The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-03

Penhallow, viii sail today. it is ex-
pected. She has several hundred tons
of scrap iron aboard and will sail for
Seattle with it. Captain Penhallow
has signed on as second mate ]. John
son who has been boatswain, and
is now promoted.
THE WEATHER TOO FINE.
The four masted schooner Manila ar
rived yesterday forenoon from Gray's
Harbor with So, 600 feet OF lumber for
Allen & Robinson. The Manila was %
days coming down, which IS a longer
passage than most of those made TO
these Islands of late. Captain Garski
says that the weather was fine all the
way-too fine-there was not enough
wind This is The first time that Cap
tain Garski has been in this port for
six years. The vessel is owned in
Gray's Harbor and this is her first
trip TO this port. Only one vessel was
sighted during the trip. That was a
sugar laden vessel about ten days ago.
THE MOI wAH1NE. u
The little Allen & Robinson schooner
Moi Wahine arrived on Sunday from
Puako with sugar for Hind. Rolph &
Co. She Is now at the wharf just
Waikiki Of the foot of Fort street
THE IUKA SAILS
The little schooner Luka with the
new cement lining 70 her hull to serve
as ballast and stiffening. sailed at four
o'clock yesterday afternoon for Lay
san Island for a load of guano She
goes under command of Captain Max
SchIemmer, with Jim Gerlog as mate
There are eight persons. all told, aboard
the vessel, one more than is really
needed to work cargo at L4aysan. But
the guardians of Laysan Island are
Charles Williams and wife, and as they
have been there for some time they
may want to come back. In case they
do Captain SchIemmer wants a man
TO leave there in their place. Williams
is a Hollander, and his wife is a Gil
bert Islander, said To have been a
princess in her own Island home. as
just al present she is Queen of Laysan.
In the company that goes to Laysan
by the Luka there are three white men.
Captain SchIemmer, Mate GerIog. and
a foremost hand named Wagner. a
friend of the mates. The remainder
OF the vessels company are japanese.
Captain Miller who owns the Luka
and has chartered her TO Captain
schlemmer for this trip has put her in
first class condition. She was put on
the marine railway and thoroughly
cauIked, and she has been painted
both inside and out. Outside she has
been painted white and she presents
a very handsome appearance. She car
ries the compass of the French ship
Connetable Du Richemont, wnich was
wrecked at French Frlgate shoaI some
years ago.
THE KASADO MARU EXPECTED.
The Japanese steamship Kasado
Maru. with nitrates for the Pa
cifc Guano and Fertilizer company Is
expected to arrive here next Saturday.
she Is the vessel whose peculiar move
ments along the west coast of South
America within wireless distance Of
Admiral Evans fleet gave occasion for
somewhat exciting dispatches sent all
over the world She vas reported 70
have taken twenty-four days to go a
distance of about 10 miles along the
nitrate coast All this distance was
within wireless distance Of the fleet,
The fact that she is a japanese vessel
was enough TO give rise to differences
She was here in Honolulu last Noven-
Der. Her wireless apparatus was not
in commission at that time, though II
is said that it was aboard the vessel
FROM OCEAN ISLAND.
The Norwegian steamship Oriand
with phosphates from Ocean Island Is
expected here about the end Of this
month.
THE FLAURENCE WARD.
The auxiliary schooner Flaurence
ward has been brought over 10 the
slip between the HaekfeId and the
Inter-Island wharves 70 have some
changes made in her eold-storage
plant. she Is fitted up with good
sized cold-storage plant. bat It Is al
in one compartment 50 that the best
results are rot obtained when va