The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-13
SHIPPING NOTES.

The barkentine Archer. from this port,
mas reached san Francisco.
The bark KaiuIani sailed from san
Francisco for Honolulu on February g.
The Siberia carried big load of
freight from New York 10 San Fran
cisco.
The British ship Antiope arrived at
Port Townsend from Makaweli on Feb.
1 and left the same day for Tacoma.
Bark G. C. Tobey departed yesterday
for San Francisco with 33,572 sacks of
Eva and Waialua sugar, and As tons
of machinery.
If the mail contracts do not go the
right way, it is said in Victoria that
the Moana, Aorangi and Miowera will
be taken off the run to the Colonies.
The German four masted bark Rick
mers and the British ship st. Enoch
have been taken off the reinsurance list
in San Francisco and given up as lost.
The schooner Henry K. Hall was
fumigated last evening and Captain
Piltz and wife spent the night aboard
the John Palmer as the guests of Cap
tain De Lano.
The Hongkong Maru has new suite
OF staterooms since she was here cast,
and all the boats Of the line are to be
upholstered anew as fast as they arrive
in San Francisco.
John H. Kinder. Captain of the Coptic.
was arrested in San Francisco on a
charge of allowing seven Chinese to
escape from his ship. They got away
from him in December, 1899.
The schooner VIM. Nottingham ar
rived at Port Townsend from Honolulu
on February 1 and then proceeded to
Seattle. She lost her main topmast
on the passage from Honolulu.
San Francisco has the finest dry dock
in the United States at Hunters Point,
and one of the largest in the world.
The new dock received its christening
by taking in the battleship Ohio.
The trans-Pacifc lines running out
of Tacoma, Seattle. Portland and Vic
toria have raised the rate on flour when
in sacks, 80 cents a ton. The
new rate goes into effect February l.
Captain william Whitney, of the
schooner Jessie Minor. dropped dead in
a local railway station at Alameda on
O. Captain Whitney was well
known to all shipping men on the
Coast.
The barkentine John Palmer finished
1ischarging Ter coal yesterday after
noon and will take in about 100 tons
Of rock ballast today. She win prob
ably be ready to sail for Puget Sound
on Sunday.
The American ship S. D. Carlton,
by Capt. dad" Amesbury,
passed Tatoosh on Feb. 1. after run
If seventeen days from Honolulu. She
S expected to load another cargo of |
,oal for the Islands.
The four masted schooner Robert |
'earles, which reached Seattle from the |
BRENT on February 4, ran into a marine
arthquake on the afternoon of Novem-
er 81. The water was smooth and the
essel sailing four knots. The shock
asted five minutes and the ship was
rought to a complete standstill. Fiji
cen minutes later a second and lighter
hook was felt, and half an hour later
mother one. The sea for an area of
alf a mile was covered with small
its of pumice and coral that seemed
D have boiled up from the bottom. The
hook was felt twenty miles south of
he island of Formosa.
The Chronicle of February has this:
The steamer Minnetonka, of $3.50 tons
agister, has been chartered by the
merican- Hawaiian Steamship Com
any to bring a cargo of freight from
ew York to this port, and she is sched-
led to leave the Eastern port on March =
}, in place of the Alaskan, scheduled to II
all thence on April %. The Arizona,
pom which the finishing touches are
cling made at the Union Iron Works, !
to sail from here for New York, via l
uget Sound and Honolulu, on Feb;
larry q. She is twin screw freighter,
it'll capacity for carrying 1900 tons =
freight, and is a type of the most L
odern steamship of her Glass;