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Established July 3, 185tt.
VOLJJ.XXIV., NO. 4400.
BONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBfcB 8 1896.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
J- Q. WOOD.
Attorney at Law
And Notary Public.
OFFICE: Corner King mid Bethel
Streets.
SPECIAL BUSINESS ITEMS.
Dr. C. B. HIGH.
Dentist,
Graduate Philadelphia Dental College
1892.
MASONIC TEMPLE.
A. C. WALL, D. D. S.
Dentist.
Hotel Street, - Arlington Cottage
4280-y
A. J. DERBY, D. D. S.
Dentist.
Alakea Street, Between Hotel and
Beretania Streets.
Hours, 9 to 4. Telephone 615.
M. E. GROSSMAN, D.D.S.
Dentist.
8 HOTEL STREET, HONOLULU.
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
I. MORI, M.D.
OFFICE, Corner Fort and Kukui Sts
Res. Arlington Hotel.
Hours: 7 to 8:30 a.m.; 4 to 8:30 p.m
Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Telephone, 530.
H. MAY & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers
98 FORT STREET.
Telephone 22. P. O. Box470.
M. W. McCHESNEY & SONS
WHOLESALE GROCERS
AND DEALERS IN
Leather and :-
Shoe Findings.
AGENTS
Honolulu Soap Works Company and
Honolulu Tannery.
LEWIS & CO.,
10
0
e and Reiaii Grocers
111 FORT STREET.
Telephone 240. P. O. Box 29.
HONOLULU IRON WORKS CO.,
Steam Engines,
BOILERS. SUGAR MILLS, COOLERS,
BRASS AND LEAD CASTINGS,
And Machinery of every description
made to order. Particular attention
paid to ships' blacksmithing. Job work
txecuted on the shortest notice.
BEAVER SALOON,
Fort street, opposite Wilder & Co.'s,
H. J. NOLTE, Proprietor.
First-flaes benches Served With Tea
Coffee, Soda Water, Ginger Ale or Milk.
Open from 3 a. m. till 10 p. m.
Smoker's Requisites a specialty.
J. T. Lund. 617 Fort street, opposite
Club Stables, makes Brass Signs to
order. Nickel Plating a Specialty. Bi
cycles repaired and for sale.
All kinds of SECOND HAND FURNI
TURE sold cheap for cash at the I X L,
corner Nuuanu and King streets.
If you want to sell out your furniture
in its entirety, or for bargains, call at
the I X L, corner Nuuanu and King
streets.
THE SINGER received 54 flrst awards
for sewing machines and embroidery
work at the World's Fair, Chicago, 111.
beine the largest number of awards ob
tained by any exhibitor, and more than
double the number given to all other
sewing machines. For sale, lease and
rent. Repairing, done. B. BERGER
SEN, 113 Bethel street.
City Carriage Company have removed
to the corner of Fort and Merchant Sts
Telephone No. 113. First-class carri
ages at all houis. JOHN S. ANDRADE
G. R. Harrison, Practical Piano and
Organ Maker and Tuner, can furnish
best factory references. Orders left at
the Hawaiian News Co. will receive
prompt attention. All work guaranteed
to be the same as done in factory.
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LL Mia
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ON SUGAR MARKETS
No Change in Prices of Refined
Sugar in Local Market.
FOR SALE.
: KEGS OF :-
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Butler
IN COLD STORAGE,
: BY :
Henry Davis.
Tel. 225. 320 FORT STREET.
4358-tf.
WILLIAM C. PARKE,
Attorney at Law
AND
Agent to Take Acknowledgments
Office at Kaahumanu St., Honolulu.
Sans Souci
Seaside Resort.
The pleasantest, quietest, shadiest
and most perfectly appointed seaside
resort on the Islands. It is only four
miles from the heart of the city and
within easy reach of the tramcars which
run every twenty minutes or oftener.
Elegantly furnished detached cottages
or rooms are obtained on easy terms.
The table is superior to that of any of
the city hotels, and all the modern con
veniences are provided.
Picnics and bathing parties can ob
tain extra accommodations by telephon
ing in advance.
The bathing facilities of Sans Souci
are superior to those of any place on the
beach. 4157-tf
KEFI ROOT PROGRESSING WELL
Condition as Viewed in London House Trade
Continues in Active-Situation in Cuba
Unchanged -Falling Off of Yield in Java.
America in Sympathy With Europe. Etc.
