The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-10

Judge Day of Auburn has decided
that expert testimony concerning
the effect of electricity on the human
body and the pain Of electrical
shocks must be taken. The case has
gone over until July 30.
Gold shipments for Europe, have
been very heavy recently and thus
far this year over SAC, 100000 has
been sent abroad.
The first official information re-
ceived by the New York Yacht Clue
from the Royal Yacht squadron con-
corning the challenge for the Amer
lea cup was received by cable from
Cowes. The committee regrets 1t
cannot confirm the challenge.
Ex-Commodore Smith of the New
York Yacht Club says the cablegram!
received to-day ends the prospect OF
a race for the America cup this
season. The yachts must challenge
through the clubs to which they be-
long, and as the Royal Yacht Squad
ron will not let Lord Dunraven &C
cept the cup terms, nothing is to be
said on either side. -,
RUsHFoRD, Mimi, June 2oth.-A |
combined cyclone, waterspout ana
hailstorm passed east Of here last
night, destroying everything IN It's
path. A belt two miles wide and
thirty miles in length is absolutely
laid waste, trees being as bare OF
leaves as in winter. Immense trees
two feet or more in diameter were
torn up and twisted off. For two
miles in width the merciless hail
pelted everything into the ground.
Hailstones fell fully as large as
mans fist.
Shipping.
Secretary Tracy has granted the
Union Iron Works an extension OF
time in which to complete the
Charleston. About six weeks will
elapse before another trial tri is
made.
Proposals will be invited in few
days by the Navy Department for
the construction of four tugs, author
; lied by the last Congress, at cost
! ! not exceeding $4,000 each. They
will be stationed at San Francisco,
, Boston, New York and Washington.
! Those at San Francisco and New
York will be $50 feet long, and the
other two 80 feet.
:, The splendid oil steamer w. l..
Hardison, belonging to the Mission
Transfer Company of Santa Paula,
! was burned at the dock at Ventura
. on the 25th. The vessel was taking
on load of oil, continuing to load
until midnight The fire was dis
y covered about l O'Clock and it is not
known how it originated, About
= 1000 barrels Of oil were in her tanks.
a Ten men were aboard the vessel, but
. . no lives were lost. The ship and
cargo are total loss. The loss is
about $4,000, besides the oil that
: was aboard.
- The British ship Cape Verde, Nit
. chell, is reported wrecked on the
y Australian coast, she was under
L charter to come here and load
wheat.
{: q The Oregon Railway and Naviga-
" ton Company has chartered the City
of Topeka. She is fine iron steamer
J of 100 tons, and will be put on the
L L route to Puget Sound and British
Columbia in connection with the
steamer Idaho, which is not capable
/ of doing all the business offered
Il This will give Portland steamer
d d every five days to the sound and will
L secure for the Oregon Railway and
. Navigation Company large portion
e Of the business to that section and
u British Columbia which has hereto
u fore been monopolized by the North
l ern Pacific Railroad, and will obviate
to great extent the necessity of the
Il Union Pacific making trackage
10 agreement with the Northern Pacific
Il in order to get to the Sound.
The ship Commodore f. III. Allen
= which departed on the 26th inst. for
Il New York carried 252,382 gallons of
. wine and over $1,000 gallons of
} brandy, which is next to the largest
e shipment ever made to New York
u The total shipments of wine to New
s York via Cape Horn this year aggre
d gate 1,389,516 gallons.
d The American bark Brazos, Capt
. Edgett, from Newcastle, n. S. W.,
! for Hongkong, has been wrecked
q 500 miles from Sandy Cape. Some
8 of the crew were saved, the remain
. der are missing.
L On the 26th inst the tug Relief,
! which had been sent up the coast to
- search for the abandoned schooner
!. Wing and Wing, came into port with
u u the steamer South Coast in tow The
South Coast was picked up on the
18th inst. twenty miles south of Cape
Mendocino. Her engines were dis
: abled, her rudder was gone and she
- - was rapidly going ashore when the
. Relief sighted her. The damage
: was done by storm on the night of
the 25th.
About August LIST a light of the
. first order, giving alternately red
Z and white flash every fifteen seconds,
i will be shown from the structure
i recently erected near the westerly
!. end of Moro Rock, Point Sur, Cali
L fornia.
!, The schooner Wing and Wing
= went ashore recently at Crescent
" city. She was towed off by the
! steamer Crescent City and the two
. vessels started for this city. While
. on the way, the line parted and the
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