The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-12

| w CaGuCi, CiOdI WIN, ASAI ~
The three barkentines, Planter,
Amelia and Wilder, left yesterday
on their great race to San Fran
cisco. The Planter was the first to
leave, she casting off her lines at
at -: 80 PM. The Amelia followed
her at 1 As P. NJ. At Ais PM,
when her two rivals were out of
sight, the S. G. Wilder left port in
tow of the steamer James Makee.
The barkentines Amelia, Planter
and S. g. Wilder took yesterday
1896 bags of sugar, weighing
21134 tons and valued at $141,-
757.O4.
The schooners Sarah and Eliza
and Mile Morris arrived yesterday
from Koolau. They were becalmed
for three days beyond Coco Head.
The captain of the Mile Morris says
that it was one Of the most miser-
| able trips he ever experienced on
the Koolau coast, and he does not
wish for repetition of it.
The bark Mauna Ala will come
down from the Marine Railway
about the last of this week.
The staterooms and officers
cabins on board the steamer w. G.
Hall were furnished with electric
bells yesterday by e. o. Hall &
Son. The Mikahala will soon be
supplied with this modern improve
ment.
The following vessels are now on
their way to this port with cargoes
of coal: Banks Xantippe and Leahi,
barkentines Hilo and Mary Win
kelman, and schooners Salvador
and Lyman D. Foster.
On the passage from Newcastle,
n. S. W., the schooner Bangor
came across the American whaling
bark Gayhead, eighteen months
out from New Bedford. The whaler
had fuel cargo of sperm oil. Cap
tain Clifford came on board the
Bangor and remained there three
hours. While he was about to sit
down to dinner with Captain Aspe,
a big whale was sighted, and the
dinner was interrupted. In a few
minutes Captain Gifford's and four
other boats were off after the whale,
which they succeeded in harpoon-
ing. The Gayhead was to go to
Auckland, n. H., to land her oil,
and from there come to Honolulu,
arriving here about next March.
The steamer Pele brought 1850
bags of sugar from Maxwell yes
terday for the S. S. Monowai.
A large quantity of bananas will
be sent to the Coast today by the
S. S. Monowai. Among the exhi-
bits to be sent to the Midwinter
Fair are six large bundles of speci-
men sugar cane, measuring over 20 |
feet long, from the Eva plantation,
on this island large land turtle |
and several conch shells from the
South Sea Islands.
The four-masted schooner Ban
gor was towed into port by the
tug Eleu yesterday morning, and
was locked at Brewers wharf.
Captain J. w. Aspe reported that
he was sixty-six days coming from
n. S. W., and that he
very rough weather in
lat. 33 deg. S. and long. $50 deg.
w. While off Raratonga Island, a
fearful gale set in, and another was
experienced off Washington Island,
but these gales only carried away a
few sails. The Bangor brought 500
tons of coal for Allen & Robinson,
and will probably load sugar from
here for San Francisco.
All the ships in the harbor had
their ensigns up yesterday in honor
OF the departure of the barkentines
Planter and Wilder.
Sealers are making haste to have
their vessels cleared at San Fran
cisco before January LIST. Their
reason for this activity is that there
is a well-defned fear that the Gov
eminent is meditating taking some
decided steps in relation to clear
ing vessels for sealing cruises. 1t
is generally believed that after New
Years day no clearance papers will
be allowed to sealers.-S. f. paper. |