The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-24
THE PACIFIC
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SATURDAY. NAY "a
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.
There are about five million Free Masons.

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Edwin Clark, contractor and civil engineer. {
London, has failed. His liabilities are EGO ,00t
The British squadron on the Pacific static
has been ordered to cruise of the coast of Peru
The report of the death OF General Felix Dona
is contradicted.
The French Senate has adjourned until the st
of May and the Chamber of Deputies until th
18th of May.
The Steamer Gaelic, arrived in San Francisc
on the 9th ult., from Ilongkong, with $50 china
men on board.
Heavy immigration is expected at New Yorl
this year from Ireland, England, Norway, Sweden
Southern Germany and the Mennonite districts
The correct score at the close of the walkrn,
match IN London on the 18th ult was Brown
542 miles; Hazael, 492; Corkey, 473; Weston
$50.
Billlngsgate, the great London fish market
one of the busiest, noisiest and most odorilerou.
of all places on earth, is to be lighted by cleo
tricity.
Sac Osterman, q native of Germany, who served
with Napoleon Bonaparte in his Russian cam.
paigns, and came here In 1850, died in Chicago
April 29th, aged l02.
Lorillard's two-year-old Papoose won the race
for the first spring two-years-old stakes at New
market, May LIST. There were four starters. Kha-
bara was second and Home Rule third.
A Sanitary Council here has taken occasion to
nip in the bud any yellow fever which may
appear anywhere in the South this season. Great
earnestness is manifested.
One hundred and twenty Germans and AIsa-
clans left Havre for America April 18th. A
considerable exodus is proceeding from basic.
especially Of peasants and lace makers.
The American horse parole, owned by LoriI-
lard won the NnCmaPHaf SfoHao ON AfonIa-,
the Suburban Handicap on Tuesday, and EPSON,
on Wednesday. This is unparalleled in English
turf matters.
At the Silloth Dock (London) entrance the wall
has fallen, and it will be impossible for vessels to
dock for several months. The vessels in dock
will be unable to leave until the obstruction is
removed.
Peru and Bolivia have concluded an offensive
and defensive alliance, and both countries have
declared war against Chile. Chile is prepared,
and intends to hold the territory she has already
occupied.
Both chambers of the Roumanlan Parliament,
sitting at Bucharest, have passed by large ma
~jorities the third reading of the declaration aE-
tirming the necessity of revising the constitution
in order to remove the disabilities of the Jews.
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy has been elected member
OF the House of Commons for the county of Long
ford by the home rulers, without opposition, in
IL pldCG Vi NlJle5 lillum " Reilly, VINO mas
been appointed q commissioner of education.
New York, April 27.-The steamer Rio Janeiro
ran down and sunk on the Goth, in a fog the bark
Velocity. The Captain and ten of the crew
in climbing on board the steamer by
the anchor chains. The steward and a boy were
drowned.
The London and China Telegraph understands
that Lord Salisbury has declined to follow the
course adopted by the United States in the matter
Of the treaties with Japan, and the discussion
will not be resumed until the arrival of Sir Harry
Parkes, the British Minister in Japan.
The steamer elliott. Captain Cuhlwein from
Hamburg for New York, came in collision April
9th with the ship RosseHa Smith from New
Tor too days, when she gave $35 900
bonds and proceeded to sea.
The Beaconsfeld administration has spent
SlS 800 600 on law and justice, S17, SOC, 900 on
he national debt for interest ard management.
500 300 900 for reduction of debt and S29, $780,
'OO Tor public education more than the previous
during the same period of five years.
Bishop Whites circular letter forbldding the
Use OF howers in church on Easter, and which
Ias caused so much feeling throughout the State
4 virginia, was strictly respected in the Episco-
al Churches, though contrary to their ancient
ustom.
Complete returns of twenty-one supplementary
lections in France for members OF the Chamber
| Deputies, show that thirteen republicans and
nc legitimist were elected. In seven instances
ballots will be necessary. The moderate
epublicans generally defeated their radical COM
The international Commission has requested
no Porte to enter into negotiations with Russia,
lth the object OF arriving at q clear under
anding as to arrangements necessary for the
orte to make to insure the due transfer of the
at the time of the Russian eyacua-
on OF Roumelia. .
The Grand VIzler has commenced negotiations
r the conversion Of the Ottoman debts contract
in England and France. The basis of the
heme is the assignment to each country of :
are IN the customs revenue, to be collected
lder the control of English and French dele
ties.
The Providence Saving Bank and Trust Com 7
oil Providence, Pa. has suspended, being
lable to meet its obligation after having taken
Of the Sixty Days law. The liabilities
$4,000 and the assets 500 900, principally
notes and bonds, of which probably not more r
an half can be collected.
Experiments have been making for the mast fir
,hteen months by the English authorities on to
coast of England with ~gas-light buoys, and d,
y are reported on as being highly satisfactory. VII
e lights burn a full month, in all kinds of at
ather, and they are pronounced as valuable "
g to navigation. Hi
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A resolution was offered in the lower branch of
General Assembly of Pennsylvania providing mic
the appointment of a committee, to consist Of
Senator's and fifteen Representatives, inelud-
the Speakers of both houses, to proceed to
Francisco to receive ex-President Grant upon
return to the United States. PAY their own .
enses.
he famous trotting mare Goldsmith Maid
pped a bay colt at the farm of her owner,
Smith, near Trenton, N. j., on the even
of Tuesday, April 1. The sire of the colt is
leral Washington, by General Knox, dam 4
Thorn, the well known t~rotting mare.
dsmith Maid and her colt are doing well.
Olson is quoted as saying, in response to a II
stion as to the progress he has made in his 6
me for electric light |" Well, / am, as you II
ut say, non ommitta but if there is any, n
7 hereabout for whom you entertain n par y
larly vicious spite, unload your gus stock on Y
and be quick about it. too. Further than Ma