The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-12-24
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS
PER ALAMEDA.

LA EST FOREIGN NEWS
| PER ALAMEDA.
The continued depression of trade is causing
| considerable alarm in Europe.
! The King of Corea is fugitive and the Queen
! has disappeared.
| Tn 70 was a Bonapartist banquet attended by
| 800 persons in Paris last week.
| There IS yet no clue to the perpetrators of the
! dynamite outrage in London.
There was centenary celebration by the
Methodist Sunday Schools of Baltimore Dec. 18th.
| L. $. Minister Foster thinks the advantages of
the Spanish-American treaty far Outweighs its de-
| fects.
| A bill to guard against the introduction of
cholera or other contagious diseases has been pre-
| pared by the q. 5. Committee on Federal Legisla-
| ton.
The widow of Carlisle Patterson has offered a
site for the Congressional Library, but it Is a
mile from the Capitol.
union Of the pork and petroleum interests is
| proposed TO urge Congress TO take some action
| against German prohibition of American hog
/ products.
The House did nothing Dec 18th but pass ten
! pension bills, including one in favor of Mrs. De
! Long.
The sentence of Capt Dudley and Mate Ste
| phens, the Mignonette cannibals, is committed
| from hanging to six months Imprisonment with.
| out labor.
/
! $4,000
Tho Washington Gazette has come out against
| the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty.
An attempt is being made to prevent the rc-clec-
! ton Of Don Cameron to the Senate from Pennsyl-
| yauia.
Captain Howgate, the defaulting Signal Service
officer Is said TO have written the preface for Leu-
! tenant Greelys book on the Arctic
Randall proposes to get tine appropriation bills
| through Congress as soon as possible.
The cigar-makers of New York will send Il com
mittee TO Washington to oppose the confirmation
! of the Spanish treaty.
There has been great loss of life among the
oystermen on the Rappahannock river, Va
Three girls were burned to death and one badly
hurt in fire IN a candy factory at Detroit, Mich.
John Kelly is reported to be seriously ILL.,
The Congo Committee has accepted the French
| neutrality proposals.
| The suspension of tho Bohemian Mortgage
| Committee has caused panic on the Vienna
| Bourse.
The French have defeated the Hovas in NADIA
| gascar
The Turks are killing many Christians in Mace
! donia.
One hundred and twenty-six Germans have
| entered the Chinese service.
| Mother Mandelbaum has been acquitted
The draft Of the new Hawaiian treaty has reached
the Senator it cannot 90 into effect until il is fay-
orably passed on by both houses Of Congress; four
| members of the California delegation propose to
| speak against it.
| The President has sent to Congress message
! favOring the ratification of the new treaty with
/ Spain, accompanied by communication from
Secretary Frelinghuysen explaining the provision
\ Of the agreement
PER p. II. s. S. CITY OF SYDNEY.
| LoNDoS, Dec. S.-News has been received here
/ Of the steamer Pockhard, Holyhead, on the
| north Welsh coast The crew, numbering thirty
| drowned VagspI was inrL.
| to Rotterdam.
| PARIS, Dec. T.-Despatches to hand from Ton
| quiu state that desultOry fighting has occurred
between the French forces and the Chinese troops.
The French have been generally successful, and
| the Chinese are now retreating in consequences of
! the defeat inflicted upon them.
| LONDON, Dec THE French Senate has re-
| iected the amendment by the Chamber of Depu-
ties that the Senate should be elected by univer-
| sal suffrage.
! CAmo, Dec. ca messenger, who has arrived
| at Debbah from KhartOum, reports that when
] he left, the Mahdis followers were only three
| hours march from the city. He also states that
! GordOn's steamers mad been harassing the enemy
| and capturing their provisions.
| CAIRO, Dec 6-Detachments of the 18th Hus-
sars and the lst battalion of the South Stafford
| shire Regiment have arrived at Dongola, and
| proceeded to Dcbbeh.
| WELLINGTON, Dec. S.-No information has been
| obtained as vet by the Government confirming
I
| coed Lord LOTUS as Governor of New South
| Wales.
! BERLIN, Dec 4-The deliberations of the In
| ternatiOnal Conference on the Congo and Niger
questions have not yet terminated. It is believed
in we-informed circles that the Powers will
cede to the British claim of protectorate over
| the country adjacent to the river Niger.
