Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-09-09


hole in small craft or other torpedo
boats, by rising suddenly from under
meath them and piercing them. The
inventor claims that he can destroy
vessel by rising rapidly in the manner
described as easily as by darting along
horizontally and puncturing its side
The rear of the boat is constructed like
an ordinary propeller. Its machinery
is in every sense double, there being
twin screws, two engines, etc. After
punching a hole in the side or bottom
of an enemy, it is claimed for the tor
pedo-boat that it can, after retiring to a
distance, fire dynamite into another
vessel as often as may be necessary.
To discharge or project dynamite the
boat merely shows its turret for a few
seconds, and never comes up at the
same point twice 1t will be impossi-
BILE for an enemy to bear a gun on it
successfully, even if il exposed in its
entirety. In the new vessel many
features of especial superiority are
claimed these are Accuracy of
movement and certainty of destruction,
safe concealment from the view Of the
enemy when desired, an ability to
move faster under water, make greater
distance without rising to the surface
and project dynamite further than ever
heretofore demonstrated. II
EnD'tsh AMI European Ncws
In the Central Post-office of London
there are nearly 1900 telegraphic oper-
ators, for whose work $4,000 electric
battery jars furnish power.
| A Madrid dispatch of the rst inst,
says Three thousand, six hundred
and sxty-nine cases of cholera and
I,iao deaths we're reported yesterday
throughout Spain.
A sort of Mahdi movement is ie-
ported from Central Africa, extending
over the country from Timbuctoo to
to the West Coast and enrolling an
army OF 100, 900 men.
AT a recent Socialistic meeting in
Berlin the fact was mentioned that two
prominent merchant taiors paid girls
from fifteen to twenty cents for making
complete suit of boys clothing.
The report OF the South African
Postmaster Geueral for the year 1884
shows that the weight of diamonds
which passed through the post-office
during that year was 1871 pounds s
onces.
Emperor William and Empress
Augusta have returned to Berlin for the
purpose of personally reviewing the
parade of guards at the commemoration
of the fifteenth anniversary Of the
victory of Sedan.
The International Corn Market
opened in Vienna on the 3lst ult. A
wheat crop in Hungary was reported as
fine 10000 hectares more were sown
than in 1884, and the crop is estimated
at more than 10000, 900 hectoliters.
The Republic of Chile now owes
on account Of her railways $24,S7o.-
900. In 1883 these railways earned
revenue of So, ,5I6,o4o The railways
of the Argentin Republic are on the
average earning an annual dividend of
6X per cent.
A curious result of the new act in
England for the protection of young
girls, which advances the age of con
sent to sixteen years, is that girls under
sixteen who have not previously lived
correct life find the greatest difficulty
in obtaining situations as domestic
servants.
II was seni-officially stated in Paris
on the SIst ult, that the French Gov
ernment has requested England to
investigate the circumstances attending
the alleged murder OF Oliver Pain by
British officers in the Soudan, and to
obtain the fullest possible information
|concerning the whole subject.
The Prussian Government has
ordered all Russian and Austrian Poles
to quit Dantzic before October. Many
old established merchants and trades
men come under this order. The de-
cree exempts Of settlers previous to
IS43, temporary sojourners, and those
who have served, or whose sons have
served, in the German army.
The Siandayds Madrid correspond
ent says; Mr.. Foster, United States
Minister has settled the details of the
details of the Cuban claims Of Ameri-
can citizens, and after several parleys
with the Foreign Minister, conclusion
has been reached regarding CONNER
cial agreement betweec Spain and the
United States.
A Vienna dispatch of September Ist,
says M. DE Giers, Russian Minister
of Foreign Affairs, while at Fangenbad,
in conversation about the scarcity of
English visitors at Bohemian pass
through fears Of an Anglo Russian war,
said peace was assured for many years,
and that he would wager there would be
double the number Of visitors in 1886.
The Yacht Sunbeam. with Mr. Glad