SPANISH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 147, 22 June 1889, Page 2

SPANISH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES.

News was received in the city of Mexico, May 7th, of the discovery of the remains of a large city, heretofore hidden in the depths of a dense forest, near the ruins of Palenque, in the State of Chiapas. • Buildings five storyes high are said to be in a fair state of preservation, and a well-paved road, several miles long, is traceable in the trojrical undergrowth. The report comes from good sources.

From Colon (Aspinwall) on the Isthmus quiet ia reported, and the city almost deserted. 1,500 labourers left on May 10th for Jamaica, free transportation being furnished by the British Consul. On the 7th, all work on trJe Canal having ceased, it reverted to the Colombian Government. An immense amount of valuable machinery lies exposed and is being rapidly deteriorated by the weather. The greater portion of the buildings in Aspinwall are tenantless.

A treaty of peace is said to have been projected by Legitime of Hayti, in which the Island of Gonaives, also a coaling station, were ceded to France, and French capitalists are given special privileges on condition that France assists the Hay tien Government in suppressing the rebellion and accords a subsidy of five millions and a half of francs, with two warships, first class, with arms and equipment. The Anglo-Spanish Steamship Company will soon establish a abeam line between Valparaiso, Callao, and Panama, which will also connect wibh San' Francisco and British Columbia, competing with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and connecting at the last-named place with the Canadian-Pacific road.

Small-pox was raging at Guatamala during the last week in June. SHIPPING NOTES FOR THE MONTH San Francisco, June 1.

May 7.—Norwegian barque, Gunhild, is laid in for lumber ab a porb on Pugeb Sound for Hobson's Bay.

May 10.—Norwegian ship, Orion, loads lumber at a port on Puget Sound, for Melbourne, 57s 6d. May 11. —Barque, Newsboy, loads lumber at a Puget Sound port, for Melbourne Wharf, 60s. May 12.—British ship, Riverside, loads lumber at Moody ville for Port Pirrie, South America, 68s 9d.

May 14. —Barque, Andora (Davis, master), sailed from San Francisco for Sydney, carrying 58,054 centals of wheat, valued at $81,2757 May 16. —British barque, Alice Muir, loads lumber at Moodyville, 8.C., for Melbourne.

May 17. — British iron ship, Winifred, chartered at San Francisco, for wheat to Sydney, 255. May 20.—Ship Bowman, B. Law, sailed from San Francisco, at date, takes a cargo of wheat to Sydney, valued ab $65,204, consisting of 48,299 centals. May 21.—German barque, Johann Kepler, Captain Van Oppen, sailed from San Francisco for Melbourne at date, carrying 348.655 ft. of lumber and 174,312 ft. of door stock, valued at $23,031. May 28.—Swedish bark Ida, loads lumber on Puget Sound for Melbourne ; barquentine John Smith, lumber, ab Port Blakely for Launceston ; British iron steamer Rockton loads merchandise and barley at San Francisco for Australia, —port not mentioned.

COMMERCIAL. San Francisco, June 1, 1889. Wheat.—No. 1 shipping, $1,283 to $1.30 per cental. F10ur.—54.25 to $4.50 for family extra; superfine, $2.85 to $3.20 per bbl. Barley.—For brewing, 72J to 77£ cents ; feed, 62_; to 63£ per cental. Hops.—l 2to 16 cents per pound. Quicksilver: Stiff, at $47.50 per flask.

Coal: Sydney, $8 per ton. Lumber : Rough pine, $19 per M.; extra lengths, $20 to $26; selected, $23; clear, $30 ; flooring—s3l to $33 for No 1, $36 for fancy, and $26 for No. 2 ; stepping,- $23 to $43 ; rough redwood, $19 ; surfaced, No. 1, $25 to $34 per M. feet; shingles, $2.25; laths, $2.75 to $3; pickets—sl6 to $18 for rough, and $25 for fancy.

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