The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-01-21


from public notice for some time
past. Messrs. Livingstone, Clark d
Co, who initiated the enterprise
without any particular encourage
ment, ran the small steamer Faral
lone as an experiment, endeavoring
meanwhile to secure paying sub
sidy from the Hawaiian Govern
ment a bill calling for subsidy
of $4,000 monthly was defeated and
another subsidy of $1,000 was finally
passed.
Messrs. Livingstone & Clark give
it out that they were negotiating the
purchase of two large streamers to
resume the service
They have been inactive SO long,
however, that the rumor spread that
the blg project had been abandoned.
Owners of the fast-sailing feet trad
ing with the islands breathed freer
when the rumor reached them. Yes
terday, however, it leaked out that
the proposition to establish new
steamer service was still on the tapis,
and threatened to take larger proper
tions than at first expected.
The Hawaiian Government has ex-
pressly stipulated in connection with
the voted subsidy of $1,000 monthly
that the company shall employ a
steamer of not less than 1900 tons.
Trips will be made monthly and as
many times oftener as the company
shall desire. Stoppages to take on
and discharge freight and passen-
gers must be made at Honolulu and
Hilo.
1t was admitted by Mr.. Livingstone
of the firm of Livingstone, Clarke d.
Co., last week, that negotiations were
now pending to sell the company's
rights In the affair to a well
shipping capitalist of Los Angeles.
who is said 10 be Walter Maxwell.
The negotiations are about closed
and the new owner will charter two
steamers and commence running
them to the islands.
Heavy Hawaiian Traffic.
Hawaiian traffic, by the way, out
ranks trade with any other country
doing business through the Golden
Gate just now. Both exports and
imports are remarkably heavy, and
with the single exception of wheat to
the United Kingdom there is no vol
ume of trade from any direction to
approach the California products for
which the Ha gaiians are exchang
ing their sugar and tropical fruit.
The sailing feet between here and
the islands is larger than ever be-
fore, and every steamer carries a full
cargo of freight Machinery. lum-
Der and live stock are entering
largely into the exports just now,
and the amount OF sugar mill ma
chinery that is being transported
would indicate increased prosperity
for Kalakaua's realm in this direc-
ton. The S. n Castle, one of six
vessels that have loaded at Mission
1 for Honolulu within a fortnight,
took on two enormous pumps weigh
ing over five tons each this after
noon.
American News.
| Several New York physicians who
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Koch's lymph, have declared against
its use.
Bernhard's American tour is about
to begin. Bernhard is said to be
getting fat, but this Is probably a
gross libel.
Chicago capitalists are working to
connect the Chicago river with the
Mississippi by ship canal to cost
100000.
Victoria has now over twenty
opium refneries, and the imports
amount to about 100000 pounds an.
nually. The opium is nearly all
struggled into the United States.
1t Is said that seven more vessels
are to be- cent to the Behring sea
next summer to guard the sealing
interests.
The were two sharp shocks OF
earthquake felt throughout the
States on the I'd inst.
Just before Governor Waterman
retired from Office, he pardoned
Creighton aud Northey. the in.
famous jury bribers. This was the
GROWING infamy of Waterman's in.
} famous administration of the Gov
ernor's Office.
H. j. Ames, who was an inmate oil
Charles r. Hammond's notorious
Cleveland street house in London
and who escaped with Hammond te
this country, has made statement
naming seven of the men who visited
the house, among them the Earl Eus
ton and Lord Arthur Somerset.
NJ. Van Marcke, one of the most
noted cattle painters in the world
died In France. on the 7th inst. His
paintings are widely known in
America.
The cage on the elevator shaft in
the Utica mine at Angels Camp, near
San Andreas, dropped distance of
450 feet, the 9Th inst, and ten men
were killed. The accident occurred
at noon when a shift of men was
beirg raised TO the surface. After
the cage had fallen that distance, it
went into stump containing about