The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11
Will Be Fitted Out in Oakland
Creek and Used in the
Coast Trade.
ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALIA
The Officers State That There Is /;
Good Chance of Saving the Ship
Gainsborough.

The schooner Alliance arrived in tow OF
the tug Rescue from Eureka yesterday.
She was built there by Bendixsen for the
lumber trade, and as soon as she had dis
charged her cargo of shingles and shakes
will go to Oakland and be turned into
steam schooner. She is said to be a fast
sailer, ano her owners assert that she will
be the fastest steam schooner on the coast.
Nevertheless she did not present very
handsome appearance yesterday as she
was towed along the front by the Rescue.
The Oceanic Steamship Company's
Australia arrived from Honolulu yestes-
day after a fair-weather passage. The
following were the cabin passengers:
Hon. Ellis Mills, s. Roth, S. w. wilcox, P. G.
Camarinos, J. A. Rodrigues, G. s. Desky, A. I.
Brown and wife, Mrs. G. K. Wilder, f. R. Re-
mele, F. K. Harvey, Rev. B. Schaeffer, Mrs. N.
(. Gidge and children, Mrs. W. Taylor and
Heintz, S. W. Lederer and son, Mrs. n. Ander-
SON. Miss J. A. Vollertson, Mrs. j. J. Reynolds,
w. J. sollas, w. II. Hall. A. F. Along
Ellis Mills is the United States Consul
at Honolulu. He is here on visit of
pleasure and asserts that diplomatic
m alters have nothing at all to do with his
trip. alt is simply my annual vacation"
said he yesterday. II want rest and
am going home. There is nothing new
under the sum- they say, and that applies
to Hawaii. Things are dull there and
they tell me they are dull here. ergo
things are dull all over the world.
Hawaii is a great country to live in, but
was there ever an American who did not
long for home? II you want to put it
that way l was homesick and here am"
P. @. Camarinos, prominent merchant
OF Honolulu and brother OF ID. 6, Cam
arino, the ex-Grecian Consul, who is now
convalesLing at the French Hospital, was
another passenger. Mr.. Camarinos (P. g.
is on the sick list also and has come to
San Francisco to recuperate. S. w. Will
cox also came up. For twenty years he
was Sheriff of the Hawaiian group.
Among the steerage passengers was Cap
tain John Good Jr. He was court
martialed in Honolulu and dismissed
from the army. He says he can prove his
innocence, but was not given far chance
to do so.
As the Australia steamed out of Homo
lulu the Wreckers were hard at work on
the British ship Gains borough that went on
the reef month ago. A donkey engine
was placed on the forward deck and it was
hard at work pun ping out the water. A
owboat was alongside and there was q
great strain on the hawsers. The officers
on the Australia seemed to think that the
vessel would be got on and that as all the
after holds were water tight the donkey
engine would be able to keep the forehold
clear until the vessel was docked. Accord
ing to them the chances of getting the
vessel off are good.
The State tug Governor Markham took
out quite party of excursionists yester-
day afternoon. All were the guests of
Chief Wharfnger Root and Assistant
Chief Wharfinger Scott. The trip was
given in honor of MIR. Roots friend B. S.
Gibson of New York, brother of W. F.
Gibson, ex-assistant general manager of
the Market-street cable system. Among
g guests were Miss Gibson, Miss Lizzie
Rowland, Bert Chapman, A. w. Johnson,
Chief Roots wife and family, Mr.. Scott's
wife and family and many others. All
the points of interest in the bay were Wis
tied and a most enjoyable afternoon was
spent.
A dog chasing diver was the principal
attraction at Meiggs wharf yesterday.
The animal seemed to be a cross between
q water spaniel and q collie and WAS
splendid swimmer. He went after the
bird in a buslnesslike manner and chased
it right up against the pilot-boat Oracle
s. When the dog came to close quarters
the diver would peck at him, and when
pushed would dive. The dog would pad
die around until it came up again and
then make a fresh start. Finally the
diver started out to sea and the dog after
it. Then everybody yelled, "Save the
dog" j. Robinson and Tommy Crowley
got into a boat, ard alter hard pull
caught the dog and pulled him aboard.
He was too tired TO fight, but when the
beach was reached he jumped ashore,
barked his thanks to the boatmen and
then started up Powell street on the run.
The steam schooner Navarro arrived
from Clipperton Island yesterday with
300 tons OF guano aboard. All the men
who were left there last year by the
Oceanic Phosphate Company came up and
another lot of laborers will take their
place. Those who came up on the Ma
varro say they had dreary time Of it,
but that it was not worse than they ex-