The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-04-12
3aluaiiall Qazette.
Late Foreign News.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 70, 1882.

The following interesting news is additional
to that previously published:
NEW York, March I7.-Advicea from Pa
mama Of March sth are an follows The earth
quake reported in Costa Rica extended from
Carriage. on the dividing ridge between the
two oceans, TO the Pacific Coast Three
churches and a number of dwellings were
ruined in Carriage. In San Jose, Alajucla,
Greco and San Ramon public ard private build
ings were thrown down or otherwise damaged,
and in Punta Arena, on the Pacific, the up
heaval occasioned some damage. The famous
volcano Irazu, which has been quiet for years,
although with its fires internally smoldering,
is credited with this disturbance. No loss Of
life is reported.
HAVANA, March Is.-Forty cane fields in
the Jurisdiction of Malina del Sur have been
burned, and smaller fires have occurred in
other sections.
LONDON, March l9.-The Standards cor
respondent at Berlin says: The press here
severely criticises the appointment Of Sargent
as United States Minister to Germany. The
TageJlaa sharply reproves Everett, Secretary
Of the United States Legation at Berlin, for
neglecting to point out to his Government the
improperly Of appointing such successor to
men like George Bancroft, Bayard Taylor and
Andrew d. White
NEw YoRK, March lG-West India advices
state that the Administrator Generals Office
at Demerara is short in its accounts Sl2l, s7l.
Minors and widows are the sufferers.
LONDON, March ia Times dispatch from
Berlin says: Won Eisendrear, German Minis
ter to Japan, is mentioned as the successor of
Won Schloezer at Washington.
NORFOLK, (va.), March 2O.-The steam
yacht Sidney Virgin, from New York for Porto
Rico, is believed to be lost with all on board.
LONDON, March 2l.-In the Commons the
Marquis of Harrington declared that the clos
ure proposal was nothing more than a modifi-
cation of the existing restrictions on debates,
the effects of which resolution had been greatly
exaggerated. The Government was unable,
under the present system. to carry on the bus
mess of the country with dignity and effect
If other persons thought they could do so, the
Ministry would with pleasure resign; but SO
long as the Ministry remained responsible they
must appeal to the House to give them those
powers which alone are sufficient for the con-
duct Of business. The debate was then adj
iourned.
LoNDON. March PA grand banquet will
be given in honor Of Sir Henry Parkes at the
end OF next month, in London. The Duke Of
Edinburgh viii preside.
The S. S. CITY # Sydney arrived early on
Monday morning the 10th inst BY her, we
have dates to the 27th instant, from which we
clip the following:
MELBOURNE, March 23.-The Age, in its
Issue to-day, publishes an article purporting
to give authentic information with regard to
Russian designs upon the Australian Colonies.
The intelligence is furnished by one Henry
Byrant. who is alleged TO have been employed
as agent by Admiral Aslambegof' during his
recent visit to the Colonies
The Age of the Path asserts the genuineHcss
of information given yesterday regarding the
Russian designs upon Colonies, and publishes
documentary evidence in support of Byrant's
statements. The Argus this morning says
that the Ags's information is an impalpabIe
hoax, and completely fallacious, and that By
rant was employed by Admiral Aslambegoff
on matters altogether unconnected with Aus
tralian defences. The affair has caused great
excitement here.
LONDON, March 25.-News has been re-
ceived from ireland that the strong ill-feeling
which has manifested itself of late between
the men of the Sith and ssth regiments, sta
toned at Galway, eliminated to-day in a scri-
Gus disturbance in that town. Two bodies of
men belonging to the regiments named met in
the streets, and riot once commenced. They
fought desperately for some time, and several
combatants received injuries Of more or less
serious character. The disturbance was at
length suppressed by the police, and several
arrests were made
kilograms arc to hand from Port Au Prince,
the capital of the Republic of Hayti, in the
West Indies, that serious epidemic Of small
pox has broken out there. The disease is of
virulent type, and i,lOO deaths have already
resulted.
OTTAWA, March 23.-The Canadian House
Of Commons has passed bill legalizing mar
rage with a deceased wife's sister
PARIS, March 24-Mr. Bumaby, who re-
Gently assembled from England in the balloon
Eclipse, has successfully crossed the English
Channel, and landed in the neighborhoodrof
Caen.