LEWERS & COOKE,
Successors to Lewers & Dickson.
Importers and Dealers in Lumber
And All Kinds of Building, Material.
NO. 82 FORT ST.. HONOLULU.
H. HACKFELD & CO.,
General Ciisi floents.
Corner Fort and Queen Sts., Honolulu.
ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY
OF LONDON.
eSETS : : : 10,000,000.
AGENCY OF
Kobe Immigration Company.
Robinson block, Hotel street.
P. O. Box 116. Telephone 870.
4211-tf
GONSALVES & CO.,
v'HOLESALE GROCERS
AND
WINE MERCHANTS
25 Queen Street, Honolulu, H. L
H. W. Schmidt & Sons,
Agents for the Hawaiian Islands.
SCIENTIFIC MASSAGE.
Will do Massage at tufiee or at Patient's
Residence
M. MIZAWA.
Office and Residence: 'or. Nuuanu St.
and Kukni Lane. Dp tairs.
lira livery ond Booming Slate
Cor. Merchant and Richard Sts.
LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLE
Carriages, Surreys and Haks at ail
hours. TELEPHONE 490.
li US. SCII CM AN. PROP. C.H.HKLLINA, MANAGER
CLUB STABLES,
Livery
on
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8
ales
THOMAS E.
COOK
SURVEYOR
rffir- with Howard & Train.
Spven years' experience' with M. D.
4390-lm
Fort St., between Hotel and Beretania.
Telephone 477. Honolulu, H. L
,
HAWAIIAN HARDWARE CO.,
Hardware. Cutlery Mid Glassware.
.07 Fort Street
Honolulu.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 28. Sugar:
There has been no change in the prices
of Refined sugar in the local market or
for export, and the last price list of the
Western Sugar Refining Co., of July
27th, continues in force, which we quote
as follows:
Cube, crushed and Fine Crushed,
5 7-8c; Powdered, 5 3-8c; Dry Granu
lated, 4 3-4c; Confectioners' A, 4 3-4c;
Magnolia A, 4 3-8c; Extra C, 4 1-4c;
Golden C, 4 l-8c.
The above prices are subject to the
usual rebate of l-8c per lb. Price for
export, 4 l-2c net for Granulated.
The three Beet factories in the State
are in full operation and the Alameda
Sugar Co. of Alvarado will commence
marketing 'its product of dry Granulat
ed in a few days at l-8c per lb. below
Refinery net prices. The Watsonville
factory manufactures only raw sugars,
which is delivered to the Western Re
finery and the product of the Chino
factory, which is refined, is also con
trolled by the Refinery here.
Importers of Hong Kong Refined are
storing and jiot fnarketing, their sugars
to any extent, on account of the low
prices now ruling.
Basis: Continued at 3 l-8c net until
the 6th inst., when it advanced to 3 l-4c
net, but declined on the 12th inst. to
3 1-8 net, and since that date there has
been no change. The sales of Centri
fugals 96 deg. test reported in New
York are as follows
August 4th, spot 4300 bags at 3 3-8c;
6th. spot 8000 bags 3 l-2c; 10th, spot
10,000 bags 3 l-2c; 12th, spot 3000 bags
3 3-8c; 13th, spot 8000 bags 3 3-8c; 14th,
to arrive, 900 bags 3 3-8 c; 17th. spot
500 bags 3 3-8c; 21st, due to arrive,
1200 bags 3 3-8c; 22nd, spot 1300 bags
3 3-8c; 25th. spot 5000 bags 3 3-8c; and
26th, 4000 tons, 3 3-8c.
EASTERN AND FOREIGN MARKETS.
The g,eneral features continue with
out material change, although earlier
in the month, following a better feel
ing in the European markets and an
advance in prices in London, the New
York market exhibited more firmness
than previously shown and an advance
of 3-16 to l-4c per lb. was established,
the larger advance being on Muscova
dos and Molasses sugars, of which Re
finers were especially in need. Cen
trifugals 96 deg. test were sold at 3 l-2c;
Muscovados 89 deg. test at 3 l-8c and
Molasses sugars 89 deg. test at 2.8125c.
Later, however, with advices of dull
and lower markets in Europe, prices
reacted to the figures ruling at the be
ginning of the month and have contin
ued on this basis since and while there
have sales from time to time, some im
porters are holding their stocks and
as a rule buyers' and sellers' views have
been apart. Refiners have been will
ing, to take all available stock at the
decline. Refined grades advanced in
New York on the 5th inst. to 4.69 for
Granulated, less usual discount, but
declined on the 17th inst. to 4.56.
