The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-04-15
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER
Per Il. VI. ;. -. ZeaIandia. San Fran
cisco, April :, 1889.
(From Our Special Correzponddent)
The sugar Market.

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The sugar Market.
The sugar market, after its sudden
advance, received a slight set -back
on April 4th when prices for 90 deg.
declined ! cent. But on the follow
ing day the market recovered and
quotations now stand again at g.
cents, The j. c. Ford and the
Sailor Boy were unfortunate IL
arriving on April 4th.
Total stocks of sugar in all tie
principal countries are 1l2,O0O tons
less than they were d year ago.
In refined sugars there was a de
cline Of I cent on April %, granu-
lated being now quoted in San Fran
cisco at u cents.
Hawaiian Commercial Company's
stock has declined a point, and latest
sales have been made at S38.
The suit against the American Re
fnery, as a member of the Sugar
Trust, will be continued tomorrow.
The evidence Of Mr.. P G. Jones
was taken during the week before
his departure for Honolulu.
Sale of the American Refinery.
The announcement was formally
made on April 1st that the Amer
lean Sugar Refinery had sold its
property, business, assets, good will,
etc, to Havemeyer 4 Elder Of New
York. The business will be con
tinued under the name of ''Amer
lean Sugar Refinery, Havemeyer &
Elder, ProDrietOrs." None of the
former stockholders or officers will
hereafter have any share in the man
agement Of the works, the sole man
agement and ownership resting with
the Eastern firm above mentioned.
American Affairs.
The Custom House officials seized
$4,000 worth Of opium at Butcher
town.
Mr.. T. NJ Hatch and wife have
just returned from their trip abroad
and may shortly be expected in
Honolulu.
The Oakland High School has
been destroyed by fire.
Edwin Booth was struck with in
cipient paralysis while playing at
Rochester, n. Y.
Treasury agents charge Allard &
Sons, of Paris and New York, art
dealers, with smuggling to the eX-
tent of S250,000 at New York.
A tornado unroOfed a hundred
houses in Baltimore.
Destructive storms accompanied
in many places by fires have swept
over portions Of Ohio. Dakota and
Minnesota. Losses in South Dakota
are stated to be 100000 at a low
calculation.
A trustworthy Washington CORES
pondent predicts an unchanged in
ternal policy, but a vigorous foreign
policy, the latter including the max
ing Of a strong navy, doubling APP
preparations for naval vessels, the
absorption of Cuba and Samoa, and
taking the Nicaragua Canal under
United States protection.
Lord Lonsdale, who was reported
dead in the Arctic regions, is on his
way home to England. He has
travelled by dog sled and on foot
about 10000 miles from Winnipeg in
a little more than year.
Stanley the Explorer.
A letter from Henry NJ Stanley,
dated September 4th, has been re
ceived by Bruce, son in-law Of Dr.
Livingstone, at Edinburgh. It gives
a picturesque description of scenes
traversed by the explorer. Later
news has been received at Brussels
from Stanley Falls, where Arabs re-
ported that Stanley and Emin
Pasha were seen in February Of this
year marching in company toward
Zanzibar with a force of several
thousand men, women and children,
and they had 5000 tusks of ivory
worth 100000 francs. The news,
if true, shows that Stanley has fully
accomplished the object of his mis-
sion.
Fuss Over BOulanger.
General BOulanger fed from
France on the advice Of friends,who
were informed that he would be
tried by an exceptional tribunal and
would not escape alive. He issued
manifesto from Brussels to the
French people, saying he would not
submit to trial by the Senate but
was willing to be tried before magis-
trates or a jury. He said he would
await the elections, which would
make the republic habitable, honest
and free