The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-06

The steamship China came into the
narbor yesterday morning, and about
the Pacific Mail wharf. Quarantine Of
ficer Amesse made a thorough examin-
alton before she was allowed to enter
port. The steerage passengers for Ho-
nolulu were sent over to the Quaran-
tine Station, there to remain for a
period of seven days.
DIR. Amesse has received word from
DR.. Eldridge, United States Officer at
Yokohama, telling him of a case of
sickness suspected of being bubonic
plague, the patient having been landed
from the China at Yokohama. Every
possible precaution was taken with the
China on her arrival here.
AS was told in yesterdays Adver-
tiser, the China was delayed two days
at Yokohama on account of this sus-
pected case of plague.
After leaving Yokohama for Kobe.
on her last voyage to the Orient, the
China struck a typhoon. 1t occurred
on September q and for several hours
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time Ventilators were banged about,
rails smashed, and cabins, in some
| cases, drenched. But the gallant ship
came through it all right and suffered
no damage that amounted to anything.
She underwent some slight repairs in
| Hongkong. The China sails for San
Francisco at 6 o'clock this morning.
The bark G. d. Bryant arrived from
San Francisco yesterday morning. She
sailed thence on October %. Captain
Colly is her master. She has a large
cargo of general merchandise and is al
present lying at the Oceanic wharf
The bark Albert, Captain Griffiths
from San Francisco, arrived in port
yesterday with a general cargo.
The British ship Yola, Captain Pen
niculk, arrived from London with &
large general cargo.
AS to-day is election day, none of the
steamers of the Inter-Island or Wild
er's Steamship Companies will sail un
till tomorrow.
All freight landed from the China will
be fumigated.
The steamer Waialeale, with Prime,
David and his party, encountered mos
1
cent trip to Maui ports.
At Honoipu, during the recent sever
weather, the schooner John G.. Nortl
was carried to sea by a gale, breakin
from her anchorage.
The officers of the transport Por
Stephens are as follows: Captain Ora!
First officer Hewson, Second Office
McGlasshan, Third officer Doyle, an
Chief Engineer Freeman Messr
Graves, Nash and Wright are quarter
masters clerks. The ships surgeon
| DR.. Nicholson.
The Port Stephens is an English yes
sci and used to ply between Englan
and Australia. There are about
SINNERS aboard to look after tn
horses while the crew of the transpol
are Chinese, forty-five in number.
will. be remembered that the Stepher
. was at Hilo during the plague in HI
nolulu. The hurricane deck of tt
Z Stephens, a temporary affair, is one (
; the best constructed that have bee
; seen on any transport passing throug
! here The horses will have sever;
days rest ashore before proceeding
Manila, they were landed on Sunda
? The men, too, will have the opportunit
= of enjoying the delights of Honolulu.
: PERILOUS VOYAGE.
? SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 26.-Twice
3 the long voyage from Australia the b
s British ship Springbank was on Il
b verge of destruction, and CAPITA
+ Boyd and the crew despaired of ev
+ reaching port in her. She arrived
5 the harbor late Wednesday night,
= days from Newcastle, New Sou
8, Wales, with a cargo of 1850 tons
coal, and is lying in the stream
b Meiggs wharf. For twelve days in Il
Il South Seas the Springbank was on h
!, beam ends, and for fifteen days, nor
y of the equator she lay on coral rect
r. but with all her trials, the ship has
h last reached port, and does not a.
y pear to have had any unusual exp
q rience.
r I'VE sailed from Newcastle on Ju
E, 2Sth,' said Captain Boyd yesterda
I and had fair weather until Augu
g Sth, when in latitude 80 degrees IS mil
x utes south, longitude 173 degrees mi
!, utes east, a terrific hurricane came
from the south, throwing the ship
Is her beam ends and shifting the car.
e to port. We had to cut away Il
sheets and halyards to keep the vess
q before the wind, and it required twel
r. days to get the vessel on an even Ike
z. again. The seas went clear over Il
ship, coming from every direction, al
g the cook was washed out of the gale
7, AS result we lived on canned mea
for over a week. 1t was a storm of {
greatest severity.
We crossed the equator on Augu
oath, in longitude 169 degrees As mi
utes west. and took the northea
trades, but there was more trouble
store for us. On September 11th
latitude rs degrees 3 minutes mort
longitude 173 degrees As minutes we
the Springbank struck on a coral rt
which encircles Lisiansky Island, nal
ed after a Russian naval officer w
discovered it. The island is about
miles in circumference, and forty (,
y above the water. 1t was dark VIII
we struck, and the ship seemed to
hard and fast. For fifteen days
were fast there, getting the ship
only to have her get hard and fast
another reef. BY jettisoning AIS tc
OF coal from the forward compartm,