The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-31
Ste. Katherine Moves.

Ste. Katherine Moves.
Captain Herbert moved his vessel
the bark Ste. Katherine, from the Mat
son wharf to the Railroad wharf yes
terdav morning, and at / clock in
the afternoon started loading sugar.
Captain Herbert hopes that he viii be
able to get a cargo on the Katherine
without any delay So that the return
trip to the mainland may DE begun
shortly, His ship has been repainted
since she came down here this trip,
and presents q very spick and span
appearance at the present time.
Foohng Suey to Kahului.
Next Monday the deep-water bark
Foohng Suey will leave for Kahului
in tow of the tug Intrepid. Captain
Willett is having a little trouble at
the present time in securing a crew.
He will sign on his men Monday morn
ing, if the present plans are carried
out There are very few sailors on
the beach nowadays. and as Captain
Willett viii probably require each man
to have medical inspection before
signing on, he may have some plikia
in getting full complement.
Lumber on the Virglnian.
About $4,000 feet of lumber came
down on the Virginian from Seattle
the other dav. and Contractor Ouder-
kirk Immediately got busy. He now
has portable scaffold about com-
pleted, with which he will do a great
deal of the work. Over three hundred
thousand feet of lumber are yet to
come from the Northwest before the
job can be finished
Shipping Notes.
The schooner James Rolph arrived at
Hama from San Francisco last Sunday.
The steamer Noeau, Captain Piltz,
sailed for Molokai and Lanai last night
at 5 o clock.
The kinau sailed last night for Ka-
uai with a fair number of passengers
and considerable freight.
The good old Alameda arrived at San
Francisco yesterday after her usual
good run across the Pacific from this
port.
The four-masted ship Manga Reva,
known here, recently sailed from San
Francisco for New York with 1000 tons
ofsscrap iron.
The lighthouse tender Kukui will
move over to the Naval coal slips Fri
day morning, where her bunkers will
be re-filled.
Cable advices have been received to
the effect that the American Hawaiian
steamer Missourian sailed on the 18th
for San Francisco.
The barkentine S. G. Wilder is dock
ed at the Alakea street wharf. Her in
ward cargo has all been discharged and
she is now waiting for sugar.
A 25-horsepower gasoline engine has
been installed in the "Queen of the
Sampan Fleet This engine is not as
large as will later be installed
The Helene, which arrived yesterday
morning from Hawaii ports, brought,
besides about 1900 bags of sugar,
seventy-tiv head of cattle from the
Parker Ranch for the Metropolitan
Meat Company.
AS per schedule, the Togo Kisen
Kaisha liner Chiyo Maru got away for
the mainland at s o clock yesterday
The sailing hour was SO
early that there were few down to the
Haekfeld wharf to see her leave.
CAPTAIN Berger got his dates little
mixed yesterday morning and had his
musicians down to the wharf to
"play off the Lurline. Herr Kapell-
meister soon discovered his mistake,
however, and there was no music on
the waterfront that morning.
Word has reached here that the
Inter-Island steamer Maui is at Ookala
loading sugar, and the Iwalani was the
other day diseharging freight at the
Honokaa landing. Reports of much
rain and heavy weather on the Hama
kua coast are still being brought in.
Following hail and rain storm at
San Diego, two gigantic waterspouts
we're sighted off Point Iona, Cal, on
March II, travelling northward at a
rapid rate. Wireless operators at Point
Iona state that the spouts We're about
three miles off shore and were one
fourth of a mile high.
When the Oceanic steamship Mari
posa sailed from San Francisco for Ia
hiti short time ago, her master an
nounced that he would try to get into
wireless communication with the Ha-
waiian Islands. the boat having re-
Gently had n system installed. Moth
ing has vet been heard from her here.
Three vessels outbound on Cape Horn
passages and one sailing for the Uni
ted Kingdom from San Francisco have
been spoken recently. According t. ad
vices the vessels and their positions
were as follows: January II. latitude
80 north. longitude 50 west, British ship
Jordanhill from Newport, England, for
Salina Cruz; February II. latitude
north, longitude 90 west. French bark
Max. which left San Francisco October
81 for Queenstown; February 25. lati-
tude &c north. longitude west, British
ship Pegasus from Antwerp for San
Francisco.
Emile Holz. second mate of the four
masted schooner Luzon, was instantly
killed as the vessel was about to put
+o Saa from Astoria Or on March 2