The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-26
WHARF AND WA We.

Gather, C4SdI hluu, IISul uOI III
The tern Halcyon will sail TO-DAY
for Eureka In ballast.
The P. NJ. s. S. Peru arrived a
Hongkong from San Francisco or
August 10Th.
The steamer City of New York
was to leave San Francisco for Chi
ma on Saturday, August 10Th.
The British ship Parthenope is
expected to leave on Monday with
/ 500 tons of ballast for Astoria.
The barkentine Wrestler was in
port at Newcastle, n. s. w, load.
ing coal for Honolulu on August
18th.
The German bark Geo. y. Viii
( cox will leave next Tuesday for
San Francisco. She will take 700
tons of sugar and 100 tons of stone
as ballast.
The schooner Mahimahi arrived
last evening from Waianae and an
chored out in the stream. Messrs.
Mcdowell and Swanston. who Sc
cured the contract to float the
wrecked steamer Waimana!o, did
not return by her.
While the British bark Ladstock
was sailing ont of the harbor yes
terday afternoon in charge of Pilot
Macauley, the P. NJ. S. S. Monowai
passed her, going out, about 100
yards outside the lighthouse. The
Monowai passed the Ladstock about
forty feet to starboard. 1t was an
interesting sight to see the two big
vessels going out of the channel
abreast.
The big white cross with five
brass stars on the smoke stacks of
the Canadian-Australian liners Mi
owera and Warimoo is said to rep
resent the Southern Cross constel-
lation. These boats fly the Cana
dian flag on their foremasts, while
the British ensign floats at the
stern.
The big steel four-masted ships
Hawaiian Isles and John Ena both
arrived at Port Prize, Australia, on
the 9Th and 7th inst, respectively.
They both left this port on June
Dist. The Hawaiian Isles made
the passage in As days, two days in
advance of the John Ena.
PORT TOWNSEND, Aug. 10.-The
British iron bark Girvan, from New
castle, n. S. w, for San Francisco,
laden with coal, encountered Sc
we're gale and foundered in lat "a |
2 S., lon. 1 SO Z. The crew was
with great difficulty taken off by |
the British bark George Thompson,
which arrived here today. The
of the Girvan was drown
ed, all the rest of the crew were
saved. By request of Captain An
gus the crew of the Girvan were
landed on Norfolk Island, one of
the Society group, there to await
the arrival of q passing vessel. The
Girvan was at Honolulu several
years ago.
The R. VI. S. S. Monowai, Capt.
Carey, arrived in port at 9 80 A. NJ.
August 25th, having come down
from San Francisco in 68 days,
bringing 200 tons If general
for Honolulu and 300
tons (6898 pkgs), merchandise in
transit. She left San Francisco on
August 18th, at Bpm. The steam
ship Aurania with the Australian
mails only arrived at New York on
the previous Sunday. Had a pleas
ant trip all the way to Honolulu.
After unloading cargo for this port,
she resumed her voyage to the Col
onies at P. NJ. The only shipment
made from here by the Monowai
vas box of curios valued at 800
and 100 young Hawaiian banana
;rees for Apia, Samoa, shipped by
". G.. Irwin & Co.
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.
Acknowledgements 2, s. 2. City of
Rio, 6 days, 10 hours from Homo
ulu; 3, bktne Planter, Is days,
,ktne W. Fl. Dimond, % days; 4,
}. s. Monowai, II days, blk Ceylon,
Il days; II, s. $. City of New York,
days, hours; Is, $. s. Gaelic, 6
lays, II hours-all from Honolulu.
Departures-August II, brig J.
}. Spreckels, for Kahului.
Projected Departures - August
%, s. =. Australia, for Honolulu
'ept. u, s. s. Chin a, for Honolulu;
;, s. ;. Alameda, for Honolu-
u, Oct. 10, 3. 3. Oceanic, for
blk Ceylon, bktne S.
;. Wilder, bktne w. II. Dimond,
kline Planter-all for Honolulu
rig Lurline, for Hilo, (cleared).