The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-11
A SUGAR COMPANY DEAL
Will Relieve the Situation in
Hawaii.
WANT MORE IMMIGRANTS
An Attempt to Get the Desired In
crease From Northern Italy-Much
Depends on the Success OF
Damou's Mission.

Honolulu, Sept. 2, via San Francisco,
Sept. l0.-The 1000 share deal in Ha-
waiian Sugar Company stock which
was announced recently on the Hon
oiulu stock exchange brings to the ISL
ands $780, 900 of foreign capital, and in
the opinion of men of affairs ought to
go far toward relieving the situation
here. At the same time it does not
change the control of the plantation
nor in any wise affect the management
of a property which has always been
ing the sugr industry and in the in
terest of stockholders.
A committee from the Honolulu Iron
works, which has in hand the matter
of arranging an appropriate observ-
ance of Labor day, called at the exec
utive building and requested that the
government use its influence with en-
ployers in the interest of holiday
for all mechanics and laboring men on
the 4th.
1t was voted to instruct all the heads
of departments and bureaus to relieve
as many mechanics and laboring men
as PRACTICABLE on that day. All govern
ment Offices will be open as usual.
The Rev. Alfred Willis, bishop of
Honolulu, returned on the Warrimoo
from visit to Samoa and the Fiji
islands, where he went as the repre-
sentative of the bishop of London 10
hold confirmation services in several
churches. The Samoan and Fiji ISL
ands are at present in no dioceses of
the Anglican church. This, according
TO the established custom, places them
in the care of the bishop of London,
as are all missions and churches in
English colonies or settlements that
are not parts of some diocese.
Bishop Willis first stopping place
was at Apia, where he found the COM
missioners of the powers, who are try
ing to arrange a government, just
completing their labors.
1T is impossible to express an opin-
ion as to what is likely to happen next
in Samoa" said the bishop. The tri-
partite arrangement was still in force
when l left, but it is of course not
satisfactory. AS long as there are
three powers trying to get ahead Of
one another the islands cannot go
ahead, but no one can say how any
of the powers are to be induced to with
draw. The British warships Torch and
Tauranga were at Apia when / arrived
and one German ship. The Tauranga
was relieved by the Pylades. There
was no American war vessel in the
harbor
Minister of Finance Damon leaves by
the Rio on a mission which, in the
estimat ton of planters and other large
employers of labor, is one of the most
important in its relation to island prop
erty, and one of the most important
upon which any island representative
ever left Honolulu. Mr.. Damon goes
directly from San Francisco to Bos-
ton and thence to Italy to carry Sat,
/. if possible, his cherished plan of Sc
curing an immigration to Hawaii from
Northern Italy. He goes with the COM
. plete confidence and cooperation of
the planters. 1t is believed that he
will be able to overcome the objections
lately raised by the Italian govern
1nent and to offer inducements that
will attract the peasantry of Northern
+ Italy.
Another who goes by the Rio on an
important mission is Alatau I. Atkinson
4 special agent of the census bureau.
He will go direct to Washington
. whittier he has been called to consult
with the director of the 18th census,
. Ex-Governor Merriam of Minnesota, in
regard to needs and methods of census
in these islands.
\ A chance capture of 112 half-pound
tins of opium was made yesterday by
two customs guards. The opium had
been sunk in the ocean with a block
of wood attached to a rope and string
: The opium was left behind by parties
on the China, who had confederates
here