The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-26
The Crew Of the KearSarge Saved
From Roncador Reef.
INCOME TAX FOR SUGAR BARONs
The Canadian Australian Steamship
Line Sugar Goes Up n Point
Louisiana Senators Want Sugar on the
DutiabIe List-Other Items of News.


The San Francisco market is firmer
the Western Refinery having ad.
vanced prices quarter of a cent. Gran
Mated is now quoted at cents
The Senate Finance Committee is
still struggling with the tariff bill and
one of the chief snags is sugar The
Louisiana Senators are making .
bitter fight to have sugar placed Oh
the dutiabIe list and insist on gradu-
ated tax which will insure II cents on
raw. The other members Of the COM
mittee with the exception of Mills
who wants free sugar-are reported to
favor a duty of L cent. A report from
the committee is expected on the Goth
and if any duty is added it will be OF
great benefit to Hawaiian planters.
The New York World in computing
the income tax that could possibly be
collected in New York rates two well
known sugar millionaires as follows:
Thee. A. Havemeyer, worth $780,
100000 made in sugar refining with
Havemeyer Sugar Refining Company
and Havemeyer and Elder Sugar Re-
filming Company. Annual income,
come tax, $4,000.
Henry o. Havemeyer and Mrs. HI.
D. Havemeyer, jointly worth $780,
900, 900, made in sugar refining. Mrs.
Havemeyer was Miss Elder. An
nuaI income, $1,5O0,0O0; daily in
come, $4103; income tax, $4,000.
A deputation consisting of the high
commissioner for Canada, several of
the Australian agents-general, and
Mr.. Huddart, waited upon the Mar
quis of Ripon recently with reference
to the Canada-Australian steamship
service. The Secretary of State for
the Colonies, says an exchange,
"seems to have been impressed with
the Importance of the representations
made to him, and it is to be hoped
that, in the interests of tine Colonies,
he will be able to induce his col
leagues, and especially the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, to show some
practical sympathy with the scheme.
The steamers performing the service
are practically the only British ves-
sells which regularly cross the South
ern Pacific. They are fast boats. very
and very roomy, and it is
difficult to overestimate the advan-
tage of the new line, both from an
imperial as well as from a colonial
The members of the colo
NAL party in the House of Commons
now have an opportunity of showing
their usefulness, and If they can in
duce the government to grant a sub
sidy, in order to insure the perma-
hence of the new service and lessen
the interval between the sailings,
they will secure the gratitude of the
Colonies interested"
The projected Canada-Australia
cable, il is stated, would be 6244 miles
long and cost 81 ,00O, 900, if 1T did not
touch the Fiji Islands or New Zea-
land. 1t is assumed the cable would
be laid by and would belong to the
colonies benefited. Allowing for all
the total cost is put at
IS, 725 900, which, at per cent, would
make an annual interest charge of
S261,75O. Counting depreciating at
$3.50, 900 and the operating expenses at
$500, 600 per year, the total annual
to be met would be $721, $50.
Saved From Roncador Reef.
The New York Worlds correspond
emit at Panama cabled on the 18th:
The steamship City of Para, which
left Colon on Friday for ROncador
Reef to attempt the rescue of the crew
OF the United States corvette Kear-
sarge, returned to Colon last night
before II o'clock. She had on
board all of the officers and crew of
the Kearsarge except one of the Sec
ond-class firemen, Andrew Robbins,
who was drowned. The men
saved by the Para are all well. 1t was
noon on Saturday when the Para
reached Roncador Cay, which is in
the Caribbean sea, about go miles
north of Colon. The sea was calm
when the relief ship arrived at the
cay, where the survivors of the wreck
were huddled on a small spur of coral
at the north end of the reef. The
castaways sent a hearty cheer as a
salute to the rescuers, and the guns of
the Para banged appropriately in re-
ply, while the crew and Lieut.. Brain
ard yelled themselves hoarse. Fav-
ored by weather and smooth water,
the work of taking on board the
gallant tars proceeded rapidly and
without difficulty or mishap. The
Para had only four boats, but several
of the boats of the Kearsarge were
available in the calm sea, and they
Were utilized in getting the It's men
from the cay to the relief ship. At
the time Lieut.. Brainard sailed from
Roncador to Old Providence Island,
seventy-five miles southwest, the
small boats of the Kearsarge were in
- half-damaged condition, but while
waiting for aid the castaways devoted
a great deal of their time to patching
them. The wreck Of the Kearsarge is
total, but the hulk will not go to
pieces entirely for a long time unless
broken up by a hurricane. 1t is said,
though, that nothing can be saved
from the hulk on account of the inn
possibility of approach to it, surround
ed as it is by rugged rocks and sharp
coral strands.
American News.
California has been again startled