The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-10-14
Notes from Foreign Pzpers.

The following missionaries were to sail IN the
steamer Gaelic from San Francisco on Septem-
Der 2S for various fields of labor in Eastern
Asa Rev. ID. McGilvary, wife and son. and
Misses Wishard, Warner, Writ and Griffin go
to Laos; Rev. E. p. Dunlap, wife and three
children, Siam Rev. :. c. Peoples. J. p. Hurst
and Mrs. Hurst, Laos; Rev. Mr.. McLaren, Mrs.
McLaren and Miss Linnel, Siam; Miss Hesse
and Miss Garvin, Japan; Rev. w. w. Hayes
and Mrs. Hayes to China.
There has been a good deal of bad weather in
the China sea lately, and a number Of vessels
have been wrecked. The HOngkong, a new
steamer belonging to Messrs. Siemssen Il CO.,
has gone ashore in the Haitian Straits and be-
come a total wreck. No cargo has been saved
from her, although the Chinese in the neighbor-
mood managed to do a goodly bit OF Ioohng be-
fore 1t could be prevented, even going the
length of pulling off the captains gold ring
with their teeth. The officers and crew were all
saved.-Hongkong, Annoy, FOochow and Shang-
han have each been anticipating a visit, but al
, .ough bad weather has prevailed at all of these
aces there has been nothing approaching a
typhoon.-OUerland China Mail, August 18th.
The Japan Gazette says III a recent issue
'An unpleasant rumor, the source of which is
not, so far as we can ascertain, clearly known,
has been current during yesterday and to-day to
the effect that with one exception all the foreign
representatives have announced to the Japanese
government that they are instructed to submit
their countrymen to the jurisdiction of Japan.
The exception is said to be Her Britannia
Majesty's minister. The rumor, AS rumors
generally do, no doubt vastly eXaggeratcS.
Japan. has only asked for IA sort of defined and
limited jurisdiction III certain cases. Her gov
eminent have not claimed to exercise jurisdiction
III cases of disputes rising among foreigners
themselves, but they have proposed that in those
cases where Japanese are parties and The foreign
nation Of the o;i1tr party has no court of COM
petent power IL administer the law of that
nation, then japan shall not be held to have
absolutely surrendered the jurisdiction which
rests i'm the S.Nprli1p authority of tha oOuptry
There are other points on which the govern
ment desire t. reserve certain rights; and there
can be no d"nht of the s~oundness of the pre-
misses on which they rely"
Three thousand five hundred churches have
been built in the United States during the past
ID years, and more than one for every day in the
year during the last II months.
BosToN, Sept. ia cable dispatch some
weeks ago made a brief mention of trouble on
the island OF Madagascar, which it was said in
volved the safety of American residents. The
bark Toria Toparez from the island is the first
vessel to reach this country with tidings of the
state of affairs. She reached this port yesterday,
and the passengers report a series of insurrec-
tons among the tribes on the coast against the
Queen. The trouble grew out of the Queens
prohibition of the export of ebony, rosebud, and
other valuable products to this and other
countries. The local tribes persisted in the
practice, tempted by the liberal offers of Ameri-
can captains. A small army was sent from the
capital in the interior to the coast in June, and
there were several unimportant engagements,
in which a few were killed. The fever attacked
the Queens troops, and hundreds of them died.
BIC SUIT.-An attachment for 81, 500, 000w $
recently served on the treasurer of the Topeka,
Salina and Western r. ilroad Company, at the in
stance of the Kansas and Eastern Railroad Com
pany. 1t appears that the Topeka, Salina and
Western Railroad Company in 1881 made a con-
tract with the construction company to build its
road, which is about 200 miles in length, and in
payment therefor the construction company
was to receive a sufficient amount of bonds and
stock to give it a controlling interest in the new
road. Recently the Topeka. Salina and West
ern Railroad Company annulled its contract, and
made Il new one with another party.
Emelie Melville is at law with Garner, Will
hanson, and Musgrove, the Australian theatrical
managers. She was engaged to play in Mel
bourne and Sydney for $3.50 a week for the first
month, and $500 each subsequent week till
Christmas. Agreement not kept, so Emelie
sues.
A correspondent writing from Wellington,
n. H., says 1T is said that Sir George
Grey's sudden departure from Wellington was
due to his intention to leave for England by the
next mail steamer. 1t is further alleged that
members of the so-called Greyite-Liberal
Party " some time ago addressed a letter to Mr.
Gladstone, enquiring as to the disturbances OF
Sir George Grey being Governor of New Zealand,
as Sir George Grey's appointment might
tend to smooth away and finally settle all re-
manning native difficulties. The story further
goes that a reply has been received from Mr..
Gladstone, couched in somewhat ambiguous Ian
gsage, but conveying, in vague diplomatic terms,
the IDEA that the English Government are not
unfavorably disposed towards the suggestion.
This story reaches me ON what appears good
authority"
The public debt of the United States was de-
creased SIG, 12S, 261 during the month of August.
The total Indebtedness amounts TO 81, 901 1856,
600, with S242, $50, SIS cash in the Treasury.
There are now twenty-one railroad corpora
tons in the United States having a capital oil
over S25, 900, 600 each. The aggregate capital is
81, 064, 4SS, 100, and their gross earnings last
year were 1878, O89, 1888
Jay Gould's absorption of the Hannibal and
St. Joseph railroad gives him the control OF
Sl20,0 00, 900 corporate capital and :, 1000 EN-
ployes.
The gpm of the Palmetto, which is found III
abundance in Florida, makes as good If MOI
better mucilage than gum arabic. [This
Palm, liz does not seem to be known here
although well suited to some parts of the
county. In appearance it is something like oul
auha'd.-Ed. PC. Al
The Chinese have given evidence that with
their claim to suzeranity over the Corea, they
also recognize the duties of the position. A
despatch from Pekin dated the 5th September
which has been communicated to the Times,
states that the Chinese authorities interviewed
boldly in Corea, and seized the father of the
King and brought him to China. The King
has been reinstated by Chinese troops and ships