We quote London Beet Sugar 88 deg.
test f. o. b. Hamburg as follows, since
our last circular: August 4th. 9s 8 l-4d:
6th. 9s 11 l-4d: 7th. 10s; 10th. 9s 10 l-2d;
12th, 9s 9d: 13th. 9s 8 1-4d: 14th. 9s
6 3-4d: 17th. 9s 7 12-d; ISth. 9s 6 3-4d:
19th, 9s 8 1-4d; 20th. 9s 7 1-2 d; 21st,
9s Sl-4d; 22nd, 9s 6d ; 24th, 9s 6 3-4d;
and 25th. 9s 6d.
The condition as viewed in London,
according to Czarnikow's latest cir
cular of August 15th, is as follows:
Sugar: The day after our last is
sue increased firmness was perceptible,
especially for new crop Beet, but when
on Saturday Licht's figures of weight
were published, business became ir
regular, and with buyers holding, aloof,
an easier tendency manifested itself.
This week commenced with a dull tone,
and owing to realizations, prices re
ceded about 4 l-2d for old crop and 6d
for new; besides, the more encouraging
news respecting the growth of the
Roots created some hesitation on the
part of the speculators.
The Home Trade continues inactive,
and both refiners and dealers have
again shown unlooked-for indifference.
notwithstanding their present low
stocks: business has therefore been
upon a very limited scale. Crystallized
grocery has been offered in small quan
titles, of which only an insignificant
part found buyers at slightly easier
rates. Refining grades, both high and
low. are neglected.
The situation in Cuba remains un
changed. According to the latest ad
vice there is sufficient cane in the field
to make 500,000 tons of sug,ar in 1896-
Un normal times there is enough to
make one million tons and more), but
as the chances of making a crop are
now much worse than they were a year
ago, it is not likely, with the present
aspect of the political situation, that
the last crop can be exceeded.
From Java, recent cables report a
further falling off in the yield, and
some go so far as to estimate the defi
ciency in the present crop about 100,000
tons. This must tell upon later ship
ments; the earlier ones being largely
in excess of last year, and these being
chiefly shipped to U. S., may bring ar
rivals there during September up to
70,000 tons, a not excessive quantity
considering the requirements. The ac
counts from other Can-producing coun
tries are favorable, especially those of
the Louisiana crop, which promises to
be an early and abundant one.
America, in sympathy with Europe,
is dull, and has for the moment with
drawn all buying orders, but as im
ports during the present month cannot
be large, a revival of demand is looked
for.
Beetroot: The weather on the Con
tinent has on the whole been favorable,
and as shown by Licht's figures, the
Roots made satisfactory progress,
though still somewhat behind last
year's. This has doubtless affected the
speculative market, which is lifeless,
and the premium on new crop is be
coming less marked. There being for
the moment a want of demand from
our refiners as well as from America,
the value of prompt sugar has suffered
a decline. Today we close: 9s 7 l-2d
August, 9s 7 l-2d September, 9s 9 3-4d
October-December; fair to good Sec
onds 7s 6d to 7s 9d; Russian crystals
lis 3d c. i. f. ; Granulated, ready lis 6d,
new crop lis 6d. Paris has frequently
been subject to fluctuations this week.
August moved from fcs. 29.81 1-2 to
fcs. 31, and October-January from fcs.
28.87 1-2 to fcs. 28.05, thus showing a
considerable premium on old sugar.
The visible supplies in the different
countries at the dates given below were
as follows:
SAW" "OLD SOL'S"
r amp
1 1
ECLIPSED
inn
be visible in India only. I hope to
see it."
LANDED A KM 9 AND Mis.
Was With One o the Success
ful Astronomical Parties.
FROM MANY FOREIGN FIELDS,
Account of the Fram's Home Journey -Forest
Fires in Washington-Filibusters Landed
in Cuba Labor Troubles in Glasgow-Manitoba
School Question -Harry Hill Dead.
United Kingdom, 8th
August
France. 1st July....
Germany, 1st July.. .
Hamburg,, 12th Au
gust
Austria-Hungary. 1st
August
Holland, 1st August
Belgium, 1st August
1896
Tons.
169,107
303,653
291,014
1895
Tons.
