The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-15

The tugboat Fearless has the law on
Ter side, according to the authorities
IN the subject, in the somewhat lively |
for the towing business be-
ween that boat and the Eleu. Although |
he Legislature established the tugboat |
ystem of Honolulu, and at it's last ses
'ion appropriated money for the run |
hing of the Eleu and has made all the |
'ules in regard to running the boat, an |
entirely different state of affairs now
exists. States and Territories do not /
engage in the towing business and it is
contrary to the navigation laws of the
United States for q State or Territory
to compete with private citizens in such
a business. Furthermore no local legis-
lature can legislate contrary to the
laws of the United States,
and nothing remains for the Eleu but
to cease her activity as tug, so say
those who know.
The towing business in this harbor
was taken over by the Government
several years ago when there was very
little money in it, and private concerns
would not undertake it. The Eleu has
been getting some business away from
the Fearless lately. She towed the ship
Ivy to sea on Monday. Yesterday,
however, the Fearless got back at the
Eleu; she towed the American ship ].
B. Brown from Newcastle, into the
harbor. The Eleu went out to sea
shortly after the Fearless, expecting to
get her line on the Brown, but the
Fearless got there first and hove her
heaving line aboard, got her hawser on
the Brown, and yanked her in with
neatness and dispatch. The captain of
the Brown gave the towing to the first
tug on hand. According to the United
States navigation laws the Eleu has no
right to receive any remuneration for
the part she took in getting the Dun
reagan off the Diamond Head reef, mol
has she right to engage in the tow
| ing business in competition with the
Fearless, the property of citizens. The
Eleu is on the same footing as the Iro-
quois; she is a United States tugboat.
SHORT ON GIN.
The German ship Philadelphia, Cap
tain Wachter, has several hundred
cases of gin on board for this port. Shit
has not yet commenced diScharging ant
| has not yet paid duty on her cargo
There is some breakage among the cir
cases, and some of the cases are miss
/ ing while bottles are also absent from
many of the cases. The ships NANTES
declares a certain amount of gil
aboard. but as a matter of fact, there
is not the quantity aboard declared IL
the manifest. Now the agents wan
only to pay duty on the actual amour
of gin on the Philadelphia, instead o
paying duty on the amount noted il
the manifest. The agents have state,
the case to Collector Stackable, and ar
anxious that discount be allowed 70
the missing gin. This, however, can
not be allowed. The law requires tina
cargos pay duty according to the YES
sells manifest. except, of course, il
cases where the cargo might exceed
what is recorded in the manifest. TIL
Philadelphia agents will have to pa.
duty on the amount of gin vouched TO
in the ships papers, notwithstanding
any shortage, breakage or loss of cir
The case of the Dunreggan, which jet
tiSoned a small portion of her carg
while on the reef off Diamond Head j
quite a different matter and will depen
on various facts not yet determined.
THE ANDREW WEIGH
The American barg Andrew Welcf
Captain Drew, from San Francisc,
with a cargo of general merchandise
} consigned to G. Brewer q Co. is a
present lying at the Pacific Mail docl
Yesterday she unloaded two cars fo
the Pacific Heights Railway. They al
trailers and well built, good lookin.
substantial open affairs. They WEI
brought down on the Welch's mai
hatch. An odorless excavator is ais
aboard. Waterfronters are wonderin
/ if, when in operation, it will give a
odor any less fearful than do the pre-:
ent "odorless" machines. On the dec
of the vessel are also four big boa
for the Inter-Island Steam Navigate
Company. of the same pattern as tho.
common to all the Island steamers.
ALONG SHORE.
Mariposa for the Coast on Friday.
Good weather and no rain reported
Hawaii.
Alameda, from San Francisco, tn
morning.
Steamer Noeau after loading sugar
Kukuihaele, left there yesterday afte
noon for Honolulu.
American ship j. =. Brown, CAPITA
knight, fifty-five days from Newcastl
with coal, arrived in port yesterday.
Sugar on Hawaii on the 18th instar
was as follows: Pahaea, $500 bag
Iioiioipu, I,oll, f1OIlOkdd, DOW, huku
haele. 1900; kailua, cleaned out
Gasoline schooner Surprise, which a
rived from Hawaii yesterday, broug
the following freight: 329 bags of sug
for NJ. A. McChesney & Son, % cords
wood, 43 bundles of hides, 80 bags
potatoes, Is bags of coffee, 10 packag
OF sundries, donkey, q pigs and
deck passengers.
Yesterday morning the Dunregg;
commenced discharging at the old fis
market wharf. She will be repair
when empty. She is too large for t
marine railway. but can be raised O
or the water one end at a time and
repaired. Herbert Young was still g
aiming her bottom yesterday, goi
, down in his diving suit. The bark lea
about the same as before, and the gas
line engine in charge of William You
is Kept pumping at regular interva