The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-23

master of a vessel even larger than the
Erskine NJ. Phelps.
The owner of the Phelps, Sewall of
Maine, is building other aky-scrapers,
nor does he ever cease from building
them.
KAHULUI SHIPPING.
Especial Correspondence
KAHULUI, July 21.-Since the days
of the plague Kahului harbor has been
filed with shipping-six to eight YES
sells taking up all the space devoted to
mornings. To-day there are but three
vessels at anchor not including the
Claudine,-the Emily Reed" the Ban
golore and the Lurline. The last nam
ed will clear to-day and will probably
sail to-morroy for San Francisco.
QUARANTINE MATTERS.
HILO, Hawaii, July 21.-The Federal
authorities will soon be in charge of
quarantine matters at Hilo. 1t is not
known yet who will be the officer in
charge, but a certain local physician
will probably receive the appointment
and will be furnished with a Govern
ment steam launch for the purpose of
meeting incoming vessels. A disinfect-
ing plant of the latest and most APP
proved design is already on its way
here and will be located on a barge to
be anchored in the bay, probably in the
vicinity of Cocoanut Island. This ISL
and and the land along the neighbor-
| ing shore will also be set aside for
quarantine purposes.
NO MAIL SUBSIDY.
! SYDNEY, July 2.-The present San
Francisco mail service, which is car
ried on by the Union Company in con-
/ junction with the American Company,
comes to an end on March 81 next.
Meantime, Mr.. John Spreckels, man
ager of the American Company, has
entered into ten years contract with
the American Government, and is put
| ting on new steamers, intending to car
ry on the service With his company's
steamers alone. This service will give
mail six days oftener than the ex-
listing arrangements. Meanwhile, Mr..
| Spreckels is asking for a yearly sub
sidy of 100000 from the New Zealand
and New South Wales Governments.
Mr.. Crick, however, does not look with
favor on his proposal and has sent the
/
Postmaster General: Re proposed
Frisco service. In view of all the cir
cumstances, my Government is not at
present disposed to contribute any
thing towards the subsidy
TEMPERATURE oF THE OCEAN.
Sir John Murray, in his presidential
address before the Geographical Sec
ton of the British Association, brought
out some interesting facts as to the
/ temperature of the ocean at great
depths. The data obtained up to the
present time shows that at depth OF
about 200 yards the temperature of the
water remains nearly, or quite, invari-
able at all seasons. 1t is estimated
is at a temperature below "A deg c.
Nearly all the deep water of the Indian
Ocean is below II deg c., this temper
ature being about the same for a great
part of the South Atlantic and certain
parts of the Pacifics, but in the North
Atlantic and the greater part of the
Pacific the temperature is higher. Fol
depths beyond 5000 yards the mean
temperature of the North Atlantic is
one degree greater than that of the In
dian Ocean and part of the South At
lantic. The mean temperature of the
Pacific has an intermediate value. AS
the depths of the sea constitute an OBJ
scure region, where the solar rays can
not penetrate, it follows that vegetable
life must be absent upon 90 per cent
of the bottom.
SUGAR ON HAWAII.
Tho op,ouD+ Of c,,gar oxvo;tipo s-l,i,
ment on the various plantations of Ha-
wall is as follows:
Onomea, $4,000 bags; Pepeekeo, g.
900 bags; Honomu, 10000 bags Haka-
lau, $4,000 bags; Kukaiau, 5000 bags;
Laupahoehoe, 1000 bags; Honuapo. 13C
bags; Kukuihaele, 500 bags; Honokaa
1000 bags; Punaluu, 1900 bags; Wal
naku, 5000 bags: II. p. S. NJ, LOOT
bags; Waiakea, 5000 bags; Ookala, s.
900 bags; Paauhau. 5000 bags.
SHIPPING NOTES.
Ship Great Admiral, 1902 tons. was
at Sydney, n. S. W., on May %, be-
ing stripped, calked throughout and
metaled. She was undergoing repairs
for the extending OF her class for -four
years.
klDllng, the genial purSer of the
Claudine, says that it is false report
that the Claudine stopped at Kauna-
lakai on her last run to Honolulu, tc
tow steam plow to the metropolis
| Maui News.
SYDNEY, July 3.-Seal Rocks report.
ed this afternoon that British man.
of-war passed there at Ills, bound
north. This is probably the walIaroo
en- route from Jervis Bay to Hongkong
Schr. James C. Clifford. 359 tons net
built at East Boston. Mass, in 1885
and hailing from New York, was sold
at the latter port on June 10 to Capt
II. E. Sharpley, of Chincoteague, Va;
terms private.
AUCKLAND, June 29.-The Ameri-
can bark Charles G. Rice, which arriv-
| ed in the gulf on Friday evening from,