126,889
239.433
318.884
187,200' 149,800
232,828
33,542
42.148
334,591
31,663
38,467
1,259.492 1,239,727
Cargoes Afloat to
Europe 12,841 25,844
1,272,333 1,265,571
United States, 12th
Aug., Total Stocks 276,000 279,593
Cuba, six principal
ports, 12th August,
Total Stocks 55,000 250,004
Cargoes afloat to U.
S. (Licht) 3rd Au
gust 10,677 22,867
Total 1,614.010 1,818,035
In 1894, 994,831 tons; 1893, 812,011
tons: 1892, 974.403 tons.
Willett & Gray, under date of August
20th, give total stock of sugar in four
ports U. S., 271.682 tons against 269,699
tons same time last year. Stock in six
principal ports of Cuba at same date
by cable, 54,825 tons against 241.794
tons last year. Total stock in all the
principal countries, 1.543.607 tons
against 1.708.088 tons last year.
Our latest mail advices from New
York of August 22nd state that market
for Raws is steady and firm with small
transactions in Centrifugals at full quo
tations, viz.. 3 3-8c and 2.75c, but there
is little sugar offering at these prices,
and it is anticipated by importers that
there will soon be an upward turn in
prices.
There is a fair to good demand for
Refined products and the market is
called firm with local granulated quot
ed at 4.47c net. German. 4 l-8c to 4.25c
and Dutch 4.35.
London Cable of above date quotes
Java No. 15 D. S.. at lis 6d ; Fair Re
fining,, 10s: Beet. August 9s 7 l-2d; Sept.
9s 7 1-2d: First Marks German Granu
lated, lis 6 3-4d f. o. b. Hamburg, equal
to 3.8Sc net cash delivered New York
duty paid.
Flour: G. G. Ex. Family 3.50; El
Dorado 2.65 per bbl. f. o. b. Crown.
3.45 per bbl. f. o. b.
Bran: Fine 12.00: Coarse 12.50 per
ton f. o. b.
Middling: Ordinary 16.50; Choice
IS. 00 per ton f. o. b.
Barley: No. 1 Feed 70c per ctl. f.
o. b. Grd. or Rid. 14.00 (5 14.50 per ton
f. o. b.
(Continued on Fifth Page.)
NEW YORK. Aug. 28. Seventy hap
py excursionists who had made a two
months' voyage to the land of the mid
night sun safely landed tonight from
the American liner Ohio. Not one of
them had seen the midnight sun. They
were too late for that, but they wit
nessed another sight whic amply re
paid them. This was the total eclipse
of the sun.
Miss Mary Proctor, daughter of the
late Richard Proctor, the noted as
tronomer, was one of the passengers.
She was a very close observer of the
eclipse, and she also made a good
sketch of it during the brief interval
of total obscurity.
"Those on the Ohio are the only ones
who had a clear view of the eclipse,"
said Miss Proctor tonight. "Our vessel,
after touching at Southampton, went
to St. Petersburg, allowing the excur
sionists a week to visit that city and
Moscow. Then the Ohio steamed to a
point near the Island of Stott, off the
promontory of Kunnen, Norway, and
early on the morning of August 9th
we were aroused to witness the eclipse.
"Our object, at least mine, was to ex
amine the sun's corona, or crowa of
glory. Ordinarily, as you know, it is
impossible to look at the sun, as its
chromosphere is an ocean of glowing
hydrogen from 5,000 to 10,000 miles in
depth, which envelopes the sun as the
air envelopes our earth.
"It was impossible, however, to use
a telescope, as the vessel was not stea
dy enough, and we had to content our
selves with field glasses. This I re
gretted greatly from a scientific stand
point. At exactly 2:53:25 o'clock in the
morning the first contact was visible;
that is. the dark edge of the moon's
disc began to creep over the face of
the sun.
"One hour later, to a minute and a
second, the sun was totally eclipsed.
The light had slowly faded during the
hour until it was like summer twilight.
It was barely possible to read if one had
good eyes. The sea gulls had fled,
screaming, as the darkness settled,
and we could see the light fading out
of the sky as we all stood on deck,
silently watching the black disc that
nearly covered the orb of day. Around
that disc of black appeared a ring of
light, and on the edge of the ring were
several bright red spots or projections
that gemmed the edge of the moon like
so many brilliants.
