The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-10
WHARF AND WAVE.
DIAMOND HEAD, Sept. 8 80 P. NJ.
Weather, clear; wind, light east.

The steamer China will be in
Honolulu again from San Fran
cisco On October Sd.
The schooner Mary E. Foste,
took out 100 tons of coal to the
steamship China yesterday
Mr.. Alex. Smith is putting a new
windlass in the schooner Knla-
manu-.
The schooner Ka Moi went on
the Marine Railway yesterday
morning. She will be lowered
again this afternoon.
The steamer C. r. Bishop is due
this morning from Hamakua; the
James Makee and Kaala, from
Kauai; and the Kilauea Hou and
Waimanalo, from Molokai.
The steamer Kaala left Kahuku
last Thursday for Hanalei. She
returned last night with cargo of
paddy.
The bark Ceylon will leave for
San Francisco next week.
The bark J. D. Peters, which
arrived at Portland August 18th
from New York, made the greater
part of the passage with a disabled
rudder. Shortly after leaving New
York the rudder-head and trestle-
trees were badly damaged; but as
the vessel did not become unman-
ageable, Captain Townsend decided
not to put into port for repairs.
The Peters did not speak single
vessel on the trip until she arrived
off the mouth of the Columbia.
Mineola, steamer, from San
Francisco June Sd for New York,
with a general cargo, arrived at
Valparaiso August Sd with loss of
two blades of propeller and plates
and frames bent, having been
ashore at Coronel. She will have
to tighten 100 or 1900 tons cargo
and go into dry dock for examina-
ton and repairs.
The British steamer Clan Nc
Gregor, from the Clyde for Cal
cutta, reports that on August 9th,
latitude $50 n, longitude 16o E.,
she felt violent submarine erup-
ton beneath her.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 19.-The
passenger steamer Grigoricu, ply
ing upon the Volga and it's tribu-
taries, has been wrecked during a
storm at Mini Novgorod. Thirty
persons were drowned.
Sailors ought to be good singers.
They so often reach the high sea.
The United States Consul at
Annoy, China, reports that a dan
gerous sandbank has been dis
covered in the Formosa channel,
west of that island and north of
Taiwaufoo, about three miles from
land. 1t is composed Of sand fine
and coarse, with occasional bowl
ders. Its reported bearings are ::
Nearest land, east by north, three
miles Fort Zealandia, southeast
by east, twelve miles; latitude of
bank, % deg. 6 min. 81 sec. north !;
longitude of bank, 119 deg. SO min.
80 sec. east.
SAN Francisco, Aug. 23.--The
whaling bark Northern Light,
whose crew of twenty-six men
mutinied at Ounalaska, arrived
here yesterday. The bark was or
dered to San Francisco for repairs,
but the crew claimed she was I'M
seaworthy and refused to go. They
were placed in irons for three days,
and then they gave in and the
whaler put to sea.
Captain VIM. Lewis of New Bed
ford, Mass, has agreed with Messrs.
Kelly & Spear, of Bath, for another
steam whaler about the size of the
Navarch.
Captain Carpenter, of the British
ship Costa Rica Packet, has claim
ed from the Netherlands Govern
ment $4,000 as damages for his
Imprisonment in Ternate, and
arrest at Macassar during twelve
days; the compensation being for
himself, crew, and the vessels
owners. The Batavia Nieuwsblad
says that the Netherlands Govern
ment acknowledges the justice of
Captain Carpenters claim but
finds the amount fixed too high
Hongkong Paper.
PORT TOWNSEND (Wash.), Aug
| 27.-Advices from Sitka, Alaska,
by the steamship Mexico tonight
state that the whaling bark Lydia.
seized in Behring Sea while trans
ferring sealskins to the bark
Northern Light, was fined $1OC
and released. Captain Hanson, Of
the schooner Winifred. seized in
Behring Sea for illegal sealing
waived examination and was re-
leased on $500 bonds on the charge
of violation of the revenue laws
The British steamer Coquitlan
and her cargo of sealskins, seizec
at Port Ecthes last June, have no
been bonded.