The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-20
PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC
HONOLULU TO BE TAPPED 4 PRO-
 POSED NET OCEAN CABLE

English Capitalists Behind the Scheme
 25,OoO,oO0 Capital to be Furnished
 Hawaiian Commissioners Report Upon
 Best Method of Protection Against
 Cholera-Sentiment in the Islands in
 Favor of Annexation to the United States
 Growing Concerning Miss Kate Field's
 Death.
 Honolulu H. l., Aug. 10, via San Francisco Aug. 19,-Advices from Aus tralia indicate that system of Pa cific cables, wholly under British con- trol, is probable in the near future, For years past a cable monopoly in India, Australia, South, East and West Africa has been under the control of Sir John Fender. Since his death heavy pressure from Canada and Australia, with MT Chamberlain's sympathy, is loosening this cable rings tight grip upon the empire,
 A Pacific cable conference is now sit ting in private at the colonial office, London. It has been agreed that an all British cable shall be laid forthwith from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Honolulu being tapped by branch line. The conference now has only to o Jo+ lo cided that the cable shall be laid and shall be managed, not by a subsidized private company, but by a cable trust formed by the British, Canadian and Australian governments raising cap- ital of e1,000,000 on a joint guarantee
 This new link with Australia proving commercial and strategic success, ex- tensions will be made to South Africa and India, thus creating a trunk line of imperial cable. The colonial office, al- so, is on the point of issuing a decision respecting a West Indies cable to avoid it's present dependence upon the United States and Cuban lines which are allies of the Fender system. Two tenders are before the government. The West In- dies and Panama companies propose an extension from Jamaica northward to Bermuda to meet the Halifax Bermuda cable, and then to England. The Hali- fax-Bermuda company proposes an ex- tension south to Jamaica and ultimate ly to Trinidad and British Guiana. The West Indian government urges the colonial office to accept the Halifax Bermuda tender, which it probably will do.
 The experience of Honolulu with the cholera last year led the government, a short time ago, to dispatch Attorney General w O. Smith head of the de- partment of health, and Dr. c. B. Wood to China and Japan to examine the quarantine stations in those countries and study the precautions taken to prevent the exportation of infectious diseases to other countries, through im- migration. The commissioners have recently returned after an exhaustive examination of the health arrange ments of all the principal ports of China and Japan. The report has di- rect interest for the people of the American Pacific coast, inasmuch as the steamers from the Orient make their eastern terminus at San Francis co or Vancouver, Honolulu being mere- ly a way port. They report that the in- spection performed by Japanese off, cia1s at Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama of ships for China is good while it is continued, but at present it is only maintained when epidemic disease prevails in China. Without Inspection and disinfection in Hong Kong there will always be danger of infectious dis eases appearing among emigrants from that port, say the commissioners.
 At Hong Kong and among the Ha- waiian Islands commissioners appoint ed under the United States marine hos pital service, the protection will be only partial for the steerage passen- gers from these ports for San Fran cisco are not required to undergo in- spection or have their clothing and ef- fects disinfected. Cholera and small pox in both China and Japan and plague In China are epidemic The emigrants sailing from these ports usually come from interior will lages, where sanitary measures are less stringently enforced than in the cities.
 The sentiment in the islands in re- gard to annexation to the United States is growing firmer constantly. The can vass for the presidency of the United States is eagerly watched, the Ha- waiian plank in the republican plat form giving hope for the election of Mckinley and the carrying out of Har- rison's annexation policy. There is a strong feeling, however, in the event of failure of annexation to the United States that a tender of the Islands should be made to Great Britain
 The Gazette has some severe editorial strictures on the treatment which has been accorded to Kate Field by the people of the United States. Since the announcement Of her death, 1t says, but three letters has been received in regard to her and suggesting a final disposal of her remains. Two of these letters were written by relatives and a third from a near friend, Miss Lillian Whiting of Boston. The proprietor and manager of the newspaper by which she was employed have sent no written word in regard to her.
 AMERICAN SILVER REFUSED.
 Newfoundland Banks Will Not Accept Our