The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-19
WHARF AND WAVE
Happenings in This and Other
Countries.


DIAMOND HEAD, Dec. 1S.-9 Pm. ::
Weather, hazy wind, light W.
The r. NJ. S. S. Monowai, Capt.
Carey, arrived on Saturday morn
ing. She reports having left San
Francisco Dec. 10th, and expe-
rienced fine weather throughout
the passage. After unloading
cargo she left at noon on Dec. 18th
for the Colonies, taking several
passengers from this port.
Seven thousand bags of sugar
are waiting at Hanamaulu, Kauai,
for shipment to Honolulu.
The barkentine S. G. Wilder
is expected to leave to-day for San
Francisco.
The brigantine Douglass will ar
rive here from San Francisco about
the end of this month on her way
to Fanning's islands.
The bark J. G. Glade will leave
for San Francisco sometime this
week.
The British bark Bylgic arrived
off port on Saturday afternoon from
Hongkong.
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.
Departures-Dec. 8, bark w. H.
Dimond for Honolulu, and schr.
Anna for Kahului.
Projected Departures-Dec. 81,
S. S. Australia for Honolulu; Jan.
4, S. S. Oceanic for Honolulu and
China; Jan. s, S. S. Alameda for
Honolulu and the Colonies; brig
Consuelo for Kahului and bark
Sonoma for Honolulu.
New CASTLE, N. S. W., Dec. l.
Sailed, bkt. Hilo for Honolulu, and
bkt. Mary Winkelman for Kahu-
lui.
The whaling bark Hidalgo, the
last of the fleet, is in from the Arc
tic. Many of the whalers have al
ready started on the winter cruise.
The japanese training ship Kon-
go, Captain I. Tashuro, arrived in
the harbor recently, eight days
from Vancouver, B. c., and was
anchored off Mission bay mud
flats. The Kon-go is on a sort of
junketing trip, and left Yokohama
on September oath last for Puget
Sound AMI British Columbia
ports. After a stay of two weeks
here, the Kon-go will proceed to
Honolulu, whence, after ten days
stop, she will leave for Yokohama,
which port, it is expected, viii be
reached next March. The vessel
is an old fashioned one, with
enough modern naval appliances
aboard to serve her purpose as a
training vessel.
The Monowai sailed one day
late on account of the failure OF
the English mails to arrive on
time.
The ship Ben Douran has been
posted at Lloyds' as missing. She
sailed from this port April 22d
with a cargo of barley and has not
been seen since.
The Vancouver Telegram says
The Victorians tried to rope in
Captain Tashuro of the japanese
man-of-war by selling him 800 tons
of wet coal by weight. Before TAX
ing command of the Kon-go he
was in the merchant service, and
was well up in the tricks of the
trade. The result was that the
Kon-go took on coal at this port
The officers and men are much
better pleased with their reception
here than in the capital, where the
papers ridiculed them.
Captain Perks, one of the Oldest
captains in the service of the Occi.
dental & Oriental Steamship Com.
pany, has been appointed to the
command of the Hawaiian steam
collier San Mateo. He was for.
tmerly on the ship Japan.
The whaling bark Northern
! Light, which struck on rock in
4 Alaskan waters last season and
was compelled to return, has lef
on another voyage to the Arctic via
Honolulu, and the whaling bark
c. W. Morgan, Captain Earle, has
sailed. She will 60 to the south
ward as far as Ascension Island
then westward to Guam, and viii
work up along the Japan coast tt
the Yellow sea.
SANTA BARBARA, Dec. She,
Majesty's ship Warspite will sal
for England via Cape Horn to-
morrow, stopping at San Pedro ant
San Diego.
The British battleship Howe
which went ashore on the Spanish
coast last month, will be Lighted
and towed to a dry dock near BY