The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-04-14

TO take the place Of the second
dynamite cruiser, not yet begun.
Az official telegram from Lieu
tenant Force, representative of the
Navy Department on the Orion,
which vessel went to ROncador
reef TO endeavor TO float the kear-
sarge. confirms the report that the
vessel was partly burned and had
gone TO pieces, so that nothing can
be done toward her recovery. Com
mander Heyerman of the navy,
who commanded her, has been
found guilty of negligence by the
naval court of inquiry at Brooklyn
and has been sentenced TO two
years suspension. In view of his
previous good record, he will not
lose his rank, however
Edison is now at work with a
plan to grease the sides of ships,
SO that they will slip through the
water more readily. He says the
friction of salt water and its con-
stituents are much more than is
generally believed, and if he can
only do what he is trying to do the
Campania can make the voyage
between New York and Liverpool
in four days.-Ex.
On the 21st of March in San
Francisco a jury acquitted John
Tyrrell, a union sailor. He was
supposed to be the man who was
responsible for the dynamite ex-
plosion which wrecked Curtin's
non-union sailor boarding house on
the night of September 23d last,
whereby Edward Murphy met his
death.
PHILADELPHIA, April 4. - The
Dirigo, the first steel ship built in
this country, has reached here on
her maiden trip from Bath, Me-,
where the vessel was constructed.
She is 312 feet long, 45 feet beam,
% feet draught and 1856 tons reg
lister. The Dirigo will load here
1872, 900 gallons of oil for Japan.
The British iron ship Broomhall,
which left Hamburg on November
18th for New York, did not arrive
at the latter port until the Sd inst,
when her reinsurance rate had
reached 20 guineas per cent. Dur
ing the trip the vessel was driven
by storms up into the neighbor-
hood Of Iceland.
The question of establishing a
whale-fshing industry in southern
waters has again been revived at
Sydney, Australia, and a company
is being formed for the purpose of
dispatching an expedition to the
Antarctic Ocean to test the practi-
cability of the enterprise.
LONDON, April 1.-The Behring
Sea Award bill, as remodeled by
Acknowledgement Sir Charles Rus
sell, was printed today. 1t pro-
vides for the seizure by English
and American naval officers of any
sealers founo infringing the provis-
ion Of the award.
Magnus Johnson, seal hunter,
and two seamen belonging to the
sealer Winchester, were picked up
by a Japanese steamer near Japan
on the 18th of March last, having
drifted away from the vessel in a
fog.-S. T. Call.
The bark Ferris S. Thompson,
which has been laid up at Sausa
Tito for over three years, has been
sold by Captain G. Potter to Geo
w. Hume IL Co. The price is said
to be $4,0O0.-S. F. Examiner.
The ship John c. Potter has ar
rived at San Francisco from British
Columbia, with the crew of the
wrecked British bark Archer or
board.
1t is about settled that the Pam
anna Railroad will continue the
service of the North American
Navigation Company after May LIST
Captain Seabury, formerly com
mander of the S. S. China, is nov
captain of the P. NJ. S. S. City 0