The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-24

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of sugar.
A notice at the Custom House
reads that the licenses for the Iva
lani, Lavinia and Mary Foster have
expired.
The Skagit is at Kahului loading
sugar for San Francisco. She IS
expected to sail within a few days.
The Iwalani arrived last evening
with 1890 bags of sugar for w. @.
Irwin d Co.
The steamer China will be due
on next Monday, en- route to San
Francisco.
The japanese cruiser Naniwa is
taking in a supply of coal.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The barkentine Charles F.
Croker sailed into San Francisco
March 1st, from Hawaii with all
pumps going and her crew pretty
we'll tired out. She commenced
leaking shortly after leaving Hilo.
On coming to an anchor off Mis-
sion bay the leak did not stop and
the pumps are still going to keep
her from laundering at her moor
ings. On board it is denied that
the vessel has been aground, or in
collision or rough weather that
would justify her sieve-like condi-
ton. When the Croker was
launched in 1890 she was hailed as
as the largest sailing vessel ever
built at this port, and her early
voyage up north and to Aus
tralia marked her as fast
sailer and good sea boat.
There is almost as great rush
with sugar now as there was two
years ago, when the tariff and
bounty changes occurred. 1t is due
this time to the drouth that set all
the island mills to grinding at
least a month earlier than usual,
and there is an objection to storage
loss on the part of the planters.
The Crocker is chartered to return
for another load, but will go on the
dock for repairs before sailing.-S.
+. Examiner.
The House Committee on Mer-
chant Marine and Fisheries has
under consideration a bill of Rep
resentative Tracey, of New York,
entitled "a bill to encourage Amer
lean shipping" 1t authorizes any
citizen of the United States or any
corporation created under the
United States laws, nine-tenths of
whose stock is owned by Ameri-
can citizens, to purchase foreign
built vessel and obtain an Ameri-
can registry, providing that the
American owner or owners will
build in American shipyards
vessel or vessels of an aggregate
tonnage and value not less in
amount than that of the vessel so
admitted to registry.
There is but one marine school
II t----iufng snip Tor hitting young
men for the capacity of able sea-
men and to become officers of the
merchant marine in the United
States, and that is the st. Mary's,
operated in connection with the
public school system of New York.
This boat was put into service in
1884, and since that time 1850
young seamen have been educated
and received certificates of gradu-
alton.
William Shotten, the youth who
navigated the fever-stricken British
ship Trafalgar from Batavia to
Hobson's Bay successfully, has
passed the Victoria IN. S. W. Ma
rine Board examination Qualifying
him to assume the duties and re-
sponsibilities of second mate. In
recognition of his services ne has
been promoted to the position of
second officer aboard the Trafalgar.
The total tonnage of war ships
launched during last year by the
four most active naval powers was ::
France, 52,18S tons; the United
States, 40,050; Great Britain,
2S,920, and Russia, II 1926.