The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-23
" HARF AND WAVE.

S. s. Australians Memo.-Steam-
ship Australia, Fl. c. Houdlette,
Commander, sailed from San Fran
cisco, March 18th, 1898, at ? P. NJ,
with 40 cabin and 43 steerage pas
sengers, and 50 bags mails en-
countered remarkable fine weather
throughout the voyage arrived at
Honolulu March 22d, at An.
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.
Arrivals-March 6, Hawaiian blk.
Leahi, Is days, bkt. HiIo, Is DAYS,
bkt. John Smith, "A days, all from
Honolulu; bkt. Mary Winkelman,
10 days from Kahului brig Lur-
line, III days from Hilo; schr. w
F. Witzmann, 19 days from Homo
lulu; schr. Corona, 10 days from
Kahului; schr. R. W. Bartlett, Is
DAYS from Hilo; schr. Carrier Dove,
II days; 7th, Br. blk. Scottish Wiz
ard, "A days; Sth, 8. s Australia, 6
days, % hours, 18th, bkt. s. G.. Will
der, Is days; 18th, blk. Ceylon, 20
days; schr. Aloha, II days, all
from Honolulu.
Departures-March 5, S. s. Mono
wal, Honolulu and the Colonies !;
7th, blk. Cavaliera Luiga D., ok.
Alden Besse 10th, ok. Mauna Ala !;
18th, blk. Sonoma, all for Honolu-
lu; 18th, schr J. G. North, for Ma
hukona.
Projected Departures-March 81,
S. 8. Alameda for Honolulu and the
Colonies; April 4, s. 5. Gaelic for
Honolulu and China May 4, s. g.
Oceanic for Honolulu and China,
bkt. Hilo, bkt. Mary WinkeIman,
bkt. Planter, bkt. s. G. Wilder, all
for Honolulu.
Cleared-March Is, bkt. Irmgard
for Honolulu and brig Lurline for
Hilo to sail to-day.
Port Gamble-March 8, sailed
bkt. Klikltat for Honolulu.
Newcastle, n. s. W.-March 5,
sailed bkt. Nellie R. Hume for Ho-
nolulu.
One of the entries on the Spree
kels' tow-boat book recently read
as follows: Schooner Courser to
Oakland creek to discharge" The
Courser is the dismasted derelict
picked up off the Columbia river
by the Viigilant. She held 275,000
feet of lumber in her hold, which
the salvors have sold to an Oak
land firm for enough to pay all the
expenses of the trip. The Alert
pumped her out this afternoon and
locked her at the yard Of the pur-
chasing firm. As soon as she is
discharged she will be locked, re-
caulked and rugged for the Ha-
waiian trade.
The White Star line freight
steamer Naronic is among the
missing. She left Liverpool on
February 18th for New York and
HAS lOb DCcu SGen Si1Ct.
The North American Navigation
Company's steamer st. Paul has
left for Panama with a full cargo
for New York. The Mexico is to
follow her.
The anchor chain of the ship
Tacoma was cut recently, sup
posedly by union sailors, and the
vessel was cast adrift in storm on
the bay, narrowly escaping destruc-
ton. Rewards aggregating $500
are offered for the apprehension of
the perpetrators.
The Coast Seamen's Union cele-
brated the eight anniversary of its
organization on the 9Th inst. Their
troubles with the Shipowners' Asso-
citation still continue.
The schooner Gem was recently
cast ashore at Fort Point, but was
pulled off after a large hole had
been knocked in her bottom.
Captain Peterson, late of theill-
fated bark Lady Lampson, who
arrived on the steamer Australia
from Honolulu a few days ago, has
been appointed to the command of
the three-masted schooner w. f.
Witzemann.
Carl Hendrix, the German sailor
who was so cruelty treated by
Fourth Mate Baptisto while on the
whaling bark William H. Baylies,
has shipped as a non-union sailor
on the steamer Scotia bound for
Noyo.
VALLEJO. March 15.-Rear-Ad
miral John Irwin, u. s. N, com
mandant of the navy yard at Mare
Island, has received orders to hold
himself in readiness to sail for
China to relieve Rear-Admiral Dav-
id B. Harmon, U.S.N., Commander
in-Chief of the Asiatic squadron.
Admiral Irwin will probably leave
- H. -4oo now or Anil S-b Y1uloa1