The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-07-09
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Fer >. ;. MaripOsa," San Francisco.
July 1, 1888.
From our special Correspondent,

! from our special Correspondents
The Republican Convention continued
sitting all of last week without NOMINATING
a Presidential candidate. Sherman being
still IN the lead. On the morning of Mon
day, June 25th, three ballots were taken.
resulting in the nomination of Senator
| benjamin Harrison of Indiana for Presi-
dent, while Levi ?. Morton of New York
! received the nomination for Vice-Presi
dent on the first ballot. Blaine positively
declined the nomination, and the Califor-
man delegates, who had been working hard
Tor Blaine, were very much disappointed
! harrison meets with considerable opposi-
ton on the Pacific Coast because of his
pro-Chlnese record. Mckinley was very
popular dark horse. and would doubtless
have received the nomination had he not
withdrawn and adhered faithfully to Sher-
man, whom he had promised to support.
The Mariposa has been delayed for a day
| owing to the late arrival Of the mails at
New York. She takes large passenger
! list, over eighty for Auckland and SYDNEY
and about thirty for Honolulu Among
the Colonial passengers are Frank Nc
| Coppin. U. S. Commissioner to the Mel
bourne Exhibition Assistant Commits
| sioner Campbell, and A. Spencer, Commits
sioner for British Columbia.
Since her arrival in port the Mariposa
has been thoroughly overhauled and re-
fitted. She has been been painted inside
and out, has new carpets, and her lamps
and metal fittings have been electro plated.
From Sydney comes news, by cable, that
the labor unions there object to the en-
| Of
media, and have refused to discharge or
load her, or to give her any coal.
The tariff bill is still under discussion, no
very material alterations having yet been
made in committee. Mills expects that it
will pass the House by a majority of
fifteen.
Emperor William will start for ST.
Petersburg, to visit the Gar, on July 18th,
in the Imperial yacht HohenzOllern, in
command OF Prince Henry. He will be ac-
cOmpanied by eight of the best German
irOnclads, by Prince Bismarck and Count
Herbert Bismarck. The latest European
war scare is that several Austrian regi-
ments have been ordered to leave Vienna
instantly, for the Galician frontier, to
checkmate move on the part of Russia 4
The eleventh annual eight-Oared race
between Yale and Harvard was rOWed on
the 29th of June over the Thames river
course, four miles straight. 1t was won
by Yale by "A lengths; time, 20 minutes 10
seconds, the fastest time ever made on the
river. Harvard's time was p minutes IA
seconds.
large number of Chinese coolies are
going to Yokohama and driving out the
Japanese as domestic servants. Many
deaths are reported from cholera in Cam
bodia and COchin-China. u. 5. Consul
Hatfield of Batavia is on trial for forgery
and fraud on the firm OF }. DaendOlS u
Co. Much damage has been done by wet
and cold weather to the tea crop at Han
kOW.
From Peru comes news of hard times,
with emigration setting away from there.
The office of Vice-President of Colombia
has been declared vacant, and the retired
ce-President pensioned for life. Quar-
antine against Chile, on account of cholera,
has been raised.
Fighting still continues at Riatea be-
tween the French and natives. In the last
engagement the French lost three men and
two officers, and had large number
wounded. The natives carried their killed
and wounded off the field. There are sew
eral French men-of-war there, and the
Government of Tahiti is going in fer pro-
lection, and now levies duties Of about so
per cent. on all Imports
Mrs. Lillian Warren Hammersley was
married by the Mayor OF New York, on
June 29th, to the Duke of Marlborough.
His Highness Prince Bernard of Sake
Weimar, Duke of SAKE, arrived i'll San
Francisco from Japan, and here learned Of
the death of his cousin, the Emperor Fred
erick of Germany.
General Washington L. Elliott, Vice
President of the San Francisco Safe De-
post and Trust Company, died suddenly
on June Goth
GoIdenson, the murderer of the school
girl Mamie Kelly, has a good chance of
being hanged, as the Supreme Court has
denied a rehearing and Governor Water
man has declined to interfere.
The new cruiser Charleston will be
about the middle of this month, and 1t is
expected that she will be ready for sea by
the end of the year, at which time the
larger cruiser, the San Francisco, will be
launched. The Union Iron Works have
almost completed a powerful tug for the
Spreckels Bros, and the Pomona, steamer
Of LOO tons, has been launched for
Knowles & Griffith. This steamer, it is
said, is for the Hawaiian trade.
John D. Spreckels sailed this morning
for San Diego in the yacht Lurline, having
a race down with the yacht Aggie.
All the iron mills at Pittsburg have
closed down, owing to reduction OF IL to
20 per cent. in wages, which the laborers
refused to accept The strike closes eighty
mills and throws 100000 men out of en-
plOyment
Assistant Secretary Maynard, of the
Treasury Department, has notified Col
IeCtOr Hager of San Francisco that cattle
imported from the Hawaiian Islands need
not be quarantined if they are sold for i'm
mediate slaughter. The animals, i'm
mediately upon arrival, must be taken
from the importing vessel to the abattOir
and not disp posed of for any other purpose.
This opinion has been given in response to
an application for information from the
Hawaiian Government.
The affairs of VIM. T. Coleman q Go.
grow worse and worse. The statement of
the assignees shows reduction of $4,000 |
in liabilities, which now stand at about
81. 900 900, and a shrinkage of over ST. OO,-
900 in assets, which now amount to about