The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-01-31

can no longer afford to pay taxes OF
this land, hence the movement in Sac
ramento, San Joaquin and Tehams
counties to divide these principalities
of wheat-growers.
Colonies are being formed in these
and other counties, and in the nea1
future the old-time wheat fields will
be transformed into orchards and
vineyards, each the home of pros
porous family. This is the best re-
suit of the speculative craze, since
it is the small settler who does his
own work and cultivates not more
than thirty acres that can best dem
onstrate the wonderful fertility of
California soil and its equally won
derful adaptation 10 all kinds of
fruits.
HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES.
! A steamer. which arrived at New
York from Hayti near the close of
Dec, reports that a heavy norther"
swept over the West Indies in De
cember, causing much damage. In
al, some seventy vessels were wrecked.
A coasting steamer, whose name is
unknown, was capsized, and thirteen
of her crew were drowned. The
British steamer Victa lost eight of
her crew in the same storm. The
British man-of-war Wrangler arrived
at Turks Island on the 7th inst, badly
damaged by storms. The French
vessel Chasseur arrived on the Sth,
with her main and mizzenmasts gone.
A huge wave, at Babecoa, Cuba, was
the result of this hurricane. At 4
p. M, an immense wave was seen ap-
preaching, from which the people fed
toward the hillside. The wave struck
the beach, broke, and flowed inland
about 400 feet. Nearly 300 huts and
houses were destroyed, but fortun-
ately no lives were lost.
CoERCING THE yICERoY.
An interesting item of news comes
from Ireland, writes T. P. Gill, NJ. P.
The Lord Lieutenant has had to give
up hunting with the Meath hounds.
A few months ago he rented for the
season Summer Hill, a hunting seat,
occupied during her stay by the En-
press of Austria, and brought down
an immense stud of horses; but the
Meath farmers resolved they would
not allow a Goercionist Viceroy to
hunt over their lands. They
held convention and took meas
ures to stop hunting all over the
country unless Lord Londonderry
was excluded from the hunt. The
Master of the Hounds appealed to
the Bishop of Meath, but DR.. Nulty
would take no steps to interfere with
the determination of his flock. The
upshot was the members of the hunt
took occasion to let Lord London
derry know that so long as he in
sisted on joining them there was no
possibility of hunting. Lord Lon
donderry has accordingly intimated
that he will hunt with Meath hounds
no more, and the Master of Hounds,
in communicating this fact to the pub
lie, petitions that now the obnoxious
presence of the Lord Lieutenant is
removed they should permit hunting
to be resumed.
Fancy the Viceroy of Ireland prac
tically expelled from the hunting
club like blackleg at the demand of
the people.
AN OLD SAILOR RELIEF CLAIM.
The Secretary of the Treasury on
Jan. 9th transmitted to the House of
Representatives at Washington esti-
mates for the settlement of the claim
of Bishop & Co., bankers at Honolulu,
which has been before Congress since
1873, for S11S1.93 in gold coin, with
at 6 per cent from the date of
the draft. The claim origin
ated through the failure to pay a draft |
in the State Department, drawn by
Mattoon at Honolulu, and
through the claimants, for
the relief of destitute seamen, the
appropriation for that purpose having
been exhausted by the time the draft |
was presented. Bishop & Co. nego-
tiated the draft through the Bank of |
California That bank on being ap-
prised of the non-payment of the
draft in Washington made a demand |
on Bishop & Co. for the amount with |
on the same. A large Arctic
feet was wrecked in the |
Arctic, near Behring Straits, in 1872, |
and the crews were carried to Homo |
lulu, where the United States Consul |
gave them the necessary relief A
bill to refund the money to Bishop |
& Co. passed the Senate in 1874 and |
failed in the House. 1t was again re-
vived in 1886, and the Secretary of |
State as well as the Secretary of the !
Treasury unite in the recommenda- |
ton that it now be settled