The morning call., 1891-11-17
SEA AND SHORE.
HOnoIuln's Population Went Wild
Over the Circus.
Capsizing Of a Boat in the Bay - Salmon
Catch at Karluk-Drowning at Sea-A
Barge Wrecked-Movements.

When the steamer Monowai, with the big
circus on board. arrived at Honolulu, every
body wanted to see the show. Fully 5000
people gathered on the wharf, aud it was
decided to admit them at half dollar a
head; but this plan did not work, and Cap
tain Carey decided to throw his ship open
for inspection. and for the ten hours she re-
manned in port she was literally jammed
from stem to stern by men, women and
children to see the elephants. The giantess
took walk ashore in order to stretch her
SELF and was followed through the streets
by every urchin and half the grown folks
until the crowd became so thick that the
aid of the police had to be invoked in order
to allow the woman to return to the
steamer.
The mail steamer Australia is due to-day
from Honolulu.
HE DID NOT SAIL FAR.
a young man named L bert Somers hired
whitehall boat at Long Bridge yesterday
morning and started out for sail When
off King street he stood up in the boat, IN
ord er 10 replace the boom. which had slipped
from the mast, when suddenly the boat was
upset and lie was thrown into the water.
Somers managed to climb up on the bottom
of the boat, and spent the next half hour In
wondering how he came there. he was
rescued by Senator jenkins. the well-kn0wn
boatman OF Folsom street, who was return
ing from the oil works, and the shipwrecked
landSman was safely landed at the foot OF
Second street. He made the boat fast, and
it WAS soon after taken away by the owner
The weather outside the heads yesterday
was haZy, with the wind northeast eight
miles an hour. The thermometer stood 80 To-
RACE ON THE MOLE.
A lively foUt-race, between men belong
inn IN "a Paw City tOnE DlaPp last
night at the Oakland Mole. The men put
UP $40 side, and raced the entire length OF
the mole. The race was won by Harry
Weddey, a deck-hand, who beat his oppo-
nent. John Otto, fully 200 yards. Otto is
cook of the steamer.
Dispatches from London state that the
British bark Parkdale, bound from Cardiff
tor Santa ROSalia, Las returned to Cardlf
with decks damaged and loss of sails. The
British bark Ben MacDhui at Havre re-
ports having experienced very hard weather
on passage, and several sails were lost.
The steamer Jeanie arrived from karluk
yesterday afternoon with 10000 cases of
salmon. She reported that the total catch
Of the season at Karuk is 2iS,O00 cases.
IN FROM A LONG VOYAGE.
The ship Eureka arrived in port yesterday
after the long passage of ia days from Bal
tmore. During the voyage one OF the sea-
men, named John +. Carroll native of
England, fell overheard and was drowned.
The accident occurred on October 18th in
latitude 400 81 south, longitude 1899 IS west.
Some enterprising thief stole a fine naph-
tina launch from Sonoma Creek on Satur-
day night and the owner offers a reward of
$50 for the return OF his property. The
launch is twenty feet long and five feet
wide, and is painted white, with the name
"Nixen" on her stern.
The stone-lHden barge PHILIPPE struck the
ground. and went to pieces IN the Stockton
Slough on Saturday night She was owned
by Captain Leale, and was on her way from
Sheep Island 10 Stockton.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The moves Yesterday were the Dom to
Port Costa, Itata to Lombard street. Lang
dale. San Joaquin and Orca to the stream,
the Hunter and Jesse Freeman TO the oil
works, Francis to Steuart street, Melrose TO
Pacifir, Retriever 10 Berry, Hope to Vallejo
and john u. Spreckels to Howard No. 3.
To-day the Ihistlebank will go to Oakland,
the Midnatsso TO the hay wharf, TuIStle to
Beale street, King Edward to Long Bridge,
81. Nicholas to Harrison street and the
Patagonia to sea.
The arrivals were the steamers Oregon
from Portland, Crescent City from Crescent
City. Greenwood from Westport and Jeanne
from knrluk the ship Eureka from Balti-
more with cargo OF coal for John ROsen-
fields Sons, the bark MelroSe from De-
parture Bay, coal for R. D. Chandler, and
the schooners Orient, Laura May, Webfoot,
Norway and Howard from cOnst ports.
Departures were the steamers Lucy Lowe
for Seattle, WalIa Walla for Victoria.
Eureka for Wilmington, State of California
for Astoria, and the schooners Garcia. Ben
der Bros, Daisy Rowe, Coudanza. Albion,
Alice kmball and Mary and Ida, bound to
coast ports
LATEST CHARTERS.
Among the latest reported charters are the
following:
British ship TitanIa. $40 tons. now at Vic
toria, salmon thence to London; chartered
by Bell, Irvine & Patterson.
British ship Ventura. 1869 tons, wheat to
Cork, U. K, Havre or Antwerp; 81 49,
chartered by Starr & Co.