The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-06-12
FOREIGN NEWS.
Per American Girl" June z.

LONDON, May 13.-One steamship company
will this week send out nearly 1000 passengers.
Several lines are obliged to put on extra steamers.
The demand for accommodation at Queenstown
greatly exceeds the supply. The companies which
sold tickets in advance are compelled to pay de-
tention money to emigrants awaiting their turns.
twenty-five steamers have already sailed this
week with passengers for the United States. and
four more will follow, besides several freighters.
The Globe says: We understand that in view OF
the complications with China the Russian Gov
eminent has telegraphed authorities beyond the
Ural mountains to place all strategical roads in
condition for the passage of troops and stores. A
half million of roubles have been assigned for i'm
proving the highway from Orenburg to Central
Asia.
LONDON, May l4.-The cost of the Afghan war
is ow confessed to be upwards of G13 900 900,
and will probably be more.
NV YORK, May I4.-The Herad'S Madrid dis
patch says: In answer to the Interpolation of
several Cuban Deputies in Congress, the Secre-
tary of the Interior and Minister of the Colonies,
Romero Robledo, has declared that the Govern
ment is fully aware that a conspiracy is on foot
and in active operation in various Provinces of
the Island, and that it permeates the different
classes of society. Captain-General Blanco pos
sesses ample means, and is invested with full
authority to preserve the tranquility and defeat
the efforts and intrigues of the refugees abroad.
He admitted that precautionary measures have
been taken against the Creoles who are living
here under police surveillance, in virtue of the
decision of the Goyernor-Genera of Cuba, by
whose orders several hundred Cubans have been
domiciled in the peninsula. As a matter of safety
these will be q~uartered in the city of Cadiz and
in the Balearic Isles. This course has been decid-
ed upon in consequence of the recent escape of a
large number of them to France and the United
States.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-William E. Chandler.
Sanafor Rlainafa confidential friend apH ob;oF
Washington Lieutenant, this evening sent the
following despatch to j. L. Clarkson, editor of
the LoICG State Register:
'sThe best and most reliable estimate that can
be made this evening, gives, on the first ballot at
Chicago: Blaine, 305; Grant, 2S9; Sherman, lO5;
Edmunds, 35; Washburne, II; Window, 10; or
289 for Grant to 467 for all others. This estimate
is based upon Is votes for Blaine from New
York, and Is from Pennsylvania, but none from
Ohio or Illinois. OF the 20 contesting delegates
from Illinois, elected by the strongest Republican
Congressional Districts, IA are for Blaine and 6 for
Washburne. | have little doubt that the result
will substantially verify the above estimate, and
that Mr.. Blaine will be nominated on the second
ballot. w. E. CHANDLER"
CHICAGO May 22.-The Irib1ne's Galena
special says: The Gazette, whose writer is a per-
sonal friend of General Grant, will publish to-
morrow a statement denying the current item
that G.. W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger,
has information that General Grant will order his
name withdrawn from the Chicago Convention.
He says that neither Childs, nor any one else, has
authority to make such an assertion. General
Grant name has never been before the public as
a candidate by any word or act Of his own, and
he most certainly will not order his name with
drawn. A very large class of the American peo-
pie have chosen to make him a candidate, and if
the Republican Convention sees fit to tender him
the nomination he will not decline. The writer
knows this to be a fact, and publishes it because
1t is well for the Republicans of the country to
cease to hold the matter in doubt.
PARIS, May 2S.-The Communists demonstra-
ton, to-day, in commemoration of the death of
their comrades, shot on the Odd of May, 1871,
passed off without any more serious incidents
than the arrest of thirteen persons-including one
Prussian-and a slight encounter between the
police and the throng.