The San Francisco call., 1897-04-10
TAHITI IS ONCE
MORE At PEACE
Queen Mamae and Her Ad.
visers Exiles in New
Caledonia.
The French Are MAKING the
The French Are Making the
Rebels Build Roads Through
the Islands.
More Trouble on the Schooner Ma.
weema, Bound From Here Tor
V!adivostock.

The war in Tahiti is over. AS told ex-
clusively in THE CALL. the natives IN
Raiatea and Hanheine and other islands
rose i'll rebellion and Queen Mamae led
her warriors TO the contest. The French
were fought to a standstiIl time and again,
but in spite of all repulses they gained
ground steadily and finally suDdued the
natives. The Queen was captured, and is
now prisoner in New Caledonia.
Those who accompanied the Queen into
exile were TIE Raupo, his Chief lieutenant
and six others. Two hundred and fifty of
the com baIants who were not sent into
exile were set TO work building crossroads
leading into the hills and otherwise max
ing preparations for the handy working OF
the troops in the event of another out
break. Forts have been built along the
new road, and the soldiers expect to be
able to subdue the next in nsurrection inside
of week.
The schooner Maweema, bound TO Vladi-
vostock, is having a hard time of it at
Main-street wharf. While loading some
of her flour cargo got wet and HawIey
Bros. had to put In new consignment t.
When this was put in the hold the insur-
ance men discovered that the vessel was
overloaded. Then an attempt was N ade
to unload the salt beef, and a couple OF
barrels burst aud ruined the entire con.
signment OF -four. All of yesterday John
Whitney, the stevedore, was busy resack-
ing the -four and restowing the big
schooner, in order to satisfy Quite &
Frank, the insurance agents, who have
the risk on the vessel and cargo. Cap
tains Metcalf and Watson are looking after
the work of restowing, and it is safe TO say
that when the Maweema sails for Viadivo-
stock next week she will be safe risk.
The rival steamers Pomona and Hum
boldt are an evenly matched pair. Both
vessels run from Eureka to San Francisco
and last Thursday both boats left within
an hour of each other. The Pomona won
the race by eleven minutes, which goes to
show that it is standoff between the two.
The umboldt is brand new vessel ami
has not yet reached her full speed, while
the Pomona is one of the best steam in
the Pacific Coast Steamship Comp pany's
feet.
l. Abrams, the well-known and popular
water front salesman, is about to make q
tour of the Arctic. The trip is mainly for
pleasure, but Mr.. Abrams is also going to
com oine business with 1t and in cid dentaiIy
viii buy up all the otter skins that are
Offering in the Alaskan market.
The Monowai made her last run from
Honolulu to San Francisco in record time.
Hitherto she has not been noted for speed,
but on this occa asion she made the run
from Honolulu in days 10 hours-a rec
ord trip for her. On The way down and
under the most favorable circumstances
the Monowai has made the run in days
II hours. Chief Engineer McCaig is con-
fident that the new steamer Moana will
make the run easily in six days.
The work OF recovering the bullion that
went into the bay when the Sunol turned
turtle is steadily progressing. In all los
bars, valued at over $1,000, have been re-
cover, d, and the diver is still hard at
work. Each. bar weighs over 100 pounds,
! so it can be imagined that moving 100 of
the IN in thirty feet OF water is no easy job.
The French steamer Made !eine Will go
on the drydock to-day for an overhauing
Her machinery and httings have been pu:
in good shape by the Risdon Iron Works,
and now the hull is to be cleaned and put
in order at Hunters Point.
The North Pacific Coast Company's
Tamalpais had a narrow escape from 60
ing to the bottom last Thursday night.
Her headlights were left open, and durin z
the night she heeled over until the water
rushed in. The watchman discovered the
leak in time, and the steamer was run on
was done. Later in the day the Tamal-
pals was pumped out and returned to her
m ooring.
Twigg, the boatbuilder, is about to
launch a smart little gasoline boat for Sen
ator Reed OF Oregon. She is little larger
than the Amy, owned by Henry Peterson,
and will run regularly on the Umrqua
River, as we'll as making pleasure excur-
sions with Senator Reed and his friends.
w. Pennock and his sixty recruits will
leave for Alaska on the steam schooner
Al lbion tomorrow. Pennock is an Oak
land man and last year he located rich
placer mine, SO he says, in Cooks Inlet.
He and his sixty mpanions have taken
with them 200 tons of provisions and ex.
pect to come back with sixty fortunes