The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-01-24

The local market Is steady. Vel
lows rule triie lower.
American Matters.
The prospects for the Government
pier at Pago-Pago harbor sre excel
lent. 4 change has come over the
authorities ST Washington. and ap-
preparations will undoubtedly be
msde for the nesdful improvements.
4 despatch from Washington.
dated the 4th, says There Is every
prospect that q bill to reimburse
Samoa will soon be heard and passed
IN the House. This Is the case of
the wsr ship Vsndslis, which, after
the great hurricane at Apls, was pre-
sented 10 the Samoan Government.
& contract was made with Wright
man Brothers, of San Francisco, to
wreck the vessel and ship the wreck
age to the United States to be sold.
Contrary to all calculations, the Col
lector of Customs at San Francisco
insisted that duties should be paid.
there being nothing in the law to
warrant the landing Of the stuff duty
free. 1t was TO restore the amount
thus collected-sbout SSOO0-thst
the bill was introduced"
The Panama Railroad.
Notwithstanding the order of the
Court eDjoining the Psnsms Rail
road Company from doing business
with any line but the Pacific Mail,
the former has notified the Chilean
snd English companies running up
the coast to Panama that after Feb
rusry LIST no goods 10 or from New
York Will be granted through bills
of lsding by way Of the Pacific Msil
Line. This action benefits the Eng
hsh lines through Magellan straits
who expect TO do largely increased
business by way OF Liverpool.
The North American Company Of
San Francisco will. il is said, be
ready to run steamers by February
1st-
The Nicaragua Canal.
A despatch from Tallahassee, Fla.
says: Delegates from nearly every
county in Florida were present to
day at the Niearagus canal confer
ence called by Congressional dis
tricts, but after@grd consolidated.
Elk Governor Fleming presided and
delivered the opening address State
Senator James P. Wall of Tampa
presented resolutions which we're
unanimously adopted.
The resolutions declare that the
Government should control the canal: |
that the canal Is necessity and |
demands the immediate attention Of |
Congress; that the bill now in the |
Senate secured absolute control of |
the canal to the United States; that |
Florids's representatives at Wash |
ipgton should do all in their power
TO secure the Endorsement of the /
$I0l.000.000 in bonds necessary to /
complete the canal, the bonds to be
controlled as designated in the bill /
before the Nstiousl Senate, and that
such g canal under the control of
the United States would be of inesti-
msble value to the country in case
of war.
Bish-Toned SmussIers.
a Tacoma, Washington, dispatch
says: 4 grest sensation was csused
here and all along Puget Sound to
dsy by the visit of two customs in
spectors to the new manufacturing
town of Everett and the spicy devel-
opments that followed their trip.
Mackenzie and Guptil. customs In
spectors. went there from Sesttle this
and it IS reported on good
suthority that they struck 8 nest of
smugglers who hsd in their posses
sion $4,000 worth of silks snd other
dress goods supposed TO have been
smuggIed in from British Columbis.
The central figure in this snug
Cling affair Is Liable de Is CroiI de
Csstries. retired Catholic priest.
The lady In the case Is niece of
De Is Croix de Cgstries. named
Asdsme de Is Chase. whose husband
s in business st San Francisco.
The goods were struggled IN
.ighry large trunks
American News.
james G. Blaine Is again on the
7erge Of desth. snd according TO the {
dispatches the end is 8 :
nstter of only few hours Mr..
Blaine hiss hsd another relapse snd I
us family long since gave up hope. !
The last relapse came on the Sth I
nSt.
One hundred cosl bsrges were [
Iestroyed on the Ohio river in and c
bout Cinciunsti on the Sth inst. by {
be breaking Of q series of gorges. b
1t Cincinnati alone forty five barges i
nd one tow boat we're destroyed, G
be loss being $4,000.
New York has been visited by the I
Ephus fever of mild type but It Is t
ortunstely on the waDe-
Brighton, little town near Ssera- e
1ento. has big murder mystery on G
and. The station keeper and tele- v
rsph operator, Miss E. o. Ayres, d