The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-21
WHARF AND WAVE.


inspector of customs.
The bark Abbey Palmer sails for
Tacoma next week, where she will load
lumber for Sydney, hence with coal
from Newcastle.
The bark Ceylon is on the marine
railway. She will come off today and
the brig w. G.. Irwin will go on for
general overhauling lasting several
days.
The Russian steamship Dalnyvostok
has been chartered by the Government
at San Francisco. She is now on her
way from Yokohama TO Honolulu with
a lot of Japanese contract laborers and
cCal
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-THE bar
kentine S. y. Castle, Captain Hub
bard, twenty-eight days from Homo
lulu, sugar laden, arrived in port Tues
day night and anchored in the stream.
Captain Hubbard reports that he en-
cCuntered very heavy weather on the
voyage, his vessel shipping heavy seas,
while the gale split some of his sails.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. THE
auxiliary cruiser Badger went up TO
Mare Island yesterday TO fit out for her
voyage to Manila.
The newly chartered transport Vic
toria pumped her water ballast tanks
out yesterday, inwhich is to be loaded
railway iron for building Govern
ment railway in Manila. On her decks
she will carry thirty ambulances.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 1.-THE
transport Newport, which arrived from
Manila Monday night, was in a storm
Off the Chinese coast with the Pacific
Mail steamer City of Picking, the trans
port Pennsylvania and the Navy hos
pital-ship Solace. When the gale was
at it's height and the seas were the
heaviest the port lifeboat was badly
damaged and the portfolios were smash
ed in. But little progress was made
for ten days. In that time the trans
port sailed 1000 miles and in two of
the days but 12O miles.
The Togo klsen liner America Maru
is at Pacific Mail wharf, having ar
rived from San Francisco late yester-
day afternoon. The America Maru
made the run from Yokohama to San
Francisco in II days and ID hours, ar
irving there on October 10. the China
holds that record in II days and 40
minutes. The America Maru had fire
under four boilers and was not forced.
The America Maru brings $50 tons of
Oriental freight from San Francisco
which she took through from Yoko-
hama She will leave for Japan at >
o'clock this afternoon.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-THE
American ship Charles E. Moody, Cap
tain WOOdside, out ITS days from Nor
folk, Va, and bound for Honolulu with
a cargo of coal consigned to the Gov
eminent, is reported as overdue. She
was reinsured yesterday at 40 per cent
premium on the risk. he Moody is
a fine wooden vessel and was recently
purchased from Eastern owners by
Lewis Anderson & Co. to ply between
this port and the Hawaiian Islands.
The bark Alden Besse reached port
yesterday afternoon from Honolulu,
| making the voyage in seventeen days.
This is considered a very fair trip for
this season of the year, other sailing
vessels making it in from twenty to
| twenty-five days She carried a light
cargo, 1000 odd sacks of sugar. 1t is
| almost the end of the sugar season in
the islands, and the shipments here
after will be light.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-THE
| Oceanic Steamship Company's steamer
l
terday after a stormy voyage. The
last two days she shipped sea after sea
| and the decks were awash all the
| time. The steamer came into port
with very little coal in her bunkers
| There is coal famine at Honolulu
and the steamers officers found great
difficulty in getting fuel TO replenisf
| her scant supply when she arrived
/
skirmishing around they succeeded il
getting some from the united State:
Government. The small amount in tn,
bunkers when the steamer arrived
there and the few tons secured from
the Government luckily proved suff
cient for the voyage to this port. Or
her next trip to the islands the bunk
ers will be filled to their capacity
The storm which the Australia en-
countered came up Sunday afternoon
and lasted until she passed the Head
yesterday morning. All the cabins
were flooded, heavy seas continual.
washing the decks. Captain Houdlett
stated yesterday that it was the rough
est October gale he ever struck.
/ SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. S.-Th'
amount of freight for Australia at pres
ent has never been exceeded in volume
at this port. The Mariposa was com
PEELED to refuse everything for Homo
lulu, and even then could not take OIL
much of the Australian freight tina
was sent down to her. The bark Pal
myra, under charter to ]. l. Falk & CO
of Sydney. has cleared for Sydney witt
a cargo of 1SS,000 feet of lumber, sal
mon and news paper. The bark Ivan
, hoe was chartered by the same com
pany yesterday for a similar cargo
The American bark Carondelet and tn
American ship Reaper have just bee
chartered by j. j. Moore to carry car
.: goes of general merchandise to Sgd
ney and Melbourne. Immense cargoe
have left here lately for the Hawaiia
, Islands also. The ship George Curtis
l for Welch & Co., is loaded with gener
al merchandise, including much heav
machinery for the sugar refinerieS c