The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-08
WHARF AND WAVE.

Kona-Kau steamer Mauna Loa due
| today.
The bark Empire. in ballast for Port
Townsend, sailed yesterday.
The barkentine S. G.. Wilder is load
ing sugar at the railway wharf.
The liner Doric, from San Francisco
this afternoon, brings four days later
news.
The United States army transport
City of Puebla, for Manila, sails this
morning.
The schooner VIM. f. Witzemann is
discharging lumber, and returns TO
Puget Sound in a fortnight.
The ship Fort George sailed yester-
day for San Francisco with 1879 bags
OF sugar, 1929 tons, valued at 1926, 962.
The bark Andrew WEIGH is still dis
charging at Brewers wharf. She will
not get load of sugar for some weeks
yet.
j. w. Hammond, formerly second Of
ficer of the steamship Columbia, is
now second mate of the steamer Re Au
Hou.
The Lehua arrived from Lanai early
yesterday morning with sheep and
sailed for Kaunakakai in the after
noon.
The steamer Kilauea Hou, for Kau-
nakakai last night, carried a large car
go of machinery for the American Su-
gar Company's plantation off the bark
Mohican.
Frank Poor, formerly freight clerk
of the Claudine, is now on duty in the
nj of hn Stnn I,,,
pany. Poor claims to have fallen in
with $4,000 lucky lottery ticket
BRISTOL, Eng, August 1S-The
American 3-ton cutter Great Western.
from Gloucester, Mass, June IS, en-
tered the Bristol Channel yesterday
and her solitary occupant, Howard
Blackburn, reported all well. 1t is eX-
pected the small boat will reach Bris-
toll shortly.
Vessels sailing today are: Am sh
Emily F. Whitney, A. S. Pendleton, for
Newcastle, n. S. W., 400 tons ballast;
U. S. transport City of Puebla, Thorn
as, for Manila: GIL recruits for the
L. S. army; stmr. Ke Au Hou, Mosher,
for Koloa and Eleele at p. M; stmr.
Helene, Weisbarth, for Kaunakakai, at
) p. M; stmr. Mokolii, Dover, for Mo-
lOkal, at p. m.
There are at present no less than
eleven large schooners under construc-
ton in Maine shipyards, and a fleet |
of six more is to be built by the New |
England Navigation Company at the |
shipyard at Newburyport, Mass. The |
total carrying capacity of these vessels |
will be something over $4,000 tons of |
cargo, and all will be capable of en-
tering the ocean-carrying trade.
According to cable message re-
ceived by the North German Lloyd |
Steamship Company the steamer Kali
ser Wilhelm der Crosse, which sailed |
from New York on August Is, arrived
at CherbOurg at $3.50 p. m. of the Dist,
making the passage in days p hours
md 80 minutes. She covered a distance
Of 3,1S6 miles and her average rate per
hour was 1882 knots, as against 22.62
made by her.
The bark Obed Baxter, with a cargo
d 1,137 tons of phOsphates for Castle
Z Cooke is at Irmgard wharf. She ar
lived from New York late yesterday
lfternoon, reporting heavy weather
the passage. No vessels
we're spoken, though a bark, which
night be the Foohng Suey from New
York, was sighted off Cape Horn on
July 3. The Obed Baxter has been in
he Australia and East India trade and
S owned in New York. This is her
irstf trip here. Captain Sweeney
passed through Honolulu eight years
lgo on the steamer Mariposa. During
he late war he was an officer on
BOARD the United States army trans
port Leona, which took the colored
cavalry from Port Tampa to Santiago.
w. e. Edgerly, son of the owner of
he Obed Baxter, is on board for the
rip.