The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-02-13
WHARF AND WAVE.
DIAMOND HEAD. Feb. 12.-9 PM. ::
Weather, foggy; wind, calm.
Schooner Kulamanu off port.

The British four-masted iron
barkentine Tacora, Captain ]. Ii.
w. Thornton, arrived in port on
Saturday morning after an excel
lent run of 127 days from Liver
poo, with q full cargoof general mer-
chandise consigned to Theo. H..
Davies & Co. The Tacora left
Liverpool on Oct. 6, arrived off
Cape Horn on Dec. Is, and round
ed the Cape from so deg. S to so
deg. S in the very remarkable time
of twelve days; remarkable be-
cause made during heavy weather.
Crossed the equator in the Pacific
on Jan. %. The Tacora expert
enced the usual boisterous weather
off Cape Horn, the same as report
ed by the bark H. Hack field, which
arrived last Thursday from Liver
pool.
The British iron bark Scottish
Wizard, Captain Ross, sailed on
Saturday for San Francisco with
1876 tons of sugar.
The coasting steamers and
schooners which arrived on Satur-
day and yesterday from the other
islands brought an aggregate OF
$4,000 bags sugar.
The steamer Hawaii is at Hilo,
putting 10000 bags of sugar on
board the brigantine Lurline from
the neighboring mills.
The four master VIM. F. Witze-
mann will probably leave to-mor-
row for San Francisco.
The bark Corona will load sugar
at Kahului from the H. c. & S. Co.
and will leave on the 18th inst
for San Francisco.
The barkentine Mary Winkel.
man will sail from Kahului next
Wednesday. Her sugar is from
the Paia and Haiku mills.
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.
A storm blew over the bay dur
ing the last few days of January
but little damage was done.
Several shipowners have formed
an association to ship non-unior
sailors and have opened q shipping
Office. The union is watching the
movement closely, but so far there
has been no strike or violence or
the part of the non-union men.
The steamer Michigan wa:
recently wrecked on Vancouve,
Island. Loss, 100000.
The Pacific Mail Company ha
announced that it will accept m
goods for New York and Europ,
via Panama. This is due to tn,
fact that the Panama Railroad
Company will not accept the Paci
fic Mails through freight.
John D. Spreckels & Bros hav,
recently made two great hauls O
derelict vessels at sea which vii
net them fully $4,000. One o
their tugs picked up the capsizeo
schooner Valiant off Point Gard;
and Captain Haskell brought he
in bottom up. She was rightet
after three days effort and will
$4,000 spent in repairs will be worth
| $4,000. One body was found il
her cabin. The Vigilant ais
picked up the abandoned lumbe
schooner Courser off the Oregon
Coast, and some slight repairs vii
make her as good as new.
The Pacific Mail is no longe
taking through freight to Ne,
York, the Panama Railroad con
tract having expired. The Mort
American Navigation Compan
will soon have a line of vessels o.
the line
The Pacific Mail has been max
ing desperate efforts to head off th
North American Navigation Con
pany in it's opposition line to Ne'
York. New York congressman ar
even going so far as to try to hav
the government apply pressure t
the Panama Railroad to let th
Pacific Mail sign through bills {
lading. Their efforts will probabl
result in an investigation of tn
Pacific Mail Company's relation
with the transcontinental railroad