The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-13
SANFRANCISCO LETTER
Latest News Adviees per P. NJ. S. S.
China, December 9Th.

China, December 9Th.
(From our special correspondent
The Monowai will be two DAYS
late, on account of delay of the
mail steamers on the Atlantic.
Sugar.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9th. - Cuban
Centrifugal, 90 dogs, 80 cents !;
granulated, 69-1OO cents.
The local market is quiet and
unchanged.
A $4,000 Suit.
Claus SpTeckels has brought suit
against Charles R. Bishop to re-
cover $1,000. 1t is alleged that
on November the 9Th, 1892, the de-
PENDANT agreed to sell Spreckels for
$4,000 the promissory note of @.
W. Macfarlane made to c. r.
Bishop & Co. for 100000 and
over, together with one-half of the
shares of the capital stock of the
Waikapu Plantation Company
that is to say, 1850 shares. Mr..
Bishop has informed Spreckels that
he viii not do as he bargained.
Spreckels sets his damages at the
figure for which suit is brought.
The chances are that all of the
outside stock viii go into the hands
of Spreekels.
Much interest is felt over the
situation in Hawaiian Commercial.
The stockholders have been as
sessed 50 per share, which it is not
believed they viii pay.
No Canadian Line.
The Canadian Pacific Railway
officials at Victoria say they know
absolutely nothing concerning the
reports sent out from San Fran
cisco that their company viii put
On two steamers between Honolulu
and Vancouver on January 1st.
The report, they say, no doubt
grew out of the report that a line
would be put In operation at that
time from Tacoma to Honolulu
Death of Jay Could.
Jay Gould, the Napoleon of the
financial world, and one Of the
greatest figures in the history of
finance in this country, died on
December I'd of pulmonary con-
sumption. He was Sc years old,
and leaves a daughter and two
sons. His estate is worth $780,
100000, and consists largely in
railroad and Western Union tele-
graph stock. Gould was farm
er's son and began life as an as
sistant country surveyor. 1t is
not known how his estate is di-
vided.
Earthquake At La Union.
The town Of La Union on the
Gulf OF Fonseca was nearly de-
stroyed by earthquake on Oct. Is.
Strange to say, there was no loss of
Life, although over half the houses
In the place were shaken down in
the night, cathedral with tower
knocked into a pile Of stones, and
a dozen people had hairbreadth es-
capes. Only ten people were in
any way injured by the falling
houses, and they suffered broken
arms and legs and heavy bruises.
San Francisco Nevs.
During the past fortnight ter
rible rain storm has ragged over the
Coast. About ten inches of rain,
In all, fell. The gale at one time
rose to y miles an hour and much
damage was done on the bay. In
the city the loss is restricted to
sewers being caved in, two new
houses blown down and many
fallen chimneys.
The rightful King of Tahiti, who
would rule now were it not for
French ownership of the islands,
came to San Francisco recently
and went to his island home per
the brig Galilee on the 1st.
On the 30th, nit. the State Su-
preme Court handed down a decis-
ion in the famous Blythe case.
Judge Coffey's decision, giving
Florence Blythe-Hinckley the prop
erty, is sustained and the young
lady is now the possessor of prop
erty worth about 100000. She
viii have to pay plaintiff Alice
Edith Dickson, the alleged widow
and real mistress of the late unla-
mented Blythe, and her attorneys,
". II. II. Hart, ". W. Foote, Judge
John Fl. Boalt, T. I. Bergin and 81.
]. Kowalsky, about 100000. 1t
is said that the lawyers and Flor
enee viii organize the Blythe Com
pany and manage the property. a
six-story building on the Blythe
property is contemplated.
Martin Corcoran, a prominent
steamship man, died recently of
Inflammation Of the bowels.
The Holmes Comet, which Great
ed such stir in astronomical cir