The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-29

FROM ORIENT AND OCCIDENT.
The Hongkong Maru, from the ORR
ent. arrived in port eakiy Saturday
morning. docking, as usual, at the ia
cific Mail wharf. She brought $50 tons
of merchandise. peculiar to China and
Japan. for Honolulu ard, when she de-
parted for San Francisco yesterday
morning at O'Clock, Carried on to the
Coast 1850 tons of Oriental freight.
Twenty-six Chinese and seventeen Jap
anese in the Asiatic steerage were
brought for these Islands and five Jap
anese cabin passengers arrived for this
city.
The Hongkong Maru, in command of
CAPTAIN Filmer. sailed from Hongkong
on October 9th, via Shanghai October
10th. Nagasaki October H. Kobe Octo-
Der IA. and Yokohama October 18th.
Otis G.. Freeman is the steamships
purser. one of the most popular of the
very popular officer of the Japanese
boats.
The steamship Miowera from Van
couver and Victoria arrived just before
noon on Saturday. She met with heavy
seas and rough weather on the trip
down and was consequently little late
in making port. She brought two days
later news from the Coast, that of DC
tober 18th and 18th, and several pas
sengers for Honolulu. The Miowera
locked at the Navy wharf. She sailed
for the Colonies the first thing yester-s
day morning. Her report is as follows:
Left Vancouver at 2:53 p. m. on the
| 18th inst and Victoria at 2:S5 a. m. on
the goth Cleared the Straits of San
Juan de Fuca at 1903 a. m. on the same
| day. experiencing fresh to moderate
southerly gales and high seas for the
| first three days: thence fresh to mod
crate winds and moderate seas to ar
rival
THE GOLDEN SHORE.
! The American schooner Golden Shore,
Captain Rasmussen, after fifty days at
sea, arrived from Newcastle with a
| cargo of coal last Saturday afternoon
The American ship Kennebec left New
castle in company with the Golden
Shore and the captain OF the latter yes
sci was looking for the former on his
arrival here.
THE S. G. WILDER.
Late Saturday afternoon. after the
tug Fearless had brought the Golden
Shore into the harbor, the barkentine
s. G. Wilder was sighted off Koko
Head The Fearless went out after her,
almost as far as Koko Head, and
brought her into the harbor. She was
II days from San Francisco with gen
eral merchandise and deck-load OF
live stock. Her anchor was let go in
making the old fishmarket wharf and
caught on the Claudines anchor, mix
ing things up for while in bad shape
TRANSPORTS DEPART.
The United States Army transports
Leelanaw and Wyefield got away fol
Manila on Saturday. The Leelanav
left in the morning, the Wyefield de
parting late in the afternoon.
The Mikahala came in from kaua
Saturday reporting bad weather OF
Kauai.
Steamers Kilauea Hou, Kauai ant
: Waialeale left on their respective route
on Saturday afternoon.
The steamer Maui, on the Claudine'
> run, arrived from Maui ports yesterda,
! Nawiliwili and the Iwalani and Noeal
also arrived
KINAU'S ROUGH TIME.
1t was late Saturday afternoon whe
, the Kinau arrived from Hilo. She eS
: perienced very rough weather durln
= her trip. The Hilo Tribune has tn
= following to say concerning the eXpe
+ riences of passengers for the Rain
4 City:
The experiences of Kinau passenger
in landing last Wednesday evenin
r were anything but agreeable to thos
3, lconcerned The roughneSS of the ba
prevented the Kinau from coming
Q the wharf, another of the results of r
* breakwater 1t was accordingly nece:
Z. sary to dump the live stock into boa
= which attempted to land at the sma
r. wharf This being found impractic;
X BILE on account of the heavy sea, the
: pulled back again to the ship. Noah
q Ark was however closed to the vO.
q ayers, but they were given a sort
=, istepladder and directed to go to Il
long wharf and make believe they we
Q the angels whom Jacob saw in h
z dream ascending and descending. T
e long wharf being reached, the mo
q agile of the men Skinned up it's perpe
II dcular side after the manner of 4
= pine cliff climbers. The women a.
3 children were with more or less da
q ger sent up the ladder.
~ This sort of thing fortunately doesl
g. happen very often in these da.
q though it is but a type of what was
- common occurrence in the middle as
II of Hilo's history, but once a year
( too often, and there should be sol
& safe method devised for landing
r. boats safely at the long wharf.
far as the boat landing is concern
y it is useless when the water in
w. bay is at all rough, being more de
gerous to land at than the entrar
at the Waiakea river.
HILO SHIPPING.
Arrivals-Oct. Il, S. S. Zealand
Thomas Dowdell, master, seven d;
from San Francisco, with 10 pass
gers; small freight for Hilo, la
freight for Honolulu.
October II, American bark Mar
Davis, A. McAlman, master, eight
% days from San Francisco, with I
passengers and general cargo.
October %, American schooner, CT
z. Falk, o. Henningsen. master; tw
ty-one days from Albion, with ca