The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-13

jury to his hand through the explosion
of bomb-gun.
MARITIME NOTES.
The Claudine has fallen into evil
ways again, having towed a schooner
from Honolulu to Kaunakakai on
Wednesday, to the huge disgust of her
large list of passengers.-Maui News.
James Morse and Mark Houghtailing,
two divers in the employ of the Gov
eminent, have been in Hilo for a week
past inspecting the harbor distractions
in the vicinity of long wharf Mr..
| Morse, who has been going down daily,
finds that the big rock near the wharf
was blasted only on top and at the cor
ners; to effectually remove 1t will re-
quire steam drill and the work will
! take three months.-Hawaii Herald.
| A report has been issued of the num-
| Der of vessels and their tonnage which
passed through the Suez Canal in 1897,
| 1898 and 1899, also the dues paid and
other particulars relating to the nav1-
cation of the Canal. During last year
| there passed through the waterway g.
| COZ vessels of 1896, $50 tons net regis
| ter, compared with 1903 vessels of g.
23S,603 tons net and 2,9S5 vessels of T.
| S99,373 tons. The transit receipts last
year amounted to 91,31S,772 francs,
compared with S5,294, 769 francs in 1898
and 72,820,545 francs in 1897.
| The deep water canal connecting
Brussels with the sea was opened on
July %. The canal cost about 100000
and was completed well within the
time estimated, five years.
LIMA, Peru, via Galveston, Tex,
July 1S.-In consequence of the number
of yellow fever cases reported on va
rious coasting steamers from Panama,
quarantine and other special precau-
lions are being enforced at Callao, the
lport of Lima. The mail service is COM
pIetely deranged.
The new Hamburg American Line
steamer Deutschland, Captain Albers,
from New York arrived at Plymouth
at $50 a. m. of July "a on her maiden
trip eastward making a record run of
5 days, IA hours and 6 minutes despite
two days Of fog. Her biggest days
run was made on July 10 Cher second
day out), when $50 miles was logged.
SHIPPING NOTES.
Bark Alden Besse sailed for Sar
Francisco yesterday.
Work will begin today on the dis
charging of the bark Dunreggan.
, Forty thousand dollars in silver was
, brought by the Kinau on Saturday
from the Hilo branch of the First Am
erican Bank of Hawaii for the home
, office in Honolulu.
: Captain Bergers band played the
, Hongkong Maru off for San francisco
on Saturday.
t | Bark Albert brought small locomo
, tive for the California Construction
[ Company from the Coast
The new railroad wharves, wher
, completed, will accommodate siXteer
, or seventeen vessels at time. 1t will
be year before they are completed.
r The Kinau arrived from Hilo OF
7 Saturday two hours ahead of time 81
as to get the Hawaii and Maui mai
for the Coast off ON the Hongkont
Maru.
The following was the cargo brough
f by the Kinau: 200 sacks of potatoes, i
of corn, 2O2 sheep. 81 bundles of hides
IA hogs, / horse and 141 packages o
sundries.
Schooner Aloha, Captain Frye, which
i arrived on Saturday, II days from Sai
Z Francisco, can boast the fastest trll
of the year between the Coast and Ho
nolulu.
: The Portuguese who left San Fran
cisco on the schooner John G. Nortl
will go to the Hawi plantation. Johl
:. Hind recently left Honolulu intendin,
T to bring a number Of negroes to thes
Islands. Running across the Portu
guese he engaged them.
The Santiago sailed from Hilo oil
n Thursday morning for San Francisco
:; with the following passengers: Mrs
Q A. B. Loebenstein, Misses Loebensteil
|. (2), Mrs. Pomeroy and son, E. Bashaw
II Henry Fiterre, l.. d. Canario, H. J
McCannon, r. r. Beggs and w. Caugh
hey. The Santiago carried a full car
Is go of sugar.