The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-10-28

interests and lands of the Society
Islands are to be absorbed by enc
house. The general opinion, how
ever, Is very largely in favor of
the service.
Pacific Gable.
Sanford Fleming, q 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 a long conference
with Lord Knutsford. the Colonial
Secretary, who, though warmly in
favor of the cable, would not CON-
nit himself. Fleming is very hope
ful of the success of the scheme. lie
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 e1,S00,000,
the interest on which would be but,
e5400 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 69.49, while the United
States has 4.63 per cent. of the i'm
ports and gets 3 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 liber-
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-
lions to Colonial traders.
Personal.
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
are Hon. S. S. Damon,
Hon. A. lnglis Clark, Attorney
General of Tasmania, Samuel
Crump OF Crump 4 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 Adolf
phus Busch, the head of the An
heuser-Busch Co. of st. Louis, the
largest brewers in the world, c. A.
Zinkand of the Louvre, and some
others, he is in the field with a
100000 company to build q
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 Elk
aminer.
The new Government Quarantine
Station on Angel Island is now
completed and in use.
Senators Stanford and Hearst |
and Congressman Morrow and Nc
Kenna have returned from the
East and are out stumping the
State. The political campaign is
IN unusually hot one this year.
A seven story press brick build
ng is to be erected at Montgom-
Try and Sacramento streets in the
I'D section of town.
Charles I. Boardman, County
Clerk of Alameda County, has re-
signed. 1t is reported that he is
g, 900 short in his accounts.
The Democrats have nominated
". F. Goad for mayor.
Eastern News.
The continental railroad, which
5 the outcome of the Pan-American
conference, is taking shape, and it
begins to look as if one of these
lays the journey from New York
o almost any part of South Amer
ca may be made by rail.
The Internal Revenue Commits
Toner has issued a notice that the