The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-24

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responsibility Of the Pan-Slayist agitation, OIL
which Bulgaria will be the center. In the mean
time he would retain the Power OF acting against
Bulgaria should his forbOdings be realized.
LONDON, May IA dispatch from Valparaiso,
by way Of Lisbon. announces that the Peruvian
Government has called the nation to arms.
LoSDon, May LIN the race to day, the bet
ting was 5 to 2 against I" Papoose,'' 6 to 4
against "Khabara," and 10 to l against any
other. The joint running was made by L" Home
Rule and 'Khabara,'' the pair being clear of
1" PapOose" to the bushes, where ''HOme Rule
A fine race home then took place, /" Papoose I"
winning by a head.
LosDoN, May l.-Advices from Cape Town Of
April 18th say No news Of importance has been
received from Natal. Lord Chelmsford has ar
rived at Durham and starts for Pietermari;zburg
on the 18th, whence he will 90 to Dundee. Sir
Bartle Frere arrived at Pretoria on April 10th,
after a satisfactory interview with the Beers.
On April 9th the Colonial forces unsuccessfully
assaulted the stronghold of the Basuta chief,
Moirosi. Two officers and a friendly native chief
were killed, and an officer and twenty two men
were wounded.
LoSDoS, May 3.-The steamer Gala, at
Liverpool from New York, encountered a gale on
April oath, and was hove-to fifteen hours. She
lost two boats and a seaman.
LONDON, May 3.-Tbe London and West
minister Bank yesterday took 5000 900 Of
United States 4 per cent. bonds at u, making in
all S35 900 900 Of United States securities which
this bank has recently purchased.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 27.-The Moore Trenya
says The chief object Of the Chinese mission
here has failed, Russia having refused to surren-
der Kulaia, and negotiations are broken off.
HoNGKoNG, May I.-GeLeral Grant has arrived
here in good health.
MADRID, April 29.-Princess Christina, second
child and daughter Of the Duke de MOn,pentsier,
died in Seville yesterday afternoon. King Al
fOnsO goes to Seville to-day.
RIO JASzIRo, April 5-Yia New York, April
2S.-The Government decided last month to send
a mission to China to negotiate a treaty with its
Government for the right to import Chinese
laborers for work on plantations; and a flying
squadron, which is about to get ready for a voy-
age of instruction round the world, is to call at
China and japan to give a concrete demonstra-
ton of Brazilian importance in the Western
Hemisphere. Captain Silveira Da Malta is to
command the squadron.
LONDON, April 27.-Tbe Post Berlin says:
The announcement that Germany has designated
Captain Zemoch, a distinguished naval officer, as
COnsulGeneral to Samoa, Is much commented
upon. The Government, without intending to
annex the islands, is firmly resolved to prevent
Americans establishing their sway there, to the
detriment Of other nations. a dispute between
Germany and the United States is not impossible.
LONDON, April PA private kilograms says
that Pisa Qua, Peru, has been bombarded. The
guano loading appliances at Huanilas and Pabel-
londe Plea have been destroyed. Iquique is still
blockaded, and all sailing vessels have left.
The workmen have fed, and business in the in
terror is entirely disorganized.
DUBLIN, May 4.-Dr. Butt is not expected to
survive the night. He is unconscious and IN
famation has attacked his brain.
A serious riot has been going on in Cork for
the last two days, arising out OF a difference be-
tween rival bands. Several houses were wrecked
on Saturday. Disturbances were renewed to-
day. The rioters were dispersed by the police.
Forty of the rioters were treated for scalp
wounds. A pOliceman's skull was fractured.
ST. PETERSBURG. May 3.-Lieutenant Dubro-
vina, arrested near NovgorOd on suspicion of be-
ing a chief member of the Revolutionary Com
mittec, was hanged Friday on the glacis of Fort
PetrOpaulOvski.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 8.-A semi-oficial state
ment is made denying the rumOrs, again revived,
of the Cars intended abdication.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 9.-An official statement
contradictIDg the news published abroad with re-
ference TO affairs in Russia, gays Fort Petropau-
lOysky is wholly inadequate to contain 400 pri-
soners, to say nothing OF the 400 which it was
stated had been removed therefrom to Kazan
that no prisoner has been removed from the
fortress to Kazan that the reported arrests of
officers have not taken place that since Febru-
AIRY only 3 officers altogether have been arrested,
hAAg AoAAy hA01 IN VI bhOAC AoAuiliSo
have been made.
MADRID, May 1.-The journals comment on
the agitation caused by the dearness of bread,
and several urge q reduction of import duties.
In a number of towns -four is nearly 80 shilliDgs
per bectOlitre.
VIENNA, May 1.-The propositions which
Count SchouvalOf brought here were unaccept-
able. He takes to London counter propositions
by Count Andrassy, to the effect that Austro-
Hungary will consent to August Sd as the date
for complete evacuation, If Russia will declare in
such a manner as to convince the Bulgarians of
her firm desire to cooperate with the Powers in
the execution OF the Treaty Of Berlin.
LONDON, May "a Berlin dispatch states that
a Nihilist printing press has been discovered at
the Office Of the Ministry of Public Communica-
tions in St. Petersburg. Eight officials have been
arrested.
NEwCAsrLE-oN-THE-TYNE, May 5.-The race
between Hanlan and Hawdon took place to-day
on the Tyne. The course was from the Mansion
House to the suspension bridge at Scotwold, a
distance of three miles and three furlongs. The
weather was brilliant, but a stiff northwestern
breeze was blowing, the tide running up strongly,
the river was quite rough. Enormous crowds of
people were present. Hanlan led from the start
and had the race in hand throughout. He rowed
with great dcliberation, looking over his shoulder
ieisurcly at times for his course. He won with
the greatest ease by six lengths; time, twenty
two minutes and FIVE seconds. In betting, two
to one on Ilanlan was freely offered, but there
were no takers.
Articles have since been signed between Elliott
to row on the Tyne championship course for
200 u side for the championship of England and
the SpOrfman challenge cup. Half Of the stakes
were deposited.
LONDON, May THE race for the Chester
trades cup to-day was won by Refer, Touchet.
second; Ridotto, third. The betting was 7 to /
on Parole, 4 to l against Touchet, 20 to l against
Ridotto and 20 to l against Refer. When the
horses settled down to work Deluder took up the
running, attended by Mountain Ash, Astronomer,
Refer and Zucchero, with Parole and Touchet
lying off. At the fve-furlong post Refer went
to the front, and, without again being headed,
won by 4 length, with the same distance between
the second and the third horses. Parole, who
took the second place on the straight line, finish
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