The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-13

shingles, and in the high wind prevailing gained
great proportions. All warehouses, wharves
and stores were consumed. Four hundred
stores, n all, were destroyed. Buildings re-
gArded IS freproOf did not escape the destruc-
tl"H. al nearly every one of that class which
the IRE attacked succumbed to the flames. The
hre Was attended with loss of life. Five persons
are ki''Wn to have burned to death. A new law
will b. passed prohibiting the use Of shingles
hereafter. Richard Sanderson, agent of the
wilson Steamship Company, one of whose boats,
the Belize, plies between New York and Jamaica,
SAID he thought that the fire was "a Godsend to
kingston: 1t was a miserable town, filed prin-
clpaHy with lazy, shiftless negroes. Their wives
do all the work, while they attend to the home
of UNI. We have to depend upon
women entlrely~for the coaling of our steamers.
The hre has destroyed the business portion of
the town, all the Government offices are gone.
Nearly all the buildings were frame structures,
and only one and two stories high.
The committee appointed in behalf of several
commercial organizations of New Orleans has
prepared an address in behalf of the commercial
interests of that city to present to the special
committee appointed to investigate the improve
ments of the Mississippi River, and through it
to Congress. The address says " Independent
of making the Mississippi Valley the base of
supply for provisions, lumber, work animals,
labor and manufactures necessary :or the con-
s%truction of an lnter-oceanic canal, you will need
q more extended market for the product of a
hundred millions of people. The hour must
com when the transfer of skilled labor from
Europe to America will enable US to produce
any article in the United States which we
now import. When, aud even before this stag
nation of demand shall occur, where will the
United States find a market for her surplus
food and fabrics ? Euro e has from similar
cause been compelled to seek q reciprocal market
in tropical Asia. Africa and America. England
has her India, which she must traverse Il great
distance and encounter great obstacles to reach.
You have an India at your door. England has
recently shown that she will permit no obstacle
of an international character to stand between
her and her distant possessions. 1t will become
the duty of the United States to see that no
political or physical obstacle should interrupt
her coastwise trade with her Pacific possessions
or with her foreign markets. We need q CONT
mental policy. 1t should be a permanent aud
determined one"
The electric light is far advanced in Vic
toria. The negotiations which have for
some time past been pending betw. EN- the
Australian Electric Company and the Swan
Electric Company in England have now
been concluded A telegram from London,
received on November 3. places the. Aus
tratian Company in possession of the prtent
rights for all the Australian colonies In
order to extend their business operations, it
is the intention of the company to at once
issue $4,000 additional shares With the
exception of London and New York, Med
bourne is the only city supplying consumers
with electric light from a central station.
The company's works have been inspected
by a great many visitors, including Judge
Boucaut, of South Australia, and many
of the leading councillors and mining ma
nagers from BallarAt, Creswick, and Mary
borough.
1t is impossible to predict. a correspond
ent says, to what excess Italian Anglophobia
will finally reach. The Opiaione of the
31st August informend its readers. on the
authority of the Corriere del Nation Of
Naples, that one of the English tr. nsports
en- route to Egypt carries reinforcements to
Sir Garnet Wolseley in the from of 1000
bloodhounds, to hunt down the Egyptiane,
and describes how the English General
will keep them half starved to increase their
ferocity in pursuit of their prey st.
James Gazette.
The object of the visit of the ex-Empress
of the French to Vienna was 10 see the por-
trait of the Prince-Imperial, which is being
painted for her by M Canou. Working
from photographs, the painter was DESTROYS
of a consultation with her on certain points.
He is said to have produced a most striking
likeness. The portrait is lIfe-size. and the
prince is TO be represented in the uniform he
wore when he left Finland on his ii fated
journey.
M NORM. the illustrator of La Vie Pa
%risienne is dead. This ertist of largee, ed,
wasp WASTED, fashionable wome, dc.csted
the speci | public for which he worked. He
used to GO to the watering places to study
his subjects. and called these visits " halts
in purgatory. He looked like an old
rag-man. and led the life of a h rmit. and
he never Gee sed to regret that he did not,
like Millet. elect for what was true and
healthful in art.
Some important experiments with SUBJ
marine mines have been made at Chatham.
They were organised to ascertain whether
the explosion of a large mine submerged in
the water in the centre of a CHI in Of other
mines would C use the explosion of the
others, A mine of 5cwt. of gun-cotton was
fired, but the surroundig mines were not in
jured The force of the explosion was felt
at a distance of two miles.
DR.. Bell, of New York is sure that germs
of disease remain in ice after it is frozen
Exchange If they are in ice at all, it
must be be after it is frozen. We don't
have any u~nfrozen ice in this country
NogristOtcn Herald.
A Constantinople dispatch says: The Sultan, i'll
conversation with a political parsonage, denied
all rumors OF dissensions in the Government.
He said reports of conspiracies against himself
were false. He lived in no fear of such dam
gers. Thu blood of the Ottoman ran in his
veins, and he had his share of tue well-known
courage of his race. He knew the wants and
miseries of his people. He had ordered vigor-
Gus suppression of corruption, and measures to
restore prosperity and order
Parnell believes that since the commencement
of the Rents agitation e3, 000, 600 reduction of
the rents has been earned for the people. And
about the same sum has been expended in the
support of troops, extra police and prosecutions
TO say nothing of the distress and loss of life
attendant upon the flaming" of this sum.
Abd-ul-Hamid H., who occupies the throne
of the Sultans is said to be insane. In other