The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-05-01

The German Company has expend-
ed over a quarter of a million pounds
in exploring the German territory of
New Guinea. Large sugar planta-
tons have been started, which it is
anticipated will prove very successful,
native labor being cheap and abund-
ant
A PROTEST against the Mills tariff,
bill has been signed by over three
hundred manufacturing firms, COM
panies and corporations of the New
England States 1t is called one of
the most formidable documents that
has yet made its appearance on the
tariff question.
SIX national vessels in port at once,
representing the navies of three
mighty Empires and the greatest of
Republics, give Honolulu the dis
tinction Of being considerable of a
Hub for the world to revolve round
begging Boston's pardon for borrow
ing its time-honored title
The Adrsrtiser takes the palm for
cogency of argument and felicity of
diction in political controversy. To
say thing is when an opponent says
it Is not, and to apply an epithet from
the vocabulary of the Fish Market to
a contemporary, are sufficient to make
any position assumed by that paper
simply impregnable.
Ii view of the fact that the de-
fendant is considerable owner,
and the co-defendant the controlling
owner of the Pacific Commercial AdUer-
tissr stock, the venomous attack on
the Attorney-General in that paper
on Friday, while the trial was in pro
gress, was indecent to the last ex-
treme.
The San Francisco Commercial Her
aid opposes a reduction of the sugar
duties, even for the purpose of cir
cumventing the Trust. 1t considers
that, in view of the tariff taxation
borne by California for the sake of
the East, the Eastern people should
be submissive to the sugar duties for
the sake Of CALIFORNIA; rising beet
sugar industry.
The Board of Health is looking in
the right direction when it takes into
contemplation the project of having
slaughter houses, markets, etc, owned
by the Government. Corporations
of cities elsewhere have found it
necessary, in the interest of the
public health, to take abattoirs and
similar establishments into pro-
prietary control.
A san Francisco genius has invent
ed a process of tanning in which
electricity is the chief agent, tan bark
is dispensed with, and the manufac-
ture of leather cheapened fifty per
cent. as well as improved in quality.
Some of our Honolulu capitalists
might get hold of this invention and
have all Hawaiian hides and skins
tanned here, also have a shoe factory
established Why not
The barkentine Mabel B. Towers
arrived at New Bedford, March 18th,
from Fayal, the Azores, with Ii cabin
and over 200 storage passengers.
One hundred Of the Storage passen-
gers had their fares paid to California.
This gives support to the statement in
the GAZETTE some time ago, which Mr..
Marques and others questioned with
out producing a shred of evidence to
the contrary, that Portuguese coming
here in many cases have intentions of
ultimately settling in California. The
above news shows simply that the
Azoreans who can afford it 60 to Cali
fornia without making a stepping
stone Of this group. Probably a pUr-
ton of those hundred fares men
toned was paid with money earned
on Hawaiian plantations.
The Glasgow HAL concludes a re
view Of the Queens letter to Miss
Gordon in the following plain Ian
guage: But we care nothing as to
who are the particular Ministers upon
whom the Queens condemnation falls.
The question is constitutional, not
personal We dispute the right of
the Queen at any time to secretly at
tack her responsible Ministers, be
they who they may. Her Majesty
wrote that she felt the stain left
upon England The stain is not upon
England upon Scotland or
Ireland, but upon the Sovereign who
censures the action of her Ministers
in a private letter, and then author
ICES its publication when their lips
are sealed by the constitutional Ell
quette she disregards"
AMERICAN seed dealers have been