The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-12-04

The New Zealand government has re-
fused a subsidy to the Canadian and
Australian line. The company operates
the Miowera and Warrimo, which were
put on between Vancouver and the colo
nies in opposition to the Oceanic Steam
ship Company.
The Mexican custom house receipts for
the month of September last, compared
with those of the same month of 1894,
shows an increase of $4OO,172.7S in favor of
the current year. The receipts of the
l1nsenada custom house for the same
month were $4,5S1.O6, as against $SSO1.SO
for the corresponding month last year.
The pilot boat Lady Milne lying off
Meiggs' wharf, San Francisco, dragged
her anchor November 3Oth, and while be-
ing towed to a place of safety was run
into by the steamer Cleone, bound out,
which struck her on the starboard side
and stove several planks. The Cleone
had her stern carried away and returned
to the wharf.
From Newcastle-on-Tyne comes the
latest illustration of the depreciation in
the values of shipping property A
shareholder in a locally managed steamer,
built within the past five years, having
received no dividend since the steamer
started to trade, bethought him to sell
out The share cost $500; the best offer
he could get was f250.
Captain j. T. Edwards, of the bark
Dumfriesshire, which arrived at Sydney,
N. s. W., october 9th, from Liverpool,
reports sighting wreckage in 4344 s. lati-
tude, and 1042S e. longitude, that is about
800 miles to the westward Of Cape Leuwin.
The wreckage consisted of spars lashed
together as though intended for use as
raft. Nothing else was seen.
The Norwegian steamer Transit, of the
Puget Sound and Central American
Steamship Line, is now on her way to
Puget Sound, having made a very satis-
factory initial trip to points in Central
America. She is due to sail from Seattle
and Tacoma about the latter part of De-
cember- on her second voyage south. AL
ready 1000 tons of freight is awaiting
her at the places mentioned.
The heavy salmon shipments have
cleaned up the market on all grades, says
the Herald of Trade. There is not re-
remaining but little more than enough to
meet local jobbing demand, and car load
lots of red Alaska are hard to get The
Cutting Packing Company last week
shipped some of this fish to Algoa, South
Africa, and it may lead to the opening OF
a new market for this product Quota
tions are firm.
There has been a large ship wrecked
within the last three months on the
northeast coast of the Auckland islands.
Tho rOalxc CT xr,ifh 10,
lumber and broken timber 1t appears
to be nearly a new ship. The deck plank
. ings are 2'9 inches thick. The topsail
yard is C6 feet long, painted yellow, the
paint quite fresh. All hands must have
heen lost, as no one was found on the
island. At Auckland. New Zealand TIE
wreck is supposed to be that of the Brit
bark Stoneleigh which left Melbourne
last February for London. The belief T.
Sydney, however. is that the wreckage is
from the French bark Marie Alice.
An unusual sight was seen In the har-
Dor yesterday, says the Sydney News,
when the flag of old Ireland was fving
from the bark Excelsior. The flag, which
is green, is feet by feet, and has
pretty representation of harp without
the CROWN being PLAYED upon by daug1-
ter of the Emerald Isle. The borders are
cased with a narrow ribbon blending the
orange and the green" The flag attract
ed no end of attention yesterday and 1t
was greatly admired. The bark is also
painted green, so that the general ap-
pearance of the vessel delighted the
hearts of the home rulers who saw It,
Late yesterday afternoon, says the Col
onist, of Monday, the C. p. N. steamship
Danube, which arrived from the North on
Friday evening, with a mixed cargo OF
oil, salmon, furs, ETC., grounded in the
harbor, and owing to the falling stage Of
the tide at the time, is left hard and fast.
She was changing berths at the lower
wharves and while turning around got
in too close to the Indian reserve, her
stern touching a mud bank and holding
her fast Her engines were Immediately
worked full speed, but to no effect. Then
a line was fastened to the dock, and the
vessels big winches were brought into
use, but all to no avail, The tide was
falling fast, and as the ship appeared
to be in no particular danger II was de-
cided to await high water this morning.
Captain Bruce Young. and others have
purchased the bark John Williams from
the London Missionary Society. in whose
service she has been for 26 years. sailing
annually 1000 miles. So much has been
written concerning this wonderfully for
tunate little bark, one Of the smallest