The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-04-24
FOREIGN NEWS.
Per =. -. AustraIia, April 30.

Per -. -. Australia, April 70.
LONDON, March 2S.-A despatch from Lahore
say that Fort Battle. situated beyond Gundamak,
was attacked last Friday and a Lieutenant and
IL men were killed and 10 Sepoys wounded.
The enemy was repulsed.
A dispatch from Jellalabad says: A large body
of men are reported to be preparing RATS to cross
the Cabul River to make n raid on the British
~outposts. a force has been sent to disperse them.
The HaZaras have defeated Mohamed Jan, infiict-
ing on him the loss of seventy killed, including
his brother. Ii is believed that Mohamed Jan
will yet attack the British line of communication,
avoiding Shirpur on account of it's strength.
Cabnl dispatch intimates that Mohamed Jan
did not accompany the chiefs who met the Brit
ish envoy at Ghuznee and who offered to proceed
to Madam to negotiate with the British, he being
prevented by h~ostilities with the Hazaras.
NEW YORK, March 20. The Herald has a glow
ing and characteristic account of the success
Edison Is achieving with his process of separating
gold from ''tailings'' of mines by electricity. Ii
declares that he has invented methods by which
he can extract a greater amount of gold from the
rejected residuum Of auriterous quartz or sand
than Is obtained by the present processes from
the virgin rocks delivered fresh from the crush
i%ng-mills.
CAPE Town, March 16.-Paul Kruger and
Peter Jouber have been deputed by the Beers to
visit Cape Colony and urge their claims. A
peaceful settlement of the Transvaal question is
expected.
81. PETERSBURG, April Sit is rumored that
1900 Chinese troops have crossed the Eastern
Russian frontier at Ususri, south Of Aviora, and
that 10000 are concentrated in the Western
frontier.
The possibility of war with China is freely dis
cussed here. \ dispatch from Berlin says that,
to keep the Chinese from Kuldja, the Russians
are endeavorinz to induce the King of Burmah to
Join the proposed Japanese Simese alliance against
china 4 ppw ,IaUanpSp AGENT will leave Toxic
for st. Petersburg in April.
PARIS, April 4.-Later dispatches from the
colliery explosion at Anderleus. Belgium, state
that ~forty-two persons were killed, and that forty
four workmen who were in the pit at the time
Of the disaster, escaped unframed.
lie Temps says: \ note from the Vatican to
the Government is on its way to Paris expressing
regret at the measures against the Jesuits, but
abstarning from any formal protestant from any
thing resembling encouragement to religious con-
fraternities TO resist the DEGREES of the Govern
ment.
The operations of the DEGREES against unau-
thorized congregations have been extended to the
Colonies. The Jesuits have Establishments on
the islands of Bourbon and Madagascar.
VICTORIA, Oh. c., April THE Lieutenant
Governor to-day opened the British COlumbia
Legislature. In his speech he favored the re-
~striction of Chinese immigration.
CABUL, April 7.-Mistauff Habibolla Khan
will return TO Maidar to-day with reassuring
message for the Ghuznee Chiefs. He expects to
return to Cabul with them. 1t is now known be-
yond a doubt that Abdurrahman Khan has been
well received i'll Turkestan. 1t is rumored that
his disposition toward the British is friendly.
BERLIN, April S.-The Emperor has replied by
the following Cabinet order to Bismarck S request
for PERMISSION to retire from Office: 81 certainly
do not ignore the difficulties in which you may
be placed by the conflict between duties imposed
upon YOU by the Constitution had your RESPONSE
biIity. ! do not feel induced to relieve you of
your Office, because you believe yourself unable in
a particular case to carry out the task allotted to
you by the Constitution. l must, on the con-
trary, leave it to you to submit to me and subse-
quently to the Bundesrath. proposals calculated
to bring about a constitutional solution of the
conflict Of duties of this description"
81. PETERSBURG, April S.-Russia Is about to
dispatch five large war vessels to Chinese waters,
for protection of Russian interests.
New YORK, April 9.-The Panama Star and
Herald of the 3lst ultimo says: The Chileans
are reported to have met a disaster near Moque-
ga. The Minister of War, wishing to surprise
the Peruvians, marched under cover of night TO
attack them. He fell into an ambush, and of
one regiment of 1900 men only 81 escaped.
Reported Chilean loss, 1900 killed, besides
wounded aud prisoners. The HuGScar and
MeQdYOneS, in the attack on africa, lost % men,
killed and wounded. Among the former is Com
mander Thompson of the HudScdr and two other
officers. The Nance Cdpac, carrying American
guns, struck the HuaScdr ten times, carrying
away her mizzenmast and seriously injuring her
hull, while the Nance CGpdc and shore batteries
were uninjured. Many houses in the town were
knocked down and several women and children
were killed. The Chileans did not give notice
of their intention to shell the town. Two Chill
can war vessels visited the LObos guano islands
and stopped the loading of about twenty YES
sells.
LONDON, April "a correspondent at Con-
stantinople reports that a terrible famine is rag
ing at Mosul, Turkish Koordistan. -Four thousand
inhabitants have fed to Bagdad, and hundreds
have died on the road.
BERLIN, April 10.-The Reichstag has con-
Guided the second reading on the army bill,
having adopted the remainder of the clauses with
out alteration. The amendments exempting the
clergy from military service were rejected. The
proposals of Won Buehler for a Congress to pro-
mote universal disarmament was rejected almost
unanimously.
LONDON, April S.-The Liberal successes in
English and Scotch counties increase the surprise
Occasioned by the borough elections. a Liberal
majority, independently of the Home Rulers, is
assured. The latest returns show a net Liberal
gain of IS seats. Three hundred Liberals have
been elected; l9l Conservatives and 80 Home
Rulers.
The Daily NelCs, in a leading article this
morning, says; There can be no doubt that the
country has declared not only in favor of the
Liberals, but for Gladstone As chief of the Gov
eminent.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 3.-The announcement
of the success of the Liberals in England pro-
duced considerable satisfaction IN political circles
here. The indefinite postponement of Skobe-
belof-s departure together with the belief that
no actual expedition to Turkistan will be under
taken this year, as well as the dispatch of a
Russian division to Kuldja are regarded as sig
nifcant of the indecision existing in Russian
Ministerial circles, probably, in view of the pos
sible results to be attained by the ultimate sue
cess of the English Liberals.
LONDON, April 3.-La France. Rdppel and
Li6erte exult over the defeat of the Conservatives.
The German newspapers unanimously view the
Gladstone Government with apprehension, while
the Austrian and Turkish journals are astounded
at the result of the elections. The opinion pre-
walls at Berlin and Vienna that England will be
isolated if Gladstone becomes chief of the
Cabinet.