The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-05-29
EUROPEAN.

LONDON, April 14th.-The Newmarket HandI-
cap was won by P. Lorillard's Wallenstein;
Sword-Dance, second; Simba, third. There were
ten starters.
BERLIN, May 4th.-It is proposed to connect
Hamburg directly with Altoona by a new railway.
Most of the Schleswig-Holst trade passes
through Altoona and Hamburg, so that this pro-
position, it is held, is made simply to avoid the
free city. The proceedings excite the utmost in
dignation in Hamburg, and public meetings are
called to protest against them.
LONDON, May IA request has been made by
this Government that the Danish Government
cause inquiries to be made for any traces of the
training ship Ato!antd on the Greenland coast.
John William Oskden, I9 years of age, the
champion 500 yards shot Of England, challenges
any man in the world to shoot forty shots, dis
lance 500 yards, at a target four feet in diameter,
with eight-inch bullseyes; or he will give eight
points out of eighty shots for ESQ a side and a
1OO-guInea challenge cup. He will give or take
ESQ for expenses to any part of the world.
BERLIN. May 3.-The North German Gazette
denies the rumor recently circulated by the
Liberal newspapers of Bismarck's approaching
retirement from Office.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 3.-EngIish officers in
the Turkish gendarmie have been informed that
their contracts will be renewed if they will con-
sent to As per cent reduction in salary.
ROME, May 3.-The King declines to accept
the resignation of the Ministry, but has accepted
their proposition to dissolve the Chamber of Dep
uties.
BosToN, May 3.-The Bulletin saws: A large
importing house here, who have agents in China,
have not received any confirmatory advices re-
garding the reported troubles with Russia, and
the price of tea is not affected in the least. The
markets here shows no signs of uneasiness, and
prices have rather a tendency to further decline.
liz IS suU0pGfp1 in some nuarrera that the minors
have been set afloat in the London market in
order to give a stimulus to the trade.
LONDON, May 4.-Upwsrds of 1000 iron work
ers are on a strike in the North of England
against 5 per cent reduction of wages. awarded
by arbitrators. a ballot was taken by the iron
workers at Consett to-day, and a majority Of four
to one favored a continuance of the strike.
An emigration agent at Accrington, Lam
cashire, has received application from the United
States for 100 female weavers or heads of families.
The first batch sails on the 18th inst.
CoNsTASTINoPLE, May 4-Whittaker, editor
of the Leyant Herald, has been sentenced to sew
enteen months imprisonment for publishing a
new number of his journal, Notwithstanding its
recent suppression.
LONDON, May 1t is rumored that the Cab
met have 1t under consideration to issue a circu-
lar note to the European Powers, inviting their
cooperation in securing the unfulflled part of
the Berlin treaty.
The condition of France has rarely been more
tranquil and promising. Taxes, though enor-
nous, are collected without trouble, and they
greatly exceed stimates. The difficulty is how to
make the most equitable remissions.
BERLIN, May Bismarck, at a recent parlia-
mentary solree, declared that he was ready to
come to terms with the Vatican, but that the
Vatican must testify its willingness by acts in
stead of words. iii did not, then things would