The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-05-08
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per S. S. Australia, San Francisco,
April "a, 1888.
Especial Correspondence Of the Gazette!

for some little time the fact was not gener-
ally known till the announcement of the de-
parture OF the steamship Parthia from VIC
toria for San Francisco. She arrived here
on April 22d, consigned TO John ID. Spreckels
& Bros, and sailed again on April 18th. She
brought 1000 tons of freight and nearly l40
passengers for this port, but her outward
cargo was limited to 800 tons, as the balance
of her space mad been previously engaged at
Vancouver. The next steamer to arrive will
be the Abyssinla, and then the Batavia.
There has been a cut IN passenger and
freight rates 10 China and Japan, and some
lively competition IS expected for the trade.
This arrangement extends the shipping in
terests Of the Spreckels Brothers into a new
quarter Of the globe.
The departure of the bark Alden Besse for
Honolulu has been delayed because she was
employed rs a quarantine vessel for the
Parthla's passengers, who were transferred
TO her Immediately on arrival, although
there had not been a sign OF sickness on the
Parthia since she left Hongkong.
The Alameda will not 90 TO San Diego
after her arrival here, as some improvements
and repairs to her boilers have to be eff
fected.
Captain Van Oterendorp of the steamship
Zealandia was presented, after arrival here,
by his passengers on the last trip from sgd
ney, with a very handsome testimonial and
gold watch.
Accidents and delays to overland trains
have been far too numerous. On April 18th
there was an accident on the Pennsylvania
road as the train was entering the Philadel
phia yard on the elevated tracks. Four pas
senCer cars were turned over, and the person
most seriously injured was f. II. Hayselden
of Honolulu, who received cuts on the head.
Rev. Father i. l.. Conrady, who has been
a priest among the Umatilla Indians for
fifteen years in Oregon. has left Vancouver
on his way to MOlokai where be will devote
the remainder of his life among the lepers.
Father Conrady Is a countryman of Father
Damien, and was for several years in the
missions of POudicherTy, India. He declined
a good parish in the argentine Republic, in
order to relieve Father Damien. 4 number
Of Sisters of Charity from Syracuse. \. Y,
VIII also soon leave for the Islands.
The schooner w. S. Bovine, while at
anchor In the bay, dragged her anchor and
fouled the barkentine Mary Wipkelman.
Both vessels were slightly damaged before
being separated by the tug Rescue.
EL-Admlral Gresley jackson Is still book
agent IN San Francisco. L. Montgomery
Mather remains in the southern part of the
State, and the last news heard of him was
his borrowing 4 couple of dollars from an
old Honolulu resident whom he met there
Sic transit gloria MaGteyi.
On the morning of April 18th, Stanford's
stables at Palo Alto were burned, together
with eight of his finest racers. Great diff
Guilty was experienced in saving any of the
horses, and two that were got out of the
stables rushed back into the flames. The
loss is placed at 100000.
Lynch, of the Los Angeles Herald, has
been defeated in his efforts to unseat Van
deve- in the House of Representatives, the
Committee on Elections having reported in
favor of the latter gentleman.
The steamer San Pablo, of the Occidental
and Oriental line, has been wrecked on a
reef nine miles north of Turnabout Island
in the Formosa channel. She left San Fran
cisco on March oath with a cargo valued at
$4,000, of which $4,000 was for China. Her
Japan cargo and passengers had been land
ed, and she was en- route to China when she
stranded. Her cabin passengers for Hong
kong were s Chinese. She also carried SOC, 546
in Mexican dollars and gold coin for Hong.
kong, and Sl23, 400 IN silver bars for Bombay. |
The passengers, crew, bullion and mails |
were saved. L. G. Reed was captain of the /
San Pablo, and she was built in 1888 at |
Cramps yards. The steamer is a total loss. |
The House went into Committee of the |
Whole for consideration of the Tariff bill on |
April 18th. Mills made this opening speech |
and was followed by Kelly of Pennsylvania. |
Roscoe Conkling died on the morning of |
April 18th. He had been ailing but short |
time when an operation was performed on |
wound healed and be was expected 10 re-
cover when blood settled on the lungs and |
be expired after fearful struggle against |
death. Doctor Agnew, his chief medical |
adviser. who had been attending him, died /
on the day following.
Matthew Arnold died suddenly of heart |
disease at Liverpool.
Some fearful wholesale poisoning has oc-
Cured in South America. A man named
Joaquin Bueno, with seventy armed men
under his command, assaulted an Indian
village near San Paulo in Brazil. While the
frightened Indians were absent he poisoned
their food with strychnine, also all the wells
and springs. According to bis own account
he found 5000 corpses few DAYS later, and
boosted that he had killed SEQ Indians in the
same way at another village, and was about
10 treat 5000 more to a similar dose.
Il. j, Creighton Is again the Resident
Agent for the New Zealand Government, Mr..
Buckland, who held the position during the
former gentleman's absence from San Fran
cisco, having resigned.
Receipts of Hawaiian sugar at San Fran
cisco, this year, up to april 18th, amounted
to Il, S76600 pounds.
The Sugar Trust has changed the man
agement of the American refinery. having
sent out Nr. Onward Is manager while his
brother succeeds the present chemist.
Claus Spreckels and A b. Spreckels returned
from GHllaOGlpuld on April -lSt, 10 be pres
ent at the laying of the corner stone of the
sugar beet factory at jacksonville on April
2Slh. Colonel Spreekels will return to Phil
adelphia in about ten days. The purchase
OF his site for a refinery there, which covers
ten acres, has been completed, and the City
Council unanimously agreed to close q street
that runs through the middle of the prop
erty, although he was opposed in this re-
spect by the Trust. Ground will be broken
for the construction of the works tomorrow.
April 25th, and it is expected to Lave the re-
finery open in eight months. Engineers
Hepworth and Miller have charge of the
erection of the refinery while Mr.. Spreckels
Is absent from Philadelphia. At meeting
of the Grooers' Exchange resolutions were
unanimously passed welcoming the new en-
terprise, and the Mayor OF Philadelphia also
sent a cordial letter of welcome to Mr..
Spreckels.
Baltimore naturally feels very sore at not
having been selected for the enterprise. and
the papers there are abusing Philadelphia as
much as they can.
The main building of the refinery will be
ten stories high, and not less than five build
ings viii be erected, and perhaps ten. The
Pennsylvania railroad runs in front of the
property, and the Baltimore and Ohio
line through it, so that sidings can be run to
any part of the works. New coal wharYes
are also close at hand. With the cooper
shop, other offices and buildings it is ex-