The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-11-06

HE Losr Hs SNoxK-Last Wednesday evening
the police "drOpped " upon a native, a defOrmed
hunchbaek, who answers 10 the name Of Dick Will
liams, just ss he had charged his opium pipe and lii
his lamp preparatory 70 enjoying q few solAeing
whiHs This is the first case that has come up under
the Act Of 1874 10 restrict he sale and use Of epiam.
owing TO which circumstance, and The additional fact
that Dick was pony and dilspidAtei looking and q
cripple, be was LEI Of with one months hnPrisOn-
ement.
A RUSSIAN TABoo.-At this late day. amer many
thousands Of barrels Of oil have been caught by
American whalers on the eoasts and in the bays of
the 0ehotsk Sea, the Russian authorities have for
hidden those waters TO foreigners Capt. Jos. SPen-
GER, Of the British bark Farausas, who in September
saw a chance to fill all his casks in Shantar Bay,
was Ieremptorily ordered to leave by = Russian
cruiser, and was served with the following notice
NoTIcK-I. Foreign whaling vessels cannot enter
into any Of the Cults or Bays, nor approach nearer
than three miles to the Coasts and Islands belonging
TO US in the Seas Of Bhering and Ochotsk Cor the
whale fishery in the gulfs. bays, and straits, and
within n distance Of three miles from the coasts aud
islands mentioned, is granted exclusively to tRus-
SLAMS.
2. Foreigners cannot land on our coasts or islands
without the permission Of the Chief Of the place.
neither for supplies Of wood nor 10 melt down the
fat Of whales. This permission should be obtained
from the Governor General Of the Prim0rskaia OBJ
last, at Vladivostock or Petropaviovsk.
3. Captains Of Foreign vessels are Forbidden. un-
der any circumstance TO leave their sailors in any
place within Russian territories, AZ a
punishment for breaches Of discipline. For this
purpose, and for repairs, for victualing, and for
other necessaries-Petropayiovsk the port Of kams-
chatka. Is open 10 foreign vessels. During their
anchorage in that port, they are forbidden 20 carry
on the whale fishery, aud they should submit them
selves to, and carry out all the regulations and laws
in that port. -
Loss OF THE SHIP "ALBEnT GA~LrArIs."-The ship
Syrtn. which arrived on Sunday last from Boston,
brought nine persons (including the Captain) picked
up at sea of Cape Horn, being part OF the ships
company of the Albert GoHaiiR, of Liverpool. aban-
doned at sea- Capt. Groves of the lost ship reports
that he left Antwerp for Callao, on the Goth Of April,
In ballast. there being thirty souls on board. The
voyage was prosperous until of Cape Horn, where
on the ID Of August the rudder was carried away.
From that time until the 10th, was spent in i%nefieo-
tual endeavors to rig a steering apparatus. and on
the evening Of that day, as the ship was within q
short distance Of the'rocky shore Of IdefOnso, upon
which che was drifting, she was abandoned, all hands
taking TO two boats. In one was Capt. Groves, his
and two children, the second mate and four sea-
men. The other boat carried the first mate and
twenty seamen, and she was not seen by the Captain
AFTER leaNlnB tue SNIP aug lO' tney enected u
landing on Hermit Island, where they remained un-
til the 18th, then two days in the boat, looking anxi-
ously for a sail, and four days on another island, SUI
fering meantime severely from cold and wet. The
allowance Of food per diem was one and q half crack
ers to each person and two pounds salt beef divided
among nine. Water YVES obtained from melted snow
gathered on the rocksE Eighteen days after aban-
doning the ship. the boat was picked up by the
Syrsn. Capt. Groves and his family and the rescued
seamen speak in the highest terms Of the kind, gene
rous treatment received by them from Capt. Newell,
officers and crew.