The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-04-28

mercial treaty OF reciprocity between the
United States and Brazil. Whether
Brazil will sanction the treaty is deemed
very doubtful
| A special commissioner left San Do
mingo April 9TH for the United States
to conclude a reciprocity treaty on the
lines laid down by Blaine and the Nc
Kinley bill. The trade is about So ESQ.,
600 annually and heavy export charges
are levied by Santo Domingo.
A dispatch has been received by the
Governor General of Canada, announc-
ing that Secretary Blaine has fixed Oct
ober 18th as the date for the coming
reciprocity conference between the
United States and Canada. The Lib
erals of Canada have secured several
bye elections since the general election
treaty being arranged.
No Mail Contract Yet.
Postmaster-Ge General Wanamaker is
evidently in no hurry to give the Ameri-
can steamship lines on the Pacific the
benefits of the Subsidy Bill passed al
the last session of Congress. He has
awarded mail contracts to two South
American lines, but up to the present
time neither the Oceanic Company nor
the Pacific Mail Company have received
any attention. His derilection in this
particular is causing much dissatisfaction
| on this coast.
President Griscome of the Inman
| line, one of the largest transatlantic COM
! panies, is authority for the statement
! that another American line of Atlantic
steamers, aside from the one projected
by Austin Corbin. will very shortly be
established. 1t will consist OF a feet of
thirty vessels, all to be manned by
American seamen. Two vessels, each to
be of 10 500 tons, will be at once built at
cost of $7,000,0 900, and it is reported
that the Cramps have already secured
the contracts for building the vessels
| They will be 527 feet in length SO feet
beam, and will register L 800 horse
power.
MiHer's Party in Central
America.
Dispatches from Greytown state that
! President Warner Miller, OF the Nicar-
aqua Canal Co., and the capitalists who
are with him, have started inland over
the route of the canal and are expected
to reach Nicaragua on the 18th inst.
They will go clear to the Pacific termin-
Gus before returning to New York.
San Francisco News.
r. w. Waterman, Ex-Governor of
! California, died at his residence in San
Diego on April II of pneumonia, after
an illness OF five days. He caught a
cold last week while returning from his
mines in the San Jacinto mountains,
and although he was strong and
healthy man for mis- years, he failed
rapidly from the first. He was sixty-five
years of age at the time of his death and
came to this state in 1850. He won sue
cess at mining and ranching and left an
estate estimated at IS, 10000, which
Gus members of his family. He was
sole owner of the Cuymaca railroad,
running out Of San Diego, the Cuya-
maca ranch Of 1000 acres and the fam
GUS Stonewall NINE in San Diego Co.,
| one of the most valuable mining proper
! ties on the Coast. Four years ago Gov
ernor Waterman was elected Lieutenant
Governor on the Republican ticket and
the death of Governor Bartlett, which
| quickly followed, made Mr.. Waterman
chief executive of the state. His adj
ministration was not very popular owing
to the fact that he was not poll
tician and that he was influenced
in his official acts by INSCRIPTIONS ad-
visers.
a private letter from Cajulco, San
Bernardino County, gives further details
OF the reduction OF tin ores in the small
test mill and the reverberatory furnace,
which have a capacity of about eight
tons of ore per day. The unsolicited ores
| yielded over ten per cent of metallic tin.
rhe second run OF the furnace was to be
| begun yesterday, and the results will be
forwarded as an exhibit TO the San Fran
cisco Board of Trade. The present open
ing in the Cajulco mine alone will give
daily output of 100 tons OF ore. A large
mill and reduction works for working
200 tons per day will be ready for work
by June LIST. Congressman Bowers has
sent Mr.. Mckinley large piece of tin
and fine bar of the metal
There is every indication that labor
and capital in San Francisco are about
to enter into bitter struggle for suprem
acy. On Saturday night last, owing TO
The exactions OF labor unions, the four
great boot and shoe manufacturers of
This city-Buckingham & Hecht, Porter,
>lessinger & Co., Calen, Nirkelsberger
& Co., and Rosenthal, FEEDER & Co., en-
ploying sixty-five per cent of the boot
and shoe makers of San Francisco,
closed their doors and announced lock-
out by informing their employees that
there would be no more work for them
until further notice. The lockout throws
out of employment 1850 men, women,
youths and girls.
simultaneously with this many of the
contractors, painters, carpenters and
brickmen have united together for the
ostensible purpose of resisting what they
term the unjust demands of labor, but
in reality to fight the Federated Trades
unions If all the employers are earnest
in their intentions not to accede to
the demands of the laboring element a
struggle such as has never been wit
messed west OF the Rockies will be the
result
A dispatch from Pleasanton, Alameda
county, announces that a blowing gas
well has been discovered in the Odd |
Fellows cemetery at that place. The |
gas was struck at depth Of about one
hundred feet. 1t throws seven-inch |
blaze ten feet high. Great excitement |
prevails in that section.
The production Of the opera Girofe- |