The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-25
HERE AND THERE.
Items of Interest Picked Up Alongshore
Yesterday.

Next week the Grand Trunk wharves
will be about as lively Eas they have ever
benign wears past. BY that time it is
expected that there will be five or. six
steamers in here in d bunch and with this
amount of shipping in the port business
at the eastern end off, Commercial street
will be on the increase.
The magnificent freight steamer De-
yona of the Thomson line left London,
November % for this port. The DeYona
was here once last season and her fine
appointments will be remembered by oil
who boarded her during her stay in
port.
The z. S. lighthouse tender Lilac,
Capt. E. W. johnson, returned yesterday
from quite an extended trip up the Ken
nebec. There are 60 buoys on the Kenne-
beo that have TO be taken up every year
on account of the ice, and this. is the
errand!the Lilac has been on. The Lilac
has also taken up buoys on the Sasanoa
river. The Lilac came down from up
river Tuesday as far as Bath where she
had been for nearly week on account of
low tides. She did not get up to Halo
we'll, but WAS able to proceed a short way
above Gardiner and sent small boat to
collect the buoys from below Hallowell
and Augusta. The buoys will be painted
and put in good condition before going
down again next spring.
Mr.. Frank Pedley, dominion superin-
tendent of immigration, and Mr.. VIM.
Anderson, interpreter of the Quebec i'm
migration department, were here yester-
day to see about accommodations for i'm
migrants this winter at this port In view
of the fact that the Dominion and all
line steamers will not call at Halifax
during the coming winter the department
is arranging for the reception and &C.
co1nmodation of Canadian immigrants at
the Grand Trunk wharves. 1t is under
stood that the Grand Trunk railway is
going to provide the necessary accommo-
dation and the arrangements between
the department. and the company are now
| being considered.
The lobster fishermen are complaining
VI itSh VI Ddlt. Aney say tudt tle
herring catch uponE which they depend
was almost d failure. this fall, and while
there plenty of Holsters there Is nothing
to be used as bait. Some OF them have
taken their traps out of the water and
slowed them away on this account. The
following arrivals were reported at the
lobster houses yesterday: Lottie Beal,
5000, for e. G.Wiilard; the Chapel Bros,
$500 for Lewis McDonald McNichol,
$500; John Dexter, 1000, and Addte and
Hattie, 5,40o for J. W. Trefethen. The
| Chapel Bros, after unloading her cargo
went on the railway for slight repairs.
Shipping Commissioner Tolman signed
a crew for the Harriet S. jackson, Port.
land to Martinique and thence to one or
more gulf or southern lumber ports.
Preparations are now being made for
the shipment of both Canadian and Anne
rican apples from Portland to Great
Britain. The shipping agents are arriv-
ing and our wharves will soon be the
scene of activity. The Canadian apple
crop is proving little better than an
| ticipated, but it is nevertheless very
short. Good No. Baldwins are selling,
SO it is said. at $3.50 barrel on the
other side of the line.
The tug Wrestler is on it's way from
Philadelphia towing the barge Kalmia
with cargo of coal for this port.
A large three-masted schooner sailed
into the lower harbor yesterday morning
with her sides and lower rigging incased
in ice. This is the first vessel to sail
into Portland this winter thus ornament.
ed.
1T was reported on Commercial. street
yesterday that the Nova Scotia bark
Gatalea had been purchased smsby Rice &
Co., of Boston and Portlandiparties, and
is now on her way. to. Portland to load
lumber for South America.
The steamer Devona passed Dunnett
Head yesterday on her way to Portland.
MAINE PENSIONS.