The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-29
WHARF AND WAVE.
DIAMOND HEAD, June 2S:-9P.M.
Weather, clear wind fresh n. E.

The bark Albert sailed on Tues
day morning for San Francisco with
1928 bags sugar, valued at $751;
747.1O The cargo weighed about
1895 tons; she had also fifteen pas
sengers.
The bark Ceylon took to San
Francisco on June 28th l4,904 bags
sugar, weighing 902 tons and val
ued at $40, 594.67.
The bark Ophir is taking in bal
last at the Fort street wharf. She
is expected to leave for the Sound
shortly after July 4th.
The bark S. c. Allen is at the 0.
r. & l.. Co.'S wharf receiving
sugar.
The bark Alden Besse will proba-
bly, sail from Kahului for San
Francisco to-day.
The barkentine S. G. Wilder, T.
H. Griffiths, commander, arrived
June 28th, about IA days from San
Francisco. She brought a cargo.of
general freight.
SAN FRANCISCO NOTES.
Captain Hansen of the American
bark John Wooster, which arrived
from Caleta Buena with cargo of
nitrate, brings the news of the loss
of the British bark Knight Carrier,
bound from Charnaral to Liverpool
with cargo of manganese. The
bark sprung leak when five days
out. The pumps were manned,
but soon choked, and the water in
creasing in the hold it was decided
to abandon the vessel. Two boats
were provisioned, launched and
manned by fourteen souls from the
Inflated Knight Carrier, which
foundered half an hour after being
abandoned, going down stern first.
Six days later the survivors reached
Antofogasta.
The American missionary schoon
er Pitcairn is reported as lying in
the harbor of Auckland NJ, ready
to sail for San Francisco. Captain
Marsh of the vessel was i'll, which
caused her detention.
The new Pacific Mail liner Pert
was launched on the night of June
18th from the shipyard of the Un
ion Iron Works. The vessel wa
launched at high water, and il
spite of the lateness of the hour /;
large number of people were presen
to see the largest passenger steame
ever built on the Pacific Coast slide
off the ways. The Peru is $50 fee
long, 45 feet beam and 272 feet deep
Her engines are triple expansion, o
$500 horsepower and are expected
to drive the steamer fifteen knot
an hour. The steel plates used il
the construction of the hull ant
boilers were brought from the East
and with this exception the new
ship is entirely the product of Pa
cific Coast labor.
The three-masted schooner Tran
sit arrived at San Francisco on Jun
9th after voyage of 33 days from
Honolulu.
The four-masted British shi
Liverpool, the largest sailing vesse
that ever entered the harbor, wa
towed into port Tuesday night b,
the tug Vigilant. The Liverpoc
brings cargo of 500 tons of coal
and is Sc days from Sydney. TIL
ship was built at Port Glasgow i
1889, and registers 34OO tons net
Her dimensions are as follows
Length, 533 feet; beam, 474 feet
and depth of hold, 279 feet. Car
tain Whiting, who was here las
year in the British ship Foxteth,
in command. The ship Palgrav
of 307S net tons was the larges
British vessel to enter this POI
previous to the Liverpool.
Francisco Chronicle.
The first news from the Whalin
feet on the Siberian side reache
San Francisco on June 10th in
letter to Wright, Bovine & Co.
that came from Yokohama vi
Vancouver, B. G. So far the seaso
has not been successful one. All tn
vessels are light and several of ther
have met with very heavy weathe
as late as April 26th.
PORT TOWNSEND, June 49,
Owing to injuries received by run
ming on a submerged pile Will
coming down the Columbia river t
this port the cruiser Charleston WI