The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-14
WHARF AND WAVE.
DIAMOND HEAD, Nov. l3.-9 Pm :
Weather, thick wind, light y. +.
This Island - Other Newsy
|. Shipping Notes.


the residents of Niihau had sighted
a four-masted ship and a bark.
Both vessels were trying to get
through the channel between Nil
hau and Kauai and finally sue
eeeded in doing so. The names of
the vessels are not known.
The following startling intelli-
gence may be connected with the
foregoing: The British ship Glen
ogie, with a cargo of coal, arrived
at San Francisco on October 9th,
Is days from Newcastle, n. S. w.
Her captain reported that on Oc-
tober 9th he sighted a. vessel off
this island with her three lower
masts standing and was apparently
abandoned.
The steamer Claudine was haul
ed up on the Marine Railway on
Saturday morning. She will be
lowered this morning and will
leave tomorrow afternoon for
Maui.
The steamer Kaala will leave
tomorrow morning for circuit of
this island.
The steamer Akamai, now lying
near the Fish Market wharf, has
been converted into a schooner.
The ship carpenters are still en-
gagged in making the necessary al
terations.
The bark Forest Queen was
moved to Brewers wharf on Satur-
day.
The tug Eleu lowed into port
the dredger yesterday owing to the
unsettled weather.
The steamer Claudine towed out
of the port of Kahului last Friday
evening the brigantine Consuelo
bound for San Francisco.
The bark Leahi is still unload
ing coal at Kahului.
The sloop Ekekela, Al tons reg
lister, returned to Maizena,, Maui,
yesterday afternoon. She will
come down again next Friday with
about 10 calves and 1 ton of tai
low.
The whaling bark STEAMBOAT ar
rived in port on Monday, October
Oath, says the S. F. Chronicle,
from an eleven months fruitless
cruise, and the crew have since
been trying to get the conventional
dollar clearance money each, but
the employment agents and part
owners, Wright & Browne, refuse
to clear or to pay the men single
cent. The discomfort and poverty
of the crew extend from the first
mate to the man whose hope Of
wealth amounted to the one hun
dred and seyenty-ffth part of the
catch, which in this case amounts
nothing. Several whales of three
Varieties were sighted and struck,
but they either towed the small
boats out so far that they had to
be cut loose or sank into the water
so deep that there was no hope Of
their raising. The amount Of i'll
luck which attended this vessel
was phenomenal.
According to late San Francisco
paper, the U. S. S. Mohican is to
be condemned and assigned per-
manent moorings in "Rotten Row."
The vessel cost 81, 100000 and has
had scarcely eight years of active
service.
The American ship Joseph S.
Spinney, bound from New York
to this port with a general cargo,
was lost about 3 80 PM. on Tues
day, October 25th, says the San
Francisco Chronicle, by striking a
sunken rock near Fort Ross, about
forty miles north of Point Reyes.
She now lies in thirty-eight fathoms
of water. The weather was very
thick at the time and had been so
for several days. Captain F. F.
Curling and his crew Of twenty-five
men took to the boats, and yester-
day reached brakes bay, where
the fishing steamer Farragut took
the shipwrecked party in tow and
brought them to this city, landing
them at Fisherman's wharf.
A non-union crew was placed on
board the bark Alden Besse at
Folsom-street pier yesterday (Oct-
ober 26th) under police protection.
One of the non-union men was
Gomez, who killed union sailor
during an attack several months
ago, several union men yesterday
made an unsuccessful attempt to
get him away from the bark. The
Alden Besse sailed for the sound
during the afternoon.
The new protected cruiser Olym-
pia will be launched in San Fran
I'cisco on November 9Th.
+ The twenty-ton missionary boat
Hiram Bingham, built for service
in the Gilbert Island group, made
a successful trial trip at San Fran
cisco on the 9th ult. The vesse.
is schooner-rigged and provided
! with n gasoline enOiDa