The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-04

anese emigrants. Among the departing
passengers were number of the Mon
goHa passengers and several we'll
known local people.
H P. Wood, secretary of the Pro-
motion Committee, left on a tour OF
Southern California in the interest of
the tourist trade He viii be gone sew
eraI weeks.
Mrs Porter wife OF Captain Porter,
of the Mongolia, sailed TO join her hus-]
band at San Francisco. expecting to ar
rive there shortly after the arrival of
the partially disabled liner.
E F. Bishop and A Berg will visit
the mainland on business trips.
REsToRER BACK IN PORT.
The cabIeshfp Restorer returned yes
terday from Midway, where she had
been hurried to the rescue of the
steamship Mongolia. As passengers Of
the cable company, his wife and daugh-
ter b. w. Colley. the Midway man
ager. ana wl1e, and Mr.. Rudd- The
Restorer had an uneventful trip. the
main incident of which was the neces-
| sity Of standing off the. Midway coast
| for thirty-six hours during a blow,
which came up shortly after the arrival
| of the steamer at the island
The Restorer is now lying at the
Haekfeld wharf, where she will dis
charge the wrecking gear taken aboard
for Midway operations, which FORUM
ate1y had not been required
SHERIDAN BUoYED FOR A PULL.
Captain Peabody and the Quarter
master officials in charge of the wreck
| ing of the transport Sheridan are TAX
ing no risks of that vessel turning
turtle when next she is floated, which
may be today. Yesterday the seow
Melancthon was dashed along one side
of her and the empty water barge on
the other. These are expected to keep
her afloat and on an even keel. The
| transport herself has been pumped dry
| and everything is in readiness to pull
her off the sand and into the harbor.
Whether this will be done today or not
remains TO be seen, as no decision had
! been arrived at last night. This word
was brought in last night by the steam
er Iwalanf which arrived shortly after
8 o'clock and was hurried back to the
Sheridan within a couple of hours.
MARBLEHEAD PLATES
! The u s. s. Marblehead has been
ordered to Mare Island naval yard,
California, for repairs The Seattle
| Times says: During voyage from
| Panama to California waters about a
| year and a half ago the Marblehead
was overhauled by the crew. In chip
ping off rust from the plates it was
| found that they had rusted through.
and one officer on the Marblehead as
serted upon the arrival of the vessel
| that it was necessary to stop the work
| or the majority of the plates would
| probably have been full of holes sew
| eral inches square. 1t is understood
| that the boilers of the Marblehead
have been considered unsafe by the
| ships officers for the past three years.
is. F. Recorder.
MORNING STAR TO DEPART.
| Captain Garland. of the laid-up mis-
sionary steamer Morning Star, has re-
| cetved orders to prepare the vessel to
put TO sea. it being the intention of the
owners, the American Board of Foreign
Missions. to offer her for sale at Sc
harbor here for some months, and sew
eral attempts to dispose of her have
been made. but none were found will.
ing 10 offer as high as s2z 900, the upse,
price decided upon by the owners.
1t is possible that the vessel viii clear
for the Sound this week
DREDGER SAILS FOR COAST.
The dredger Pacific got away last
night a 500 for San Francisco She
carried a big deekload of coal for the
trip, which will take her in the neigh
borhood of ten days to complete.
MARINE NOTES.
Six days later mail is due today on
the steamer China
The steamer Doric. from the Orient.
is due to arrive today.
The French bark Button is still an
ehored outside the harbor awaiting or
Iders.
The steamer Ke Au Hou sailed last
night for Kauai with a cargo of explo-
sive>.
The steamer Mikahala arrived from
Kauai ports yesterday morning at 4
O'Clock
The tug Leslie Baldwin. from Ka-
hului c. ne in yesterday and viii go on
the marine railway for an overnauling
The steamship Nevadan did not sail
yesterday as expected. but will proba-
bly, get away for the Coast early this
morning.
The steamship Manchuria will be
ready TO depart early next week. al
though no instructions regarding sail
ing date and destination have been re-
lceived
| Captain klitgaard. who assisted in
the relocating of the Mongolia at Mid
way. sailed yesterday on the Alameda
He has no connection in any way with
Lloyd's. having been in Siberia as the
representative of San Francisco ship