The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-08
SEA AND SHORE.
Arrival and Departure of Ocean
Mail Steamers.
News From the Sealers-sent Back to China
Loading Steamers With a Rush.
Movements and Charters.

About the liveliest portion of the city
front at the present time is section 2 of the
sea-wall, where the steamers Houndslow
and Remus are loading for Chile.
A large force of men Is at work on each
vessel, and the cargoes are being put on
board with a rush.
The Houndslow will take down over 1000
tons of -four 900 tons of barley, and the re-
mainder OF the hold will be filled with
baled hay. At all three of the steamer 5
big hatchways are gangs of men hard a t
work, and it is thought the vessel will get
away by noon to-day. The entire midship
section is being filed with flour. The bar
ley is slowed forward and the hay aft
The Remus is being loaded in similar
manner Only she will not carry so much
hay. She will follow close on the Hounds
lows heels, and will leave for Chile to-nor-
row night.
FROM HONOLULU.
The mail steamer Australia came in about
80 o'clock yesterday afternoon from Hon
olulu. She had &C cabin and 80 steerage
passengers. Among her cargo are 1880
bags of sugar, 800 bags of rice, 1877 punches
and 4S9 boxes of bananas and 227 boxes of
pineapples.
and a marine from the United States
steamer Iroquois, now lying at Honolulu.
The men have been sent home to be paid
off, their tins having expired.
what the future movements OF the cruiser
will be they could not tell, as no orders
havo been received from Washington.
Shortly before the Australia left the Iro-
quois was out for target practice and did
some frst-cass work. The crew are highly
pleased with their new commander Captain
j. j. Read. who lately took command OF the
vessel.
The cruiser, like the rest of the war YES
sells on this Coast, is short quite Il number
OF her crew, and as many of the men now
on board have only very short time to
serve, the prospect of again having a full
crew this cruise is very slim.
The Australia had a pleasant trip up aud
made the passage In seven days.
BACK TO CHINA.
The Occidental and Oriental Mail Com
pany's steamer Gaelic sailed for Yokohama
and Hong-kong about 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. She took away large list of
cabin passengers and 1o5 Chinese in the
Storage. Among the Chinese were two
women.
The eight women who came here on the
steamer are now in the custody of Marshal
Long, and will probably be confined in til Q
Alameda County Jail.
Thlrly-Seven men also came over on the
ell route 10 I1dNdDd. IneS6 were
taken across to Oakland ana locked In a cal, ,
and Will remain thus confined until they
arrive at New Orleans and are placed on the
steamer for Havana.
THE TAHITI GIRL.
The little schooner built by Turner at
Benicia for Mr.. Levy of Tahiti, and which
1t Will be remembered capsized while on her
way to this city, cane down yesterday and
locked at Mission Wharf, where she will
load for Tahiti.
THE sEALERs.
1t seems that the sealerS are not getting
LETT out in the cold owing to the passage of the
new law. The steamer Danube has arrived
at Victoria from Behring Sea and brought
the catch OF the British sealers, amounting
to 1900 skins. Several American schoon-
ers were spoken and all reported good
catches. In addition to what seals she had
captured the Penelope picked up a dead
whale from which 800 pounds of whalebone
were secured. The Danube returns to Behr-
ing Sea on the 18th with the British Com
missioner.
The schooner Emma Utter went on the
Merchants Dry-d0ck yesterday to clean and
paint.
NEW COAST STEAMERS.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's
steamers Costa Rica and Nicaragua will
soon leave New York for this Coast. They
Will run from this city to Panama. The
steamers are both very fast
Inc following vessels came in yesterday:
The steamer Australia from Honolulu;
yacht AGgle from Santa Cruz; schooner
Charles L. Falk from Grays HarDor, with
100000 feet of lumber, for 5. 4. 5 ade IL Co.,
and the schooner Frances Alice from Thin
Point with cargo of $1,000 Goldfish for the
Western CodiShlng Company
Steamers Gaelic for Yokohama and Hong
Kong, Los Angeles and North Fork for
Eureka, and Gypsy for Santa Cruz, the
snip john A. BrisgS for Nanaimo, and the
schooners Antelope aud Maid of Orleans for
coast ports also went To sea.
The moves yesterday were the ships
Lady Isabella from Port Costa TO the
stream, the Tam O'Shanter to Mission
Rock, Gatherer from Mission street to the
gas works. Valparaiso from the refinery to
the stream, the steamer Australia and bark
Aureola went 10 the sugar refinery.
To-day the ship British Yeuman and bark
Lamorna come down from Port Costa, and
the ). ID. Carlton goes up to load. The
Port Stanley goes TO Oakland, the Oceana
docks at Union street to discharge, the
Australia will dock at the Union Iron
Works TO clean and paint, and the ship
John A. Briggs and bark Ceylon 60 to sea.
CHARTERS.
| British ship DtumeJtan, 1913 tons, wheat
| to Cork. u. h., Hayre, Antwerp or Dan
kirk; - 5'-chartered prior to arrival by
William Dresbach.
British ship Tweedsdale. 1903 tons, wheat
" n - a., lldflc vi Antwerp, Il Us
rechartered by Giryin. Baldwin & Eyre.
Snip A. ). Fuller, 1852 tons, merchandise
| to New York, in the Dispatch line.
Ship Glory of the Seas, 2009 tons, coal
from Nanaimo to this port, o.tion of San
| Pedro-chartered by John Rosenfeld's Sons,
Bark Wilma, 1909 tons, coal from Nanalmo
to this port-chartered by John Rosenfeld' S
| Sons.
THE WEATHER.
The weather at Poin: Lobos yesterday
| was hazy, with a north wind blowing thirty
| six miles an hour. The barometer stood 80 90.
IN DEATH VALLEY.