The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-31
SEA AND SHORE.
Ships From Brazil With Desiina.
lions Changed.
Coasters Returned to Port-Arrival of the
oceanic-No Tidings From the Whites
bro-The Lowest Charter.
The following-named ships. heretofore

The following-named ships, heretofore
listed for this port from Brazil, have had
their destinations changed: Ditton, $3.50
tons; Erln's Isle. 1715 tons; Invernie, 1918
tons; R0utenburn, 1897 tons; Spoke, 2724
tons; Sterlingshre, 1221 tons; also the Blair
Drummond, 1450 tons, from Coquimbo for
Tacoma. These vessels were all coming to
this Coast in ballast to load wheat for Eu-
rope. They represent 1885 tons of tom
mage. Only one Of these will now come.
This is the Routenburn. and upon her ar
rival off this port she will be ordered to
Tacoma. The new ship Spoke was under
charter, and was at Callao for additional
ballast, when her engagement was Cancelled
Tie diversion of SIX of these ships to other
ports will have little influence on wheat
freights here, since they were not needed
any more than some others that will arrive
In the next six months. There is now only
2S5,S00 tons of tonnage on The inward bound
fleet, against 295, 900 year ago.
The steamer Lakme started for Port
Townsend yesterday morning, but before
she was clear of the harbor her engines
broke down and she was forced to return
ana anchor off Meiggs Wharf.
IN FROM THE ORIENT.
The mail steamer Oceanic arrived from
noon one day ahead of time, and in spite of
the strong west winds and high seas encoun-
tered nearly the entire passage. She
brought sixteen cabin passengers, besides
SIX Europeans, nineteen Japs, thirty-four
ChlneSe and nve women in the steerage.
Prominent among the cabin passengers were
the Hon. Edward Bidloe, United States
Consul at Annoy, and Captain f. Ii. Bolles,
general manager of the Eastern Whaling
Company of Yokohama. The Oceanic
of ,iak
are 80, 005 mats of rice, $3.50 chests of tea
1904 bales of raw silk, 1865 cases of oil, sos
packages of curios, 14l7 bags of sugar and
CO. of coffee.
While leaving the dock at Howard No. 3
to 20 to Oakland Greek at 10 o'clock yester-
day morning the bark Colusa fouled the
Norwegian ship Dramen. lying at the same
wharf. and carried away The ships main top
gallant yard.
NO FURTHER TIDINGs.
l.. Il. White, owner of the wrecked
steamer WhiteSbro, has not received further
news from Little River regarding the loss
Of the steamer. The wreck comes rather
hard on the German bark Felix, under
charter to carry railroad ties to Mollendo
Peru, the Whtesbro being the second YES
sci loaded with ties Tor the Felix that has
been lost; the other was the West Coast.
The services of DIR. Law Tor were required
yesterday morning on board the ship Star
Uf Austria, lying at the sea-wall, to attend
one OF the apprentices who had fallen into
the fore hold while At work aud sustained
fracture of the thumb on his left hand.
The weather outside the heads Yesterday
was cloudy, with a northwest wind blowing
tWenty-eight miles an hour The barometer
stood 1882.
THE LOWEST CHARTER.
The lowest figure reached this year in the
way of charters has been accepted by the
British IRON ship CloncaITd, which has been
chartered tO lnaH uhaaf fpr for
ders at DIS 81. From the looks of things it
is very likely that charters will go st!ll
lower, and may even reach the figures at
which the Bacchus tick a cargo to Liver
pool direct in 1885, namely 1Ss Cd.
Five small boys who ventured out on the
bay in a boat yesterday morning narrowly
escaped going out to sea en- the ebb tide.
They were some distance from land when
picked up by the steamer Governor Per
kins and taken back to Fisherman's Wharf.
The schOOners Berwick for the CoQuille
River and Fortuna for Humboldt went to
sea yesterday, but returned, having lost
their mainsails in the strong breeze that pre-
vailed outside the heads.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The movements yesterday were Grand
holm and Albert to Mission No. /, Richard
Ill to Harrison street, CouSa and HayIian
Repu bile to Oakland Creek, Yosemite to Mis-
|; sion No. 2, Honresfeid to the rolling-mills,
Amazon to the sea-wall, Northwest to the
mud fits, Ellsland to the refinery, Carnar-
vonshlre to Port Costa, and tie Francisco
Ciampi and Astoria from Port Costa to the
stream. To-day the Louisiana will go to
Sausalito, Sierra Pedrosa to Oakland,
Woolahra to Howard No. and the Water.
loo tow 10 sea.
Arrivals were the steamer Corona from
San Diego; British ship Pnmore from New
| castle, Australia, with coal for j. d. Spreck-
els & Bros; the bark Northwest from Port
Madison with lumber. and the schConers
Golden Gate. Jennie Griffin, Nettie Low,
Elylna and Rio Rey, from coast ports.
Departures were the steamers Arago for
| Coos Bay and Pomona for Eureka, kilean
for Antwerp, Alexander Black for Liver
| pool, Chinsura for Queenstown, Abercarnie
for Sligo and Dashlns Wave for Tacoma.
CHARTERS REPORTED.
Among the latest reported charters are
| the following:
British iron bark Dunnerdale, 1O66 tons,
wheat to U. X. Havre OF Antwerp, 23s sd,
! an advance.
Schooner Spokane, 613 tons. now on the
| sound, lumber thence to Taku-chartered
| by Pore IL Talbot.
Bark c. d. Bryant, SSS tons, coal from
Departure Bay to this pOrt-chartered by
| II, ID. Chandler