The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-06-14
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.


Idaho expects to add 20, 900 to her population
this year.
Mrs. Sarah Il. Hale, for the last half-century.
edItress of Godey's Lady's Book, died at Phih-
delphIa, on Wednesday, April Both.
France has issued a circular to the Powers re-
commencing them to jointly take up the question
Of the Greek claims for settlement.
In England ten thousand men at the present
time working at agriculture are producing as
much food as twenty thousand men twenty years
ago.
The latest statistics of the Registrar-Ge in
England prove that there are in that country
nearly a million more females than males.
Herschel says that the number of stars visible
in bis telescope in the milky way is about eight
cen millions, and there are about two millions in
the remainder of the celestial vault.
Both lungs of the Queen of Portugal are pro-
nounced by the royal physicians to be affected.
They, nevertheless, hope to save Her Aajesty's
life.
Krupp guns and Remington rifles are manu-
featured by China at her arsenals. 1t is asserted
that the military force of the empire is being d.
vided into cadres, preparatory to being drilled
and organized on the European plan.
The Ntue Freie Press says -" The rinderpest
is becoming increasingly formidable in Bohemia.
Several hundred places are now affected. Agri-
culture in many places is at a standstill, draught
cattle being locked up wherever the disease
occurs"
The Standards despatch from Rawul-Pindee
reports that the outbreak OF the cattle plague
threatens to seriously embarass the British COM
missariat. The cattle are dying by scores.
In consequence of the general distress prevail
ing in England recruiting has been going on
briskly. The British army now requires $4,000
men a year.
They have a Mohawk girl in her teers at Mill
point. Ontario, who weighs 332 pounds. And if
she weighs that, as n teeny girl what will she
weigh when she gets her growth?
A new method has been invented for propell-
ing the street-cars in New York. 1t is an en-
CINE worked by compressed air contained in tanks
under the seats, and operated upon by one man
on the platform.
a conference of representatives of the German
shipping trade unanimously agreed that the ship
ping business was moro depressed in 1878 than
for a generation The deficiency is estimated at
81 700 900.
The new French President, Mons. Grevy,
dresses modestly, plays billiards frequently,
smokes cigars immediately, and speaks forcibly
and frankly. He is a keen sportsman, and an
able agriculturist.
Look az the inventions of 1873. The mag
netic writer the carbon telephone the phono-
gragh the megaphone the phonometer; the
electric light and the microphone.
Another meeting is about to be held in Sydney,
to protest against the rejection of the Chinese
Restriction Bill, by the Legislative Council.
The following are the census returns for all the
principal centres of New Zealand Auckland,
80, Gel Wellington, $1,000; Canterbury, 9l,-
922; Otago, 1l4,560.
The 8" Centennial safe,'' containing books,
documents, photographs, etc., was lately closed
with some ceremony at Washington, to be open
ed (no doubt with far greater ceremony in one
hundred years.
There are now 143 daily newspapers in Great
Britain, as against Isl last year. Eighteen are
published in London, IS in the provinces, 2 in
Wales, 81 in Scotland, 16 in Ireland, and l in
Jersey.
The amount of contributions intimated to the
Aberdeen branch of the fund for the relief of the
sufferers by the City of Glasgow Bank disaster
has reached G10 ,355 los Id.
The business of making and canning, or pre-
serving in tins, both plum buildings and mince-
meat for export to Europe, is carried on at Dover
Delaware), Philadelphia, and other places.
There is a social thunderstorm in Germany.
1t is occasiOned by n work by DIR. Moritz Busch,
being the republication of his diary recording
the after-dinner talk of Bismarck during the
Franco German war.
The General Assembly of the Free Church of
Scotland, in condemning Professor Smith s views
of Deuteronomy, have declared that the book
must be held to be pure and absolutely correct
history. They do not, of course, include the
authors account of his own death.
Mr.. Brassey, in a speech recently delivered in
England, said 1t was not from the cheap
labour of Belgium, but from the dear but skilful
and energetic labour of the United States that
the most formidable competition would hereafter
arise.
1t is positively stated from Constantinople that
Russia proposes to retain one division of troops
in Eastern Roumelia until the Bird of November.
Turkey will not strongly oppose this proposition,
as she believes it would tend to preserve the
peace
Uho o,,acK,n-o r,cinr anE Of Tho onfon IF
beer and blue laws absorbed public attention in
Newark, n. j. True to it's resolutions, the
German Protective Association did its utmost to
secure a rigid enforcement of the ancient blue
laws. The result of this was that the sale of
newspapers, milk, meat and ice cream was
stopped.
Russia is said to be negotiating with Spain for
the cession of the Ladrone Islands, in the North
Pacific. They would afford an excellent base for
cruisers to operate in the Chinese seas, and the
English press calls the attention Of the Govern
ment to the subject.
Rev. William Hague, d. D., the distinguished
BAPTIST divine, says Church history shows
dom, the public mind OF a nation can never be
more badly depressed, weakened and demoralized
than when occupying the dead level of religious
uniformity"
Articles of incorporation of the California
Chinese Freemason Society, or Chez Kung Tong
Society, have been filed for benevolent and social
purposes and the diffusion of knowledge. Nc
capital stock. Directors-Une Pat Sine, Mai
3 Quont Yum, Ling Young rong, Lee Kip Pom and
Lung Loo.
Sir 4. H.. Gordon, Governor Of FIJI, in a lee
ture before the Philosophical Society, at Aberdeen
{ said "The work the Wesleyan ministers have
done there is a great work, because they have
7 been the founders, and the sole founders, and tC
them belonged the whole merit of the civilization
5 to which the natives of the Fjian Islands have
; now attained"
: Russian newspapers have again taken up thC
= subject of British successes in Central Asia, GnC
: evince considerable irritation and disappointment
in discussing it. They contend that England i
acquiring too much power in the coast of Asia
and urge their Government, to secure its INTEREST,"
by occnnYing Merry, f~ortlfYing the banks of tn