The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-25

,.etoo+s and all the movable gear car
ried away, the tramp steamer buchliis-
ham arrived this afternoon from the
Orient.
~, hoard for the British Columbia re-
Ifinerv $500 tons in all, which is the
largest sugar cargo ever brought 10
this mort The Buckingham left TILT
ian lava, on August 81 and coming
across had one of the toughest trips
on record. Captain william Cole says
that on two occasions he expected that
the vessel would founder. On Septem-
her 10 a. typhoon came up and lasted
until the 18th, but 1T was completely
outshadowed in violence by a typhooh
which began on the morning OF the loth
! They were just on the outer euSe Oh
the China Sea, steering up toward the
Tanan coast in the great semi-circuar
steamship route across the PACING. All
night of the 10th the storm continued,
! one of the heaviest ever seen by those
| on board. Early on the morning or the
| nth when the steamer was WalloWlng
/ through the troughs of mountain seas,
| Great damage was done. The engines
were reduced to half speed, and the
| steamer was not making two miles an
/ hour.
Just before daylight, when every one
| on deck was lodging the flying timbers,
/ the second mate, j. stevenson, was
IsWept overheard.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-THE tug
! L. Luckenbach, recently purchased by
the Spreckels Brothers Tugboat Com
pany in Ne4 York. arrived last evening
from that port after voyage of seven
ty-two days, in command of Captain
Edward Mccoy, who went East after
the vessel. Leaving New York on Au-
gust 4th, generally bad weather was ex-
I in hn n
! ing Rio de Janeiro sixteen tons of the
deckload of coal were washed over
board. The only stops made were at st.
Lucia, Rio, Sandy Point, Coronel and
Callao, the trip from the last port be-
ing made in sixteen days. The Lucken-
bach is of iron, was built about ten
years ago, is 100 feet long, and has
horsepower of about LOCO.
The schooner John G. North cleared
yesterday for Mahukona with a cargo
of merchandise, and will probably sail
| today.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 13-Thirty
days from Cape Horn to New York is
smashing voyage for any craft to make,
but from all accounts that is what the
big American ship Susquehanna has
done. The ship arrived yesterday at
her destination from Hilo, with a. cargo
of sugar, and she reports having spok-
en-, on September 18th, off the Horn, the
|
wheat, and bound. from San Francisco
for the United Kingdom.
! When this news was posted at the
Merchants Exchange this morning it
made the old salts rub their figure
heads in wonderment.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-General
Macarthur has notified the War De-
partment today that the transports
Siam and Atheneum have sailed for the
United States, and that the transport
Federico arrived at Manila today. The
Federico carried attachments of Bat
teries c and M of the Seventh Artillery,
three officers and thirty-five men, from
San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 1.-THE
steamer Hyades under charter by the
American Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany, sailed yesterday from New York
for this port, and will stop at CorOnel
and San Diego en- route She brings a
cargo of miscellaneous freight and was
chartered on account of unavoidable
delays in dispatching the company S
own new steamer one of which is to
sail soon from New York for this port
and Honolulu
About $1,000 tons of coal reached port
yesterday in the cargoeS of the steam
ers Matteawan and Mackinaw, from
Washington, and Wellington and San
Mateo, from British Columbia collieries
making the weeks receipts by sea in
the neighborhood of 10000 tons. More
steamers are needed for the coal trade
but are difficult to procure
| The steamer Norman Isles now in
this port, brought from Java an i'm
mense cargo of raw sugar. 1t is esti-
mated at the custom house that the du-
ties under the sugar schedule of the
present tariff will amount to $162234
The barkentine Planter went on the
Spear street dry dock yesterday
training IA rrix- "a
San Diego yesterday, where she will
remain few days before proceeding
to Magdalena Bay.
The barkentine Gardiner City cleared
yesterday for Honolulu
The Fearless will load lumber at
Grays Harbor for Guaymas; the J. b
Brown, lumber at Chemaius for Syd-
ney, ASS Cd. option of Melbourne OF
Adelaide, 56s Sd, prior to arrival; the
Lurline. merchandise to Kahului