The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-10
Latest News of the Transports.
Tugboat to Round Cape Horn.
Chilean Coming Here.

rived from Esqumalt, b. c.. yesterday.
She is bark-rigged, but has auxiliary ma
chinery that can drive her at a speed of
thirteen knots.
The General Baquedano is a new YES
Sc! on her maiden voyage She was built
at Newcastle-on-Tyne to the order of the
Government of Chile and went into COM
n ssion in April last. She sailed from
.Talcuanho for Easter Island on April %
with a crew of 32S all told. OF these
twenty-eight are midshipmen and $50 APP
prentices.
From Easter Island the General Baque-
dano went to British Columbia, thence
came to San Francisco From this port
she will go to Yokohama via Honolulu,
ard from there 10 Hongkong. From Chi
n; the training ship will go to Australia,
New Zealand, Fiji and then back to VAL
paraiso, the home port.
SHIPPING NOTES
| SAN FRANCISCO, August 3.-The KIM
pail Steamship Company's john S. KIM
ball will have her trial trip Saturday. She
is one of the handsomest vessels ever
built on the Coast and her owners eX-
'pect her to do better than fourteen knots.
! Captain Hall of the steamer Walla Wal
Ia which arrived yesterday from Vic
toria and Sound points, tells of a strange
cNpe rience on his voyage from San Fran
disco to the Sound When the vessel was
q
out in the water ahead. Captain Hall
took it for a whale, but as the steamer
got nearer to it, the object proved to be
the largest sea lion he had ever seen.
old Ben Butler was a pigmy to this fell
lew" said the Captain. He had caught
a 200-pound halibut and was having a
gre at time with the fish. He would throw
the halibut high into the air and catch
it in his mouth, then shake it like a cat
would a mouse. Then he would let the
halibut get away from him. The bewil-
deIed fish would swim away a few yards
when the sea lion would jump for it and
. catch it again in his mouth. Thousands
of birds were lowering about, waiting, nc
. doubt, till the lion got through with
the halibut. We We're then in about 20(
fathoms of water"
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.-An Official
survey has been made of ShaG Rock No.
. by the United States engineers, as a re-
suit of which the work has been accept
. Ell by the Government and the contract.
, or.5 will receive their pay. The survey
demonstrated that there is thirty feet
, of water over the rock at extreme low
tide, which is more than was expected
when the work of blowing up the OBJ
struction was attempted.
, The four-masted schooner Commerce
, was successfully launched from Hay &
Wrights shipyard at Alameda Point Sat.
, urday afternoon. She is II sister ship OF
the Philippine, Expansion and Luzon
Miss Nellie Won der Merden, the daugh
ter of ID. Won der Merden, one of the own
, err. of the new vessel, christened the
Commerce as she slid from the ways. Tn;
schooner is owned by Martin Sanders
, Henry Kirchman, 5. Forter and others
The Commerce is a little larger than hel
, sister ships and the largest sailing VeSse
, ever built al Hay & Wrights shpyard.
The steamer TelluS, which was in col
wit no beer
pumped out and will go to the drydock to.
day. 1t was necessary to use a Specia
pumping plant on barge alongside of tho
big collier to get the water out. 1t car
row be seen that the Tellus was cut dOwT
, nearly to her keel