Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-13
SALT WATER NEWS,
THE OCEANIC =. n. AUSTRALIA
LEAVES TODAY.
Schooner General Mcpherson. Brings
More Guano-P.sscngers for
Foreign nsd Island Ports.

p. IN. to-day
The new wharf at the site of the
old fish market is about completed.
The British bark Samoa will
leave within a day or two for New
York.
A very large shipment of ban
anas is being made by the Austria
liza for the Coast today.
The schooner Alice Cooke has
finished discharging lumber, and
is lying IN the stream.
A shipment of $50 sacks of taro
-four to Hires of Chicago per the
S S Australia was made today.
The German ship Marie Hack.
field is discharging the balance of
her freight at Fort street wharf.
The steamer Mikahala did not
get away last night. She depart
ed for Hauamaulu at s a. m. to.
day.
Tomorrow, high tide large l:2+
n. M; high tide small 11:5S a. M;
low tide large $50 p. NJ; low tide
small S:l5 a. N.
The bark c ID Bryant will take
a good cargo of sugar to San
Francisco. She took in another
instalment at Kinau wharf today.
The American schooner General
Mcpherson, + f Carter master,
arrived yesterday afternoon from
Ensenada, Mexico. She brought
a cargo of guano, which will be
uulouded at Railroad wharf.
Senator George i Wilcox has
named the uter.Isiand steamer
temporarily called the "Scray"
-"Noeau." The word has sever
al meanings: swift, handy, speedy,
etc. If you don't like the name,
call her "Greased Lightning"
Captain Cutler Of the barker.
tine Klikitat expected to get away
yesterday afternoon, but on &C
count Of two troublesome sailors
drseltiug lie did not oct away I'M
til 10 a. NJ. today. K policeman
was stationed aboard the vessel
until she lett the harbor to guard
the pair of deserters.
1t is q favoritc theory with fish
ing and seafaring people on the
northeast coast of Scotland that in
a storm three waves are strong
and violent. while the fourth is
comparatively weak and less dan.
gerous. This succession they call
'rote of waves" Fishermen re,
turning from their fishing ground
often prove by experience the
truth of their theory, and hang
back as they come near the shore
to take advantage of the lull that
follows, they say, pretty regularly
after three big breakers.-Ex-
change.
New York, n. Y, Dec. ia
spu,Iu, 10 the journal from Wen.
ma says: "a fearful typhus cpl
demlc is raging in the Austrian
naval station Of Pola. The streets
are almost deserted and all who
are able are fleeing from the
place. ADJUSTMENTS and even
meetings in the open air are pro-
hlbired. The dead are buried
nightly without ceremony. The
humber OF sick is increasing by
leaps aud bounds. Seven hun
dred patients ere in the naval hos
pital alone, where there are only
STA maio and eight female attend
ants.
A discussion was recently start
ed in the New York Sun rs to
whether the peculiar physical
structure Of the whale would al
low hin to swallow Jonah. Some
Of the contemporaries tHG' a Hari-
Gus view Of the meter, others dis.
cuss it fippautly. Perhaps the
most striking contribution on the
subject is from William l.. Stone.
who relates n Northumberland
incident of a similar nature. The
story is that a mau was buried Mt
sea in the Mediterranean. In the
sack with his body were placed an
AK and grindstone to make it
sink quickly. The mans son,
frantic with lriaf, p,un4od oyer
board after his fathers body and
sank from sight. Next day the
sailors captured man-catiug
shark, and on emitting it open dis