The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-02-24

The steamer City of New York " arrived
Wednesday afternoon, and brought mail dates
to the 14th instant. The following is a sum-
mary of the latest news =
General Motteronge is dead.
The effect the cashiering of the Orleans
Princes is likely to have on the French army is
the subject of anxious speculation in Paris.
There have been some very destructive floods
at CINCINNATI on the 18th February. The
gauge marked %sixty-one feet eight inches, the
water rising nearly two inches hourly. The
steam ferry and street railway communication
between CINCINNATI and Kentucky side of the
river is cut off entirely. The Newport military
barracks are all flooded, and nearly two square
miles of the city are under water. People have
been taking coal and provisions in boats all
day to the inhabitants and delivering them
through second and third story windows.
The Queen will probably open the Fisheries
Exhibition. Russia asks 10000 feet space.
Every foot of the building will be occupied.
1t is reported that Prince Jerome has been
removed to the Establishment for Invalids at
Anteul.
In addition to a neuralgia attack, Bismarck is
suffering from swollen limbs, The latest re-
ports concerning the condition of Bismarck are
unfavorable.
General Campeno has accepted the Ministry of
War, and Admiral Jaureguiberry complying
with the request of President Grevy, has agreed
to conduct the Ministry of Marine, sending the
appointment of his successor.
WASHINGTON, Jan. = Spreckels, the
San Francisco sugar ~refiner, said tonight that
the idea of having a monopoly of the sugar bust
ness of the Pacific coast was humbug. There
are, he said, two other reineries there opposed
to him one is owned by Boston parties, the
other by Californians. There is a greater mo-
nopoly in the sugar refinery interest in the East
than there ever was in California, for while
there are three separate and entirely distinct
concerns in the latter State, the Eastern reiner-
les are virtually under the control of a syndicate.
1.-THE whole trouble about the Hawaiian sugar
business, he said, comes from the jealousy
of a few men who are anxious to get control of
the sugar trade of the Pacific States. Tn idea
that l have thought of pensionlng the Hawaiian
King and annexing the islands, as is stated in
the RepubLiodn this morning, is the hight of
absurdity. All this fuss and rant about my busi-
ness has grown out of the jealousy of the East
selling MY products cheaper than they can af-
ford to do after paying freight. They have
adopted the foolish policy of hiring a blackmail-
ing sheet in California to abuse me. This, how
ever, does not affect me in the least, and in spite
of the fact that I IN accused of owning every
railroad that enters San Francisco, the Judges
of all the courts and the Senate and Legislature
of the State of California, besides a few Con-
gressmen, nv possessions do not weigh me
down. To sum the whole matter up, of course
l don't want the treaty abrogated, but II the
Senate concludes that the small percentage of
sugar used in the United States produced by the
Hawaiian Islands will eventually crush out the
planters of Louisiana, you may rest assured that
l shall still continue to supply that necessity to
the Pacific coast consumers, and the Eastern
refners will have a hard fight to get a share OF
the trade.-Boston Herald.