The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-02-24
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
BIaine's Reciprocity.

Lie ". .. uOFerumouU mas ABOUT
concluded it's arrangements with
Brazil for reciprocity. February
9Th President Harrison issued a
proclamation setting forth the fact
and announcing the goods to be
imported free of duty from Brazil.
The articles mentioned are sugar,
molasses, coffee and hides. In con-
sideration thereof Brazil admits
free of duty all grains and pro-
ducts thereof, vegetables, meats,
oils, Goals, forest productions, all
kinds of machinery except sewing
machines, instruments and books
for the arts and SCIENCES, railway
construction material and equip
ment Besides this Brazil has re-
duced tariffs twenty five per cent
on all other articles of American
manufacture that are dutiable.
This reciprocity means a reduc
ton of 100000 of Brazilian i'm
ports from America. The present
annual importations of sugar from
Brazil amounts to $4,000 tons;
under the stimulous of the recipro-
city treaty it is expected the ship
ments will amount to 100000 next
year while the succeeding year it
will foot up 100000 tons. 1t is
estimated that in three years Bra
zil will pay the United States for
her manufactures and imports at
least s25, 100000.
| A Tin Deposit Discovered.
The largest and richest tin
mines known to the mining indus
try has been discovered forty-five
miles from Durango, Mexico. The
owner of the mine, John Perish
baker, of San Francisco, says the
vein is a remarkable one of ore
over four feet wide, composed of a
solid mass of oxide of tin assaying
from fifty to sixty per cent of pure
metal.
Coal Discovery in Guaymas.
TUscoN, A. r., February 18TH
A star special from San Marcia
Sonora, Mexico, says: At depth
of 400 feet twenty-five feet of solid
anthracite coal of the best quality
was discovered. The diamond
: drill is still in the coal. This is the
seventh vein struck from the sur
face, four of six feet in width anC
two of five feet. The coal fields
are sixty miles from Guaymas
This is the only coal IN the State.
, IreIand's Next Crisis at Hand
LONDON. Feb. ct is expected
that at the meeting of Mccarthy
ties next Thursday letter from
Mr.. Gladstone will be read, setting
forth his views on the Irish ques
ton. After this is done a meeting
of the entire Irish Parliamentary
2 party will be held, when Mr.
Parnell will announce the terms OF
which he surrenders the chairman
ship and state his intentions for th
, future.
Annexation Means a War.
z OTTAWA, Ont, Feb. Gin in
dorsing Sir John McDonald's re
stricted reciprocity offer to tn
r United States and opposing any
: thing more radical, which Nigh
9 tend toward annexation, Hon. Viii
J. liam McDougall writes to Erastu
d Wiman: Il regard annexation a
\ unattainable in our day except b,
# force, which means war betwee
r England and Canada on the on
= side and the United States on tn
o other"
u Pension Appropriations.
2 The Pension bill appropriates TO
this years pensions S133, 173 ,095
q for fees and expenses of examinin,
= surgeons, S1,5OO,OOO; for salarie
and clerk hire, 1872, 900; a total Q
= S135, 045,085.
d Canned Goods Trust.
There is a movement on foot il
u California to consolidate the frui
q and vegetable canneries of Cali
fornia. Twenty will join in com
q bine against the Baltimore can
2. neries. The capital behind tn
d enterprise is American. If the com
o blne IS made, then Hawaiians ma,
. expect to pay considerable NOR
for such eatables, and canned fruit
u and vegetables form large part G
l. the Hawaiian trade.