The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-04-16
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per II. VI. :. :. Zealandia, san Fran
cisco, April :, 1889.
From Our Special Correspondent.)
The Sugar Market.

From Our Special Correspondent.)
The Sugar Market.
The sugar market, after its sudden
advance, received slight setback
on April 4th when prices for SO 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 in
arriving on April 4th.
Total stocks of sugar in all the
principal countries are 10000 tons
less than they were a year ago.
In refined sugars there was a de-
cline Of 1 cent on April I'd, granu-
lated being now quoted in San Fran
cisco at q cents.
Hawaiian Commercial Company's
stock has declined point, and latest
sales have been made at S3S.
The suit against the American Re
fnery, as member of the Sugar
Trust. will be continued tomorrow.
The evidence of Mr.. P. c. 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 & Elder of New
York. The business will be con-
tinued under the name of "Amer-
lean Sugar Refinery, Havemeyer &
Elder, Proprietors." 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 $250,00O 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
Losses in South Dakota
are stated to be S2,000,0OO at low
A trustworthy Washington CORES
pendent predicts an unchanged in
ternal policy, but a vigorous foreign
policy, the latter including the max
ing of a strong navy, doubling ap-
for naval vessels, the
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
by dog sled and on foot
about 10000 miles from Winnipegin
4 little more than year.
Mr.. I. X. James, a well known
and popular steward sailing from
San Francisco, takes the place of
Mr.. Stein on the Zealandia.
In future the Umatilla will leave
Honolulu on Friday instead of on
Thursday as previously announced.
VIM. p. Willard, a well known
mining man, died suddenly at the
Union Club here from heart disease.
Stanley the Explorer.
A letter from Henry M. Stanley,
lated September 4th, has been re
,eived by Bruce, son in-law of Dr.
Livingstone, at Edinburgh. 1t gives
/ picturesque description of scenes
by the explorer Later
news has been received at Brussels
rom Stanley Falls, where Arabs re-
ported that Stanley and Emin
oasha were seen in February of this
rear marching in company toward '
Zanzibar with a force of several !
thousand men, women and children,
md they had 5000 tusks of ivory
worth 100000 francs. The news,
f true, shows that Stanley has fully
accomplished the object of his mis-
ion.
Fuss Over Boulanger. !
General Boulanger fed from
france on the advice of friends,who' {
we're informed that he would be
ried by an exceptional tribunal and
would not escape alive. He issued a
manifesto from Brussels to the
french people, saying he would not ,
ubmit to trial by the Senate but :
vas willing to he tried before magis- I
rates or a jury. He said he would +
wait the elections, which would
make the republic habitable, honest 7
nd free.
Bouchez, the public prosecutor,
-eclined to sign an Indictment
gainst Boulanger, because he con {
idered there was not sufficient t
round for a charge of conspiracy. /
5ouchez was likely to be suspended.