The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-11
SANFRANCISCO LETTER
News AdviCes 10 August 81, per
0, ). s. Australia.
From Our Own Correspondent,
Sugar.

The local market is steady, and
the demand good. Willet & Gray,
of New York, place the consump-
ton of sugar in the United States
for the first half of the current cal.
endar year at 882,735 tons, OF
$500 tons less than for the same
time last year. The same firm
estimate the consumption for the
last half of the year at 100000
tons. The consumption is always
largest in the last six months OF
the year. Low prices form the
liberal estimate made for the last
half of the current year.
Rice.
The greater portion of late re-
eeipts ex Australia was sold ex
wharf at AZ cents net. At this
figure jobbers were disposed to
buy, and sales were the largest OF
the year. Last steamer from Japan
brought 1920 bags of rice, bought
on orders, cost price, C. j. f., duty
added, a cents.
v Pearl River Harbor.
1t is unofficially stated at Wash
ington that the State Department
is certain of securing Pearl River
Harbor as a naval station. 1t is
said that negotiations to that end
are we'll along and that the Depart
ment of State as well as the Navy
Department are urgeing matters as
much as possible.
A dispatch from Washington
says: 1t is considered almost
certain that the United States will
acquire Pearl River, Honolulu, as a
coaling station. The Secretary of
the Navy and the Secretary of State
have been in consultation upon
this subject recently, and at their
suggestion $250,000 was put in the
sundry civil bill in Conference
Comittee for a coaling station"
It is understood at the Navy De-
partment that this sum is for the
requirement of the Honolulu sta
ton and that arrangements are
completed to the point of payment.
In the treaty recently negotiated
with Hawaii it was stipulated that
the United States could establish
u coaling station on the Pearl River,
provided $25O,000 was first ex-
pended in dredging the channel
IF the United States gets this valu-
able concession it will bitterly dis
appoint British interests now seek.
ing it.
Another King Dead.
Captain William Greig, who was
known all over the Pacific ocean
as the "King of Tanning Island,
is dead. He died at the residence
Of his son-in-law, Captain J. Reid
932 Fillmore street, at 9 o'clock
on the evening of the 9th ult.
at the advanced age of seventy
one. Captain Greig was a native
of Ayr, Scotland, and went to sea
before he had got into his teens
AT the age of twenty-three he wa
master Of fine bark trading from
Great Britain to the ports of South
America. Forty years ago he made
his first and only voyage to tn
Pacific, and left his vessel in Val
paraiso. From there he went t.
Honolulu, and spent several years
trading among the islands. Thirty
five years ago he bought a schoone
and went to Tanning island, the
owned by an English firm.
Greig liked the place and under
took to develop a trade in guanC
but the firm failed and Grei
bought the entire island fror
them. His first move was to &c
married, but in order to do so b
had to go to Honolulu, nearly
thousand miles away. The DARN
Seotchman made the voyage safel
and carried his bride back to h
lonely island kingdom. He the
sailed in his schooner
onest of labor to work the guar
deposits and look after the b
Grove of cocoanut trees which WEI
growing on the island.
Contented and happy, Gre
nassed many years on the lit
island and reared his family, ca
ing nothing for the world fro
which he was divided by hundred
of miles of broad ocean.
TIE first visitors to CAPITA
Greig and his island home were
couple of British warships, Il
Caroline and Cormorant, COZ
manded by Captain Sir Villa
Wiseman, who presented Gre
with a handsome flag and plac
the island under British protectic
On the following day the emit
crews of the ships landed, and t
flag was hoisted and honored wi
a royal salute.
Greig entertained his visitC
royally, and was dubbed by
officers of the ship as "The XII
of flaming Island"
Coon after Greip took possess