The record-union., 1898-12-01
Their Recall Supposed to Have Been on
Account Of Ravages Of Typhoid.
Three Hundred Gases Reported
Among the Soldiers at Honolulu
-Hawaiian Planters Contract
With the American Sugar Re-
fnery for the Sale Of the Entire
Sugar Output Of the Islands.

VICTORIA (B. CO., Nov. 3O-The
steamer Miowera arrived here tonight,
bringing Honolulu advices up to the
23d
On November Doth the steamer Aus
tralia was to leave Honolulu with JO0
men Of the New York Regiment, bound
for San Francisco on the way to New
York A few days later 800 more will
follow by the Alameda. The troops are
supposed to have been recalled on ae-
count Of the ravages of typhoid. There
are said to have been $50 cases when
the Miowera left
Permission has been received at Hon
olulu from Washington to abandon In
pendence Park as a hospital site. as
soon as other quarters can be fitted up.
Surgeons of the camp and hospital are
afraid the site is too low for health dur
ing the comparatively wet winter
months.
In obedience to instructions, Colonel
Rubin began November 22d the erec-
tion Of a new hospital in Nueuan VAL
ley. The structure will be forty-nve
feet wide by 100 feet long. Tt will
have side kitchens, surgeons and stew
ards quarters. This will give COM
plete accommodation for all the sick
solciers in Honolulu. The new build
ings will take 12O patients, Buena Vista
proper about 100 and the convalescent,
hospital the remainder
Hawaiian planters have contracted
with the American Sugar Refinery for
the sale of the entire sugar output OF
the islands for the next tcO years. ex-
cepting only about $4,000 tons, which
will be shipped to the refinery at Crock
EFT, Cal. An amount sufficient for the
American Company at San Francisco
Will be held at that place. The rest
will be forwarded to New York TO be
used there in competition with the inde-
pendent refneries.
I'VE have sold out to the trust,' said
a leading planter, "but it was case
of could not help ourselves. Our firsl
overtures were to the Arbuckles. We
wanted to patronize the independent re-
fineries, and were open in our oppose
tion to the trust, but the Arbuckles
would not buy, and the American SUI
gar Refinery held out inducements
which no one else was prepared to
meet"
A big demonstration took place when
November 10th. Three days later an
other demonstration was held on the
occasion Of the transport Pennsylvania
sailing for Manila with the Kansas
troops.
A big batch Of Galicians who were
brought from Siberia to work on the
Oahu plantations under contract struck
and went to jail rather than go back
to work. The majority received a SEN
tence Of two years. They were put to
breaking rock at the Government quar-
ries
Two privates of the New York Regi-
ment saved a number Of lives few
days before the Miowera sailed Com
ing along King street, they found live
wire across the street, and they spent
the night in storm keeping vehicles
and pedestrians warned of the danger
Their names were H. w. Green and
Carl Andrews.
An Injunction has been issued re-
straining the Bishop of Honolulu from
the threatened revocation of the license
of the Second Cathedral Congregation
ana Of Rev. Mcintosh, the rector.
Citizens were preparing a big banquet
for troops on Thanksgiving Day.