Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-12-24
Foreign News.

The following items from papers received
from Auckland by the City IF Sydney, and from
San Francisco by the Eureka and A,Ver Head to
the 18th inst
Cholera is decreasing Mt Mecca.
Smallpox still continues in Sydney
., volcanic outbreak was reported Hobart
Town Nov. %.
1t is rumored that the Mikado of Japan has
been fired at.
Forty persons we're burned to death in n lodging
house near Pttsburg, Pennsylvania.
The U. s. steamer Aiert has been permitted to
visit number OF unopened seaports in Japan.
Several prominent Nihilists in Russia have been
arrested and number of plots discovered.
Col. John W. Forney proprietor and editor of
Progress, died at Philadelphia the 9th inst.
There is nothing new concerning the Chie-Preu-
Wan case except that the first reports
drawn.
Bills have been introduced into Congress for tho
admission OF Dakota and New Mexico into the
Union.
Two bills for the prevention of Chinese immi-
grafton have already been introduced in the U. s.
Congress.
The London Geographical Society urges the
Government to dispatch petition to the Arctic
for the relief of Leigh Smith.
number of engagements between Bosnian and
Austrian troops have lately taken place, and the
10th ult. the latter were defeated in fight.
The trouble in Ireland continues and is becom-
ing more violent. number of people have been
beaten and killed for paying their rents.
The receipts of the U. s. Government for the
past fiscal year S16O,000,OO0 over the expend-
lures the greater part of which used in paying
| off the National Debt.
At Vienna, on the Sth inst, the Ring Theatre
took fire when nearly filed with people. Eleven
hundred people are missing and one thousand are
| thought to have burned to death.
The report to the Secretary of the Navy of the
United States, of the Naval Advisory Board recon-
mends the construction of 80 unarmored cruising
vessels of steel, and Il number of rams, also tor
pedo gunboats and torpedo boats.
The Captain of II. M. S. London with 10 men in
plnnace made an unsuccessful attempt Oh the 3D.
| of December to capture dhow loaded with slaves
of the coast of Zanguebar Capt. Browning and
two men were killed and three wounded
Secretary Hunt will retain his Cabinet position,
and james will remain until the end of the present
fiscal year. 1t is reported that Kirkwood has also
been told by the President that he desires him to
| remain. Frenghuysen and Brewster are to be
Secretary of State and Attorney General, and the
Treasury having been filed, this makes up the
| complement of the Cabinet
Monsignor Termose, Preato to the household of
Pope Leo XIII, expresses his opinion that his
Holiness will long change his residence to
Malta, owing to the opposition he receives in the
holy city. The Italian Government doesnot afford
him the protection which it should. The Pope
foresees his departure and has made catalogue
| of all objects of value in the Vatican.
The London Pal Mai Gazette of the 22d of
October suggests that it might be better for
England If Canada were to herself to
the United States. The writer assumes that the
admission of 100000 as loyal subjects of Great
Britain as the Canadians to citizenship in the
ship now existing between the mother country and
| her sturdy offshOOt.