The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-20
MARINE NOTES.

The Hall left at 10 o'clock this morn
for Maui and Hawaii.
The Australia will depart at noon to-
for San Francisco.
The Marie Hackfeld is discharging
coal at the Likelike wharf.
The captain of the British ship
Island of Tanegashims, South of Van
Dieman straits, on the night Of the 25th
of April, has been severely c,nsured by
a marine court of inquiry held at
Nagasaki but his certifici ate was re-
turned.
Efforts to dislodgo the lark r. X.
Ham, which grounded on Dt ! geness silt
have proved of no avail, and now the
opinion among shipping me Il is she W II
never be floated again, eao h tide more
firmly imbedding her in the sand, from
which release is impossible; ships furni-
ture rescued.
Captain A. f. Small, of the schooner
Vine, reports to the Hydrog al hic Office
in San Francisco that on J1le 10th, in
lat. N. 30 30, Ion. w. 1873 IS, lie saw very
large log it was fifty feet long and four
feet in diameter at the small end. He also
saw several smaller ones in the same
vicinity.
The mammoth packing establishment
of the Astoria Packing Company was
burned to the ground on June Both;
loss about $70,000 insurance $4,000.
At the time of the fire the lighthouse
tender Manzanita was lying mt the can
merry dock, and before she could be
hauled off into the stream. was well
blistered by the heat There were about
5000 cases OF salmon in the cannery at
the time of the fire.
The schooner Puritan, Captain C. G.
SAKE, sailed from Eureka June Goth, for
s. dney, Australia, with 642. s07 feet red
wood lumber, valued at $ll, 1858 4S.
This is the first cargo from Eureka for
Australia this year and counting the
dunnage is the largest that has ever
been shipped from that port. The
largest cargo previously shipped from
there was that of the barkentine Willie
r. Hume, for Sydney, November Is,
1892, with 63s, 2l3 feet, valued at $11,-
10 50.
1t is not generally known that few, il
any, of the captains of Norwegian sail.
ing vessels receive a regular salary
The compensation they generally re
ceive is six per cent. Of the gross freight
received by the vessel. Some of then
receive SEQ per month and four pei
cent. of the gross freights. When they
arrive in foreign port the per Centag,
of the freight is handed over to them 10y
the agents before remittances are mad,
to the owners, and when freights ar,
good they make large incomes.
A list of ninety seven iron ships, ag
gregating 1916, 344 register tons, al
loaded with coal, is published by Lon
don Fdirpldy as missing" from 1865 t.
date; that is, never arrived at destina
ton, and consequently lost with al
hands. The cause of the loss of thes
ships is attributed to the shifting o.
their carges and their COM equent cap
sizing, otherwise some survivors o
trace of them would cer ainly hav,
been left. The remedy prescribed i
proper shifting boards AID careful
slowage.
Captain Robertson was among IN
passengers of the steamer Arago, ltel.
for Coos Bay. He has gone rortI
to build another large raft of piles
which he proposes to have lowed dow
TO San Francisco. About II year ago h
built raft containing nearly 1000 piles
but it went aground while towing owe
the bar, and before it could be fioated i
went TO pieces. Nearly all of the Ion
timbers were lost, and for severa
months they furnished firewood TO
people along the beach of the mort
Ooost, ihe pIopoSeh iaie WIN Soh'oi
about $500 piles, and it will be about 6S
feet long.-Erdminer
There is no necessity for piers Q
wharves at Ivigtuk often erroneousl
called Ivigtut, says Prof. +. ii. Knauff
where the vessels load cry olite for Philf
delphia. The place is on the Arksu
Flord, and 30 bold is the coast that We