The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-06
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per Bark " Forest Queen"
(From our special correspondent
The Sugar Market

situation. Stocks and supplies re- /
main about the same, and holders
are firm in their demands. The I'M
ports of sugar at San Francisco IN
April were 29,67O,4O7 pounds, Of
which 29,274,437 pounds came from
the Hawaiian Islands. The total
imports of Hawaiian sugar for the
first four months of this year were
116,873,272 pounds, being an increase
of 1851, 1877 pounds over the imports
of the same period in 1888.
Articles of incorporation were filed
by the Hutchinson Sugar Plantation
Company The object Is to cultivate
sugar cane and manufacture sugar !
in the Hawaiian Islands and else |
where. The capital stock is $780, !
600, of which $4,000 has been sub
scribed. The Directors are John d
and G. August Spreckels, Louis
| Sloss, Z. \. Lilienthal and Niger
| Ehrman.
Widow Olive c. Friend, William
| r. Howard, Emily Howard, George
| Halstead and Orrin A. Halstead OF
electric sugar refining notoriety were
arraigned in court In New York.
| The original indictments charged
the defendants with defrauding the
! Electric Sugar Refining Company
! There was only one count IN the IN
dictment. The new indictment had
three counts, charging each defend
ant with grand larceny in the tirst
degree. The first count was the
complaint of Lawson n. Fuller,
charging them with defrauding him
of $500; the second for defrauding
the sugar refining company out OF
$500; the third for defraudlng
!, President Cotteriil and Secretary
James Robertson OF the company
out of $1,000.
The Supreme Court granted At
torney-General Tabor permission to
bring suit in the name of the people
against the Electric Sugar Refining
, Company for the dissolution of the
corporation and the appointment OF
a receiver.
< In the Commons Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach, president of the Board
7 of Trade, replying to questions by
Sir William Vernon HarcOurt, said
3 that the United States Governme'
9 would be absolutely debarred by
their own Interpretation Of the most
+ favored nation clause from pleading
that clause as a bar TO the operation
Il of the sugar bounties convention
against themselves. Sir William
j Harcourt insisted upon knowing
n whether the Government had def
nitely ascertained that the Govern
: ment at Washington acqUiesced IL
ID this Interpretation. Sir Mlchae
1t said that the representative of Anne
,e RIGA, although not taking part ID thu
- Sugar Bounties Conference, was
:, present at the deliberations, and tina
81 the American Government had IN n,
re way signifed its opposition to tn
ir Interpretation. Sir William deslre'
I more definite assurance, but 81
Michael declined to alter his answer
Notes from San Francisco.
,e Sam Brannan, California pioneer
~ died at Escondido-
A Japanese lady, named B. Muy
d anmoto, the wife of a veterinar
al surgeon in Honolulu, arrived her
an by the City of New York.
Irving Bishop, the mind-reade
- died on May 18th at Washingto
- Club, West Twenty sixth stree
ne The Lambs Club gave dinner th
as previous night, and Bishop was
eft guest. At l a. NJ President Gree
90 asked him to perform a few trick
He did so, and one minute later b
1d fell in cataleptic fit, and at 4 a. Il
or he had another cataleptic fit, frol
"a which he never regained cOnsclou
III. ness. Mrs Bishop, the newly ma
= ried wife, is in Philadelphia, an
has been notified.
ne Seymour & Cater, paper dealers
M Sa.I Francisco, have failed with IL
or bilities Of $1,000.
- Rose and Erskine, dealers in DAN
y produce, have also failed.
Deputy Surveyor Fogarty seize
lat five trunks, from the City of Ne
or York, containing 1000 pounds
all opium.
Preparations are being made
ng observe the eclipse of the sun {
er- December I'D, probably from Il
on West Coast of Africa.
of A large fire on Ninth Street, Sc
- Francisco, destroyed Flyers & Ra
In uuellet's box factory, Filmore's to-
all factory, Lowney's carriage factory,
we saloon and few private building
ne The Supreme Court of the Unite
~ States has affirmed the validity
% the Scott Act, which exclud
we Chinese attempting to land {
Ak ''prior-residence" certificates.
he The Supreme Court has also un
an nimously affirmed the judgme1
against Judge Terry and wife in Il
Sharon case.