The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-09-22
WHARF AND WAVE.


, Hawaiian hui.
The ship Charmer sails for Puget
Sound next week.
A schooner for the inter-fsland trade
Is expected from the Coast this month.
She will ply between Molokai and
Honolulu.
w. x. Smerson. formerly purser OF
the Kauai, Is now freight clerk OF the
Mauna LOa, and Louis Reynolds takes
his position on the Kauai.
The bark Abbey Palmer, coal-laden
from Newcastle, anchored In the
stream late last evening. The Abbey
Palmer was formerly the British ship
Blairmore, which turned turtle In San
Francisco bay some years ago. impris-
Oning and drowning several seamen.
She was repaired and given an Ameri-
can register.
Under date Of August 28, the New
castle coal circular announces the de-
parture Of one vessel for Kihei, II. l.,
the American schooner Mary Kinkel-
man sailed thence on August &c with
40 tons Duckenfield coal, under home
charter. The American ship Great
Admiral. 1,402 tons, is loading at the
cooperative colliery for Honolulu I'M
der home charter. The British ship
Enrol, 1887 tons, is loading Greta coal
for Wilder 4 Co., and the British ship
Dominion, LIZA tons, Is loading CO.
operative coal for VIM. G. Irwin & Co.
The following are the approximate
rates Of freight: Hongkong. lbs: Ma
Mia, lbs; Singapore (steam), 1Ss;
Mauritius, 1Ss Cd; San Francisco, 15s:
San Diego, 19s; Honolulu, Us; Valpa-
raiso, TO-, 15s; Mazatlan, 2Os; Guaya-
quill 20s; Acapulco, 1Ss Cd; Panama
19s.
| The United States cruiser Marble
| head. which Is now on the Coast. may
come to Honolulu in the near future
The Marblehead is a sister ship to the
Detroit and Montgomery and was
built at Boston in 1892. She has q
speed Of II knots and is good, handy
vessel. During the war with Spain
she was principally employed in BON.
harding small places on the coast OF
Cuba. The officers of the cruiser are
Commander II. q. o. Colby, Lieuten.
ant Commander j. A. Nickells, Lieu.
tenants T.. S. Willets. G. +. Williams
and w. q. Bretherton. Passed Assist
ant Surgeon S. G. Evans. Passed AS
sistant Paymaster II. A. Dent. Naval
Cadets w. p. Cromar and r. b. White
and Pay Clerk ". p. Atwell. She car
ries a crew OF 2lS men.
The American barkentine w. H. Di-
mond, with general cargo and a deck
load of live stock. arrived in port yes
terday morning, and, after dischargine
the horses and mules of the deck
went out in the stream. where she will
remain about a week awaiting a berth
But why should the vessels from
San Francisco complain" said {
wealthy plantation man the other day
They keep our sugar cargOes in thu
stream at San Francisco although W,
are quite as anxious to get them dis
charged and get returns from them a,
they are now to get their cargoes dis
charged at this port. There is goo,
deal of buncombe about this harbo
being crowded. Busy seaports all tn,
world over have times when thei
wharves are unable to accommodate,
all the shipping seeking berths. Al
IL Is there Is no other prominent por
in the world where vessels have a:
quick despatch as In this very port
| lOT us
charging and loading vessels. which
indeed is no fault of the harbor itself.
There Is rather q disquieting cabl,
published today with regard to tn,
new Queensland Canadian mail serv,
ice which was ilaugurated some tire,
or four months back. Ii will he re.
membered that the New Zealanders
were very much put out at the service
being transferred to Queensland ant
their colony left out altogether. w.
have been cOngratulating ourselves al
the prospects Of trade relations with
Canada which the tri-weekly calling
of these steamers held out, and now
the news that the New Zealand Ship
ping Company has purchased the good.
will and contracts Of the line comes
upon us somewhat in the nature of a
shock. The steamers Miowera, Aoran-
Il and Warrimoo, with which we are
now becoming well acquainted, are to
go with the purchase. The New Zea-
land Shipping Company, of course. un-
dertakes to fulfill existing contract to
the end of the stipulated period. We
may, however, take 1t for granted that
all things being equal, New Zealand
will be given the preference over
Queensland should the former desire
a renewal of her previous cOmmunica
ton with Canada. The time of the
contract, although only Just started
will not be long in running out. 1t Is
to be hoped, then, that our trade with
our Canadian friends will have grown
to such an extent that its discontinue
ance will mean not only a loss to our