The San Francisco call., 1908-09-25
Shipping News and Gossip
of the Water Front
Steamship Wawera Sails for Australia With
a Record Shipment Of California Apples

sailed yesterday for sydney, carried the
largest cargo of California apples ever
taken through the Golden gate on one
ship. Five-siXths of the entire cargo
from this port was made up of the
product Of the orchards of Sonoma and
adjacent counties, and if the ocean
breezes for the next few days are laden
with an unusual fragrance it will be
because they passed over the apple
freighted Waiwera
The Waiwera is a refrigerator ship
and we'll fitted TO carry a perishable
cargo across the Pacific Slowed away
below the steamers decks are nearly
2o,Ooe cases of apples and they are all
from California orchards. The value of
the shipment, as declared on the clear
ing manifest. is $4,000. The total
value of the Waiwera's cargo from this
port is set down at 10000. Lumber
and other freight loaded at Puget
sound is valued at $4,000
Not since the Oceanic steamship
company's liners were taken off the
Australian run have the markets of
the antipodes been regularly supplied
with California apples and the Waiwera
will receive warm welcome at sgd
ney. The steamer Boveric, which sails
today for Australia, will also take
large shipment of California apples.
The Waiwera, which sailed from
Oakland long wharf, carried II pas
sengers.
Salmon Ships Reach Port
More ships of the salmon feet
reached port yesterday ana the water
front is now crowded with returned
fishermen and cannery hands who are
distributing with free hand the money
they earned in the north. The ship
Standard, 20 DAYS from Naknek,
brought $500 cases of salmon, and the
4 fro
Hallerville, brought 36S half barrels
Of the rich, red nsh. The Mizpah en-
countered very heavy weather for the
greater part of the passage. Southerly
gales beset the little vessel for 10 days
and September IL southwester came
along tnat was too much for the Miz-
schooner lay hove to under bare poles.
Booked on the Alameda
The Oceanic steamship company's
liner Alameda, which sails tomorrow
for Honolulu, will carry a large num-
ber of passengers. When the liner ar
already been taken. Among those who
will sail on the liner are Lieutenant
Colonel Coyne and Captain NJ. NJ. John
son OF the Hawaiian national guard.
They came from the island port 60 at
tend the national shoot at Camp Perry,
o. The other Hawaiian sharpshooters
returned home some weeks ago.
VIII Carry Many Passengers
Ine JdpdncSG lTlpl6 SCREW
liner Tenyo Maru Will sail at 1 o'clock
today for the far east with about 800
passengers and large cargo. Among
the Asiatic passengers will be $50
but the latter will be involuntary pas
sengers going back to the Flowery
Kingdom under orders Of deportation.
There will be no freight on the Tenyo
shipped by local Chinese. who are
standing Loyalty by the boycott of
everything Nipponese.
VIII Not Call at Honolulu
The army transport Sheridan, now
on its way home from Manila, viii not
call at Honolulu, and in consequence
will be due here about five days ahead
of schedule time. The trooper is due
today or tomorrow at Nagasaki and
the Japanese coaling port
Is Wrecked OF Cape Horn
The French bark Vendee. bound from
Portland, Ore, for the United Kingdom,
is reported ashore on Wollaston island,
Cape Horn. The vessel is full of wa
ter. the tide flowing in and out. The
cargo of grain has been destroyed and
the salvage. for which tenders have
been called for. will be small.
Water Front Notes
Receipts of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted to 2,466,0 900 feet.
The Racific Coast steamship COM
pany's little white liner Curacao left
Mazatlan Tuesday for this port.
The American Hawaiian company's
Alaskan, Captain Bennett, arrived here
yesterday eight days 20 hours from
Hilo.
The army transport Crook. from this
port. arrived yesterday Al Honolulu.
The Pacific Mail liner Newport, Cap
tain Russell. sailed Wednesday from
Acapulco for this port.
The liner Peru sailed on Tuesday
from Mazatlan, homeward bound.
British steamer Waiwera sails for
Australia with the largest shipment
of California apples ever taken across
the Pacific.