The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-01-17

the French Government for trea-
son. He is 4 leading Roya!ist
store steamers.
The Australians are coming 10
the Worlds Fair at Chicago in
style. The Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company has
been petitioned through Thomas
Cook & Son, the excursion agents,
to. run some of their celebrated
steamers between Sydney and San
Francisco during the progress of
the Worlds Fair. The head office
of this well-known steamship COM
pany is in London, and they do an
enormous passenger trade with the
Australian colonies. Some of the
finest steamers afoat run between
England and Australia. They are
veritable floating palaces.
The feet of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Com
pany is made up of ffty-three
steamers, ranging from 1922 to
1000 tonnage. The Australia is
1000 tonnage, with effective horse
power of 10000. The Himalaya,
Arcadia, Oceana and Victoria are
almost as large. These steamers
will easily accommodate 1000 pas
sengers. There are three classes
first and second saloon and
steerage
Cooks excursionist agents have
consented to charter three of these
magnificent vessels to run between
Sydney and San Francisco, pro-
vided that there is a guarantee
that 5000 people will visit America
in 1898. Lists have been circu-
lated throughout Australia, and at
last accounts 5000 signatures of
intending visitors had already
been secured, so it is safe to pre-
dict that before many months
elapse San Franciscans will have
chance of seeing the most elabo-
rate and best equipped steamers
that ever came into this bay
1t is expected to make the trip
in twenty days. The passage is to
be remarkably cheap, probably $50
in the second saloon and SOS in the
first saloon. The present fare is
5000, so the difference in cost will
result in hundreds coming over
who would otherwise stay at home,
1t will be as cheap to travel as to
live at an ordinary hotel. With
the big railroad cuts, it will be pos
sible to go from Australia to
Chicago for $50. This is a distance
of 10000 miles.
San Francisco will derive con-
siderable benefit from the Aus
tralian travel, as the majority of
the excursionists are sure to visit
the principle cities on this coast.
San Francisco News.
Joe Austin, the well-known Park
Commissioner, has been probably
crippled for life by a fall which
broke his knee-cap.
Robert Searles, of Searles 81
Stone, is dead. He was a pro
minent merchant, and had been i'll
for some time.
Captain R. Chittiden, of Her
Majesty's Royal Navy, is in the
city en- route to Alaska, where he
will take charge of party COM
missioned by the British Museum
to collect data regarding the habits,
customs and religious rites of the
aborigines oflthat land of snow and
ice.
DR.. J. F. Foulkes, ex-police sur
geon of this city, died in Tucson,
Arizona, of consumption, last week.
Frederick Fl. Figel, the clothier,
has failed for $4,000.
The appraisers of the estate of
Maria Coleman have filed their
showing the property to be
worth $1,l57,o 00.
A bill will be introduced in the
Legislature to provide for the con-
struction of a State building in this
city to house the many State Com
The schooner Aloha arrived at
San Francisco or the 29th ult.,
twenty-nine days from Honolulu.
The trip was a miserable one on
account of bad weather and the
sickness of Captain Dabel. During
the whole voyage he was hardly
able to walk, but managed to see
what was going on and give his
orders for the vessels safety.
The application Of the contest
ants in the Blythe case for a re-
hearing has been denied by the
Supreme Court, and the right of
Florence Blythe cannot now be
legally disputed.
Judge Oliver P. Evans, an attor-