad I'M
The Government Of Japan is
making arrangements to seize
sealers caught within her waters
The survivors from the wreck OF
the steamer Roumania attribute
the great loss of life to the absence
of life-saying apparatus. Portu-
guese fishermen robbed the bodies
washed ashore, and denuded then
of clothing. They also hid away
any cargo which foated ashore.
Fl. B. NJ. troopship Crocodile
with 1850 passengers on board
J narrowly escaped being wrecked
: on the Isle of Wight during q 70:
on the Cd inst.
The bark Belle Isle, bound from
Newcastle to Auckland, has put in
at Sydney on the Sd inst. with hel
rudder gone. Her stern-post haC
started, and the vessel narrowly
escaped laundering. Boats wer
kept in readiness, but eventual,
the bad weather abated, and ate
much exertion, she reached Por
Jackson. The crew were so ex
hausted that Immediately on th
: vessels arrival in port, men fron
the shore had to be placed o.
board to keep her ahoat.
q Rear-Admiral Stephenson wi
t shortly succeed Rear-Admiral {
F. Eotham as commander Of til
/ Pacific Squadron. Admiral Tx
tham's flagship Warspite was n
y Gently ashore at the entrance t
e the port of Esquimalt