The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-27

| LONDON, august O.-1 ne BRUSH
steamer Lismore Castle colided
with a German steamer, supposed
to be the Porto Allegro, Sunday in
a thick fog. The stern Of the Lis
more Castle was crushed to the
water line and she put back 10
Plymouth. 1t is believed the Ger,
man steamer foundered.
GLASGOW, August 3. - John
Younger, an iron merchant, has
purchased the Valkyrie, formerly
the property of Lord Dunraven,
which was sunk in collision with
the Satinita and subsequently
raised. The unlucky yacht was
purchased at auction for $50
pounds.
VALLEJO (Cal), august 9.-The
ninety-ton caisson of the Mare
Island dock capsized and sank at
the mouth of the dock Tuesday
night, preventing the docking of
vessels. The accident was due en-
tirely to carelessness in leaving the
dock filled with water, and making
no allowance for the rise and fall
of the tide.
The sealing schooner Bowhead
arrived at San Francisco on the
9th inst, from a long cruise along
the coast Of Japan, with 1904
skins on board. Captain Noyes
says that the schooner would have
returned with bigger load but for
the fact that she sprang a leak and
had to put into Yokohama for re-
pairs.
Captain Prout of the British
ship Castle Rock has been recog-
nized for his prompt rescue of the
crew OF Danish bark sighted by
the Castle Rock near the Western
Islands in sinking condition.
The Danish Government has sent
him a testimonial and a pair of
binocular glasses. The owners of
the Castle Rock have promoted
him to be commander of one of
their fine steamers.
Halfyard, the bluejacket of the
English battleship Blake who was
awarded a gold medal for saving
life in New York harbor at the
naval review is now in disgrace.
He has very bad temper which
has brought trouble upon him.
He has been courtmartialed on the
Blake for threatening the life of
one of the officers and was SEN
fenced to fifteen months in prison.
A San Francisco dispatch says :
"The ships Atom Cefni, from Swan
sea, and Colintrave, from New
Castle, n. S. W., are posted at
Lloyd's as missing, both coal laden.
The Collintrave has never been
spoken since she left Newcastle,
and wreckage from the Atom Cefni
was picked up in the vicinity of
the Sicily islands. Both ships are
long overdue at San Francisco and
reinsurance has reached a high
mark.
The steamer City of Sydney is
cleaning up and preparing for her
trip to Panama after lying in the
river for two months. Captain |
Seabury, formerly commander of |
the China, will command her when
she goes out. The Colima, which |
is now up the coast with the |
steamer Clyde in tow, will in all !
probability tie up for repairs. The |
Clyde is the Mail Company 8 ore-
ship. She has been stationed at
Panama for a number Of years and |
is sadly in need of repairs, which
will be made to her on arrival at
San Francisco if the vessels con-
dition justifes it.
On the 18th inst. fire was dis
covered on board of the u. S. S.
Marion, now at Mare Island. From
an examination itappears that the
fire originated through the care
Iessness of some workman, who put
a hot iron on one Of the ships
beams. This set fire to the beam,
which had been burning an indefi-
mite period. There was also dis
covered near the shell room a bun
die of waste which had fallen from
the beam. An examination Of the
beam showed that the fire had
burned its way to the waste, which
had ignited the inner partition of
the she'll room, then bursting
through to the ceiling. As the
amount of money set aside for the
repair Of the Marion has already
reached the 10 per cent. limit al
Owed by law, the damage caused
oy the fire will unquestionably con-
sign the Marion to ''rotten row."
unless Secretary Herbert author
yes the 10 per cent. limit be set
aside.
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.