Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-13
H Nj 5 WILD SWAN ARRIVES
COLLIERS WILLIE X. HUME AND
TAu O'sHhNTER IN.
steamer J. A. Cummins From wal
nanalo--Foreign shipping News
Keauhou Loading Rice.

The steamer Lehua is acting as tug while
the Eleu is cruising outside.
The steamer J A Cummins came in from
Waimanalo this morning.
The steamer Keauhou will be in by ton or
row morning with Il cargo of rice from Puma
luu.
Tomorrow-High tide large 9.S7 m; high
tide small ?.u4 p m; low tide large I 80 p III;
low tide small 1901 a IN.
The steamer Bandorle was wrecked on the
Umpuua river bar on November 22d and
Captain } Winant washed overheard and
drowned.
The customs office by order of the Minister
of Finance closed its doors at one o'clock
today, out of respect to the memory Of the
late Judge Bckerton.
The American ship Tam OShantcr is at
new Fort street wharf with 2OO0 tons OF coal
on board for " G Irwin " Co. after 30 days
voyage from Newcastle. She arrived ut en-
act noon to-day. The captains family are
passengers.
The American four-mastCd barkentiuc
Willie X Hume, Brdgman master, with l2li
tons of Newcastle coal for the Oceanic Steam.
ship Company, came into port this morning,
Is days out. Captain Bridgman reports
beautiful weather the entire voy age. The
Hume is locked at new Fort street wharf
The sum of sS3s, 30S74 was expended dur
ing the fiscal year for. labor at the several
Navy Yards of the United States in equip
ping ships. There was also expended abroad
for equipment supplies the sum ofS39l, SEIZE.
OF this amount $3.50, ls3.47 was for ~ ,gS5 tOls
of coal at an average cost of 81 a ton.
HMS Wild Swan, Commander Napier,
came in port yesterday afternoon through
the dense rain and anchored in naval row.
She is twcnty-one days from EsQuimalt and
will remain here about two weeks cOaling.
Very diasgrccabe weather was reported dur
ing the voyage from the northwest.
There was launched from the shiphuildng
yard of Sir W q Armstrong, Mitchell " Co.,
on October 18th, a very large petroleum tank
steamer which has been built to the order of
Samuel Il 20, the owners of the Shell line Of
steamers The new vessel is the largest tank
steamer in the world. She has been designed
to carry out cargOes of oil 10 AsiatiC ports
and to bring general cargOcs home ward. This
has been rendered possible 10y meant ut lab
crate arrau-u rucnts made Tor puriiyn.- and
vcntilatmg the oil tanks after dischargiug
their liquid cargo. The vcssc il 3ss feet In
length, and is OF 1000 tons register
The British ship Indian Empire bound from
Newcastle, n 5 W, to MollendO, put into
CallaO on November I'd when she was lOi
days out and the captain sent home the fol-
lowing Cablcgram: ship was on beam ends
carried away; lost main and cross jack yards,
spankcr boom and iihboom, 3 boats, side of
deck-hOuse stove in, forecastlc damaged, ca
bin Quilted Ships papers saved; lazarette
Quilted; jettisOned cargo to extent of loo tons.
Lost steward overheard. Waiting instruc-
tiOns." When the news arrived at Liverpool
ninety guncas per cent had been paid TO eff
feet reinsurance on the vessel, and as the risk
of condemnation still existed, forty guineas
per cent was paid on her that day.
The following vessels have been chartered
to load coal ut Newcastle, New South Wales:
Mic bark Bundal for Honolulu;
bktn Chas + Crocker for Honolulu;
ship G + Sargent for Honolulu
ship CarOndolct for San Francisco; Br slip
CambrIan Ming for Oregon; Br ship &c tic
Monarch for san Francisco; bark Coryphene
for Honolulu; bark Empire for San Francisco;
ltal ship + Raggio for San Francisco; haw
ship Hawaiian isles for San Francisco; bark
Highland Ligut for san francisco; Br ship
Holm wood for San Francisco; Br br lnveresk
for San Francisco; Br bark Inverness for San
Francisco hktn Irmgard Tor Honolulu; bark
Momentum for san Francisco; bark Oregon
for San Francisco; schr Robert Seares for
Honolulu; bark Seminole for Honolulu.