The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-19
WHARF AND WAVE.

Kona-Kau steamer Mauna Loa due
at noon today.
The United States army transport
Columbia was scheduled to sail for
Manila at 1920 last night.
The American schooner Olga, lumber
laden from Tacoma, is in the stream,
having arrived yesterday afternoon,
reporting an uneventful voyage.
VICTORIA, B. c., Sept. 1.-THE
bark TheObold reports the wreck of
the schooner Woodbury. on Wood ISL
and near the Alaskan coast. No lives
were lost
The America Maru of the Togo Kisen
Kaisha caught fire in her coal bunker
at Yokohama September 9. The fire
was extinguished and the America
sailed for this port.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9.-The
bark General Fairchild is on the Spear
street drydock for a general overhaul
ing. She is having her copper patched,
her cardboard recalked and her hull
cleaned and painted. She Will receive
a new mainmast and a new pump and
will then load for Honolulu or Austria
liza
The Togo Kisen liner Nippon Maru
locked at Pacific Mail wharf at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon from San
Francisco and will sail for Oriental
ports at 10 o'clock this morning The
Nippon Maru is now making fine trips
with the following officers: J. F. AL
len, commander; n. Tate, chief officer
VIM. Duncan, chief engineer; John Pi-
yer, purser; H NJ. Fine, MD, surgeon;
l.. NJ. Yer Mehr, freight clerk.
NCJSCO Can't Tho
dissatisfaction among the longshore-
men on the salmon-packers' vessels
spread yesterday to the sugar fleet.
The men demanded a raise from 40 to
so cents an hour, and yesterday at l
o'clock they went to work at the figure
demanded. The sugar packets ROder-
lex Dhu and Edward May, which were
discRarging at Oakland, gave in imme-
diately, and work on them was not de-
layed.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept S.-Another
steamer is to be launched from Hay &
Wright's yard before the end of the
month. 1t is being built for the Will
der Steamship Company and is to be
known as the Kaiulani. She is 80
feet in length, 80 feet in breadth of
beam and II feet in depth Of hold She
will run in the inter-Island trade. Still
another vessel is to be turned out from
the same yard this month. She is a
4-masted schooner, built for Martin
Sanders e Co. She is 1624S feet in
length, 37.5 breadth of beam and 1919
feet in depth of hold. She will be
launched about the 23d inst.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept ia
change in commanding officers will
soon take place on the training-ship
A Il ioI,
Island. Captain Book will be relieved |
to be superseded by Captain Goodwin |
The Adams has orders to start on an
other practice cruise with crew of
young marines who have been getting
their first instructions on the training
ship Pensacola, now at Goat Island |
The boys whom the Adams brought |
back from it's last cruise are being
among the various vessels
that compose the Pacific squadron, and
take the places of time-expired men.
There were several manifests filed
at the Custom house in San Francisco
September H. which represented addi-
lions to the cargo of the bark Amy
Turner, which sailed for HilO The
additional manifestS include the fol-
lowing merchandise: 1850 lbs rolled
barley, 1859 lbs beans, IA pkgs ma
chinery, PIC cs canned goods, $50 ctls
oats, 81 mules, 43 ctls corn, 80 cs and
8 bbls salmon, % crts onions, So cs
Goldfish, % pkgs hardware, 295 lbs dried
fruit, II pkgs groceries and provisions,
8 SKIS potatoes, 1 cs dry goods, 20
horses, 3 rolls leather, 20 ctls wheat
2 900 lbs soda, 900 lbs lard, so bbls lime,
21bxs raisins, sc bales paper, so kegs
nails, 20 bales salt, 70 bxs fresh fruits