The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-02-25

No James Makee yet.
Fred Harrison is furnishing ballast
to the Planter.
The schooner Aloha will have her
cargo out at the end of the week.
The schooner Kauikeaouli sailed for
Hamakua ports after sugar yesterday
morning.
The o. r. G. N S. S. Chittagong, Cor
field master, got away about 1:2O p. m.
yesterday.
The British bark Routenbeck was
unable to get out into the stream yes
terday. She will move today.
The British bark Northbrook,
Fletcher master, sailed in ballast for
the Sound yesterday morning.
Fred. Harrison put $50 tons of rock
ballast aboard the Routenbeck to the
entire satisfaction of Captain Rodgers.
The Kauai went on the marine rail-
way yesterday. She will probably be
taken off today and will sail for ports
on the Garden Isle tomorrow.
Mr.. c.. L. Wight's object in going to
Maui is to examine into the working
of the wire rope at Ookala used to load
sugar and discharge freight from Ho-
nolulu.
The American barkentine Archer
Calhoun master, sailed for San fran
cisco yesterday afternoon with a cargo
of 1874 bags of sugar. She started out
with good wind.
Bets are to 1 along the water front
that George Beckley will bring the
Helene into port during the daytime,
so as to be able to show off that flag
everyone has been talking about.
The name of the new bicycle agency
composed of Messrs. Tom King, J. T.
Lund and three clerks from the firm of
II. Hackfeld & Co. is the Pacific Cy
clery and Manufacturing Company"
There is a big cat aboard the Rou-
tenbeck, which the captain declares is
n proper beach-comber. Picked up off
the key at Liverpool, he is a fighter
from the start and withal a very sly
puss.
The barkentine Planter at Brewers
wharf took on a hundred tons of rock
ballast yesterday which Mr.. Fred Har-
rison succeeded in delivering in seven
hours. Captain Dow has not the slight
est inkling of where he is going.
The British schooner Allan A left
the Sound for Kahului and Mahukona
on or about February 18th. She has a
deck-load for the former place. The
cargo in the hold is for Mahukona
At this place she will load sugar for
San Francisco.
The long expected Norwegian bark
Fantasi c. Anderson master, arrived
in port yesterday morning. IS days
from Newcastle with a cargo of 1889
tons of coal TO order. She cleared
Newcastle on Dec. 5th, 1896. and sailed
on the Sth, arriving as stated above.
The American barkentine Geo. c.
Perkins has completed the work of dis
charging her 500 tons OF coal for the
Wilder Steamship Company. She will
sail for Mahukona on Friday or Sat
urday where she will discharge the re-
naming 200 tons of her cargo of coal
and take on sugar for San Francisco.
The Commercial Publishing Com
pany of California street has issued a
list of vessels of all descriptions owned
on the Pacific Coast. AS guide to all
interested in shipping matters the
work should prove of value, as its scope
covers a greater field than that of the
official list issued by the United States
Treasury Department.
The Wheeling and Marietta, the new
United States gunboats building at the
Union Iron Works, San Francisco, are
nearly ready for launching. The
sheathing is in place. A notification of
10 days will be given to the Secretary
OF the Navy prior to the date of their
launch, in order to permit a deputa-
ton of citizens from Wheeling, w. Va,
To be present at the ceremony. The