The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-03
WHARF AND WAVE.

The Upolu is due from Kohala and
kona ports today.
The schooner Blanche and Ella ar
rived from Kauai yesterday.
The steamer Noeau sails for kukui-
haele and Honokaa at 10 a M. today.
The schooner BERTHE Minor went on
the marine railway yesterday after
noon.
Very rough weather on the Kauai
coast may prevent the arrival OF the
Evans line of schooners from there this
week. The Ada is due today from
Hanalei.
new customs inspector is Dan vi
da, who was appointed yesterday TO
the vacancy made by the promotion Of
Inspector Henderson. Inspector Lans-
dale has resigned.
The big fleet Of transports due this
week will receive quick despatch by
United States Quartermaster Ruhlen.
Coal is already piled up on the wharves
and on the Government scOws.
Captain Slower, formerly sailing
master of the schooner-yacht Norma, is
| now first mate of the S. G. Allen, in
! place of Andrew Johnson, who has Ia
| ken command of the bark McNear.
The bark S. c. Allen and schooner
Mary f. Foster sailed for San Francis
| co in ballast yesterday owing to lack
| of sugar in port. The Mary f. Foster
sailed through the windward passage.
The cargo of the bark r. p. Rithet,
| for San Francisco yesterday, consisted
| of $3.50 bags, ,030, ZOO lbs. sugar, val
ued at S37, 1876. Captain McPhail took
| advantage of a fair wind to sail out OF
the harbor.
| The harbor last evening contained
| but sixteen deep-water sailing craft
| the smallest number for some time. \
number of coal vessels will arrive this
month. and in December the sugar
| feet for next year will commence to
put in an appearance.
| The dredger at the foot of Richards
| street has already eXcavated a 3O-foot
| berth alongside of the Waikiki end OF
| Pacific Mail wharf, extending nearly &c
| the pilothouse. When the sea wall is
reached the dredger will start over
again, completing another excavation
| towards the former site of the Kings
| bOathOuse.
The New York Shipbuilding Com
pany, with an authorized capital o
$4,000 900, was incorporated at Tren
| ton, n. j., on October 9, to engage il
the business of constructing vessels o
all kinds. The incOrpOratorS are Hen
ry G.. Morse and George l.. Brown. o
| Woodbury., n. J.; William G.. Randle
of Chester, Pa; Charles F. Hail anC
| William f. Gronan, of Wilmington
Del.
| The demand for metal increases tn,
value of old vessels. The Navy Depart
| mont on Octnbpr 6icnpCe6 IF tho -.
gle-turret monitors Ajax and Passaic
The former was purchased by II. A
Hitners Sons of Philadelphia for 500,
SGT and the Passaic by Frank Samue
OF the same city for $19,7S6. The col
lier Hector was also sold for S65, $50
| The appraised value of the three yes
sells was $4,000 and they brough
$114,503.
A large raft of 5000 900 feet of tim
Der, which was being towed from Pu
get Sound to San Francisco by tn
steamer CZarina, is drifting around,
menace to navigation. as it broke ava,
, from the steamer. At one time it wa
picked up by the steamer San Pedro
which tOwed it until her coal suppl
| ran SO low that she had to abandon
and proceed TO San Francisco. wher
she coaled up and started in search O
the raft but failed to find it again.
In San Francisco Hay & Wrigh
have just completed the beautifr
schooner Philippine, and this Wee
they will launch the steamer Liliuoka
lani. She is vessel with particular
ly graceful lines, and is expected to ay
erage II knots an hour. She is bein
built for the Wilder Steamship Con
pany of Honolulu, and is $50 feet Ions
80 feet beam and IL feet draft. Tn
:. machinery is being built by the Unto
Iron Works, and the whole work is bs
ing supervised by II. Johnson. super
vising engineer Of the Wilder Con
pany.