The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-27
WHARF AND WAVE.

Weather, cloudy; wind, light
NE.
Several island steamers will ar
rive during the day with sugar.
But few passengers are leaving
port on sailing vessels nowadays.
The barkentine S. G. Wilder will
leave for San Francisco on Satur-
day at noon.
The Australia will remain in
San Francisco nine days this trip.
She will be due here on July 18th.
The bark G. D. Bryant left for
San Francisco yesterday with
light cargo of sugar. She took one
passenger.
Six sailors deserted from the
ship Manuel Llaguno on Tuesday
night. One Of the men was caught
yesterday.
The Morning Star leaves port
this morning about 9 o'clock. The
farewell service will be held on the
new wharf at the foot of Nuuanu
street.
The Oceanic dock warehouse
contains no sugar at present. What
remained after the Starbuck was
loaded was placed on board of the
Llaguno.
The dredger will commence work
in naval row today. The idea is
to deepen the harbor in that vicin-
ity in order to accommodate YES
sci of the Olympia's size.
The schooner Kaulilua has been
overhauled and cleaned. She will
leave for flaming Island with a
cargo of provisions. She will re-
turn with cargo of guano.
In order to reach San Francisco
on the Sd of July to discharge per-
ishable freight, the Alameda will
remain in port bat two hours on
her arrival. This announcement
was made yesterday by the agents
of the steamer.
The schooner w. F. Whitman,
Captain Olsen, arrived yesterday,
163 days from Gray's Harbor with
a cargo of lumber for Allen & Rob
inson. Her trip was uneventful.
The o. NJ. kellogg was loading for
this port when the Whitman set
sail.
The American line steamship
st. Louis sailed from New York
June 4 on her maiden passage
across the Atlantic. Her carrying
capacity was taxed to the utmost,
as she took over $50 cabin passen-
gers, the full limit of her accom-
modatiOns.
The schooner Vine recently ar
rived at San Francisco from San
Marcos Islands with cargo of
gypsum. When this vessel left
San Francisco some months
ago, it was said that she left in
search of treasure that was sup
posed to be located on an island.
The impression prevails in rail-
road circles that James J. Hill,
president of the Great Northern,
intends to establish a line of
steamers to the Orient at no dis
tant date, and that his present
Western trip is to look into the
feasibility of the undertaking and
determine the point at which to
put on the line.
Circulars will be issued by the
Navy Department inviting bids for
the construction of three torpedo
boats authorized by the last Con-
gress The plans for the boats
have been completed. They pro-
vide for the construction of the
feetest craft that will be borne on
the naval lists. The minimum
speed must be not less than twenty
six knots per hour.
The general officers of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company at San
Francisco are awaiting the con-
cIuision of the investigation by the
local inspectors into the Colima
disaster. While they have not as
yet received notice that any of the
survivors of heirs of those who were
lost propose to begin damage suits,
they believe that L. R. Brewer, the
millionaire coffee planter, whose
wife and children were drowned, is
NOT the only one who will proceed