The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-23
WHARF AND WA We.

NealHcTs CAedI VIM, cain.
The bark Alden Besse sails at 9
o'clock this morning with S25 tons
of sugar and rice for San Francis
co. Her sailing was postponed I'M
til this morning in order to receive
five hundred bags of rice expected
by the schooner Mile Morris from
Koolau last night.
The British bark County of Meri-
oneth is now over forty days out
from Newcastle, y. S. w, with a
cargo of coal for this port.
Captain Darrah, of the ship De-
troit, will ship three more japanese
sailors this morning. After unload
ing coal, she will leave in ballast
for Royal Roads, B. c. An entire
Japanese crew Will man the De-
troit.
The japanese steamship Aikoku
Maru is now due from Yokohama.
K. Ogura &, Co. are her agents
here.
The steamer Hawaii will leave for
Kahului, via Kalaupapa, Molokai,
next Monday. The eleven lepers
from Wainiha, Kauai, will most
likely be forwarded to the leper
settlement by her.
The U. S. S. Boston finished coal
ing yesterday.
The c.. A. S. S. Warrimoo from
Victoria, B. c., may be looked for
TO arrive between 4 and 6 o'clock
this afternoon.
The schooner Alice Cooke will
not likely be ready to come down
from the marine railway until next
Monday.
The steamer G. r. Bishop
brought yesterday afternoon be-
sides sugar and rice, ten tons of
machinery from Waialua mill for
repairs at the Honolulu Iron
Works, and three anchors picked
up at Waialua harbor.
The barkentine Discovery will
commence loading sugar next Mon
day.
Captain Peterson, Of the British
bark Darra, expects that his vessel
will finish unloading coal within
two weeks. The new labur-saving
apparatus at the 0. r. 81 l.. Co. S
wharf will be used to discharge her
cargo on Monday next. The daily
average OF this unloader will be
about $50 tons.
The bark Ceylon is twenty-four
days out from San Francisco for
this port. The barkentine Planter
and bark Mauna Ala are eighteen
and seventeen days out respectively
from San Francisco.
The engines of the w. G. Hall
were tried yesterday.
The big ship Detroit was trans
ferred to the Fort street wharf yes
terday to discharge the remainder
of her coal. The Detroit's bow is
now resting on bank of mud at
the Fort street pier, as she is draw
ing twenty-three feet forward.
The steamer Waialeale brought
a roller from the Hanamaulu sugar
mill, Kauai, yesterday morning.
A curious fact has been brought
out by the Chronicle-the extra
ordinary ill-luck which, ever since
the accession of the House of Han
over, seems to have logged vessels
named after its members right
down to the Inflated Victoria.
Here are some of the names thus
associated with disaster: Prince
George, 1853; Royal George, 1892 !;
Royal Charlotte, 1898; Queen
Charlotte, 1900; King George,
1906; Prince of Wales, 1907 ;
Queen Charlotte, 1918; Albert,
troopship, 1913; Royal Adelaide,
1852; Victoria, 1852; Queen Vic
toria, 1858; Princess Alice (on
Thames), Victoria, (Thames, Can
ada), 1881; and the Victoria, off
Tripoli, 1S93.-Australian paper.
The tonnage tax imposed upon
all German vessels or ships carry
ing the German flag, trading with
or between Russian ports, says a
Berlin exchange, practically put Il
stoppage for a time to the opera
tions of two-tnirds Of the whole
German mercantile fleet in the Bal
tick
The British steamer Carmar-
thenshire, which arrived at Singa-
pore recently had on board 1877
officers and men of the japanese
navy for London for the cruiser
Yoshino, now being built at New
castle-on-Tyne for the Japanese
government. 1t will be remem-
bered that the two new Japanese
men-of-war, the Unebi and the
Christina, which were built in
France, never reached their destin-
alton, as they were both lost on
the voyage between Singapore and
Yokohama-Ex.
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