The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-07-08
FOREIGN NEWS.

LONDON, June 1.-THE police to-day
nave effected the seizure at Clerkenwell,
of a large quantity of arms, which were
known to have been intended for ship
ment to Ireland.
ROME, June 8.-The desire expressed
by Garibaldi that his remains should be
cremated, cannot be carried out owing
to various reasons, and the idea has
therefore been abandoned. The inter
ment of his body takes place to-day, at
the Island of Caprera. The funeral, it
is expected, will attract an immense
c]Oncourse of people.
SYDNEY. June 15.-The Commissioner
of Railways has authorised the news
papers to state that the railway tran
sactions of the New South Wales Go
vernment for 1881, the details of which
have just been completed, show, after
paying all working expenses, the cost TO
maintenances and renewals, a net profit
of 5.3l per cent. on the capital invested
in the lines open for traffic.
SUvA, FIJI, June 10.-The Times says:
-" The first of the labor recruiting fleet
have again started on the second trip.
Food seems plentiful everywhere this
year, and the experienced in that trade
all augur difficulty in filling up with
immigrants as the season goes on"
The same paper refers to the alleged
intention of recurring to the old ar
rangement by which the San Francisco
boats called at FIJI, and says that ''there
seems good ground for the belief that it
has been very favorably considered, and
that the next contract will most prob
ably include that arrangement"
LEvUKA, FIJI, June 10.-An unquiet
spirit has lately been abroad amongst
the POlynesian laborers engaged in and
about LevUka. During the moonlight
nights of last week there were several
tumultuary gatherings in the neighbor-
hood of Vagadace, and on Sunday after
noon the matter eliminated in a grand
free fight down about WaitOvu. In the
course of the riot some of the men were
very roughly handled.
1t is stated that when the recruiting
schooner Winfred was on her last vOy-
age one of her boats was fired upon by
the natives at the Island of Amb.ryn
The usual plan was adopted. The boat
touching at one point was invited to
coast along a little bit where there were
- plenty men" There was also there a
good rocky ambuscade. Then from be-
hind these rocks the native detachment
olShN NhN BHt BODS HASt OA viz
boat or boats. Happily in this instance
the recruiting agent observed the ruse
in time and pulled rapidly off, so that
though the shots were fired upon the
beach no one was hurt.
The papers to hand per H. w. Almy
| contain the following additional items of
news about the Egyptian troubles =
alexandria, June 17.-Up to last even
ing the total number of corpses found of
Europeans killed in last Sundays riots
were 304. An eyewitness states the
Europeans who took refuge in police
stations were massacred by gendarmes.
A correspondent declares the rising vas
organised by the project of Police. Thou
sands of Europeans are arriving from
the Interior. London, June 1.-THE
Government, with the approval of France
and Turkey, has determined to protect
the Suez Canal with British troops.
Transports have accordingly been order
ed ready for embarkation."