Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-09-29
FOREIGN.
The Strength of the
British Army.
Indian Railways.
Silver Mines of Peru.
exChinese Railways.
cattlemen Leaving the Indian Ter
ritory, ETC., Etc.

you enter from MEXICO ana urlnk III tne
United States.
The Siamese Minister, Prince Mares,
accompanied by four sons of the King
of Siam, has been making tour Of Eng
land.
The ruins at Fort Sumter are now
but one story high, and there are but
half dozen guns, none of which is tit
for USE The Government pays two
hundred dollars per month for watch
men, who keep lights burning for the
guidance of mariners.
The Gar of Russia is degrading the
officials of his frontier commercial
cities because he is determined to fight
down the German language, which is
encroaching upon his territory. The
Gar finds it difficult to maintain the
Muscovite tongue as well as the Rom
anoff style Of government.
A cable railroad is being constructed
to the summit of Lookout Mountain,
Tennessee. The engine is to be located
Immediately at the famous point of the
great battle fought there, and, Of course,
the cars and road will be operated from
that place. The road will greatly highten
the interest which attaches to the local
ity, as one of the most brilliantly con-
tested fields of war.
The cattlemen infesting Indian Terri
tory, when ordered by the President to
leave the Territory in forty days, took
two weeks to go to Washington, for the
purpose of convicing the President that
they could not vacate in the time
specified Mr.. Cleveland bluntly in
formed them that it was strange
proceeding for them to be wasting time
in Washington, and that his order would
not be modified. They found the
Executive meant what he said, and
now dispatches report that every head
of stock has been removed.
The latest dispatches confirm the re-
port that Russia and England had
signed the protocol defining the Russo
Afghan frontier. Mr.. Lessar, the speci-
al Russian commissioner, whose
Mephistophelian diplomacy has caused
so much talk in London, will now return
to St. Petersburg, his mission having
been accomplished. The assurance oi
peace will help the Conservatives in the
English elections. 1t will be assumed
that the Russians would have continued
their aggressive attitude had the Glad
stone Ministry remained in power. A
fear of war as a result Of Tory success
is thus eliminated from the influences
which will determine the result Of the
coming elections.
The official report of the last census
of the Turkish capital has been re-
ceived by the ministry. According to
it, the total population of CONSTANT
nople, including the suburbs on the
Bosphorus, numbers $4,000. About
one.half are Moslems; $4,000 are
foreigners 10000 live in the Chris
tian suburban district of Pera. OF the
foreigners, three fourths are males. The
civil officials number nearly $500 Of
whom less than 1000 are Christians
Armenian, Greek, or Catholic. Geo
graphers will probably hesitate to accept
the results of Turkish enumeration as
definitive, and various estimates will
still be INDUCED in Lower figures are
now generally preferred.
| United States Consul Brent, at Cal
lao, Peru, has reported to the State
Department that negotiations have been
4 commenced for the construction Of q
railroad from Aroya to Cerro de Pasco,
for the purpose of reaching the cele
brated silver mines at that place, which
are said to be the second largest in
the world. Prior to the present cen
tury the mines were worked for king
by enslaved Indians, and are said to
have yielded 100000 The Peru
Wan Government has entered into con-
tract with a syndicate, of which Mayor
. Grace and Michael Grace of New York
are said to be members, which, with a
capital stock Of $4,000, 900, is to work
the mines for a part Of the profits
The Government has Says the
Tines Calcutta correspondent pub
lished series of tables, showing the
. progress made in the construction OF
Indian railways down to March 81 last
1t appears that the length of the lines
then opened for traffic was-on the
East Indian Railway 1900 miles; on
the guaranteed railways 4,sa3H miles
on the assisted railways, 868H miles
on the Provincial State railways
I,4o4H and on the Native State rail
ways 663A miles. There were in pro
gress on the East Indian Railway, {
miles on the guaranteed railways, Ios
miles on the assisted railways, 7sS
miles on the Imperial State lines
I,I63 miles on the Provincial State
railways, 4aoH miles; and on th'
Native State railways, 43S miles. 1t i
mentioned that the section Of tile Grea
| Indian Peninsula Railway, from Bonn
bay to Thinah, opened April I8, 1853
was the first railway in India. 1t wa
followed by the section of the Eas
Indian Railway, from Howrah t.
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