The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-08-06
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per 5. 5. .'ZeaIdania," San Francisco,
July 28, 1883.
,trom our spec1al correspondent

| a disappointment.
| IT is understood that the Senate is pre-
pairing substitute bill. This will abolish
| all tax on tobacco, spirits used i'll the arts
and manufactures, upon grape brandy, and
will reduce the duty upon sugar nearly
fifty per cent. 1t is generally believed that
| Congress will not adjourn before September,
and that the only tariff legislation effected
| will be i'll internal revenue ana on the
| duties on sugar.
| The sugar market has advanced in New
| York, quotations for SO deg. now standing
| at OK cents. In London it has declined to
| BIOL In San Francisco there has been
| a decline in refined of p cent, graduated
now selling at ~ cents, and cube at ~
cents.
| The French and Belgian governments
have declined to sign the convention abol-
| ishing sugar bOunties, and 1T IS thought
| that this may cause the other Powers to
| Withdraw their assent.
Eastern papers have been filled with ac-
| counts of the sugar situation and they gen
| eralIy concede that Mr.. Spreckels has
| scored one against the Trust. In an inter
| view at Chicago Mr.. A. b. Spreckels is re-
ported as saying that his father, when his
| Philadelphia refinery was in operation,
| could '' make profit out OF what Is cost
price with the Trust" Being asked why,
| he said, q Because the Trust is made up of
| old antiquated concerns which would long
ago have been in bankruptcy but for arti-
fetal support This has brought forth
replies from New York where they object
to the term " antiquated." A broker there
said that be " believed Spreckels was Vir-
tually in the Trust already, as he was con-
VerSIng frequently with their leaders at the
foot OF Wall street and had some long con-
ferences with them" The wholesale gro
GERS in New York still complain that the
refinerS get all the profits.
telegram from Chicago states that
Spreckels has sold 600 barrels OF sugar on
the Chicago market at an eighth of a cent |
less than the Trust quotations, the sugar
to be shipped from San Francisco.
An unusual feature of the grocery mar |
ket has been sales OF syrups by auction, |
nearly 1000 barrels having been thus dis |
posed of.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough |
have had the legality of their marriage |
established in England before the Regis |
trar at the Vestry Hall.
Darwin, has been repaired. The break re-
suited in giving greater prominence to the
proposed Canadian cable which is being
pushed forward by Mr.. Owen Jones.
Frauds and rascalities are being found in
the New York Navy yards, and it is said
they have been in progress for twenty
years.
Teemer won a three mile sculling race at
Jamaica Bay in q minutes and 80 seconds.
fight, to take place in Europe, is being
arranged between Jem Smith and Mike
Conley. The bay mare Belle Hamlin
trotted a half-mile heat at Buffalo in 1.O2H,
a 2.05 gait, which is the fastest half-mile
ever done by trotting horse, beating
Maud S.
The ship Henry B. Hyde, loaded with
Hawaiian sugar, made the trip from San
Francisco to New York in lightweight
days. Late advices from the whaling fleet
report very small catch.
The new Inman steamer City of New
York has completed her trial trip around
Ireland. She is fourteen feet longer than
the City of Rome, and is the largest steam
er af1oat except the Great Eastern. Her
trial trip showed a speed of twenty-five
miles an hour.
Yellow fever is prevalent in Florida, and
cholera at HOngkOng. All efforts to close
the breach in the banks of the Hoang- Ho
river have failed, A volcanic eruption has
occurred at Makanatz IN Japan. 1t was
accompanied by dreadful explosions and
great stream of lava poured down the hills, |
killing 400 people
The Credit Foncier has agreed to receive |
10000, 600 francs, the sum which is neces-
sary for the Panama Canal Company to
meet its regular payments due on bonds ,
This ends all trouble with the new loan. s
r.. L. Roe, novelist, died suddenly at |
Cornwall, New York, of neuralgia of the
heart.
Sheridan and Randall are both recover {
ing. report that the latter was suffering
from cancer of the stomach is not con-
tirmed.
Aleck GOldensOn, murderer of Mamie
Kelly, is to be hanged on Friday, Sept IA. 6
Thomas w. Hall, wool merchant of :
Chicago, has failed with liabilities of
S450OO0.
Jesse H. Lippincott of New York and
PlttSburg, has purchased all rights for the {
United States and Canada to the Edison +
and improvements that may @
be made for the next fifteen years.
Mrs. G. FEEDER, of New York, offers 5000
Tor information regarding her son Albert
He is supposed to have left San Francisco q
Tor Honolulu where he was employed as a C
hotel and restaurant waiter 1t is thought a
hat he left Honolulu for Sydney on the- t
!
The managers of the Melbourne Exhibi- -
ion offer premiums for designs of certi6-
;ateS and models in relief fOr-medais The | !
must be 20 by IS inches, executed s
n India ink, with a space of II by 6 [
inches left for names, etc. All models of g
medals must show the Queen head on one II
tide and be six inches in diameter. All ~
designs must be marked with a motto and ~
Re accompanied by a sealed envelope :
marked with the same motto, containing :
he name and address of the author. They r
must be lodged at the office of the Commits Il
iOners before noon on September 80, 1888. T
me premiums are one hundred guineas Il
or each design accepted and which be- q
Omes their property. y
1t is stated that two teams of baseball q
players from Chicago will go to Australia y
n November, stopping at Honolulu to u
how the natives how to play ball. Arson 4
5 the leader and Van Haltren is to be one N
# the team. a.
The buildings at the corner of Wabash ~
Avenue and Monroe streets, Chicago, have -
een burned. They were occupied by the u
,hicago Carpet Co, the julius Baner q
PIANO Co. and Standard Musical Co. The 81
Oss is 81, 100000. The Black Point Packing 81
Works at Fort Buchanan, San Francisco, tr
ave been totally destroyed by fire.
Statistics for the first half of this year 81;
how 1888 arrivals from the Hawaiian y
Stands, and $50 departures, leaving bal -
nee of almost 900 in favor of the United o'
tates for the six months. Ne
a find of $50 5-tael boxes of opium val CT
ed at $4,000 was found on the Forest de
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