The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-20

The schooner kauikeaouli vii
sail for Hamakua today.
The bark MelrOse is at the Fort
street wharf discharging her load
The bark HoIliswood will sal
: for San Francisco about Monday
on Tuesday.
The schooner ka Moi arrived
from Hamakua with a cargo OF
sugar Yesterday.
The steam dredger will suspend
Operations for a week or ten DAYS
TO put in new tubes.
The Kauai arrived Saturday
with $3.50 bags of sugar from
Waimea and Makaweli.
The bark Kate Davenport
Reynolds master, sailed in ballast
for Puget Sound saturday,
The WaidIeale cdue i'll from Ha-
waii ports with a full cargo Of SUI
gar shortly after 9 o'clock last
night.
The bark Albert, brigantine W.
q. Irwin, and schooner Transit all
sailed for San Francisco with su-
gar Saturday.
The steamer kinau will not ar
rive until Wednesday, Taking on
sugar along the Hawaii coast will
cause her delay.
For the week ending Sunday,
April 8, the Inter-Island steamers
brought in $500 bags Of sugar
from various island ports.
The bark Ceylon, Calhoun
master, arrived yesterday after
noon, % days from Nanaimo, with
GIL tons coal for Allen & Robin
son. She is just off the railroad
wharf.
The steamer Iwilani arrived
from Hawaii about noon yester-
day with a full cargo of sugar.
She brought news of the death on
Saturday of Peter Joaquin, the
stOrekeeper at Lahaina.
The barkentine =. \. Castle,
Hubbard master, arrived in port
at noon Saturday, II days from
San Francisco. with 700 tons of
general merchandise. Fine
weather was experienced
throughout the voyage.
The largest schooner ever built
on the Atlantic coast is almost
ready for launching, and has been
named the William Il. Palmer. Her
dimensions are: Length. 257
feet; breadth, 40 feet; depth. 20
feet; gross tonnage, 1S05.73. The
largest schooner at present atiOat
is the Governor Ames. which is
of only tWenty-seven tons less
than the new vessel. Each of Pal
mer'S lower masts is As feet long.
or one foot longer than those of
the Governor Ames.
\ project is on foot to interest
Portland, Or, capitalists in the
building of a steel sailing vessel
for the Pacific Coast lumber trade
Captain j. Jarvis of the British
ship Duntune has designed a YES
sci which, it is believed, could be
prOfitably used in such work. Cap
tain Jarvis plans are for IA vessel
of 1860 tons register, 23S feet long,
AZ feet beam and IA feet depth of
hold. Such a vessel could carry
1 100000 feet of lumber, including
the deokload. A vessel of this ton
mage of the old style would not
carry over 100000 feet. 1t is pro-
posed to have the vessel built on
the Clyde and put under the Ha-
waiian fag.-N. Y. Maritime Reg
lister.
The lengthening of an ocean
steamer is a rather unusual work |
now being carried out by Harland |
& Wolff. at Belfast. Ireland. The
steamer is the Scot. of the South
Mail line. which holds the
speed record between England
md Cape Colony. The boilers
nave been removed. and the rivets
ut from the shell plating seams
The bow will be NOV
d forward by hydraulic jacks and
,team hoisting engines for a dis
ance of about 30 feet, which is the
.Xtent to which the hull is to be
The steamer is 504
eet long over all, and 400 feet on
he water line, 545 feet beam, and
u feet nodded depth; it has Il
of 1884 tons. and a dis !
placement of 10000 tons. 1t is
ropelled by two triple-expansion