Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-08-01

h Chicago, Brooklyn end Sew York Ai oi
hem boa rood businesses or professions bu,
ild ia leave ItelnI in consequence of The
severity ~ the GRIMES Act brought on by their
own acts.
The var new. cent Go The great payer
proves io have been great lie. TIE siua
ion 90 adrr 81 last aivccs vas about as
.5liaws The Russian, were believed to- have /
9srmautly occupied three positions on Per
sian territory, lying between satakh' and ral
Khaum The British Government has mott /
feI Rus,ii that any in,rea,e in The Russian /
forces IN 90, lireIian Vt luldka will le re /
..lrisi as an uniriendly act.
The change ,.f seats by III. Conservative,
and Liberals in 'he British House Of Common,
is creating ao end Ut confusion. There was
much difficulty on nights Of great debate aud
division iar ibe Opposition and Plme'ites TO |
obtain seats; bot now, while the latter hold /
to Their Opposition places, The Liberal, have
to find seat, where the Conservatives, whom
they greatly outnumber, used 10 sit, and it is
found impossible to provide them.
At the Exeter Hall meeting in London,
July 18TH, Gen. Booth read a letter written by
Mrs. Booth to Queen Victoria and a reply to
the sane from the Dutchcss Of Roxburche.
who had been asked by the queen to acknow.
ledge Mrs. Booths letter. The dowager said
the queen fully symphath1ed with Mrs. Booth
on the painful subject OF The perils to which
young girls are exposed, and had already com
inundated thereon with lady connected with
the government. to whom Mrs. Booths letter
would be Immediately forwarded.
WORTH the Partisan man milliner, has pre-
cipiiated = social crisis all over the world by
Publishing a black list Of persons who cheat
him and his fellow dress makers. The list
includes 1000 names, divided into classes A,
3 and c. Class A are cheats and bank
mpts; class Il order more from vanity than
they can pay for, and the class { require their
bills to be collected by law. The last class
includes ~ princesses, about 100 duchesses
and ,ountesses, II actresses and 30 Partisan
courtesans who possess their own hotels.
Ii is proposed TO construct new ironclad
thc tourth) at Nicolaieff, Russia, destined
for the defense Of the Black Sea coasts. 1t is
to be OF steel and iron. the under portion be-
ing cased in wood. The center portion will be
armorcd; for the defense Of the engines and
machinery a portion Of the deck will he
covered with arfnor.pla,es two inches thick.
With engines Of S,ooo-horSc.power indicated,
the speed OF this new ironclad will reach, it is
hoped, sixteen knots. The armament is to be
l (, inch guns, firing en- hIrjfif from a couple
Of tuuets on the upper Gsck. The esiipated
cost is 1000, 900 iubles, or, in round numbers,
100000. The machinery, etc, will be fur
nishcd by the Baltic factory.
THE REST THE OF WORLD.
The Chinese crop prospects are gloomy.
Petroleum and new gold mines have recently
been discovered in Japan.
on the 10Th ultimo at Smyrna and Chesmc. in
Asia Minor
lapan-it is rumored-has promised to help
China il the Russians continue 10 encroach
upon the Corean caast.
Fears Of a diplomatic misunderstanding be.
tween Chill and the United States are limited
a, by American pagers.
As result of the reeen, earthiut;es in
Cashmere, 3,oSI persons los, their rS3s, TO-
600 houses were laid in ruins, aGd 900
animals los, their lives.
| Negotiations are pending with Two great
German clearinghouse for loan Of $780,
ooo, 900 to China for the construction OF rail
ways, ,elegraphs, wharves and other trade
improvements throughout the Celestial En-
pire.
a day has now been fixed for the japanese
and Chinese troops TO leave Corca simultan-
eously, in accordance with the terms OF the
treaty recently concluded. Rumors ofinthgues
in Corea to place the whole Peninsular
under Russian protection are gradually receiv'
ing credencc.
The Arabs OF the upper class believe tina, e
Mahdi is dead. I.upton Bey, with his son,
has arrived at Senaar. The flmine in Kordo
fan has become terrible, and has extended ,c
Khanoum. Hostile Arabs will not advance tc
Dongola for several months.
The Japan Postal Bureau contemplate
lowering the rate OF postage on newspapers aad
books and Introducing the parcel post system
The notification announcing the resumption
ii specie payments from next January has beer
received with general rejoicing by the com
meieial classes in Japan.
The damage caused by reecn, overflow o
the yodo river in Osaka Flu, Japan, is so SER
Gus that, with the single district OF Higash
nari gori, it is stated to he as follows Forty
one villages, containing s,63I houses, were
flooded, and fields 10 thasyient OF about "a, Ice
acres were more or less damaged.