The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-09-21

| JQaL reached IDe W llCOA Was well
filled on its return with provisions
from the store-house of the wreck.
The native boatmen could not re-
sist a good opportunity to get some
thing to eat.
The bark S. C. Allen arrived
from San Francisco yesterday.
She brought three passengers and
full cargo. Captain Thompson
reports a pleasant voyage. The
vessel is locked at Brewers wharf
to discharge.
The new thirty-ton schooner
Benak left San Francisco recently
for Jaluit. The schooner was built
by Matthew Turner, but will sail
under the German flag. Captain
Winkler is in command, and will
use the vessel for trading about the
Marquesas and Gilbert Islands.
LONDON, Sept. 2.-The Manches-
ter Ship Canal shareholders met
this week to hear the financial re-
suit of the first half-year's work.
The total net revenue from tolls on
the canal amounts to $40, 200, and
the total net revenue from all
sources to $4,000. The interest
due on debentures is $4,000.
There is therefore deficit of much
more than half a million dollars to
be provided for.
By the report of the investigating
committee, four plates are to be re-
moved from the Monterey, four
from the Oregon and three from
the Olympia. The expense Of re-
moval of these plates will be
enormous, and the estimate is
made that the removal of the fifty
nine representative plates for bal
listic tests and other trial will cost
the L. S. Government more than
half million dollars.
A vessel with cargo of sugar
from Java got into a controversy
with a cyclone off the coast of
Africa, and was pretty badly
shaken up. Salt water was ship
ped freely, and making a combina-
ton with the sugar, under tropical
heat, a chemical action was in
duced which transformed the sugar
into something more like molasses
than anything else that sugar
dealers ever saw or heard of. The
what is it?" cargo was consigned
to Philadelphia.-Ex.
Sweden will soon add a fourth
big ironclad toner navy. She will
then have four big war ships of
modern type and a great number
of torpedo boats and monitors, and
her navy may be considered a very
formidable foe to encounter in the
Baltic. Notwithstanding this, King
Oscar will ask the next Rikedag to
grant new appropriations for the
building of fifth ironclad, pro-
badly of larger dimensions than
those already completed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-Rear Ad-
miral Henry o. Erben, command
ing the European squadron, will
retire on account of age on Thurs
day next, and on that day he will
haul down his flag from the cruiser
Chicago, now in English waters.
He will return home at his leisure,
and will make New York City his
permanent residence. Acting Rear
Admiral Kirkland will succeed
him in command of the European
squadron.
Reports have been received at
the United States Treasury Depart
ment which indicate that the work
of the Paris tribunal to save the
seals of Bering Sea will come to
naught, first, because the action
taken in conformity with the find
ings of the tribunal comes too late,
and second, because the restric-
tions upon poachers engaged in
pelagic sealing are proven to be in
effective. Officials, who have made
careful examination of the sub
ject within the past ninety days,
report that, in spite of the regula-
tions, enforced by an unusually
large fleet, at least twenty sealers
have carried on extensive opera
tons in Bering Sea, securing large
catches.
The Pacific Mail Company's
steamer Peru, which was due at
San Francisco on the 9th inst,
had one of the smallest passenger
lists ever brought into San Fran
cisco by an ocean steamer accord
ing to a cablegram sent from
Hongkong. She is 1928 tons bur-
den and costs about $4,000 a
month to run. In order to secure
safety they had to put ballast in
her at Hongkong, and she had but
5 cabin and 9 Chinese steerage
passengers from San Francisco and
10 Chinese on roI1te for Panama