The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-24

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weeks. and the Penguin will after
wards resume surveying operations
in the Solomon Group.
Right III 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 f.JlUs passed within mile Of
the base Of an immense berg II
was on the 18th. June. The Eolus
was bowling along towards Sydney
at from i 10 - knots, the weather
thick. dirty. and cold, when the look
out man sang out Land under the
lee bow" The land proved 10 be q
stately berg from the regions Ct the
Antarctic. rs exact position was
400 30 s., 81 10 L and the
measurements taken OF 1t 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 ). 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. T. 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 & hoax, and
there is no record Of Il 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, despatch came
from Sand Gate, England, saying
that the steamer Castor had been
wrecked in a collision with bark at
sea. The wreck of tie Castor took
| place at about the same time that
the message was picked up at
Vallejo.
News was received in Sydney on
| July 80 of the arrival of the London
Missionary Society's new mission
steamer John Williams, intended for
the South Sea Island service, at Ere
mantle CIV. A. en- route from Lon
don TO Sydney says the Auckland
Herald. The John Williams left
England on May II, and completed
| the passage principally under sail,
via the Cape of Good Hope route.
She is expected TO make short stay
| at Fremantle, and will afterwards
sail for Adelaide; thence she goes to
Hobart, and afterwards to
Melbourne, being due at Sydney
about the end of August. 1t is in
! tended to throw the ship open to in
spectiOn at the port OF call, and on
arrival at Sydney she will most like
| ly be bertbed at Circular Quay,
where ample opportunity will be
afforded of viewing the fine vessel
before she Is despatched from Sgd
/ LSg Oh '4eA hIoAOSA u u-SO dAAOES tA0
islands.
4 cable message from Sydney,
states that inhabitants were seen on
Hull Island. Phoenix Group, by the
steamer Warrimco on her voyage
from Vancouver to Sydney says the
Auckland Herald. Until recently
the Island has been uninhabited. but
lately a gueno depot has been estab-
lished there by Mr.. j. [. Arundel,
and the people seen by those on
board the Warrimoo would be some
of those connected with the guanC
works The barkentine ISABEL at
present in harbOr, on her last voyage
visited Hnll Island with cargo OF
green cocOanuts for the Islanders
working there, and came on from the
island to this port. The island is 6
lagoon island, and has little fresh
water and few cocoanut trees upor
it. 1t i situated in lat. / 29' As
s.. long. 172o 20 30" W. and was
discovered by Commodore Wilkes, o.
the I. 5. navy, in 1910.
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