The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-10-27

are to be absorbed by enc
house. The general opinion, how
ever, Is very largely in favor OF
the service.
Pacific Cable.
Sanford Fleming, a prominent
Canadian engineer, has returned to |
Ottawa from England, whittier he |
went in the interest of the Trans
Pacific cable. During his stay in
London, he had long conference
with Lord Knutsford, the Colonial
Secretary, who, though warmly in
favor of the cable, would not COM
nit himself. Fleming is very hope
full of the success of the scheme. He
says that the highest class of cable
would, of course, have to be used,
and the length would be $500 miles
from Vancouver to Sydney. the
stretches from one mid ocean sta
ton to another would be from 1900
to 200 miles long. and the out
side cost he places at G1,S0O,OO0,
the interest on which would be but
$500 per annum.
Australian Trade.
G.. w. Griffin, the United States
Consul at Sydney, has filed most
interesting report in the State De-
partment concerning Australian
trade. The report includes elabo-
rate detailed tables of exports and
imports between the United States
and the Colonies. The British
share of the Colonial trade is
placed at 89.49, while the United
States has 4.63 per cent. of the inn
ports and gets 8 per cent. of the
exports. France and Germany are
bidding for the trade, the latter
having "a per cent, and the for
mer 2.30 per cent. of the total.
This is small, but both have Hber-
ally subsidized vessels. France
and Germany also have superior
banking facilities in the Colonies,
and Consul Griffin believes that an
American bank would pay at Sgd
ney. The report is full of sugges-
tions to Colonial traders.
Claus Spreckels is to go East in
a few days. He has spent the
greater portion of the past four
weeks at jacksonville looking after
his beet sugar interests.
Among the passengers on the
Mariposa are Hon. S. S. Damon,
Hon. A. lnglis Clark, Attorney
General of Tasmania, Samuel
Crump of Crump & Son, the Phila-
delphia photographers, who is en-
route to Australia, Messrs. W. c..
Wilder and Jono. Austin.
Ado!ph Spreckels has embarked
in the brewing buiness. With Adol-
plus Busch, the head of the An
heuser-Busch Co. of st. Louis, the
largest brewers in the world, G. A.
Zinkand of the Louvre, and some
others, he is in the field with a
100000 company to build a
brewery that will fight the Eng
llsh syndicate having control of the
business of the Pacific Coast.
San Francisco News.
The English beer syndicate pro-
poses to test the validity of the
Oakland liquor license ordinance
and their interference in Oakland
politics has created much indigna-
ton across the bay.
Senator George Hearst has been
trying to buy the property adjoln-
ing the Nucleus Building, SO as to
make larger building for the Ex-
aminer.
The new Government Quarantine
Station on Angel Island is now
completed and in use.
Senators Stanford and Hearst
and Congressman Morrow and Me-
Kenna have returned from the
East and are out stumping the
State. The political campaign is
an unusually hot one this year.
A seven story press brick build
ing Is to be erected at Montgom-
cry and Sacramento streets in the
old section of town.
Charles T. Boardman, County
Clerk of Alameda County, has re-
signed. 1t is reported that he is
$4,000 short in his accounts.
The Democrats have nominated
W. F. Goad for mayor.
Eastern News.
The continental railroad, which
is the outcome of the Pan-American
conference, is taking shape, and it
begins to look as if one of these
days the journey from New York
to almost any part of South Amer
lea may be made by rail.
The Internal Revenue Commits
sioner has issued notice that the
regulations providing for the forti-
tication of wines with brandy free
of tax will be practically inoper-
ative until December 1st owing to
the necessity of getting the new
stamps ready.
Secretary of the navy Tracy is
spoken of as the possible successor
of Senator Evarts.
Ex-secretary of war W. w. Bel
KNAPP was found dead in bed at his
home in New York on the 18th
inst. Paralysi was the cause. De-
ceased was fifty-nine years of age,
and was secretary under Grant, but
resigned under a cloud.
President Harrison iS me- Linn q