The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-19
SEA AND SHORE
Coal Ship Champion
Arrives.
Alden Besse and w. G. Irwin Sail =
Kinau Laid Up--Big Storm
Anticipated.

Both the Mkahala and James Makee
report a very heavy sea across from
Kauai. The MOana's passenger list
was full when the Australia sailed. The
Zealandia has a full crew on board at
San Francisco, awaiting orders. The
ship Champion arrived from Newcastle
and anchored off port yesterday morn
ing. She has a big coal cargo. The
Alden Besse and w. G.. Irwin both got
away for San Francisco with sugar yes
terday. The DOyo Maru is now at the
Pacific Mail dock. The Kinau is to be
laid up till Hilo trade matters are sat
isfactorily settled. The whole of the
Inter-Island fleet came into port last
night by permission of the Board of
Health. 1t was anticipated that a big
storm was due, as the glass took a
sudden drop and general indications
suggested caution.
The Goldsborough.
PORTLAND, Or, Jan. 1O.-The tor
pedo-bOat destroyer GOldsborOugh was
given another trial on the Columbia
river yesterday by the Wolff & Tucker
Iron Works. During a short run she
developed speed close to thirty-three
miles per hour.
U. S. Fourth Power.
The United States has got to be the
fourth power in the world in the ship
ment of coal. Last year it sent away
1000 900 tons, and now the Tacoma
Ledger reports that the large ship
ments of Washington coal from that
port to Honolulu is crowding the Aus
tralian coal out of the Hawaiian mar
ket. The United States seems TO be
crowdins the whole world to the wall.
An Island Massacre.
LONDON. Jan. 9.-Mail advices from
New Britain report the massacre of the
captain and crew of fifteen men belong
ing to the British schooner Nukumania
of New South Wales, while trading
among the Admiralty Islands. Only
three boys escaped. The natives, after
numbering the sailors. inauguTated a
feast ashore and ate their victims.
Two OdTSOeS IOT HONOLULU.
The barkentine w. H. Dimond was
cleared on January 9th for Honolulu
with a general merchandise cargo.
Among the principal shipments were
the following: $50 bbls -four, 2i,500
lbs manufactured tobacco, 30 pkgs ma
chinery, 1876 pkgs groceries and provi-
sions, 1857 lbs bread, 1,049 lbs but
ter, 100 bales hay, 400 SKIS bran, 10
ctls oats, 10000 bricks, 60 SKIS grain,
459 cs canned goods, 40 cs wine, 10 cs
rum, 81 ctls corn, 40 bales salt. 200
cs and 80 bbls salmon. bales leather,
J5.11S lbs rolled barley. 800 bbls lime.
6,69S lbs beans, 1850 lbs glucose, p
boxes paste, 80 csks beer, $3.50 lbs
cracked corn.
The schooner Aloha was also cleared
the same day for Honolulu with a mer-
chandise cargo. Among the leading
shipments were the following: 10000
bbls -four, %. 435 lbs beans. PSI ctls
corn, $50 ctls barley, 800 lbs hops, 49,
$50 lbs rolled barley, AS bxs soap. 80
cs hardware, 10, 800 lbs lard, 80 pkgs
groceries and provisions. 500 cs, 10 kits
and 100 bbls salmon, 200 bales hay, 16
rolls leather, 80 coils rope, 1895 lbs
sugar, 300 cs coal oil. $3.50 lbs dried
peas, 81 cs meal, 412 cs canned goods.
% bales dry goods, 9S4 ctls oats. 10
bxs paste. 1885 lbs dried fruits, $4,000
bricks, go pkgs machinery, 1926 gals
and 20 cs wine, 500 lbs butter, 100 bxs
candles, 5,240 lbs and 5 cs manufac-
tured tobacco, 3 COWS, A mules, 9
horses.
The Big Combine.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-The Herald
says: Rumors have been revived that
articles of incorporation are about to
be taken out for a corporation that
would absorb the leading shipyards of
the country. Colonel ]. ]. McCOok is
named as the head of the enterprise
and Coils p. Huntington as one Of its
prime movers. Mr.. Huntington last
night denied that he knew that any
such consolidation had been consum-
mated. He said: 81 have heard talk
on this subject and have read about it
IN the newspapers. / have been asked /
II, representing the yards at Newport 1
News, / would join in such an enter I
prise. / replied that l was favorable /
10 combinations of capital l saw some /
where that s2O,0OO,OOO was to be the .
capital of the new enterprise. but as
would want nearly that much for the