"On the western edge a strong red
streak made its appearance and there j
appeared also the filaments of pearly j
light forming the corona. These colors i
shot, too, from the eastern edge, but I
not so far as from the opposite side of '
the sun's disc. There the light-seemed i
to shoot into space a distance equal
to twice the sun's diameter. It was as
if the moon had been brought in front
of the sun as a huge reflector, and as j
we were behind it on the earth we j
could only see the rays that it shot out j
on all sides.
"The total obscurity lasted one min- ;
ute and thirty-five seconds. It ended
at 3:55 o'clock, and at 4:50:03 the con- 1
tact ended, and the sun shone as bright
ly as before.
"I shall never forget the awed feel- j
ihg with which I viewed that eclipse. J
It was as if the sun was being slowly
snuffed out. I had never witnessed an
eclipse before, and my father never
saw one in his lifetime.
"Thf next eclipse is in 1898. Tt will
llottiru or h sucf-iHful KlllhtiMtorftag
Trip i ulm.
NEW YORK., Aug. 27 The Herald's
Key West special says: A sensation
was caused this afternoon by the ar
rival of a large black ship's boat with
twelve Cubans aboard.
The flrst to land was Major General
Carlos Roloff, followed by Dr. Nunez.
The steamer from which they landed
hurriedly put to sea. going up the gulf
and disappearing before the pilot Itoats
which had started toward her could
distinguish her name.
From one of the party it was learned
that three landings wi re effected, at all
of which diseinbarkment was made un
der cover of the insurgent forces. The
first contingent consisted of thirty men
under Colonel Rafael Cabrera. Alto
gether forty persons were landed. Hut
they were insufficient, it is asserted, to
properly handle the arms and ammu
nition put ashore. It is alleged that the
expedition consisted of 4.000 rifles, l,
500,000 rounds of cartridges, 4 Hot eh -kiss
guns and large quantities of dyna
mite, machete and clothing.
-X-
SCIIOOL QUESTION UNSETTLED.
Premier I.aurler'H EfTort Seem to he
Fill He.
WINNIPEG, Man.. Aug. 28. Premier
Laurier's efforts to settle the Manitoba
parochial school question seem to be fu
tile. The compromise accepted by the
Greenway Government does not suit
the Roman Catholics.
The official organ of Archbishob Lan
gevin, who is now in Rome consulting
with the Pope on the question, has this
to say in a leading editorial:
"Nothing but our separate parochial
schools will satisfy us. A settlement
which restores to us only the ghost of
the shadow of our rights we will never
accept. The bare permission for the
clergy to visit schools and teach the
catechism will not do. To put a plaster
over a festering sore only makes It
break out with renewed virulence else
where." X
URITAIN OrVEt UP TKIN1DAD.
Formal Notice of Action FHVorlnir
Brazil.
NEW YORK, Aug. 26. The Sun's
Washington special says: The Navy
Department has received a cablegram
confirming the rumor of some days
ago that Great Britain had relinquished
her claim to a protectorate over the
Island of Trinidad, off the Brazilian
coast, and saying that a British war
ship had sailed from Rio for the pur
pose of hauling down the British col
ors, which have been flying since the
attempt was made to hold the territory.
-X-
IIOMK VOYAGE OF THE Kit AM .
ciiin Cotton UmmI Co Etoroe PiMHMMee
Through the lee.
LONDON, Aug. 27. A dispatch to
the Chronicle from Tromsoe, signed by
Dr. Nansen, gives Captain Sverdup s
account of the voyage of the Fram after
Dr. Nansen left the boat. The dispatch
says:
"The ice pressure was never as severe
as upon several occasions before Dr.
Nansen left us during June, 1896. We
were regularly exposed, however, to
violent pressure, caused by the chang
ing spring tide.
"The Fram was once or twice lifted
from six to nine feet, and th - bottom
became visible. It rested on the ice.
So little effect did this have on the
Fram's timbers that the men continued
their slumberings undisturbed.
"An easier Arctic exploration trip one
could hardly imagine. The principal
work was to take regular observations,
sleep and eat. The health of the men
was perfect during the entire expe
dition. There was not a sign of scurvy
apparent among any of the men. When
all efforts to advance the boat through
the ice by the force of steam or a pro
cess of warping failed, it was found
that gun-cotton mines proved the best
means of shattering the ice.
"As a rule very high ice flows pre
vailed, so extensive that their termina
tion could not be described, 'vti the
telescope. Often it looked like a hope
less task breaking our way out of the
lee foot by foot, but with the liberal
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Monsarrat.