The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-11-20
SAN FRANCISCO SHIPPING NEWS
(From our special correspondent.)

tFENIl our >ItNlal SOlEtSDNUNfnk.f
The schooner Argonaut, from
Coos Bay for this port, went ashore
on November 4th, one-half mile
southwark of Point Montana, near
Spanishtown. The crew were
saved. The schooner is of lS5 tons
net, was built in 1880, and was
owned by the Simpson Lumber Co.
Her hull was insured for $4,000 in
the Fireman's Fund and $4,000 IN
the California Insurance Company.
The schooner American Boy from
Gray's Harbor for this port was
wrecked on the North Farallones
on November Sd. The crew were
saved. The American Boy was
1889 tons, built in 1882 and owned
by the S. III. Harmon Lumber Co.
The hull was insured for $4,000 in
the FIreman's Fund Insurance
Company.
The British ship Earl of Zetland,
Captain Cunningham, sailed from
Probolingo, Batavia, for this port
on September 9Th, with a cargo of
sugar consigned TO j. ID. Spreckels
Il Bros. She put into Singapore
with the captain insane and most of
the crew down with the Java fever.
Captain Cunningham, it appears,
soon after leaving Probolingo got
an idea into his head that his Off
GERS were Indians, and were con-
spring against him. He tried to
shoot them, and they had to place
him in irons.
The whaling fleet is arriving
from the Arctic. The catch will
reach about $50 whales.
The crew for the new cruiser
San Francisco is on the way from
New York One hundred and fifty
men will be brought from the East.
The steamer Wilmington ran
down the schooner Mayfower off
Ballenas Bay on the Bird inst, and
all but wrecked her.
The spanish steamer Vizcayo
run into a schooner off Barnegat,
n. j., on the 3lst, and both vessels
sank. Nearly thirty lives were
lost. v.
The State Commission OF Rivers
and Harbors, Chas. +. Reed, J. j.
Crawford and G. +. Grunsky, have
submitted their report to the Gov
ernor. 1t is too long a document
for reproduction, but calls for u
Strengthening out of the channels Of
the Sacramento, San Joaquin and
Yuba rivers. The estimates run
into enormous figures, but the re-
suits would amply repay the out
lay.
The steamer Michigan arrived at
Astoria, Or, on the LIST, after a
! wild race for life lasting seven
hours. When about fifteen miles of
Grays Harbor, at 4 o'clock A. NJ, 2
fire was discovered in her fore
hold. All precautions possible were
Immediately taken; matches were
battened down, and every air hole
that could be found was stopped
up, and with every pound of steam
that could be carried and every
stitch Of canvas to the breeze she
flew down the coast. The steamer
was scuttled at Astoria.
The description of the first of the
new steamers for the China and
Japan service of the Canadian Pa.
cific shows a first-class ship o.
$500 tons and eighteen knots, with
coal protection for possible CONVEX
sion into a cruiser. Under the
terms offered by the shipping bills
which will probably be passed dur
ing the winter, We may expect Il
see as good, or better craft, the
products of American shlp-yards
sailing out of San Francisco for tb
Orient and Oceanica. If thes'
l bills do not pass we are likely T.
see our present Australian mai
service go to the Canadian Pacific
/ The report of the first gun-prac
tice of the cruiser Philadelphi
h shows remarkably good shooting
That was always a notable featur
Of United States naval warfare.