The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30
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the Hawaiian Government in the faith
tuI discharge of its treaty Obligations"
The official and diplomatic correspond
ence did not show in the claims made
through the acting British Consul, Mr..
Theo. II. Davies, whether, in the event
of the duties being RENTED, Mr.. The
ophilus H. Davies, the trader, would
make corresponding rebates to his
customers, and none have been found
who for a moment believed that he
would do so.
Great Britain opposed any extension
of our reciprocity treaty with Hawaii,
and also the cession of Pearl River
harbor to the United States. Again,
when the subject of trans Pacific cable
was mooted in 1884, to touch at the
Hawaiian Islands, the local Legislature
provided that the terminus of the cable
should be at or near San Francisco, and
not in British Columbia This drew
from the British Commissioner, Major
Wodehouse, protest against the grant
ing of exclusive privileges to any per
sons for the landing of a cable from any
British territory on any of the Hawaiian
Islands, to which he received reply
that the Hawaiian Government had the
fright to control the matter as they be-
lieved best"
On December %, 1887, the Minister
of Great Britain at Washington en-
deavored to secure the concurrence of
the United States to the equal accessi-
bility of the Islands and their harbors
to the ships of all nations without pre-.
ference forwarding a memorandum
from Lord Salisbury to Mr. L. F.
Bayard, who was then our Secretary of
State. While Mr.. Bayard was declin-
ing in February, 1888, to fall in with
the views of Lord Salisbury, the British
Commissioner was entering his protest
at Honolulu against the exclusive grant
OF Pearl River harbor to this country
under instructions from her Majesty's
Government" English influence in Ha
wall is further strengthened through the
deposed Queen Liliuokalani's favorite, a
man named Wills N, who is a semi
English Tahltian, an ext fficeholder,
and a man whose relations with the
ex-Queen have been notorious.
A year ago this month an official
despatch from our Minister at Hunolu-
lu to the Secretary Of State made for
ther mention of Mr.. TheophiIus Davies
and his anti-AmeriCan lntrigues, in
connection with which it is of interest
to remember that Mr.. Theophius
Davies was formerly the British Con-
ul-General at Honolulu and a British
trader; that he is still interested in the
business house Of T. H. Davies & c.,
which is local agent f the Canadian
Pacific Railroad, and has lately become
agent for the Australian Canadian
Steamship line. The extract from the
despatch, Oct, 81, 1882, reads as fol-
lows
The recent arrival here from Eng
land of T. H. Davies, the head If a
strong English house in Honolulu, for
merly a resident here for many years,
has served to intensity the ultra. Eng
lish feeling and strengthen the Americ-
an sentiment. This T. H. Davies hav.
ing made himself rich under the sugar
provisions of the reciprocity treaty, now
resides in England, and has kind Of
supervisory care of the half-white Ha-
waian Crown Princess, for several
years and still at school in England.
When a resident here at the time the
Pearl harbor provision was pending,
Davies strongly opposed that provi-
sion. He comes now with revived zeal
against the Pearl harbor concession.
1t is not thought that he has any en-
Couragement to this course from the
home Government of England, but
that his course is his own, and that his
zeal is increased by the Canadian Pac-
iiC Railroad managers, Of whom Davies
is the agent. The desperate efforts Of
that road to save itself embrace the
scheme of a cable, and Pacific steamer
lines to Australia and China, including
the design Of antagonizing the interests
Of the United States in these islands"
A deficit in Hawaiian finances dur
ing the reign Of King Kalakaua neces-
stated the floating of loan to pay his
wasteful and disgraceful junketing ex-
penses, his jubilee festivities, the equip
ment of navy and his military forces
and such like. This Hawaiian loan af-
forded the greatest opportunities for
Hawaiian fnanciering. 1t was as
dainty job as Jay Gould ever put up
on Wall street After being offered in
the United States, where no takers
could be found, chiefly owing to the
opposition of Claus Spreckels, who was
not sin the ring" financial agent was
shipped off to London. 1t took nearly
two years to float the $4,000, 900 worth
of Hawaiian Government bonds, and
then it was achieved only by the aid of
the English money lenders, prominent
among whom was Abraham n, ffnung,
who was subsequently rewarded with
sundry Kanaka decorations and the
position of Charge d'Affaires at the
Court of ST. James's.
But this was not all that Abraham
secured, by any means, The total cost
of floating the loan amounted to IS
per cent of the whole, which was
divided up by somebody. The exact
details of this commission were never