The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-06
MARINE:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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| In spite OF considerable unfavorable
weather. the L s. r. c. Iroquois did
the work for which she had been de-
| spatched 10 Midway. accomplishing
more than the Navy Department ex-
pected of her. She has been away %
days, returning on Tuesday night with
all on board well and without having
had any accidents of any kind among
her crew.
During the first ten days after her
arrival a Midway, five days out from
Honolulu, little was done. the weather
preventing any Roadway being made
After that the work of boring and
sounding was uninterrupted until it
was completed, the crew, deck hands,
engineers and the marines taken on
at Midway putting in long days of
work, being called at 4:30 in the morn
ing and not knocking off until $50 in
the evening. In all So borings, ranging
from three to twelve feet in depth,
were made and $4,000 soundings re-
corded
The work was done with a view to
learning the feasibility of clearing out
a possible channel to Welles Harbor,
two channels being explored. At pres
ent the entrance to Welles Harbor is
narrow and tortuous and only possible
for the passage of small vessels.
The department wanted two possible
channels surveyed, but had cabled IN
structions to do the work in the north
channel first, thinking that it would
be impossible to 30 it all on this trip,
but both were finished
The Iroquois brought back seven
marines who had been on duty at Mid
way
Captain Carter was busy yesterday
going through his accumulated mail
and catching up with the business OF
his office
He has received orders from Admiral
Very to prepare the Iroquois and hold
her ready to go to the assistance OF
either the Sheridan or the Manchuria,
should help be asked. AS yet there has
been no request for help from either.
Captain Carter found only the usual
current to the southwest in approach
ing Oahu on Tuesday, although this
was somewhat stronger than common.
Between Kauai and Oahu there is
usually a decided southwest set to be
reckoned with.
trary Imprisonment of seaman, which
were said to have been laid against
Captain Carter after his departure for
Midway, he has heard nothing beyond
what was published in one of the even
ing papers. No charges have been
laid against him, nor does he expect
that there will be any, although he
courts the fullest investigation of any
thing he has done.
SHIP FAIRPORT FROM HAMBURG.
The British ship Fairport, 1873 days
morning with all on board well. The
Fairport brings full cargo of cement,
coke and fertilizer and will begin dis
charging this at the railroad wharf
this morning.
The captain reports having expert
enced good weather on his long voyage,
two days when off the Horn.
SHIPPING NOTES.
The S. s. Alameda will arrive with
eight days accumulation Of mail to-
morrow
The Matson S. S. Hilonian will sail
this afternoon from the railway wharf
for Hilo.
The Ali. S. S. Nebraskan did not
get away yesterday as expected. She
will sail today.
The barkentine S. G. Wilder departed
for San Francisco yesterday afternoon
at 8 o'clock She carried sugar as
cargo.
The bark Hecla, Nelson master, was
reported last night, anchoring outside.
She is forty days out from Newcastle
with a coal cargo.
The Standard Oil ship Astral, which
has been swinging at her anchorage off
the harbor for some weeks, cleared
for San Francisco yesterday, sailing at
p. m.
The steamer Kaiulani is discharging
her sugar cargo into the r. P. Rithet
at the Bishop slip and the steamer Nj
ihau is also at the slip loading lum-
Der, part of the cargo brought in by
the BERTHE Minor.
One of the seamen of the Arthur
Sewall, who were paid off yesterday,
walked off the Irmgard wharf in at
tempting to find his way back to the
ship. He was slightly more sober when
fshed out
The steamer Mikahala brought in
1850 bags of sugar from Maxwell and
Eleele yesterday morning Other items
III her cargo were 103 bags of taro 10
cases of fruit, six barrels of pears and
a quantity of empty tanks, casks and
beer barrels.