The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-08-21
Foreign News Items.

The Cape Colony Parliament has been prorogu-
Tho Fmnerors of Austria and Germany will
meet in Ischel on August lOtn.
c,ors in several provinces Of England are re-
nortrd 10 be much damaged by recent rams.
R,b;ns,sin wants none Of his children to under
stand anything about music
King Humbert has reproved bis courtiers for not
allowing petitions from the people to reach him.
The total population of the State of New York
by the recent census, will not vary mucn from o.
$50 600.
claim of the countess Lambertini, to prove
thai the registry Of her baptism is false, has been
rejected by the Court of the FIRST instance.
General Grant has accepted the Presidency of
the San Pedro aud Canyon del Aqua Mining Com
pany of New Mexico.
Turkey is Q splendid example of the Initiation sys.
TEN of6nsnce. A paper note that might be termed
a Turkish dollar passes in Constantinople for nine
cents. --
Cincinnati 10 about the size Of San francisco. The
census taker credits it with 9 population OF 260,sl5.
In ten years the increase has been 34,676.
General Garfield 10 claimed to be Q linesl descend
ant of Captain John Mason. the founder OF Norwich,
Conn. aud vauquisher of the Pequot Indians, Q
monument to whose memory stands at Bean Hill.
The coinage executed at the United States Mints
during the fiscal year ended June Both was valued
at Ss4 300, la, Of which S27 1888 $50 were standard
silver dollars. This exceeds the coinage of any pre-
vious year. ~
The returns from the county of San Francisco,
including the city, &C the census office. are just
tabulated, and show the value Of real estate to be
s197. 800 900, and the personal property $751;
OOO, 900.
The revenue cutter Thomas Cortpin, after . rough
passage Of twelve days from San Francisco. arrived
At Ounalssks on June Bird, on her way to the relief
of .ba -haI;n0 harka Aoftuf TV0IIn eIO1 and pigf-
liant. which were ice-bound in the Arctic. f
The Gar is the only crowned widoWer, and Vic
toria the only crowned widow, among the European
potentates. Alfonso and Christine Of Spain are the
youngest welded couple William and Augusta, Of
Germany. the Oldest.
For the year ending May s1st, the exports of the
United States exceeded the imports to the extent OF
more than S162. 600. 900. which is q most gratifying
exhibit. A few years Of such prosperity will make
the nation rich.
The Sultan Of Zanzibar, weary of the mere work
of reigning Prince. has become Q business man. He
has bought o British steamship, and is running 1t at
cheap rates for passengers and cargo between Zan-
zibar and Bombay.
The International Exhibition. which is to be
held in New York in 1888, is to be on a scale far
exceeding that of the Centennial Exhibition, and
will rank with those held in London and Paris, if
it does not even surpass them. There should be a
full exhibit. not merely from the Pacific States of
the American Union, but from the countries with
which We are closely connected-the Hawaiian
Kingdom. Mexico and Central Americas. F.
Merchant. t
A contract has been entered into by a firm of
provision packers of San Francisco with the Rus
sian Government to furnish it $3.50 barrels of
standard mess beef, to be shipped by the brig
Cadet to Vladivostock. This beef amounts to
$50. 900 lbs, and the barrels and salt are entirely
of California production. The same firm has
already this year made another shipment of $50
barrels beef for the Russian Government. Skinned
to another port in Russian Asia.
The statement of the Liverpool, London and
Globe Insurance Company for 1879 shows assets
amounting to $3l, 597, 900. and yet the paid up
capital is less than 81. 250.0 600. The income for
1879 was over Sc. 900. 900 while the losses actually
paid were So $40 900. The face value OF risks
written during the year was upwards of 81 .500,-
OOO, 900. including nearly ST., zoo, 900 in Califor-
MIA. The net amount of risks in force at the close
of the year was 81. 594. 213, 800. These risks are
scattered in nearly all parts OF the world. $685.
900 worth of property being covered in the Coral
Islands of Hawaii.