The record-union., 1899-09-11

HONOLULU, Sept. 2 (via San Fran
cisco, Sept 10).-The 1000 share deal
in Hawaiian Sugar Company stock
which was announced recently on the
Honolulu Stock Exchange brings to
the island S450.000 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 manage
ment of a property which has always
been conducted with the view of de-
Veloping the sugar industry and in the
interest 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 exc
cutive building and requested that the
Government use it's influence with en-
ployers in the interest of a holiday for
all mechanics and laboring men on the
9Th
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 Gov
ernment offices would open as usual.
The Rev. Alfred Willis, American
Bishop of Honolulu, returned on the
Warrimoo from a visit to Samoa and
the Fiji Islands, where he went as the
representative of the Bishop of Lon
don to hold confirmation services in
several churches. The Samoan and Fiji
Islands are at present in no diocese of
the Anglican Church; this, according to
the established custom, places them in
Of fcJ,n Of 7
are all missions and churches in Eng
lish colonies or settlements that are
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 COM
pleting their labors.
1T is impossible to express an opin-
ion as to what is likely to happen next
in Samoa" said the Bishop. 1.-THE
tripartite arrangement was still in
force when I left. but it is of course not
satisfactory. AS long as there are three
powers trying to get ahead of one an
other the islands cannot go ahead, but
no one can say how any of the powers
are to be induced to withdraw The
British war ships Torch and Tauranga
were at Apia when I arrived, and one
German ship. The Tauranga was re-
lieved by the Pylades. There was no
American war vessel in the harbor
Minister of Finance, S. NJ. Damon,
leaves by the Rio on a mission which,
in the estimation of planters and other
large employers of labor, is one of the
most important in its relation to island
prosperity and one of the most import
ant upon which any island representa-
tive ever left Honolulu. Mr.. Damon
goes directly from San Francisco to
Boston and thence to Italy to carry
out, if possible, his cherished plan of
securing an emigration to Hawaii from
Northern Italy. He goes with the com
plete confidence and cooperation of the
planters. 1t is believed he will be able
TO overcome the objections lately raised
by the Italian Government, and to Of
fer inducements that will attract the
peasantry of Northern Italy.
Another who goes by the Rio on an
important mission is Alatau T. Atkin-
eau He will go direct to Washing
ton, whittier he has been called to con-
suit with the director of the twelfth
census, Ex-Governor Merriam of Min
nesota, in regard to needs and methods
of the census in these islands.
A chance capture Of 112 half pound
tins of opium was made yesterday by
been sunk in the ocean with a block