The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-27
Latest Foreign News.

The p. NJ. S. s.. Australia arrived Tuesday at
IL n. M. bringing dates to the 18th instant.
The following are the most important items:
The Suez left San Francisco on the 9th. in
slant for Honolulu. NO yet arrived.)
His Excellency Elisha ii. Allen, Minister Res
ident at Washington for the Hawaiian Islands,
died suddenly at Washington on the 1st January.
GaInbetta, the illustrious French statesman,
is dead, also Generals ChanZy and Horex De
Valdan, Chief of Staff to General Whey during
the siege of Paris and signatory TO the capitula-
ton of that city. The latter died at Lisle, in
Dordogne, of a~poplexy on hearing of the death
of General ChanZy.
The White Star Line steamship City of Brus-
sells was totally lost near Liverpool, the result of
a collision. Captain Land says the cash in the
side of the City of Brussels was eight feet wide
and three feet deep. The steamer Kirby Hall
ran down the City of Brussels. She draws
the water line. The cutwater is completely car
ried away from the eighteen to the twenty-four-
foot mark, and iron plates are curled up.
Her port anchor is hanging over ready to
let go, which goes to confirm the captains
statement that he was feeling his way to
anchorage at the time of the collision.
The owners of the steamers Kirby Hall claim
$50, 900 damage by the collision with the City of
Brussels. The Inmans claim their loss at
$780, 900 on the City of Brussels, besides the
cargo and lives lost. The Post says a rumor is
current that one of the boats of the City of
Brussels was about to return to the scene of the
ulSdSter III response u some CRIES LOT ASSISTANCE,
but was prevented by a passenger drawing a
revolver and threatening to shoot the first man
attempting to turn back, and that the passenger
explained that he acted thus because he feared
the boat would be sucked under by the sinking
of the steamer.
The New York World, in a column editorial
on the Hawaiian Treaty, concludes as follows:
The Sandwich Islands treaty Injuries no one, but
benefits everyone on the eastern slope of the
Rocky Mountains, and as it admits certain sugars
free of dutV To the Pacific Coast IL On1ht TO
benefit consumers on the western slope. That
which robs the Pacific Coast of the full benefit
of free sugars is the thing for CalifOrnians to
deal with, without Fostering the t~reaty-making
power in Washington. All this tfuss " over
sugar and Spreckels really means AT the bottom
a combination TO aid the British Government
and Sir Charles Dixie to impede and, if possible,
thwart the negotiations now committed to ex-
President Grant of a reciprocal commercial ALI
ance with Mexico, which is the country capable
of producing an indefinite supply of sugars. If
this negotiation is successful, the principle of
unhindered trade will in the end sweep us into
alliance with not only all the States of Central
America, but Cuba and Porto Rico also.
The Commercial Bulletin gives prominence to
the views of Boston sugar merchants on the
Hawaiian treaty. 1t says that 1t is plain the
schedule of duties recommended by the Tariff
Commission is entirely in the interest of LOuisI-
ana planters and glucose manufacturers, as well
as San Francisco mOnopolists, with whom the
Commissioners seem to have been in sympathy,
and in opposition to the views and actual knowl-
edge of the whole sugar trade. Such a schedule
would give little if any reduction, while their
views generally were that not less than one cent
reduction would be of any essential benefit to
the consumers, which would still give some
$50, 900 900 and over in the revenue probably
The New York Times has il fierce editorial on
the principal San Francisco sugar monopOlist,
whose methods it compares to Jay Gould's.