The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-29
WHARF AND WAVE.

DIAMOND HEAD, Aug. %, 10P.M.
) Weather, cloudy wind, light north
The steamer Kinau is due tomor
row morning.
The steamer Hawaii will leav
/. tomorrow afternoon for Maui ant
} Hamakua.
) The brigantine w. G. Irwin and
bark Geo. n. Wilcox are expected
to leave today for San Francisco.
The schooner Alice Cooke i:
about 80 days out from Puget
sound.
The steamer G. r. Bishop takes
down to Waianae this morning the
235 bags of rose-bamboo seed cane
that came from Kukuiau by the
steamer Claudine on Sunday morn
ing.
The bark Alex. McNeill will fin
ish discharging her coal cargo for
the United States government this
morning. After taking in ballast
she will leave about next Thursday
or Friday for Puget Sound.
1t is singular that although the
harvest in England is one of the
worst on record, the price of wheat
remains so phenomenally low. 1t
is down to % shillings per quarter
of eight bushels for new wheat, and
the quality is probably fair. Every
thing has failed in England this
year but potatoes, and according
to expectations, there should have
been higher prices for imports, but
they have not yet materialized. In
bad seasons the masses practice
economy even in food.-Ex.
The steamer Claudine left last
evening for Maui and Hawaii ports
with mails for Mahukona and Hilo.
Captain Davies said last evening
that he was going to drive his yes
sci at the rate of IA knots, and ex-
poets to be in Hilo at midnight on
Wednesday.
The bark S. G. Allen was lowered
from the marine railway yesterday
afternoon, and the bark Albert was
taken on the ways to be cleaned |
and reprinted. During the one
week that the S. G. Allen has been
on the dock she was stripped,
caulked and coppered. She will
leave for San Francisco the end of
next week.
The new outer wharf at Victoria,
Be, is about completed, and it is
the most substantial and commodi-
Gus wharf on the Pacific coast, says
the West Coast Trade. 1t has been
built by r. p. Rithet G Co. at a
cost of $500, 900, and is 210 feet in
width and 400 feet long, having
occupied nearly ten years in build
ing. The face is of solid masonry,
and 10000 tons of rock were used
N the north and west dump walls.
It contains a warehouse 6Ox600 feet
in size, and will accommodate five
Or six large ships besides smaller
craft.
Captain Brown, of the schooner
Nahimahi, says that his vessel will
20 to Waiaiua this morning, and
hat he will again pay a visit to ,,
he wreck of the steamer Wal
The captain seems to
hink that the Waimanalo ought
o have been foated last week, and t
lie could not see why the con- c
FACTORS had not gone on with the f
york.
The British ship Parthenope will J.
cave for Astoria, Oregon, about
ext Thursday in ballast. =
The British bark Velocity will i
cave next Wednesday or Thurs
ay for Hongkong. Berths are
eng erected to accommodate 100 y
'hinese passengers from this port n
the rate of $40 per head. t
SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 5.-The o
ark City of Carlisle, Captain g
hughes, from Newcastle, n. S. w,
inety-eight days out, with 400 =
ms of coal, arrived today. The u
ark lost her fore-royal mast about 9,
week ago. She reports head -
inds. -
PORT TOWNSEND (Wash.), Aug.
The mizzen and main topmasts
the CHILEAN bark Eritrea, which sc
ent ashore yesterday morning on tt
ungeness Spit, have been carried tt
way and the heavy westerly seas to
e slowly pounding the vessel to
eces. The bark will be a total |.
So. The crew will arrive tonight. o'
At the meeting of the interna- ar
onal maritime congress, Mr.. Mum d
lila, president of the English Of
'ard of trade, presented some sta to
sites on the growth of the British
ercantile marine. AS may be ex-
cted, the development is remark H
lie. There were at the commence wi
ent of the century 100000 tons ur
shipping, all under sail, and it We
ok thirty years to add half a AS
illion tons to that total. Steamers ioI
re being introduced, but not CO
pidly. In 1870 the total tonnage
n r0po mn IN 40 000 of which