The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-01-12
Sugar.

Granulated, unchanged.
The local market is very quiet. A
cargo of Java sugar consigned to the
Western Refinery arrived during the
past fortnight.
The New Orleans Picayune says of
a single days arrivals of sugar and
molasses in that market, that they
aggregated the vast total of 22S0
hogsheads and 38,9l5 barrels of sugar
and 9161 barrels of molasses," =
the largest arrivals for single day on
record. ''It usually happens in most
markets that when the receipts of
staple products for any single date
vastly exceed the customary average
period of depression of prices en-
sues" No such experience followed
at New Orleans on the day referred
to. "The vast bulk was not only all
sold, but it brought as high if not
higher prices than were current previ-
Gus to the advent of such heavy offer
ings.n
The British freight steamer Houns-
low arrived yesterday from Java via
Japan with 1920 baskets of raw
sugar. The steamer is sixty-siX days
from Souraboya and fifty days from
Passarouang, where the sugar was
loaded, aud thirty-one days from
KuschinotZa, about eighty miles
from Hakodate, where japanese coal
for the trip vas taken on board. Cap
tain Cox says that he experienced
heavy gales most of the way over, and
had very rough trip of it. The
HoGnslow will go to the California
Sugar Refinery Tuesday to discharge.
Pearl Harbor Ours.
A dispatch from Washington dated
the 3lst ult. says: News received
here by the last mail from Honolulu
shows there is political discussion
going on there that will awaken in
terest in the minds OF those who have
occasion to watch our relations with
Hawaii. Theodore III. Davies, form
erly British Vice Consul in Honolulu
and large merchant and importer
of British goods, has made violent
to the United States to estab-
Harbor, resulting in discussion in
Jilc IlttW lCWopopCIo, pdI ViCl-
pated in by many men of prominence.
The Argument turns upon the pro-
priety or policy of extending such
rights to Pearl river as the United
States now enjoys for longer period
than the termination of the present
treaty, which runs out in 1894.
1t may be news to these earnest dis
putants that the United States Gov
ernment holds that its rights to Pearl
river do not expire with the terms of
the treaty. A member of the Senate
Committee OH Foreign Affairs is
authority for this statement. The re-
ciprocity treaty as renewed in 1887
grants certain privileges to Hawaiian
imports for term of years, in return
for which exclusive right to use Pearl
Harbor as coaling station is granted
to the United States. The duration
of the latter right is not stated. The
claim of this Government is that it
has bought the perpetual right by
granting exemption from tariff duties
to certain Hawaiian imports for seven
years.
Since free sugar has taken away the
special character of the privilege
granted to Hawaiian sugar, the Ha-
waiian planters are casting about for
some inducement for this Government
to admit other Hawaiian products
free. They have hit upon an exten-
sion of the Pearl River privilege as an
inducements Some of them are argu
ing to offer to make this privilege per-
petual. Mr.. Davies, ex-British Vice.
Consul, argues against any concession
of the privilege at all, and doubtless
voices the British idea in this. In
deed, Mr.. Davies is now on his way to
England, and it is not improbable that
he goes to lay the matter before the
British Foreign Office.
Mr.. Davies is one of those who
would prefer to see trade relations be-
tween Canada and the islands rather
than the United States. 1t is clear
that neither the British and Canadian
Government nor the Hawaiian Gov
ernment will take kindly to the claim
on the part of this Government that
the price of Pearl River harbor has
already been worked out. The appro-
priation at the last session of S250,000
toward the establishment of naval
station at Pearl river is evidence of
the purpose to claim our rights in the
harbor
Foreign News.
\ new outbreak has occurred in the
Northern Provinces of Mexico, and
CARA, the old revolutionist, is at the
head. Some battles have been fought,
and while GarZa's forces have been
defeated, the outbreak is the most
serious that has occurred since 1876.
Diaz has almost taken the field in
person, so serious has the trouble be-
come.
The first issue of new paper called
the Toronto Sun appeared on the 2lst
ult. It's avowed object is to advocate
the annexation of Canada to the Uni
ted States.
The Earl of Craven is engaged to
Cornelia Martins, daughter or Mr..
Bradley Martins of New York.
Famine is prevalent in the Province
of Tula, Russia.
Lily Langtry is seriously i'll at her
home in London. The illness is
thought to be fatal.
The attempt to promote Worlds
Fair in London in 1895 has proved a
fizzle.
Cholera has broken out again in
Hamburg, and there are many cases
in the hospital in spite of the cold
weather.
A revolution against Hippolyte is
imminent in Hayti.
The City of Madras arrived at
Liverpool on the 17th of December
last with 800 tons Oregon wheat
and 50,400 cs. canned salmon, the