The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-01-11
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
San Francisco, January 3, 1890, Per >.
$. Australia.

San Francisco, January 3, 1890. Per ).
S. Australia.
(From Our San Francisco Correspondent
Sugar Matters.
The quotations from New York
January Sd were Cuban centrifugals
So test 6 cents, dry granulated 81
cents, prices nominal. The sugar
market locally is not changed and
both refneries are waiting for the
new crop of Hawaiian. The Spreck-
els refinery received 10000 mats OF
Philippine Island raws, December
oath, per British ship Favonius
which has been the only addition of
note to the small stocks during the
past fortnight. The Eastern market
is without any special feature.
From the tenor of the dispatches
sent out from Washington it would
seem, that Congress intends to re
duce or abolish the tariff on sugar at
this session. The Republicans are
very much exasperated at the result
of the election in the Third Lou!si
ana District (the sugar producing
one) and are likely to look to a re-
duction of the sugar tariff as a
means of teaching the planters a
lesson. The question was to have
come up before subcommittee OF
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee on the 2Sth inst, but the in
fiuenza prevented the attendance of
interested persons. 1t is said that
the Republicans may allow COM
pensating bounty to beet and sor-
ghum sugar growers in case a reduc-
ton is made. How the Hawaiian
and Louisiana cane planters will
fare and whether they will receive
any consideration at all, seems prob
lematical.
A cable from Paris announces the
death of Henry G.. Havemeyer, the
President of the Havemeyer Rein
ing Company of Brooklyn. He had
gone to Europe for relief from An
attack of Bright's disease. but with
out avail. He was forty-tive years
of age.
Personal Mention.
Rear Admiral Kimberly has been
detached from the command OF the
Pacific station, to take effect on
January 25th, and ordered to pro
coed home and wait orders. The
orders are understood to have gone
down by the Australia.
MIR. Robt. J. Creighton, the local
agent of the New Zealand Govern
ment, and formerly in the Hawaiian
Cabinet, met with a painful accident
on the evening of the 21st of Dec.
He had been to the Oceanic dock to
meet the incoming Australian steam
or and was walking homeward along
Market street, when he slipped and
fell, breaking his left leg in two
places. The accident will lay him
up for a month or more.
Henry George, the great socialist
and single tax advocate, is shortly to
pass through Honolulu. He is ex-
pected here from New York in time
to take the steamer Mariposa which
departs on the 9Th of February.
Capt. John H. Freeman and f. r.
Cation, of the firm of Cation, Bell &
Co., were smothered by carbolic acid
gas in the hold of the British ship
Durham, on December Goth. Capt.
Freeman was Lloyds' surveyor and
"a brother of pilot E. M. Freeman,
who was recently carried off to
Honolulu by the steamer Australia
The deal between the English
syndicate and the John Wieland
Brewing Co. for the sale of the VIE
land brewery is off.
| Secretary of the Treasury, Win
dom, has abolished the Chinese
Bureau at the local Custom House
but has retained the Chinese Inter
prefer.
Karl Formes, the noted basso
died of pneumonia on the 18th Dec.
aged "a years. He sung the part OF
Bartolo in the Barber of Seville, fOul
days before his death. He leaves
wife but no children.
Four slight shocks of earthquake
were felt on the 14th of December.
| Inc lnuueuZ6s
The influenza is now epidemic IL
all parts of Europe, in New York
Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, and al
the principal American cities. L
has appeared in San Francisco, bu
has not spread to any extent, though
many cases are reported in Portland
Los Angeles, Virginia City am
other places on the Coast.
The disease reached its height Il
Paris on December 3lst. Befor
that day deaths from influenza am
accompanying diseases such a
pneumonia and pleurisy, nearl
200 or 800 day, on that date reache
400 died, and since then there ha
been some abatement.
The Gar of Russia who had i
badly is recovering slowly.
San Francisco News.
Rain has fallen almost every da
: since the first of December. Their
t were but four fair days in San Frar
cisco in December and the Sacr'
mento river has been higher tina
ever known. The total rainfall /
San Francisco is now about twenty
four inches, and ia the upper part {
a the Sacramento valley it has reache
/ from fifty to seventy five inches.
The steamer State of Californl
+ left Astoria on the 10Th ult. at "a
e p. NJ, aud has not been heard fro
s since. She should have arrived o
!. the 31st. Much anxiety is felt fC