Show ABOUT SHIPS AND SAILORS The launching of the monitor Ar kansas has been set for November 10th at the Newport News yards No news has been received at Hono lulu of the missing ship Wachusetts I long overdue frem Newcastle and it Is generally supposed that she is lost The new battleship Wisconsin left I San Francisco yesterday for her official offi-cial I trial trip In Santa Barbara channel chan-nel which will probably take place today to-day According to reports from St Plerra seventeen fishing vessels that were operating on the Grand Banks NewFoundland New-Foundland during the gale of Sep tember 12th are still missing with crews aggregating over 2CO menThe men-The Pacific Steam Whaling com panys Balaena has returned to San Francisco from the Arctic after an unusually successful season She secured se-cured 17000 pounds of bone and ISO barrels of oil the catch being valued at 200000 Lord Charles Beresford has aroused the naval world by the brilliant strategy strate-gy by which he won thu sham batlle in the recent maneuvers of the British fleet In the Mediterranean His tactics tac-tics have been pronounced the cleverest clever-est In naval annals The transport Rosecrans and transport Argyle arrived at Manila on the 7th Inst Light batteries C and M Seventh artillery Maj G G Green ough commandlnc were on the Rose crans having sailed from San Francisco Fran-cisco on the 3rd of September Capt Bartlett in a letter dated August Au-gust 10th states that he arrived at Godhaven on that date and that all were well aboard Half the distance on the voyage from Sidney had been accomplished under sail He expected a good run to Cape York and is hopeful hope-ful of finding Peary there Officials of the North German Lloyd Steamship company have awarded a contract for a monument to the erected erect-ed In a plot owned by the company In a cemetery in North Hudson N Y in meioJry of the persons who lost their lives in the great fire that restroycd the piers and steamers of the company at Hoboken on June 30th last |