The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-16
WHARF and WAVE
The Transport Centennial From
San Francisco.
IRMGARD'S FINE MENGGERlE
Movements of VesseIs-CastIe 8 lis
for the Coast-AustraIiat TO be
Guaranteed.
IRMGARD'S FINE MtNACERlE

Along the waterfront yesterday the
| transportation companies were busy
tine ready for sailing. At 8 o'clock in
the afternoon the Mauna Loa left for
| the quarantine grounds, where she will
remain the regulation time and then
sail for Kona and Kau ports She was
followed soon after by the Niihau.
which will finally sail under the same
conditions of quarantine. her destina-
ton being Lahaina. Lighters were
busy taking freight to the Waialeale.
anchored just inside the harbor. which
sails without conditions direct to Ka-
paa this afternoon.
The United States transport Centen-
NAL, which arrived from San Francisco
last evening with stock, anchored out
side and will dock at Oceanic wharf this
morning and after discharging will an
Choir in the stream and undergo a
thorough fumigation previous to her
departure for San Francisco for anoth-
er lot of mules.
Rumor has it that upon the arrival
of the Australia from San Francisco
next Wednesday Oceanic wharf will
be quarantined in a similar way to
that during the cholera epidemic, some
years ago. All freight will be dis
charged and loaded under special
health regulations and the longshore
men will not be allowed to commune
cate in any way with the outside until
after the sailing of the vessel.
BARKENTINE IRMGARD ARRIVES.
The barkentine Irmgard was sighted
OFF Diamond Head about noon yester-
day. She was towed inside about 4
O'Clock in the afternoon and moored TO
Kinau wharf where she commenced
Immediately to discharge the menag-
erie on deck. This consisted of horses,
mules, hogs, fowls and two deer for
the Stock-yards, besides a lot of hay
and feed for the brute passengers. The
Irmgard was sixteen days in making
the trip, upon which Captain Schmidt
was complimentary; a favorable COM
parison being made with the long pas
sages by recent arrivals from San
Francisco Besides Captain Schmidt's
family, there are two passengerS-Dr.
Davis, a tourist, and Miss Katz. a
young lady from San Francisco prom
inent in the German society circles
there. The Irmgard. after discharging
live stock will go out in the stream and
await her turn at getting a berth at
one of the wharves up town.
SCHOONER HERA BURNED.
VICTORIA, B. c.. Dec. 3.-Again No
vember has proven a disastrous month
for shipping off the coast of Vancouver
Island. Besides those previously re-
ported as having had narrow escapes
from destruction, two vessels met
their doom in the terrible storms which
so much uneasiness last month.
Fortunately. however, no lives were
lost, although the survivors had ex-
periences which few men pass through
and live 10 tell of.
The Inflated vessels were the Peru
Wan bark Libertad. which left Pisagua
on August 18th with cargo of nitrate
for the Victoria Chemical Works, and |
the American schooner Hera, with a |
general cargo from Seattle for Homo |
lulu. The Libertad was abandoned in |
a sinking condition forty-five miles |
southwest of Cape Cook. at the most |
end of Vancouver Island, and |
the Hera was burned to the waters |
edge in Clayoquot Sound.
While not experiencing so many |
lardshipS as the crew of the Libertad, |
the crew OF the American schooner
Hera spent a few hours that would try |
The nerves of the hardest. The schoon- |
sr left Seattle on November 18th fully |
loaded She met with a succession of !
gales until Sunday last, when, coinci- |
lent with the moderation of the wealth |
pr. smoke. was seen issuing from the |
cabin. The vessels head was turned /
toward the Vancouver Island coast and |
Iwenty-four hours later anchor was |
dropped in Clayoquot Sound, none too |
soon, however. as two hours later she |
was a mass of flames.
NEW ZEALAND TRAINING SHIP.
The report of the committee of the |
New Zealand Legislative Council on |
he subject of establishing a training /
ship for boys is being strongly support |
ed by public opinion. Mr.. James Mills, |
director of the Union Steam |
ship Company, gave valuable evidence |
before the committee, declaring that !
training ship for New Zealand youth |
would be very desirable in order TO fit |
young men for the local mercantile |
marine service. At present many boys |
are sent out of the colony for training, |
and in some cases the parents pay high |
premiums. In the course of the evil |
dence it was also pointed out that |
lad who served two years in training |
ship would be qualified as an ordinary |
seaman.
OF DEFECTIVE SHIPS. |
During the period from July l, 1898, |
to June 80. 1899. the total number of |
ships found TO be unsafe through de- /
tects IN hull. equipments, or machin- |
Try. reported by British officers, and or
iered 10 be Professionally detained, was |
fifteen. OF this number eight were |
wooden sailing ships, three were iron
Dr. steel steamships, three were wooden /
steamships. and one was an iron or |
steel sailing ship. One wooden sailing /
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