Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-01-08
Late Foreign News.

BY the Ho Chung which arrived from San Fran
cisco on Tuesday, bringing dates to December 23d
we receive the following items of foreign news
LONDON, Dec. 2-The Marquis of Landsdown,
one of the heaviest Irish landowners, has aban
doned his intention of spending the winter i'll
Ireland, i'll consequence of the condition of the
country. The decision of the Empress of Austria,
definitely giving up her hunting box i'll Ireland, is
due to the reports OF the agi.ators.
An enthusiastic demonstration by Orangemen
and Protestant farmers took place yesterday at
Colerain, County Londonderry, at which resolu-
tions passed energetically denouncng the
Land League agitation and the inaction of the
Government relative to ofairs in Ireland.
LONDON, December 22d-A land meeting was
held to-day at Derrygonelly, announced, and
was protected bya strong force of police and
infantry. Opposition on the part of Orangemen
was abandoned.
battalion of Grenadier Guards is ordered to
get ready for special service i'll Ireland The garr
son in Ireland will number 10000 men of all arms
by the first of January.
After the arrival of the Grenadier Guards the
Irish garrison will comprise ten batteries of artil
lery, regiments of cavalry, three companies
of engineers twenty-eght battalions of infantry,
and some companies oil tho Army Service Corps.
New YORK, December 23d.-The Worid's Lon
don special says Labouchere publishes to-day the
Misunderstanding, if true that ParneI has
been suddenly removed from the leadership of the
Land League, and replaced by Michael Davitt,
mands for separation from England, it says, find
most favor now in Ireland. This statement must
very well understood here that there are no two
men in the Land League more intimate terms
with one another than are Parnell and Dayitt.
Capt William Humphreys Archdale of Riversdale,
Enniskillen, the Tory member of Fermaugh, has
issued an address calling upon all loyal men
his estate to oppose the extension of the Land
League principles in that part of the country.
Nordenskjold has ordered a vessel to be built Mt
the mouth of the Lena, whence he will set out i'll
1882 ON another voyage OF discovery IN the Arctic
/ nj Ter ia bpnaS N n mi RI
on the brief open season.
| Lieutenant-General Sir Donald Stewart will
succeed General Frederick p. Haines Com
mander- in Chief in India in the Spring. General
Sir Neville b. Chamberlains has declined the posi-
ton on account of ill health and doubt of his
| qualifications
A disastrous fire has occurred at Rangoon, Brit
| ish India The damage is estimated at nineteen
| laos of rupees.
| The Russian Government has ordered IL tor
pedo cutters at n cost of 10000 for the fleet in
Chinese waters.
NEW YORK; Dec. 19-'The Worlds London cor
respondent says: There is, am enabled to say,
no truth whatever in the reported withdrawal of
Sir Edward Thornton from Washington, where he
il likely long to remain the Dean of the Diploma
| tic Corps. His conduct there has always given the
greatest satisfaction to all the successive admin
istrations under which he has acted 1t is posi-
BILE that the Marquis of Ripon, Viceroy of India
will recover his health but he will certainly have
to leave the East. He has caught the jungle fever
after an attack of which n man may live, but al
Lord Ripons age he cannot possibly hope to get
well so long AZ he remains in India. II he is
PEELED to return it is supposed that the Earl OF
Dnferin now Ambassador at the Court of st
Petersburg will be asked To succeed him.
General Grant remarked To n correspondent
that his interest in the lsthmus Canal dated from
early life. He tried to have something don,
about it before he was President, but failed, ant
when he was elected caused survey to be made
of every possible route. In this way he learDe,
that Nicaragua was the best. There were man,
reasons for this of an especial character. Nicara
qua was further north and more direct and neare
US. He did not think the country could sit by an,
n cenal built across the Isthmus by Europeans
a 1t would be the same thing rs though the Unite
States had gone to Suez and tried To take posses
sion of it, As to railroad opposition, he did no
expect they would be friendly to canal, but IL /
WAS built of course commerce would 90 as usua
through the cheapest channel
1t is officially announced that the allotment o
t Panama Canal shares will be as follows; Applies
tons for from one to five shares will be accepte
in toto; Subscribers for from six to twenty share
! will receive six, and those from twenty upward
will receive twenty five por cent of their demand
. Installments of 100 francs per share must /
paid befor the 30 tn instant.
y Sr. PErERsnuRd, Dec. "a telegram fro,
r Bawi reports that body of cavalry successful
. stormed the fortified village of Karys on the 81
u instant, and routed the Tekkes after an obstina
V resistance. One thousand sheep and cattle and
Q loss was light. Several thousand Nero Tire
mans are advancing with artillery to the aid
8 the Akhal Tekkes.
Gen. Skobelof suddenly pushed forward h
~
Z, OF Tercomans, eghty-hve yersts from their o
d ,renched positions at Teck-repe, entirely crus
/ ing them.
LONDON, December ga telegram to the Col
al NAL Office from Pietermatzburg, dated Decemb
tx 10TH reports that 5000 Doors have taken posses
30 ion of Heidelberg and established republic, wi
., Paul Kruger President and Joubert Commander
NJ No act of violence was committed. Communic
at ton with Pretoyia is cut All available troops
being sent up.
DUBLIN, December, ga large force of Boo
10 occupied heidelberg ON the 10th instant and
,p tabllshod government under Kruger, and the
II habitants were found to quit the town witho
81 passes She losses of the Basutos in this hg
" with the patrolling column from Mafeteng vi
,p the heaviest yet indicated.
% Tho Nsles says. A telegram FROM Pierterma
burg disolosos the fact that state of war exists
{ rransvaal, and that the resources of England
ks apparently pledged To the task of subiugati
the Dutch Doors. There are only 500 viii
Is capable o: bearing arms in Transvaal, and
IL these 500 have ranged themselves under the b'
10 ner Of republic at Heidelberg. We may dlsIn
" as altogether uncorroborated the rumor Of the
Ms feat Of tho Burghers by the Pondoa. The rel
90 lion Of the Beers hardly fail To encourage
M Basutos 10 greater resistance.
- LONDON, Dec 2O.-Governor Sir George Co
"s willgo to Transvaal the 2lst instance to ses
os- the state OF Affairs there. Ihe Natal noun