The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-08-24
WHARF AND WAVE.

She left Sydney OF the 9th inst,
arrived at Auckland on the 11th and
/ departed on the same day; reached
/ Samoa on the 18th and was detained
there for % hours. She brought
five passengers for this port and the
/ following freight: 25 cases whiskey,
/ l case Of silk, IS packages merchan-
/ disc. $50 sacks of oats and IS boxes
Of lines. She had a very light
through passenger list. The vessel
took on some bananas here, and left
for San Francisco about ten o'clock
The Pele came in from Kauai
yesterday.
The Kinau will leave for Maui and
Hawaii this afternoon at the usual
hour.
The Amy Turner left for Hong
kong yesterday; the Captain sue
ceeded in getting men enough to
man his ship.
1t is now said that the Belgic had
no passengers for this port, so she
kept on her way to San Francisco.
The British cruiser Champion re-
turned to port yesterday morning
and is anchored again IN naval row.
a few passenger ships still run be-
tween England and Australia. One
of these, the Rodney, arrived at
Sydney on the 2Sth ult., from Lon
don, after smart passage of So days.
a bill to license foreign vessels to
trade between the Hawaiian Islands
and Laysan and other islands to the
northwest passed its second reading
yesterday.
The French warship Duchaffault
has arrived at Samoa from Tahiti.
She made but a short stay there and
then left for Wallis and Fatuna
Islands. after which she goes to
New Caledonia.
The bark Thurso, bound from
Wellington to Newcastle, was struck
by lightning during a thunderstorm
on Friday, July Goth, when near
Kapiti Island. The maiptop gallant
mast was injured, and the whole of
the ropes attached to the main-mast
were brought down with run.
Brief particulars have reached
Sydney of the wreck of the Norweg-
ian bark Ephialtes, bound from
Sydney to FIJI. The crew escaped,
and the vessel lies piled upon a coral
reef. She is % days out from this
port, and was loaded principally
with coal. The bark Helena is re.
ported to be wrecked at the Caroline
Islands and abandoned by the crew,
who have reached Manila.-Sydney
Herald.
The British ship Penguin left
Sydney on July 28th, on an import
ant surveying cruise says the
Herald. The commander has receiv
ed orders to proceed to Brisbane and
take line Of soundings, thence on
TO the Solomon Group in connection
with the proposed Pacific cable
route. The work will occupy some
weeks, and the Penguin will after
wards resume surveying operations
il the Solomon Group.
Right in the track of ships for
Australia and almost on the spot in
which the charts record that coils
ions with ice have occurred, the iron
bark Eolus passed within d mile of
the base of an immense berg. 1t
was on the 25th, June. The Eolus
was bowling along towards Sydney
at from Il to Ii knots, the weather
thick, dirty, and cold, when the look
oGt man sang out Land under the
lee bow" The land proved to be a
stately berg from the regions Of the
Antarctic. It's exact position was
400 So S, SIS 40 E, and the
measurements taken of it gave its
length as 5000 feet and height 600
feet Auckland Herald.
United States District Judge Nor
row recently investigated the status
of eight Of the Chinese messboys of
the Charleston, who were not in this
city in time to register within the
time prescribed by the law. They
were required to make proof that
they were residents of the United
States on May 5, 1892, and that they
were entitled to remain. They in
troduced certificates showing that
they Joined the Charleston in the
fall Of 1892 and that they had pre-
viously performed naval service from
two to twelve years each. -Four of
the eight were granted certificates
and the cases of the other four were
held in abeyance.-S. f. Examiner.
The San Francisco Examiner of
August 2nd says: Some boys play
ing on the beach near Vallejo last
Friday recovered a bottle from the
water. In it was a note which read:
Steamship Castor. We are lost.
Big storm $50 miles from San Fran
cisco. Captain Z. Brown. The
message was evidently a hoax, and
there is no record of a steamer of
that name being anywhere near the
western coast of America in the last
five years, and no such vessel has
been missing or reported lost Yes
terday, however, a despatch came
from Sand Gate, England, saying
that the steamer Castor had been