The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-04
WHARF AND WAVE.
DIAMOND HEAD. Aug. So P. NJ.
Weathe-, clear wind, light north.


Weathe-, clear; wind, light north.
The steamer James Makee sails
at 3 o'clock this morning for Hama
kua.
The ship Topgallant Will leave
in ballast for Port Blakely after
she has finished unloading, and the
Morning Light will sail for Royal
Roads, B. c.
The Z. S. Cruiser San Francisco
is coaling,
The American bark Margaret.
Captain Petersen, arrived from
Newcastle, Australia, on August 8,
about fifty-one days from that port,
with 1718 tons of coal. Reports
having had fine weather all the
way to Honolulu. She will COM
mence discharging at the P. NJ. s.
s. Co.'S wharf this morning.
The pile driver is at work driving
new posts at the Oceanic Steamship
Co.'s dock.
The bark Matilda goes on the
Marine Railway to-day, to have her
bottom cleaned and re-copper-
painted. Capt. Swensen will take
his vessel up to Port Gamble in
ballast, probably about Saturday.
The bark Forest Queen is through
unloading cargo.
The schooner Haleakala sails to-
day for Molokai.
The Hawaiian bark Leah (for-
merly the Danish bark J. G. Lotz)
is being recaulked near the p. M.
S. S. Co.'s wharf. She will depart
some day next week for Puget
Sound.
The schooner Ka Haze Hawaii
has recently received a thorough
overhauling. She will return to
Maui to-day to carry on the paiai
trade between Maui and Hawaii.
The steamer Montserrat, which
left this port some time ago to en-
gage in the slave trade, arrived at
Butaritari on May oath, and is no
doubt now well on her way to Cen
trail America with her hold full of
Gilbert Islanders.
The u. s. s. Albatross, when
cruising among the Russian seal
islands, touched ut Atka, where
Bering, the noted explorer, is bur-
led. Captain Tanner bought from
one of the natives for $3.50 well
preserved specimen of the Rytina
| gigas, or sea COW, one of the rarest
of the survivors of the antediluvian
world. The only other specimen
in existence is owned by the Car
of Russia.-S. F. Call.
Gable advices of July 10th from
Brazil state that the Italian steam
ship Citti di Roma, from Santos,
with q full cargo of coffee and gen
eral merchandise for New York,
put back to Santos on fire. She
was scuttled to prevent total loss.
Exchange.
One of the most curious ship
ping disaster ever recorded, is that
which has happened to the steamer
Lindula, near Calcutta. Nearly
two years ago the steamer Regius
was run into and sunk ut hef
moorings in Garden Reach, River
Hooghly. She was loaded with
tea, seeds and rice, and it would
appear that, as she rested at the
bottom on her side, the gases from
the deoomposed cargo assembled
into her upper side and acoumu-
lated there. In January the Lin
dula struck the sunken wreck
Immediately after the collision a
kissing sound was heard from the
forepeak, and one Of the crew going
with light to see what was amiss
an explosion of gas occurred, kill
two men and injuring others SC
severely that seven of them died
subsequently in the hospital. The
gas or foul air which exploded was
| from the sunkeh steamer, liberated
by the collision, and escaping into
the forepeak of the Linduls
through holes made in the bow:
by the impact of the two hulls.-
Fairplay.