The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-04

1t is reported the Marquis of Salisbury has
demanded from the retiring Ministers
more comprehensive promise of support
than they were prepared to give. It is be-
1ieved by many Liberals also that the visit
to-day of Gladstone to the Queen, at Wind
sor Castle, had connection with the subject
of his return to Office. The Conservatives,
on the other hand, have no doubt but that
the Marquis of Salisbury will accept Office.
LONDON, June 19th.-Gladstone still with
holds his assurance that the Liberals will
assist the Salisbury Government, and the
Marquis of Salisbury persists in his refusal
to take Office in the absence of such an assur-
ance. The result is complete deadlock.
The 'News' says it is able to state that
the formation of the Ministry is in abey-
ance pending negotiations of Lord Sails
bury with the Liberals.
The ''Standard' says that the Liberals
refuse to give sufficient assurance that they
will not oppose business, especially the
budget. Negotiations will continue. Unless
pledges be given Lord Salisbury will refuse
Office. It is reported that Sir Henry Drum
mond Wolff will succeed Sackville West as
Minister at Washington.
The Cabinet.
In accordance with the decision of
meeting attended by tAe Mtrq III If Sails
bury and other Conservatives, Sir Stafford
Northcote has been appoin ted First Lord of
the Treasury with a peerage, the Premier
ship remaining in the hands of Lord Sails
bury. For the Premier not to assume the
H11fi IF ~ no 10,
usual, but has a precedent. Mr.. Arthur
Balfour will be President Of the Local Gov
eminent Board without seat in the Cabi-
net. Hon. Edward Stanhope will be Vice
President of the Council. 1t is rumored the
Queen dislikes the presence of Lord Ran
dolph Churchill in the new Cabinet.
Russia DIspIeased.
The Pail Mall Gazette has an editorial,
believed to be inspired by Lessar of the
Russian-Afghan Boundary Commission. 1t
says that unless Salisbury wishes to deepen
the conviction of Russia that his Ministry is
a menace of war, he will cancel the appoint
ment of Churchill az Secretary of State for
India. RUSSIA" continues the article,
ALREADY regards the Salisbury Cabinet with
such suspicion that any sudden hitch may
cause such rupture of negotiations now in
progress as will result in war;
Cholera in Spain.
MADRID, June 16th.-In the province of Cas-
tellon de la Plana yesterday there were
eighty cases of cholera and sixty deaths
Thirty thousand people have fed from
Murcia, owing to terrible dread of the
disease. The "Offcial Gazette confirms
the statement that cholera is raging in the
provinces of Valencia, CasteIlon de la Plana
and Murcia, and in the city of Madrid
MADRID, June 18th.-Thc official report of
cholera in Spain yesterday is as follows:
Valencia city new cases Is, deaths 6; Va
lencia (province), new cases 169, deaths rs;
Murcia, city, new cases "a, deaths 90. In
the villages adjacent to the city of Murcia
the new cases numbered 1874, deaths Sc; also
in the province of Murcia new cases "a,
deaths %. In Castellion de la Plana
(province), there were 103 new cases and As
deaths.
Three of the four commissioners appointed
to investigate the subject report that inoccu-
lation with cholera virus is so harmless that
they advise that it be permitted on the
ground that it will tend to prevent panic.
The inhabitants of populous quarters of
Madrid so strenuously opposed all measures
taken by the municipal authorities to disin-
feet their dwellings that the authorities
finally felt constrained to abandon the en-
forcement of all the sanitary regulations
which had been adopted to prevent the entry
of cholera into Madrid, or limit its ravages
tho diCaaSa find lOdo
A meeting of the tradesmen was held to-
day for the purpose of giving expression to
the indignation of the merchants of the
city at the course of the Government in
making public proclamation that the
cholera had appeared in Madrid The meet
ing adopted resolution that a deputation
be sent to King Alfonso to explain to him
the very serious injury done to the trade of
the capital by the official declaration that
cholera existed there. The merchants of
the mercantile clubs have decided to close
their several shops for twenty-four hours,
and to drape their clubhouse and to cur
tain the windows, as protest against what
the members consider the extraordinary
action of the Government in officially de-
claring the presence of cholera in Madrid.
The Opposition press deny that cholera
exists in Madrid.
The cholera is spreading westward along
the Mediterranean. There are several cases
in Terlu, Alicante and Cartegena. Twelve
thousand persons left Madrid during the
past week in consequence of the cholera
scare. The exodus is increasing.
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.
TurmOiI and Fighting Among the
MOngreI Races.