The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-22
WHARF AND Wa We.

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The L. S. S. Boston will finish
receiving $40 tons of coal this
afternoon. She is now drawing
sixteen feet of water forward.
The bark Alden REESE, Capt. c.
s. Friis, will leave at noon today
for San Francisco with 800 tons of
sugar and rice.
Captain Schmidt, of the barken-
tine Irmgard, yesterday discharged
his three union sailors who refused
to work because the captain ship
ped some japanese sailors. Three
men who worked their way from
the colonies on the steamer Mari
posa, took the places of the dis
charged men. The Irmgard will
leave the latter part of next week,
and the captain expects to take up
a full list of passengers.
The four-masted schooner Alice
Cooke will come down from the
marine railway tomorrow. She will
leave next week for Puget Sound
with seventy-fve tons of ballast.
The steamer Hawaii brought yes
terday one hundred tons of machln-
cry from the old Huelo sugar mill,
Maui, which was closed down sew
eral years ago. The machinery Will
be stored in VIM. G.. Irwin d CO.
warehouse for the present. The
Hawaii will take about 400 tons OF
coal to Kahului next Monday.
The steamers to arrive today are
the Waialeale and G. r. Bishop.
The steamer w. G. Halls new
boiler built by the Honolulu Iron
Works, has been tried several
times during the week. Tomor-
row afternoon after the schooner
Alice Cooke is lowered, the W. q.
Hall will go up on the marine rail-
way and remain there twelve days.
She will be stripped of her old cop
per and replaced with new. The
hull of the vessel will also be re
caulked. The painters have near
ly completed painting the saloon
and the staterooms. The Ha-
waiian Electric Light Co. has put
in wires for electric bells connect
ing each stateroom with the saloon
This is the first steamer of the l. L.
S. n. Co. to receive a complete sci
of electric bells, and the company
intend supplying the steamer Mi
kahala with the same modern con
venience in the near future. The
remainder of the electric material
for the w. G.. Hall is expected tc
arrive here by the Australia due
on October eth.
The steamers Pele and Jane:
Makee will leave for Kauai mex
Monday.
The steamship Mariposa lief
yesterday morning for San Fran
cisco. Besides her cargo in tran
sit, she took from this port SOC
bags rice, GA pieces hides, and
$50 punches bananas. The dom
este cargo was valued at $4626 81
Capt. Darrah, Of the American
ship Detroit, discharged all hi
crew yesterday morning because
they refused to work. The captain
obtained three japanese from ~
barkentine Irmgard, and he
looking around for for- He 80 10 %
japanese seamen, o1HT hara heinz
m?hey Iue 'nnRe strikers, the eie
s sa;l.,s LETT the ship without
r / &c ing a cent from the captain.
IN Captain Cameron, of the steam
.es Hawaii, reports that the first nor
on erly swell Of the season set In Ii
u, Saturday afternoon.
Id VALLEJO, Sept. 6.-Comman'
he Henry Glass, United States ma
a captain of the yard at the NJ
me Island navy yard, has received
on ders from Washington to app
'ay before a board of naval examin
-. for examination for promotion
t@' the grade of lieutenant-comma
len er. This promotion will In no v
,ne affect Commander Glass in his
nee tail of duty at Mare Island.
his examination will take place as s
ew as the board can be convened.
Captain H. D. Leland, of
Francisco, master of the steaI
EST, Los Angeles, of that port, has
!, a ceived from the British COVE
one ment, through Secretary Gresh
as a fine pair of binocular glasses
' a acknowledgement Of his Drawer.
eat rescuing the crew of the bark K
not James, which burnt at sea and
any abandoned last March.-Ex.
Ex- VIM. Curtis, a sailor belong
I'VE i've to the bark Alden Besse, met
I'll IL a serious accident at 1 1 o'clock
tile terday morning, while that We
nffi- was lying at Allen 81 Robins
use wharf. The gang plank was ord'
lent to be removed, and Curtis wen
ting the wharf to help take it on bo
,on, The gang plank served as sup
sn - for a pile of lumber landed +
ais the bark Topgallant, and whe
ex- was moved away the entire pi
It to lumber fell, striking Curtis on
fire. left leg, breaking the ankle b
DR.. McGrew set the fractured N
Der and Curtis was removed to
90 Queens hospital.