LONDON, Dec. 5,-Twelve Chinese men-of-war
| have been ordered to the Island of Formosa, to
| take part in the operations against the French
! there.
LONDON, Dec 5.-In the House of Commons
/ last night the Redistribution of Seats Bill was
| read a second time. Parliament will reassemble,
/ after the Christmas recess, on February 10.
| CAPE Town. Dec. I.-Colonel Warren, who has
been appointed to the command of the British
| expedition to Bechuauaand, arrived to-day.
LONDON. Dec. The trial of the captain and
mate OF the yacht Mignonette, for the murder of
the BOY Parker, was concluded to-day by special
| Court. The judges decided that the prisoners
we're guilty of murder and sentence is to be pass
| ed on them on Dec. 9th.
| CAIEo Dec. mo intelligence has been receiv-
ed here to confirm the report that the Mahdi is
dead as stated by the Mudir of Dongola.
WELLINGTON, Dec. 5.-The following cable mes
| sage was received to-day by the Government from
| Mr.. Daily, Acting Colonial Secretary of New
! South Wales;-'Small-pox at present confined to
one district OF tine CITY, No known cases at large
but fourteen cases in Smallpox Hospital in strict
quarantine. four being cGlhuent, four semi-con-
! nueGt three discrete, and three convalescent.
Strict house to house investigation instituted in
| affected locality by medical adviser"
| LONDON Dec. 3.-The British postal authorities
! nave made arrangements by which the mails for
! New Zealand will in future be despatched alter
| nately 10y the San Francisco route and by the
| direct line of steamers to New Zealand.
SYDNEY, Dec. l.-Small-pox appears to be in
| creasing in Sydney and its suburbs and notwith-
standing the strenuous efforts which being put
| forth by the Health Department to stamp out the
| disease, fresh cases are coming to light daily.
Three of the cases discovered yesterday were found
out mainly through the activity of the members
of the Department OF Health, and it is quite pos
sbls that other fresh will have to be record
| ed within the next few days.
! LONDON. December. 3-Cholera has broken ont
amongst the seamen and marines on board the
French fleet at Formosa.
SYDNEY, Dec. 2.-H. NJ. $. Nelson, Commodore
! Erskine, returned TO Sydney from New Guinea
early yesterday morning after an absence of six
| weeks, and after having proclaimed the British
PrOtectOrate, and hOisted the Union Jack at nine
different places on the south coast of New Guinea
and some of the adjacent islands. The last place
visited. and the last place of departure, was Teste
Island, which was left at O'Clock in the after
noon of Wednesday, 18th November.
THE HAWAIIAN TREATY.
NEW YoRK, Dec. 1.-THE Times says of the Ha-
waiian treaty: The nation has gained little from
it. The increase of the export trade with these
| Islands IS more than counterbalanced by the loss
| Of revenue. Its commercial benefits have been Sc
| cured exclusively by spectators. Chinese imIni-
! grafton has been an evil to the Hawaiian islands
The Times thinks the workings of this treaty may
be studied with interest pending action on the
other commercial treaties by the Senate
WAsHSeToS, Dec. 1.-THE draft of the Hawaii
an Treaty reached the Senate yesterday afternoon
1t Will not be considered until next week and then
probably only 10 refer it to = subcommittee for
preliminary consideration. Secretary Frelng-
hysen told the Chronicle correspondent that, al
though the Hawaiian Treaty was but a renewal of
the present treaty, it, could not 90 into effect until
| it was considered by the House. Although it may
be ratified by the Senate, member of the Senate
| Committee on Foreign Relations said to day that
| the Hawaiian Treaty would require an enabling
! Act to be passed by the House, the same as lift
| were new treaty. The lobbyists for the treaty
are trying to make it appear that it will not be
necessary for it to 80 to the House. The ChrOHi-
| Gle correspondent told Senator of the claim of
| the lobby. He answered that the treaty requires
new action the part of the Senate, and neces-
sarily it viii require action the part Of the
| House.
Circulars we're receiN ed by a number of Senators
and members to-day containing an argument in
| favor Of the renewal of the treaty, based on the
| grounds that Honolulu was an important coaling
station and that il the United States did not have
a coaling station in the Pacific its welfare would
be troubled and its existence brief though no hint
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