The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-08-20
WHARF And WAVE.

The new mail wagon will be seen
along the water front within very
few days.
The Philadelphia launch will go to
Pearl Harbor on Saturday Admiral
Miller and party will go down.
The American bark George F. Man
son, P. Crack master, arrived in port
yesterday morning, after a trip of "A
days from Newcastle, with 1920 tons of
coal for Castle & Cooke. Fair weather
was met with throughout the trip.
The four-oared shell of the Myrtle
Boat Club was upset in the harbor yes
terday afternoon, and the Naniwa's
launch picked the men up and towed
the boat ashore There were four pref
ty wet young men when the wharf was
reached.
The American schooner Lizzie Vance,
Edward P Hardwick master, arrived in
port at $50 a. m. yesterday, AZ days
from Newcastle with a cargo of SO
tons of coal for Wilder & Co. She sail
ed from Newcastle on July 5th, and
encountered fair weather all the way
up.
The quartermaster of the U. S. S.
Philadelphia is missing. He disap-
peared yesterday morning, owing peo-
pie in the city large amount of mon
ey. Nothing was said about the mat
ter at the Police Station, and it is very
probable that he got away on the Mari
posa.
The ship-building firm of Moran
Brothers of Seattle have notified the
United States Navy Department that so
many men have deserted to go to the
Klondyke that they are unable to COM
plete the torpedo boat Rowan in con-
tract time and ask an extension.
Five million dollars to be spent by
the Belgian Government in enlarging
Antwerp's dock accommodations. A
channel, 20 feet deep and 200 feet wide.
is to be constructed; the quays are to
be extended 5000 feet to the south, and
this is but the prelude to more extern
sive improvements.
It was rather a peculiar sight to see
bananas sliding down from the deck
of the Mariposa about a half hour be-
fore her departure for San Francisco
yesterday. 1t seems that they got the
bananas on the decks, and it was found
later that there was no room, so they
had to be slowed in the forward part
of the vessel.
The o. S. S. Mariposa, Hayward COM
mander, arrived in port and hauled
alongside the Oceanic wharf between Z
and O'Clock last night. Following is
the memoranda of the voyage, kindly
furnished by Purser N. c. Walton, Jr.:
Left Sydney August 2 at 5 p. m, ar
rived in Auckland August 6 at 8 p. M,
left Auckland August Z at 2 p. m, ar
rived in Apia August II at p. m, left
Apia August II at 6 p. m, arrived in
port as above.
An improved diving bell of great ca
pacity, moving along the sea bottom
by means of screws moved by electri-
city, has recently been on exhibition in
Paris. 1t is the invention of an Ital-
ian named Platti de Pozzo. He states
that it can be worked at very great
depth and holds air enough to supply
the crew for As hours without renewal.
1t is lighted by electricity, which also
furnishes motive power for any tools
that may be used. On tipping over the
cases Of ballast the bell rises to the
surface itself.
Edmund Seymour of Seymour Bros,
bankers, of So Wall street, New York,
has recently received from Mr.. Warner.
manager of the Tacoma Dry Dock, a
piece of the keel of the old steamer
Beaver, the first steamboat ever on the
Pacific Ocean. This interesting relic,
Mr.. Seymour proposes to preserve as a
souvenir of the days of the Argonauts
of '49, memories of whom will be re-
vived by the present movement of a
new set of pioneers toward the newer
gold fields of the Klondyke.