The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-04-25
Sugar.


The local market has advanced
cent in sympathy with the advance il
the East. Granulated is quoted at 3
cents. Receipts of Hawaiian con
tinue to be large.
There is considerable talk of the
Democrats putting an ad valorem taN
on raw sugar at the next session o
Congress. Reports from Washington
indicate that the Democrats will re-
organize the entire tariff system or
a basis of an ad valorem tax, and it Is
believed that for purposes of revenue
the tax on raw sugar will be placed 50
as to yield about one cent per pound.
This, of course, will be a direct benefit
to the Hawaiian planters.
The Cholera Scouree.-
Dispatches from many parts of Eu-
rope show that the cholera is spread
ing and it is generally believed that
the epidemic will sweep the European
continent as soon as hot weather
comes. The following dispatches show
the situation:
ST. PETERSBURG, April Snow
scarcely 4 doubt is entertained by
those aware of the real situation that
Russia is to suffer again from the raw
ages of cholera. With the slightly
warmer weather the official reports,
incomplete as they are, show reeur-
renee Of the disease in nearly all the
places in which it wrought such fright
full havoc last summer and autumn.
Official returns have been made pub
lie showing that from March 18th 10
March Goth there were siXty-five cases
OF cholera and nineteen deaths from
the disease in the town Of Orel. The
official figures place the number OF
cases reported from March 18th to
March 9th in the government of
Oofa at eighty-four and deaths at
twenty-nine. From March 22d TO
March 10Th there We're ten cases and
four deaths in the government Of Vel
isavetpol.
In addition, it Is a matter OF COM
mon knowledge that the number of
cholera cases and deaths from the
scourge are far more numerous in the
governments that are not included in
the returns. This is especially the
case in Podolia and Saratoff, which
were ravaged by cholera last year. 1t
is impossible, however, to obtain the
actual number Of cases and deaths.
PARIS, April 4.-Seventy deaths
have been recorded at Torrent, near
Brest, during the last fortnight from q
mild form of cholera. LOrient is
notorious as the hotbed of fever dis.
eases, due TO the utter absence of
drainage. a slight epidemic occurred
here last November. The mortality in
the garrison has been very heavy for
years.
The Government has hushed up the
present outbreak, but il j. estimated
that 200 persons have been attacked.
The disease is still spreading.
LONDON. APRIL Sine British Gov
eminent has sent q circular 10 the /.
Post Offices in Great Britain and Ire I
land notifying them that since March I
22d there have been fifty-one deaths /.
from cholera in LOrient. in the De- 4
partment Of Morbiham, France
LONDON, April S.-If last years de- I
vastations Of the scourge We're not I
fresh in the public mind, Europe /
would be already in q cholera panic. /
The disease probably exists to-day in .
q larger number of towns than when 4
the epidemic was at its height in
Hamburg last summer. The criminal I
y
pursued in many places The most
outrageous are in towns on the north
ern cOast of France, where ii is known
that nearly a hundred deaths have Oc-
CURED within fortnight. Russia ac-
knowledges several hundred deaths
over her vast extent of territory, and
il can only be guessed how much this
is short OF the truth.
l. - ss-s,,
columns Of the ST. Petersburg news
papers for the services of doctors in
infected districts indicate how great
is the emergency. Not q single medi-
cal or scientific advantage Is yet an
nounced as the result of the cholera
at Dresden. The object
there sought has been solely how to
mitigate the commercial evils of the
epidemic.
The early return of the scourge has
given q lively impetus to sanitary pre-
cautions throughout Europe. A spring
housekeeping, such as the old world
never saw before, is in vigorous pro-
gress. The general sanitary condition
Of Europe on May 1st will be the best
ever enjoyed.
BERLIN, April I0.-Dr. Haffkine
mas written nom 1nQla 10 the RUSSIAN
papers that he has conquered cholera
by the incubation method. He says he
has inoculated hundreds of persons
with positive results and promises 10
give his method to the world on his
return from India.
NEW YORK, April 6.-While Health
Officer Jenkins of this port is sublime
in his confidence, the sentiment of the
doctors attending the International
Of Health Boards at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel is that cholera
will surely visit the United States (
his summer. Those who attended
he second days session represented I
twenty-five States and Canada.
DR.. Jenkins, in an address to the
conference last evening, declared that
his port would be able to cope with !
he disease in better shape than last
,ear. but still the members of the con-
erenee were somewhat skepticaL
Experts sent TO Chicago by the
British Government to investigate
be sanitary condition of the Worlds
rair CITY, report that there is no dan
er of the plague becoming epidemic
here.