The morning call., 1890-11-29
SEA AND SHORE.
Arrival of the Steamer Australia
From Honolulu.
Sandwich Island Traders Making Long Pas
sages-Palmerston Island Found to Be
Inhabited-Warningst to Mariners.

The Oceanic Company's steamer Aus
tralia, Captain Houdlette, arrived yesterday,
seven days from Honolulu, bringing thirty
eight cabin and thirty steerage passengers.
Among the cabin passengers were Lieuten-
ant Stoney of the Charleston, wife, two
children and two servants. Among the
cargo brought by the Australia were S0S7
bags of sugar, 3Sl9 bags Of rice, SlO6 bnnches
and 623 boxes bananas, 1C0 bundles sugar
cane and fourteen cases betel leaves.
Adyices received at the Merchants Ex-
change yesterday by the steamer Australia
state that the United States steamer
Charleston was to have left for this port on
the 25th inst. and that King Kalakaua would
come on her as guest of Admiral Brown.
The steamer Coos Bay, Captain Nichol-
son, will 60 on the Merchants Dry-dock to-
day to be cleaned and overhauled. This
will cause her to miss one trip, the first in
ten months.
PALMERsToN ISLAND.
Shipmasters trading in the Pacific Ocean,
says Liverpool paper, disagree with the
British photographic authorities, which re-
port that PalmerstCn Island is uninhabited
and destitute of water, and have so marked
it on the charts. The steamship Richmond
recently stopped off the island, and, not only
secured Il supply VI, liOu NdiCis pu0
found it was the island home OF 100 people
who had lived there for twenty-five years.
The ship 4Eolus for this port, was spoken
on October 11ih in latitude % south, longi-
tude 290 west; the ship Cape OF Good Hope
on November LIST in latitude 49, south, long
itude $50 west, and the Reaper on November
LIST in latitude 490 south, longitude 6o west.
The weather was haZy at Point Lobos
yesterday and the wind all day from the
northeast blowing as high as 20 miles an
hour. The barometer read: O'Clock In
the morning. go II; noon, 30.l3; o CLOCK III
the evening, 3G.07.
The steamer Queen, which sailed for Vic
toria and Sound ports in place of the City of
Puebla which has been attached, carried
cargo TO Victoria valued at $1,000.
MADE LONG PASSAGES.
The barkentnes S. G. Wilder and w. II.
Dimond arrived in port yesterday, both
making the passage in the long time of a
days. They lei; Honolulu together and the
Wilder arrived in the forenoon and the d.
mond in the afternoon. 1t is understood
that there was bet of $500 side made in
Honolulu on the result of the race across.
The distance here from Honolulu is 2lGO
miles and the vessels must be pretty evenly
matched.
The Fish Commissioners steamer Alba
tross will sail in January next for the Mex
lean coast. where dredglngs and deep-sea
soundings will be made. Professor AleXan-
der Agassiz of Cambridge is expected toJoln
the vessel for the voyage.
Captain I. j. Conner has been appointed
master of the bark Richard-III, now lying ut
Port Townsend vice Captain George E. Mon
roe, resigned. and Captain III. Harrington
has taken charge of the schooner Orient, vice
Captain Z. +. swan.
The new ship Shenandoah W as launched
at Bath. Me-. on Tuesday and will load at
New York TOR this port She is the largest
ship ever built on the coast of Maine.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The barkentine W. Ii. Dimond docked at
Folsom street on arrival.
The bark Alaska hauled into the stream
from Third street.
The ship Pass of Balmaha will dock at
Long Bridge to-day. and the bark Stamboul
will haul into the stream from Folsom street.
The British ship Amazon went up to Port
| Costa yesterday
The J.C. Ford locked AT Mission No. l and
the ship Columbia went over to Alameda.
The bark Aureola locked at Beale street
on arrival.
The ship c. c. Chapman left her berth at
| Oakland and anchored in the stream.
WARNINGS TO MARINERS
/ ieutenant-C o. W. Farenholt,
commanding United States steamer Pinta,
reports as follows concerning the steamer
route through Cross Sound, Alaska, in
Dictated on United States Coast Survey
Chart 7O1 as passing between the Inian
Islands and Layinia Point on the Chichagoff
Island shore. Lieutenant George E. En-
mons, the executive officer of this vessel,
who has been in Alaskan waters over seven
years, says:
This route Is utterly unknown and most peril
GUS In the channel. about one-ihird the dis
lance from Point Laylnia there is very danger
GUS Tock which was just covered al low water
when went through in a canoe in July, 1889.
Through this narrow channel the tidal current
sweeps with terrific force, certain destruction TO
anything but canoe.
l have closely questioned the two best
pilots in Alaskan waters and both state that
there is no known channel for a steamer OPP
posite Lavinia Point; that the place is total
| ly unsurveyed and the tidal current worse
| than in Peril Strait.
A sunken rock, over which the sea breaks
at very low water, has been discovered to
the northward OF Rocky Point, coast of Ore
| gon. From the rock Cape Oxford Light
| house bears south 130 west true South five
eighths east mag, distant four miles.
The pilot of the mail steamer Mexico re-
ports that the red spar-buoy (No. ~ Finger
Point, Wrangell Narrows, Alaska, has dis
annparpH