The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-09

The British bark Ladas sails today in
ballast for San Francisco.
The Kinau sails this morning at 10
O'Clock for Maui and Hawaii.
The ship Troop will sail today for
New York with full cargo of sugar.
The dredger came off from the ma
rine railway yesterday morning and
the James Makee took her place.
The barkentine Klikitat sailed yes
day for Port Townsend in ballast. She
will return with a load of lumber for
Wilder & Co.
The Waialeale arrived yesterday
morning from Kauai with 10S bags Of
rice and 10 cases scrap iron. She also
brought four deck passengers.
The Hawaii arrived yesterday morn
ing from Hawaii with 1886 bags of
sugar consigned to w. G. Irwin & Co.
There were eight passenges on deck
A cablegram from London says a
company has been formed with a CAPT
tai of 100000 to build marine rail-
way and carry on shipbuilding at Van
couver, B. G.
The ]. D. Spreckels cleared San
Francisco on Sept. Both with the follow
ing cargo: 400 bbls flour, 2,94O lbs
bread, 300 cs coal oil, 220 SKIS bran,
Is bbls hay, 161 ctls barley, ETC.,
valued at S2,321.
Captain Ridderbjelke, who started
from Yokohama to San Francisco in a
23-foot boat on Aug. 10th, is progress
ing we'll on his voyage. The boat re-
Gently put into Shirahama, near the
northern end of Japan, nine days after
it started. In that time the vessel had
encountered a fierce typhoon and the
voyager was compelled to heave his
little vessel to and weathered the storm
admirably.
The administration of the Bureau
Veritas has just issued the list of ma
rine disasters reported during the past
July, concerning all flags. The follow
ing are the statistical returns: Sailing
vessels, 16 American, l Argentine, 4
Austrian, 16 British, French Ger
man, Italian, Norwegian, Russian,
5 Swedish; total, 61 Steamers, 1 Am
erican, 1 Argentine, British, 2 Chill
ian, 1 German, Norwegian, Spanish;
total, Is.
The Annie Johnson cleared San Fran
cisco for Hilo on September 80 with the
following cargo: $50 bbls flour, 1885
SKIS bran, S3 cs and Is bbls salmon,
SO, 500 it lumber, 81 tons fertilizer, 1000
redwood posts, 2,173 ctls barley, NJ
bricks, 10 bbls lime, 557 lbs sugar 657
lbs hams, $40 lbs butter. 5000 lbs lard,
1868 bis hay, 200 SKIS middlings, LOO
lbs Goldfish. 800 cs coal oil, 500 lbs
cheese, 1,533 lbs beans, II mules, etc,
valued at $40, 400.
The Hamburg-American Steamship
Company's new twin screw steamer
Pennsylvania was successfully launch
ed from the Harlan & Wolff shipyards
September 10th. The new vessel is the
largest merchant steamer afloat, being
10000 tons loaded displacement, and
$4,000 or $4,000 tons carrying capacity.
She is $50 feet long, 60 feet beam and
Il feet deep. The Pennsylvania is de-
signed to make an average speed of
Il knots an hour, and have passenger
capacity of 200 first cabin, $50 second
cabin and 1000 steerage.
The steamer MonmOuthshire Captain
Evans, arrived yesterday afternoon
from Portland and days from Victo-
ria. She brought two passengers for
this port and had two cabin passengers
and twenty-six steerage in transit. She
had a full cargo in transit and had s.
402 packages of flour and feed stuff for
this port She also brought some bar
rels of lime from Victoria. Purser J.
Kennedy kindly furnishes the follow
ing information about the vessel: The
length of the vessel is $50 feet, breadth,
10 feet, and 80 feet depth of hold. Her
register is 1874 tons net, 2,874 tons
gross. Her engines are 500 horse power
and she is the best looking one of her
line that has entered this port.