The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-18
WHARF AND WAVE.
Good weather on Kauai.

| Good weather on Kauai.
The steamer Kinau is being painted
| at Fishmarket wharf
Nippon Maru from San Francisco
! this afternoon with four days later
| news
| The steamship Victoria is at Oceanic
| wharf discharging general cargo from
| London.
| /The bark Annie Johnson, from San
lFTanciscO with general cargo. arrived
yesterday.
The New Zealand Shipping Company
| has purchased the goodwin and con-
tracts Of the Australian-Cana line.
together with the steamers Warrimoo.
Aorangi and Miowera, for G145. 600.
and viii continue the present service.
The cable-survey ship Egeria an
chored Waikiki of the tug Iroquois in
Naval Row late yesterday afternoon
from a cruise about 700 miles south
ward from Kealeakekua Bay towards
Fanning's Island. She took soundings
every twenty miles and on her return
sOundings each day. She remained off
shore the greater part of yesterday
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. S.-The
Roderick Dhu, Captain Johnson. one
of the fastest of the sugar fleet, ar
rived yesterday, twenty-five days from
Hilo. When ten days out Seaman
Johnson fell from the foretopgallant
yard, catching in the stays, and broke
a collar-bone, besides receiving other
injuries. The accident happened in a
storm which lasted thirty-six hours
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept THE
bark c. d. Bryant and ship H Hack
field arrived from Honolulu this morn
ing, the bark making her anchorage
just half an hour before the Hackfeld
The Bryant left Honolulu half an
hour before her competitor, and the
race was tie. This may be said TO
be the slowest race on record. Other
vessels have made longer trips, but
they were not racing. The Mary e.
Foster arrived from Honolulu later on,
making the voyage in twenty-three
days.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept Captain
George S. Calhoun of the bark r. P.
Rithet takes command of the ship
George Curtis, which has just been
added to the WEIGH & Co.'S fleet. Cap
tain E. p. Drew of the bark Andrew
WEIGH will command the Rithet. Cap
tain Andrew McPhail, who was former
ly chief officer of the Andrew WEIGH |
and who took the yacht La Paloma
to Honolulu, will be the new master
of the Andrew WEIGH Captain Ben |
der, late of the schooner Amy Turner, |
Will take the Rithet to Honolulu, |
where he will turn her over TO Cap |
tain Drew.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Tn two |
days two ships have missed destruc-
ton by a hairs breadth on Whale
head rock, off Point Bonita. The brig
Lurline came in from the Hawaiian |
Islands Tuesday. She passed through |
into calm, was caught by the cur
rent and just shaved Whalehead rock.
The current swept her up toward |
Arch rock, when land breeze filled |
her sails and gave her life of her own.
AS the bark G. d. Bryant came in yes
terday she had a similar experience,
and to the eyes of men in the Custom
house boat it was impossible for her
to escape striking the Whalehead. She
was uncomfortable in the calm, and |
the current carried her swiftly toward |
the rock, which she almost graZed.
Following the current, the Bryant
drifted to Paddy's port. where she
saved herself from other dangers by |
out her anchor. She worked |
up the bay later by land breeze
which sprang up. The G. d. Bryant
and the German bark H. Hackfeld |
made long passages of thirty-one days
from Honolulu They sailed within
together, although as far as the Heads
each was unsighted by the other.
Light and head winds delayed them.