The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-04-17


trifugals, SO degrees, 2.90 cents; granu-
lated unchanged.
The Sar Francisco market is be
coming more active. Receipts from
Hawaii continue of good volume.
The Hawaiian MIDDLE.
The Hawaiian muddle is expected
to occupy considerable portion of
the time of the Senate towards the
end of this week.
The Cleveland Administration got a
hard blow from Senator David B. Hill
on the 9th. For some days it has been
known that Hill was Illuminating an
attack on the Administration and the
Wilson bill, and on the day mentioned
the speech came. Regarding the Ha-
waiian policy of the Government, Mr..
Hill said:
SIT is otdenied some mistakes have
occurred. Our foreign policy, espe-
cially that relating to Hawaii, it must
be admitted, has not met the expecta-
lions of the people. A sense of humIli-
alton prevailed Va en- the project for
restoration of deposed monarch was
unfoIded by the Administration, and
qualification ensued when its aban-
donment or failure was reluctantly
announced, influenced largely by an
aroused public sentiment. That I'M
fortunate contemplated policy was
blunder. and q blunder is sometimes
worse than q crime. 1t was, however,
the natural consequence which might
well have been anticipated from that
other mistake in placing the Depart
ment of State in charge OF Repub-
lican statesman, distinguished and es-
timable though he may be, whose
views have always been Identified In
opposition to the Democratic party,
who was without sympathy for its
traditions and purposes, and whose
political convictions upon the dis
puted public questions of the day, If
changed at all, are carefully con-
cealed. 1t is TO be regretted that the
President should not have been able
to find in his own party some hon
ored statesman in whom he and his
party could have placed confidence,
one of Democratic instincts and train
ing, whose management of foreign
affairs would have reflected credit
upon the country, and would have
avoided the PRONUNCIATION of the I'M
American policy-a departure from
Democratic presidents = which was
sought to be forced upon an unwilling
people. In this view of the situation,
our opponents must accept some share
of the responsibility of plumbers COM
mitted IN our foreign affairs"
Theo. III. Davies, guardian of Kaiu-
lani, has been talking some more. He
departed for England on the 9th inst.
from New York.
Hawaii Being Misrepresented.
Cons derable complaint is being
made by visitors to the Midwinter
Fair that the Hawaiian cafe, oper-
ated by ID. O.. CamarinOs, is not what
it should be, if Hawaii is to be repre-
seuted. The cafe advertises kona
coffee as its speciality, and the object
is to advance consumption or the
article. Your correspondent tried
some of that "KOna coffee" at the
cafe not long since, and the liquid
served utterly belied the name. The
coffee was what would be called sec
ond rate s'railroad- eating house" cof-
fee in this country. Further, the
meat served in the cafe was tainted.
This is certainly not calculated to al
vance Hawaii's reputation among Wis
itorS.
The Trouble in Samoa.
A cable from London dated the 9th
says: Sir Charles Dixie presided to-
day at meeting of the members of
the Colonial party of the House of
Commons. Among those present was
Hugh NJ. Nelson, Prime Minister of
Queensland. He made a speech deal
ing with the question of Pacific
cable, urging that nothing would
bind the empire closer together than
the cable to Australia. He also
maintained that the mail route to
Australia, by way of Canada, ought
to be given imperial support. A long
letter was received from a gentleman
who for fifty years has been a resident
of Samoa. The writer declares that
the triple control of the Samoan
Islands has failed and urges the an
nexation of the group by Great Brit
ain. After debating the question, the
meeting resolved that in view of the
Importance of the British inter
ests in Samoa, the Imperial Gov
eminent should at an early mo-
Private advices received from Samoa
are to the effect that seventeen chiefs
were summoned before Chief Justice
Ide and obliged to withdraw their
complaints against the Government.
The chiefs, however, stuck to their
protests against disarming the natives
which was strongly resented. The
trial of ALPHA and other chiefs of the
Aana tribe ended Feb. I'd. The court
pronounced a sentence OF two years
imprisonment at hard labor against
ALPHA and $50 to 500 fine against the
other chiefs.
LONDON, April "a dispatch from
Berlin says that the Vessisch Zeitung
publishes letter from Samoa declar-
ing that the natives are well aware
that most of the foreign residents as
well as themselves are tired OF the
triple government. The exchequer is
still empty The English, German
and American men-of war which
were sent away have not returned.
Business is at standstill and the
spirits of the people are low. The
only ray of hope is the most welcome