Fragmented Note Hints at Australia Arrival Timing
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Australia and an arrival timing, with unclear details. The readable bits suggest planning or a schedule but lack concrete names, dates, or locations to confirm.
21 Dec 1898
Page 1
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Newspaper
Evening Bulletin
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1898
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Australia and an arrival timing, with unclear details. The readable bits suggest planning or a schedule but lack concrete names, dates, or locations to confirm.
A catalog style list shows Rosy Checked Apples Navel Oranges Fancy Lemons Cape Cod Cranberries California Grapes Fancy Raisins New Piss Persian Dates Halla Chestnuts Nuts of All Kinds Sweet Apple Cider In barrels Fancy Cauliflower Paney Celery California Rutabagsts California Calshage rozen Oysters.
The Hawaiian Commission delivers a two part report to Congress on December 6 detailing the islands, people, institutions, and conditions, and proposing three bills. The main measure creates the Territory of Hawaii with a Governor, Secretary, and U S officials, plus a two house legislature and a strong citizenship provision for residents. It sets up courts, public works offices, and a chief executive framework while detailing voting qualifications, salaries, and travel allowances. The Governor holds veto power with potential overrides, and duties on imported goods are aligned with U S law.
Fifteen of fifty one Chinese travelers from Honolulu moved on to San Francisco last night to be returned to China. Officials, including Acting Marshal Hitchcock, conducted examinations aboard the steamer with police, selecting twelve of twenty named in a warrant for arrest to be sent to the quarantine station. The Cantom House work extended late into the night. Hawaiian legislative news touches on a battle over annexation and extension of federal laws, while church notices in Mililani Hall outline Sunday and midweek services and Bible classes.
The telegraph Newport reaches Manila and Buffalo sails again for Manila. General Brooke named Cuba governor. Hobson to Manila via San Francisco. Dingley signals no war tariff cut. Astor battery and Tenth Pennsylvania return home. Two thousand Manila troops on sick list. Cuban general Gorein dies in Washington December 11. Grover Cleveland denounces expansion in interview. Puebla reaches Manila with no deaths or much sickness. Samoa ruler rumor Tamasose may be king. Secretary R. L. resigned unconfirmed. Goodman to Honolulu. Bryan resigns from army and opposes imperialism. Andree claim balloon crossed the Urals. US denies Samoa withdrawal. Charles W. Miller wins six day bicycle race in New York. Massachusetts battleship damaged by sunken roof. Pacific Mail registry questions denied. Moline of Arkansas introduces bill to extend public land laws to Hawaii with interior oversight.
It is alleged that Lawyer James D. Hallen on trial for defrauding client Florence A. Caldwell of 16000 is Julian D. Hayne, formerly of San Francisco and Honolulu, with possible additional charges. Mrs J D Hayne and her son Albert Bush arrive and claim the prisoner is their former husband and step-father. Hayne allegedly married in Honolulu and San Francisco, procured 25000 from his wife, and may have another wife in Mexico.
James F Morgan reports rapid sale of valuable real estate with new purchases by H E Woally of Judd Punahoun lot and J McCarthy of Bickerton lot at Beretania and Piikoi streets. See Morgan's Land Sales page 8. Salt Lake December 9 Chief Justice Zane of Utah eyes Hawaii Chief Justiceship if Hawaii becomes a Territory, rumored through Senator Callom a friend of Tudye Zann.
A steamer Australia brings a large invoice of turkeys fresh salmon crabs frozen oysters apples grapes figs lemons pure olive oil and dry fruit. London December 14 William Vernon Harcourt Liberal leader in the House of Commons resigns the leadership.
San Francisco dispatch reports that parts of the New York Regiment will depart for home next Thursday from camp at the Peroxide. Companies A B D D and L are in transit. Crow Honolulu is due tomorrow. A Washington dispatch says Fourth and Seventeenth Infantry will sail from New York for Manila around January 5, with Thin Twentieth and Twenty Second sailing from San Francisco. California volunteers may not return until April. ships could depart San Francisco within a month, depending on Scandia’s timing.
A letter from Joance Prone, a colleague on the Hawaiian Commission at Washington, says the commission consulted on the matter and agreed it is too early to advise Dole on his Washington trip. The letter notes a general impression that the Hawaiian issue should be disposed of at the current session. Further advice may come by the president's departure date.
Large imports of turkeys geese chickens and ducks arriving from Winnipeg California and Hawaii for the Metropolitan Meat Co with dressed and live birds offered at their store. Also an opium schooner Labrador to be seized by court order on the Lithday January 1890. Marriage noted between Dr William Levi Moore of Hilo and Miss Nellie Moore Lowrey of Honolulu performed at the bride’s brother’s residence with W M Kinesid officiating. A stray, fragmentary refrain of local chatter about Camarines and New Honolulu appears.
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