The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-09
WHARF AND WAVE.
DIAMOND HEAD, Jan. S.-9P NJ. !:
Weather, clear; wind, light \. T..

To-day will be a very busy day
along the city front. The coast
ing steamers brought during Sat-
urday and Sunday 25,911 bags
sugar, which will be transferred
to-day to vessels loading for San
Francisco.
The steamers Iwalani and James
Makee may leave again this after
noon for Kauai ports.
The bark Bylgia will leave for
Hongkong with Chinese steerage
passengers about next Wednesday.
The bark Velocity will follow her
a week later.
The barkentine S. n. Castle will
leave for San Francisco next Thurs
day.
The steamer Pele took to Maka-
we'll last Saturday 96,100 empty
bags. That quantity is said to be
sufficient for the first half lover
1000 tons) of this years crop.
= The barkentine Planter, Capt F.
A. Dow, was moored in the stream
yesterday morning, q days out
from Port Townsend with a full
cargo Of lumber. She had mostly
southerly winds. Two heavy gales
were encountered during the pas
sage. 1t will be remembered that
this vessel, on Nov. IS last, encoun-
tered fierce norther when about
fifteen miles of Cape Flattery. She
was lumber laden for this port, and
about midnight Of the day men
toned the deck lashings parted,
and before the crew could secure
them the cargo shifted, listing the
Planter till her gunwale was al
most under water. The next day
she was sighted off Carmanah
Point and two tugs were sent to
her assistance. She was towed into
Victoria On November 20, with two
feet of water in her hold, her star
board taffrail at the waters edge
and her tophamper straining badly.
The crew refused to sleep in the
hold of the vessel for fear of going
over. She was thoroughly over
hauled before proceeding to this
port.
II repeat with great earnestness
the recommendation which I have
made mention in previous mes
sages, to the inadequate support
given the American company en-
gagged in the construction Of the
Nicaragua ship canal. 1t is impos-
sible to overstate the value from
every standpoint Of this great en-
terprise, and I hope there may be
time given in this Congress to give
it an impetus that will insure the
early completion of this canal and
SECURE to the United States its
proper relations to it when COM
pleted. president Harrison's An
nual Message.
The fastest ship in the British
Navy will, it is claimed, be the
new frst-class cruiser Blenheim,
which is the only incompleted ship
of the programme prior to the Ma
val Defense Act. The admiralty
have given instructions for the
Blenheim to be taken to sea for
steam trials, when, if the expecta-
tons of her designers are realized,
she should steam % knots per
hour, which would make her the
fastest ship in the navy.
Captain J. G. Nixon of Seattle
has received notice of the sale of
his sealskins in London, the gross
receipts from the sale amounting to
about $4,000. This was about ST.
per skin. Captain Nixon says he
made $4,000 by shipping them in
stead of selling them at home
Am. Elk.
1t is good news, says the San
Francisco Call, that the Panama
Railroad Company has begun the
fight in earnest against the Pacific
Mail Company by chartering two
steamers, which will be placed on
the route between New York and
Colon and will begin to run on
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