Show ABOUT SHIPS AND SAILORS The Navy department has directed that tlv snmboat ronmngtm be repaired re-paired In the Philippines Instead or returning re-turning to this country for that purpose pur-pose Details are not obtainable In Wash ington of the placing of an order by the Sultan with the Cramps for a warship but it Is understood that the statement to that effect from Constantinople Is correct The British ship Ben Lee Capt Hunter has arrived at Tacoma sixty four days out from Santa Rosalia The Ben Lee has required over two months for a voyage that ordinarily occupies but llllle over iwo weeks The cruller Phaeton of the British Pacific squadron has put In to San Diego Cal on her way from Esquimau to Panama whither she wasocdered on account of the Colombian rebellion and the disturbances which may follow lu |