The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-23
WHARF AND WAVE.
DIAMOND HEAD, De 22.-9 p., :.
Weather, clear; wjnd. fresh : ".

The German bark Bylgia. Capt.
. PIocger, was berthed at Brewer :
wharf yesterday, IS days from
Hongkong with 500 tons general
merchandise. The captain reported
. exceedingly rough weather almost
the entire voyage. Encountered
. q heavy typho0n on the third dav
ont and was obliged to run the
vessel before the wind for 80 miles
to get clear Of it. The worst
weather set in between Yokohama
and Honolulu, the prevailing winds
being head winds. The Bylgia
brought sixteen Chinese pas
sengcrs. Only three of them
/ having return permits, the others
will be liberated under bonds. The
Bylgia viii return to Hongkong
within a fortnight. Wing Wo
Chan Co. are the agents.
The British bark Velocity is
/ about seventy days out from Hong
kong.
The bark Albert will leave for
San Francisco about the Doth inst.
She took in the Pele's cargo yester-
day.
Chief William McGregor, of the
steamer Mokolii, is overhauling
the steamer Lehua, and is conse-
quently the hardest worked man
in town.
The schooner Liholiho, Capt.
Berry, will leave this afternoon for
Laysan Island.
The barkentine Discovery, Capt.
d. McNeill, arrived on Thursday
morning, lS3 days from San Fran
cisco. She is now lying near the
o. 5. s. Co.'S wharf.
The bark J. C. Glade sailed yes
terday for San Francisco with
34,403 bags sugar.
The steamer Hawaii will not
sail for Hamakua till after New
Years Day.
The bark S, c. Allen is eighteen
days out from San Francisco.
The Baker submarine boat,
which was constructed at Detroit
for the torpedo service, was re-
Gently towed into Chicago after a
perilous voyage. The vessel is 40
feet long, 9 feet wide, and II feet
deep. She weathered the storm by
being lowered about 10 feet below
the surface Of the lake, and was
raised every two hours to enable
those on board to obtain supply
Of fresh air.
OTTAWA, ONT, Dec. 2.-Word
has been received here recently
that the bark Eliza had been
wrecked off the coast of Brazil on
a voyage to Gaspe for a cargo of
fish. She had sailed the seas for
100 years, and, long before the days
Of steamers, ran as a packet be-
tween Nova Scotia and Plymouth,
England. Notwithstanding her
great age, the old vessels oaken
timbers were almost as staunch
and sound on the day she was
wrecked as when she was launched.
Charley Tong Sing, who was
steward of the Inflated jeanette,
and who now resides at Astoria,
has received from the Secretary of
the United States Navy a silver
medal and clasp, accompanied by
a complimentary letter. The medal
is handsome piece of jewelry,
showing on one side the jeanette
breaking up in the ice, and on the
other the following inscription:
10 Charley Tong Sing, in memory
of many perils encountered-1S79- |
1882" This is only the second |
case in the history of the United |
States of the presentation of a
medal for conspicuous bravery to a
native born Chinaman.-Ex.
A rare visitor to English waters
has been caught off the Lincoln
shire coast between Skegness and |
Gibraltar Point-a file-back sun
fish. The creature weighed nearly |
three quarters of ton and was |
over seven feet long.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Dec. 6. |
Charles Johnson, late master of .
the smuggling schooner Halcyon,
was arrested here to-day for a petty
offense. He gave an account of the
Halcyon's voyage last August when
she sailed from Victoria laden with
Chinese and opium. He took on
board at Victoria $50 Chinese men
and one woman and $50 cases of |
opium. The vessel sailed direct to
Monterey Bay, California, where, |
on the ninth day of the voyage, she
landed the entire cargo. The land
ing was made at night, and a boat |
containing a dozen Chinese cap |
sized in the surf, but no lives were |