Passengers at the Port of San Francisco: 1800s

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RMSS Zealandia

Arrive San Francisco

November 28, 1881
RMSS Zealandia
Captain H. Chevalier
From Sydney, Australia

Passage

Per Zealandia -- Left Syndey Nov 3d, 3:48 P.M.; arrived at Auckland 8th, at 5:37 A.M. and left at 4:14 P.M. same day; reached Honolulu 20th at 8 P.M. and sailed at 1 P.M. 21st; arrived at San Francisco 9:25 A.M. November 28th. On 7th had very thick weather, heavy rain and strong northerly gale when off the coast of New Zealand; thence to Honolulu strong NF winds and head sea; from that port to San Francisco light variable winds and fine weather; on 10th, lat 29 32 S, lon 179 19 W, passed R.M.S. Australia; Nov 28th, 6 A.M. slowed down on account of dense fog.

Cargo/Consignees

SYDNEY, Etc., Per Zealandia: 1169 bls wool, 1602 ingots tig, 44 cs. opium, 369 bdls hides, 5 rams, 79 cases haurigum; 3675 bgs sugar; 1744 do rice, 20 cs. betel leaves, 1114 buchs bananas, 32 cs. specie, $783,995.

Baring Bros; Brown Bros & Co.; Luce & Manning; Nevada Bank of San Francisco; Balfour, Guthrie & Co.; S. C. Moore; Mint of San Francisco; Bank of Br. Columbia; C. Adolph Low & Co.; Chamberlain Bros.; M. Denhan & Sons; C. Dusenberry & Co.; F. L. Ellis; E. R. Knapp; Falkner, Bell & Co.; Williams, Dimond & Co.; M. S. Greenbaum & Co.; L. G. Sresovich; P. Marsecano; V. Vuscovich & Co.; Stowell; C. H. Rockewell; Chinese Merchants; Order.

Passengers

From Sydney -- Chas. Bright, J. M. Forbes, W. A. Dare, C. L. Hill, A. Bayly, T. Baker, G. Wareham, Mr. Fulton, Mrs. Fulton and child, Mr. Lyons, N. P. Bayly, H. Deutsch, A. M. Lawrence, W. W. Andrews, Mr. Connolly, and 14 in steerage.

From New Zealand -- R. Maxwell, A. J. Pope, T. E. Platt, Mr. Radlicffe, Geo. Whitelaw, Miss Whaite, Mrs. M. C. Scollay, Mrs. Scollay, Miss Eva Scollay, W. D. Mears, G. M. Reid, E. P. Starkey, Mr. Godby, Mrs. Godby, E. T. Rhoades, and five adults and four children in steerage.

From Honolulu -- B. Robinson, Chun Lung, F. S. Armstrong, T. Lyons, Mrs. T. C. McKay, F. B. Mellis, Miss H. Mellis, T. H. Davies, H. Jackson, Dr. Tisdale, C. H. Rockwell, F. Duff, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Hind, H. D. Waite, T. C. Glade, S. Forbes, and 28 in steerage.

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