The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-18
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.
Arrivals-June ID. bknt. S. C.
Allen, % days from Honolulu; 4th,
schr. Maid of Orleans 194 days,
schr. Anna 10 days, and Oeeana
Vance % days from Kahului 9th,
bark r. P. Rithet, % days from
Honolulu; schr. Helen n. Kimball,
10 days from Mahukona; 7th, 0.
& o. S. s. Mariposa 6 days 20 hours,
bknt. S. n. Castle q days, from
Honolulu.
Departures-June 4, barkentine
Charles F. Croker, for Hilo; 9Th,
brig Lurline, for Hilo; 9th, bknt.
w. II. Dimond, for Honolulu.
Projected Departures Schooner
Transit and bark Albert, June 9th /;
bark Andrew WEIGH, 18th !; bknt.
S. n. Castle, Doth; blk S. G. Allen,
24th-all for Honolulu.
Definite information has at last
been received regarding the San
Francisco sealing schooner Matthew
Turner. previously reported as lost
in the Japanese waters. Captain A.
P. Lorentzen received letter, dated,
at Hakodate, May Is, from the cap
tain of the sealing schooner Willard
Ainswortb, reporting that he had
boarded the derelict Turner and
| made an examination of her hull.
She was floating bottom upward
when sighted.
The steamer Sirius, now lying at
San Francisco is again going to
have new name. This time
she will be known as the
Santa Clara. The Sirius was origin
ally the steamer Scandinavia, but
when she was chartered by local
people and sent to Chile with provis-
ions during the revolution her name
was changed.
The Sydney brought news from
Penang of a terrible collision be-
tween two native steamers near
| Penang, in which sixty lives were
lost. The vessels were the Ngapoota
and the Kwangtung. The Ngapoota
sank in a few minutes, and it is re-
ported that the crew of the Nwang-
tung did not stop to lend assistance
to their drowning countrymen. The
captain of the former vessel hoated
about on a raft for several hours
until rescued by passing junk--S.
f. Call.
| Captain Charles Sorenson of the
schooner Alexander died In the
Hakodate Hospital. He was very
we'll known at San Francisco.
| NAVAL.
| The United States revenue cutter
Bear is almost a total wreck, and
| possibly by this time battered tC
pieces. That information was receiv
ed in San Francisco from the officers
of the well known vessel who say she
is fast on the rocks at the entrance
to the harbor at Sitka. The steamer
| was blowing her way into the harbol
at good speed on the night of May
18th, when she struck on rock anC
all efforts to get her off were unavail
ing. She went on at high water
aud the officers state in their brie.
dispatch that they have very little
hope of ever getting her off.
WASHINGTON, June S-No inform
alton has yet been received at the
Navy Department.. in regard to th'
reported loss of the revenue steamer
Bear, and the impression prevails
here that mistake has been made
in the matter of the identity of thu
vessel that was lost.
A late dispatch says: TIL,
Charleston, which has just returned
to the Pacific station from her visi
to New York, where she took part il
the Columbian naval review, will b
put in the dry dock at Callao, Peru
and given a thorough overhauline
including scraping and painting
When the state of affairs in Per,
justifes her departure she will pre-
coed to Honolulu and relieve tn
Philadelphia. When relieved tn
Philadelphia will proceed to Sa
Francisco and be put In thoroug
repair for further service.
Among the advices brought to Sa
Francisco recently is a story of tn
British gunboat Pallas being ordere
to make circuitous trip from Hong
kong to Portsm outh, England, i
order to search for the overdu
British ships Morayshire and Blai
/ Athole, now listed as missing. Th
Pallas will first visit the Phllippin
, Islands, coaling at Manila, the
proceed to Warren Hastings Islam
and some of the Caroline group. ]
D this detcur the voyage to Singapol
will extend over 1000 miles instea
: of 400.
e WASHINGTON, June 5-A Unite
States war vessel will be sent
/, Somoa within few weeks Recel
! dispatches indicate that the situate
II is critical and give rise to gra'