The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-09
THE LION AND THE BEAR.
The Latest Particulars and Prepare
IiOms.

The Latest Particulars and Prepare
tiOns,
Gladstone stated in the Commons that
! the Government had received no confrma-
| ton of the battle supposed to have recently
| occurred between the Russians and Afghans,
| with a victory for the latter.
AN IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION.
England has notified the powers who
signed the Paris convention that her war
ships will enter the Black sea in case of
war and lombard the Russian ports.
RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS.
Five steamers have been purchased ia
America for cruisers in the Russian service
Russia has ordered the mobilization of her
southern army, 200, 900 troops will be
available in 40 days. There is a great scar
city of coal in st. Petersburg and at Cron-
stadt and prices have risen to a fabulous
figure. The pay of sailors in the Russian
navy has been raised to war rates.
GETTING READY TO FIGHT.
Two firms at Cowes are working night
and day on forty torpedo-boats ordered by
the English Government. The Admiralty
has notified the officers and men at all
coast guard stations to be in readiness to
join their ships at a moments nodce.-A
Russian charter for coal to Cronstadt, the
freight to be shillings and pence per ton,
was made at Newcastle, upon the condition
that if war was declared the owner of the
boat becomes the purchaser of the cargo
-Four torpedo-boats lying at Sheerness have
been ordered INTO commission for imme-
date service.-Immense quantities of coal
are being shipped TO Cape Town, South
Africa, for use of British armed cruisers
and men-of-war in the event of the outbreak
of war between England and Russia.
THE NEW SOUTH WALES CONTINGENT.
The Government has accepted the offer
made by New South Wales of their contin-
gent now in the Soudan for service in India
or elsewhere, as may be required by the
military authorities.
AT NEW YORK.
Within fortnight five Russian sailing
vessels have put into New York for safety
against impending war. Orders have been
received from Russian owners to await the
settlement of the trouble.
4 The British are putting Bermuda in a
complete state of defense.
IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Russian who visited Victoria, B. @.
and vicinity about q month ago under pre-
tense of buying furs, is now known to have
been Russian spy, who took drawings Of
STRANGE STEAMER.
The steamship G. w. Elder reports see
ing a strange steamer in the straits this
morning. She was lying well over on the
American side near Dungeness Light, which
is about twenty-four miles from Victoria,
British Columbia.
April 3Oth.
Aizpuru, the rebel leader at Panama, has
troops are expected to occupy that place to-
day.-It is reported that Riel is representing
himself as prophet to the Indians in the
Northwest Territory. Eastwood Lodge,
near Nottingham, the country seat of the
Duke Of st. Adams, was seriously damaged
by fire.
TIE SITUATION IN THE soUDAE.
Hostile Arabs are again becoming trouble
some to the British. Scouting parties of
the Arabs make constant attempts to de-
stroy the section of Suakin- Berber Railway
already constructed and cut the telegraph
lines wherever they can. Every night FL
Mahdi's men fire upon the British posts.
Lord Wolseley left Cairo for Suakin. He
is expected to return in a fortnight,
A CONCESSION TO THE IRISH.
The Prince of Wales is strongly of the
opinion that the Office of Viceroy of Ireland
ferred to the Secretary of State for Ireland,
This would be an immense concession TO
the Irish, one of whose leading complaints
has been against Castle rule.
CLEvELAND's APPOINTMENTS.
The President has made the following
appointments: Charles l.. Scott of Ala
bama, Minister resident and Consul-Ge
eral of the United States to Venezuela;
Warren Green Of Kentucky, Consul-Gen-
eral at Kanagawa, Japan; John E. Bacon
OF South Carolina, Charge dAffaires to
Paraguay and Uruguay. To be United
States Consuls: John H. Putnam of Ohio,
at Honolulu; Robert E. Withers Of Virginia,
at Hongkong. In view Of the excellent
records and distinguished services of the
following named Consuls the President de-
clded that they shall be retained: w. +.
Grinnell, at Bradford, England Lyell II.
Adams, at Geneva; Samuel w. Dabney, at
Fayal