The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-05
Shipping.

ARRIvALs--April Is, steamer Mari
posa, g days from Honolulu; 18th,
! bark Albert, % days from Honolulu I;
| 18th, British steamer China, 8 days
81 hours from Honolulu; 18th, bark
entine S. n. Castle, % days from
Honolulu; 18th, schooner Trans t, 81
! days from Honolulu; Odd, bark S. c..
Allen, "a days from Honolulu; 22d,
bark Harvester, 81 days from Hilo !;
22d, barkentine Discovery, 10 days
from Honolulu; 22d, brig w. G.. Irwin,
line, Is days from Hilo; 22d, schooner
Robert Searles, 224 days from Homo
lulu; 23d, ship John G. Porter, % days
from Honolulu; 23d, barkentine Irm-
gard, 1OI days from Honolulu; 24th,
bark Forest Queen, II days from Ka-
hului; oath, bark Alden Bessie, 10
days from Kahului; 9th, schooner
John G.. North, II days from MANU-
kona; 25th, barkentine Mary Winkel-
man, IL days from Honolulu.
DEPARTUREs-Apri Is, brig j. d.
Spreckels, for Kahului Goth, bark
Hesper, for Kahului; Goth, bark G. d.
Bryant, for Honolulu.
April II, from Nanaimo, bark Ma
tilda, for Honolulu.
PROJECTED DEPARTURES--May 4,
steamer Belgic via Honolulu; 10th,
steamer Australia, for Honolulu.
The man of-war Alliance is being
fitted out at Mare Island for duty at
Honolulu, where she will join the
Adams. The MOhican, Ranger, Petrol,
Thomas Corwin, Richard Rush, and
Bear, will do service this summer in
Behring Sea under command of Com
mander Nicoll Ludlow.
Captain d. o. Blackburn, of the
late blackbirding steamer Montserrat,
is among the missing. He was last
seen about ten days ago on his boat at
Oakland, and it is feared that he has
either been drowned, or that he has
been a victim of foul play. SIM the
voyage to Gilbert Islands afte ,lack-
birds, the Montserrat has been in the
coast coal trade, occasionally making
voyage as tramp to Central Ameri-
can ports.
a flying trip of 103 days from Homo
lulu. Most of the vessels in of late
have made fast voyages.
Captain Meyer, of the American
ship j. G.. Potter, which arrived re-
,cently from Honolulu, after passage
of 30 days, reports that on the 18th
April Thomas FitZ, a seaman, acct
dentally lost his hold while ut the
foremast-head and fell to the deck,
sustaining serious injuries. The mans
collar bone and left leg were broken.
Fitz was sent to the Marine Hospital.
The five seamen who murdered
Mate Fitzgerald, of the bark Hesper,
on the high seas in January last, and
conspired to take the vessel and turn
pirates, were held for trial by Com
missioner Sawyer recently. The only
witness examined was Captain Solder
gren. His story of the tragedy was
substantially the same as that already
published. During the examination
st. Clair, the murderer-in-chief, sat
silent and entirely unconcerned. The
highly amused at the captains testi-
mOny.
The new Cunard steamer Campania
had her final trip April 18th. She at
tanned n maximum speed of 23.5 knots
or fully % miles ar hour. This is the
greatest speed ever attained by
steamship, and justifies the hope that
she will be able to make the run from
Fastnet to Sandy Hook in five days
and half.
The French frigate Duchaffault has
arrived from Mazatlan, and, after
few days stop, will leave for Tahiti,
possibly calling at Honolulu en- route.
The American ship Roanoke, which,
after the France, is the largest ship
afloat, has arrived from New York.
She is a new wooden vessel, and was
built by Sewall & Co., of Bath. She
is 81 feet long between perpendicu-
lars, 40 feet beam and % feet deep,
and is 34OO tons register. She carries
a crew of 3S all told, and has over
$500 tons of cargo on board.
The American ship Alaska, bound
from Bellingham Bay to this port
with cargo of 1850 tons of coal,
sprung a leak at sea eleven days out,
and was abandoned by Captain ].
Brannan and the crew of II in latitude
~ deg. - min. N, and longitude 126
deg. 2S min. w. The schooner Me-
langthon, from Shoalwater Bay, came
along as the survivors of the wreck
were leaving and picked them up,
bringing them to San Francisco. The
Alaska was owned by Sam Blair, and
was insured for $4,000. The vessel,
according to the owners estimate, was
valued at $4,000.