The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1892-10-24
SANFRANCISCO LETTER
News Advices to Oct. 18th. per
K. II. s. s. Alameda.

tFrom our San Francisco Correspondent
The steamer Alameda sails one
day behind her schedule time on
account of a delay of the vessels
crossing the Atlantic with the
English mails.
Sugar.
New YORK, October 15.-Cuban
Centrifugal, 96 degrees, $3.594,
granulated, $5.1S. The advance
in granulated is said to be due to
the active trade.
The local markets. fairly active;
receipts light Two steamers and
a bark are announced as up and
loading Java sugar for this port.
Uneasy About Hawaii.
A dispatch from Washington
dated October Sd says: Accord
ing to late advices received at the
State Department from Minister
Stevens affairs on the Hawaiian
islands are going from bad to
worse. Serious political troubles
which may develop into revolu-
ton are feared. The dissatisfaction
which caused the resignation of the
old Ministry is said to have been
greatly increased by the appoint
ment of the new Ministry, which
contains Samuel Parker and Paul
Neumann, two Of the officers who
were rejected by the Legislature
when the first Ministry was formed.
A resolution of censure was pro-
posed against the parties response
bic for the reappointment of the
two men named. Though it failed
to pass the Legislature by one vote
it has intensified the feeling.
"a private letter received here
to-day by naval officer says affairs
are approaching a serious political
crisis. That the State Department
views the situation with some con-
Germ is shown by a request from
Secretary John w. Foster that
orders for the cruiser Boston to
leave Honolulu for Acapulco, where
she was to join Rear-Admiral Che
radi's special fleet, be countermand-
ed, and that the Alliance be kept at
Honolulu until affairs became more
tranquil. The Navy Department
promptly accquiesced.
" Telegraphic instructions to this
effect were sent to San Francisco
on Saturday last, and are in the
mail which left there by the
steamer for Honolulu the same day.
The orders for the Boston to sail
were sent by the Alliance, which
left San Francisco early last week,
and it may happen that the Boston
will leave there before the mail
steamer arrives with the counter
manded orders. In that event
another vessel will be sent from
San Francisco to join the Alliance
in looking after American interests
in Hawaii.
THE chief concern felt by the
State and naval officers at the
situation grows out of the POSSIBILITY
of something happening to destroy
our chances of securing control o
Pearl harbor as coaling station
According to treaty already exist
ing the United States has tn,
exclusive right to enter Pearl har
Dor, in the island of Oahu, and t.
establish and maintain there
coaling and repair station for th
use of vessels of the United States
An appropriation of $4,000 i
available for dredging the entranc
to the harbor, and negotiations ar
satisfactorily progressing througI
Minister Stevens which will 500
place the United States in contrc
ofPearl harbor if nothing untowar
occur"
The Cholera.
View York is now entirely fre
from ch6alera and there is no furthe
fear that itNzill be introduced thi
year at least. THE disease is dt
creasing through hout Europe and a
cold weather isf close at hand,
will soon be att an end. Thus ia
there have been at Hamburg II, &c
cases and 1886 deaths since th
city was first visited by the plagu
Stanhopef the New York Heral
correspondent who was inocculate
by cholera germs and slept wit
cholera patients in Hamburg di
not contract the disease and
now well. He was feted by Par
journalists for his bravery.
1t is said that the plague i
Hamburg will surely be followe
by a severe famine this winter.
The BIackbird Steamer.
The steamer Monsarrat, whic
sailed from San Francisco on tt
23d of April last, on a blackbirdir