Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-09-29
vvaiian Islands, Saturday, Septer1t,e % 1882
SOUf IfTE VIEWS.
Duties from Ju0DS .sth 10 September sh
The japanese fear short rice crop.
Trade dollars are advancing in value


on the 9th instant
The dastardy antiJewish ou,rages still
continue in Russia.
Rice is scarce in Burmah, Tonquin, India,
and-of course-Java.
The deaths from cholera in Egypt still
average over ten day.
The hftieth birthday Of the New York Sun
was celebrated on the 3rd instant
There is to be an international contest in
craftsmanship in Vienna next year
zululand is in a state of anarchy and Ceta.
wayo has asked English protection
Clipper freights from New York to both
San Francisco and Oregon are dull.
The Irish National League was to meet at
Leeds, England, on the z7th instant.
The whoa, crop of Minnesota will be har.
vested from 2,5II637 acres this year
Corean embassy, en- route for Washington.
arrived in San Francisco on the I'D instant
1t is reported that Vanderbilt, Gould, and
Willard have formed Jailroad triumverate.
AT last reports there was cholera at Swatow,
China but the disease at Foochow had died
out
Professor Lewis Swift, of the Rochester
Observatory, has found new comet without
tail
Don Carlos, Bourbon pretender to the
Spanish throne, was in the United States re-
Gently,
From the Sth to the nth of this month there
has been congress of German authors at
Darmstadt.
a branch railroad is to be built on the
Northern Pacific to the borders Of the Yellow
stone Park.
The King of Abyssinia has invaded Shoa,
the latter country having sought French
protectorate.
A movement is being made in New York
to suppress the ringing of church bells as
public nuisance.
The second Annual Niticultura Convention
took place in San Francisco during the latter
part OF last month.
On the 27th Of last month there were
$4o5, ooo, 900 in cash in the vaults of the
United States Treasury.
A purse of 900, 900 francs was collected in
Paris recently for the benefit Of the sufferers
in the lschia earthquake.
The flowers displayed at the funeral of the
late Count of Chambord were worth ga kings
ransom -" at the very least"
On the 9th ultimo the public celebration OF
Lady Godiva's Day was revived in Coventry,
England, after lapse Of seven years,
Japan proposes new Constitution, by
which "the honor OF the imperial family and
the rights of the people will be secured"
Eole, the fve-year-old horse belonging to
Freddie Gerbhardt, has beaten Pierre Lori
lard's Iroauois mile and half dash, in
a.5oH..
The directors Of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany in the United States have made contracts
for the construction OF lines to the value of
81, 100000.
There is rejoicing among the girls of the
eastern part of the United States that genuine
Cooking College is to be organized at
Chautaqua, New York.
The Poonah, vessel having had cholera
on board, was Guaranteed for only one day in
San Francisco She had had no case Of the
disease for over one hundred days.
Capitalists of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, have
subscribed largely to the stock of Eads' ship
railroad across the Isthmus OF Tehauntepec.
Eads promises to have the road ready Tor use
in four years.
1t is considered by French Royaiists to be
significant that the Emperor OF Austria called
recently upon the Count Of Paris, and, in
effect, recognized him as the legitimate king
OF his now republican country.
A diamond weighing $50 karats, OF 431a
karais more than the Kohinoor, has been
brought to Paris from the South African
diamond fields. /, will probably become tbs
property OF Mrs. Mackay, Of California, OF o.
the EnAnress of Austria
scripts recently deposited in the British
Museum and at first supposed to be authentis
Hebrew records Of the wanderings OF tn,
Israeli,es in the land Of Canaan have beer
declared by experts to be forgeries.
The DE Morlay Commandey OF Knight
Templar, from Louisville, Kentucky, tn,
Raper Commandery from indianapolis
Indiana. and the ST. Bernard Commander,
for CHICAGO, Illinois, won the first. second
and third prizes, in the comparative drill hel,
in the Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco.
The treaty Of peace between France an'
Anam guarantees a pIo,ec,orate Of the forme
country over the whole Of the latter. Chin
is arming and there are grave apprehension
Of war between that power and France. 4
coalition is now talked Of between F,anc
and England "to divide China be,wee
them" A French geosrapher declares tia
10 be - the almost inevitable tendency Of III
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