The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-20

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northeast.
The American bark Hesper sailed
on Saturday for San Francisco
with 1884 bags of sugar weighing
1174 tons and valued at Sol ,3S3.65.
The Japanese steamship Mike
Maru departed on Saturday fol
Yokohama with 500 Japanese pas
sengers. Either her or the YamaE
shire Maru will return in a few
months with another lot of immi-
grants. I
The bark Annie Johnson Will
leave Hilo for San Francisco next
Tuesday with cargo Of sugar. =
The bark Harvester arrived at
Hilo last Wednesday, Is days from
San Francisco.
The following vessels were load
ing coal at Newcastle, n. S. w, fer
Honolulu last month: Schooners
King Cyrus, Lyman D. Foster, Pur-
itan, Olga and W. R. Hume.
The Court of Marine Inquiry,
which tried the charge of careless
navigation against Captain Gould
ing of the British bark Drumblair,
in connection with the stranding of
that vessel on the Australian coast
on September 16, 1892, found the
captain guilty of gross misconduct
and suspended his certificate of
competency as master for a period
of three calendar months.
1t has been stated on Change
that in transferring the New York
and Paris to the American flag the
old officers and crews would be re-
tanned. This would be in defiance
of law, and, unless both New York
and English papers are in error,
the statement is incorrect. Captain
Randall, formerly of the Western
land, is an American and he is now
in command of the New York. His
record is a long one unbroken by a
single disaster. The first and
second officers of the steamer are
American and the crew-well, the
crew will be quite as American as
the Chinese employed on the Paci-
fic Mail steamers and perhaps more
British than the Lascars employed
on the P. & 0. steamers. A crew
is usually badly mixed as a nation
atty, whether it is the crew of an
American or foreign man-of-war or
merchantmen. - IS. F. Marine
Record.
On January 18th the British
bark Routenburn, from this port,
and the British steamer Chyebassa,
collided in the English channel
and both vessels were considerably
damaged about the bows. The
owners of the bark brought action
against The steamer for damages.
In the Admiralty Court at Liver
pool the judge decided that the
collision was brought about by the
defective exhibition of q side light
on the Routenburn and that she
must be held alone to blame s.
F. Ex.
A reporter of the Hamburger
Nachrichten has interviewed the
three sailors of the Thekla, who are
here at Hamburg waiting trial for
having eaten their Dutch compan.
ion after the wrecking of their ship
at sea. He describes the men as
dirty, uncanny creatures who speak
only in broken sentences and dc
not appear to realize that their deed
was in any way reprehensible. All
spoke of the killing Of the Dutch
man as the only thing to be done
under the circumstances. They dc
not remember who first suggested
the sacrificing of one of the foul
men in the rigging. Lots were
drawn with rags torn from theil
shirts. After the lot had fallen
upon him twice the Dutchman, by
turning his back, gave the sign fol
them to proceed. Anderson and
Jacobsen held him by the shoulders
and legs while Johannson stabbed
him to death. They ate his fest
from the time of the killing until
they were rescued Washington
Star.