The morning call., 1891-05-13
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
A Suspicious Vessel lowering off
Maui, MOlOkai and Lanai.
She Is Supposed to Be an Opium smuggler
Honolulu Wants Telegraphic Communi-
cation With This Coast.

The steamer Australia, Captain HOudlett,
arrived this morning, seven days from Homo
lulu, carrying passengers and merchandise
consigned to j. d. SpreckelS q Bro.
The following summary is taken from
Hawaiian exchanges as late as May 9TH:
The entire theater-gong world is on the
qui vive for the anticipated appearance Of
Benhardt there con or about May It'll"
The Commercial Advertiser says: The
full consequences Of the change in the
United States tariff as affecting Hawaii have
not yet been felt, or. indeed, accurately
gagged. However, one thing is tolerably
certain. and that is that our sugar planters
will receive much lower prices for their
produce than have ruled since the great de-
preston of six years ago, and that values of
property generally must fall considerably.
Her Majesty the Queen and party departed
May 9TH for a tour around the islands of
Hawaii and Maui, to be absent probably
six weeks. Mahukona, Hilo, Puma, Kan
and KOna, on Hawaii, and Wailuka and
Lahalna, on Maui, Will be visited. Pro-
feSsor II. Berger and the full Royal Ha-
walian Band accompany the party.
OCEAN TELEGRAPH BILL.
The failure of the United States Congress
to pass the Ocean Telegraph Bill is much
deplOred IN Honolulu, and telegraph COM
muncatiOn with the coast is being spoken
Of in connection with Vancouver, which one
authority says, viii answer the purpose OF
putting the kingdom in communication
with the worlds great arterial telegraphic
pulse.
The crater of Kilauea is said 10 be again
filing up with lava. Three weeks after the
great collapse, in March, which engulfed
Halemaumau, Dana Lake and New Lake
lava began to reappear and by the 26th ult. 1t
had risen in the pit about 100 feet, virtually
forming a lake of liquid lava go to 500 feet
in diameter. The level of this lake is now
reported to be rising and falling as
much as forty to fifty feet within an hour, a
most splendid sight
The first issue of the Hawaii Holomua, in
weekly form, appeared May I'd. There will
be a daily of the same name, both daily and
week printed in the native language. Mr..
Joseph PoepOe is the editor of the new
paper
The Hon. H. P. Bald win of Haiku, Maui,
has sent gift of $1,000 To the Hawaiian
Board of Missions and another of $500 for
the Portuguese Protestant chapel at Hllo.
VEGETABLES.
The Hawaiian Gazette says: No country
is worth map room until Ii can raise its own
vegetables and make its own boots and
shoes. To see Honolulu sending to San
Francisco Tor ca0DageS, squash, beetS,
oranges and turnips should make the statue
of Kamehameha weep. We tell the world
that Hawaii has a wonderful climate and
soil; true, but why don't people utilize the
same? The best thing that could happen
to this country would be a heavy duty on
vegetables, hay. feed and all articles that
can be manufactured here, such as boots,
doors, wagons, harness, etc. Then make
manufacturing plants ard vegetable gar
dens, etc, exempt from taxes for term
of years, or encourage them in some suit
able way.
The China steamer MokoIli, which ar
rived at Honolulu. had on board in a Chinese
trunk, marked Questionable with care"
400 one pound tins of opium, which were
seized by the authorities.
On the ID of May the Minister Of Finance
addressed the Postmaster General request
ing his resignation, 20 take effect the 18th
inst. This action is said to be taken at the
instance of the Queen.
Frequent reference is made to a suspicious
vessel, said to be the schooner Halcyon,
which for the past three or four weeks has
been lowering off Mani, MolOkai and Lanai,
aud believed to be smuggling opium ashore.
Fires have been built nightly on the hills,
which are believed to be signal lights for
the schooner