The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-11-10
LATE NEWS NOTES.


scientist, is dead.
Hubert Herkimer, X. A., has been elected
successor to John Ruskin in the Slade Profess
orship Of Fine Arts at Oxford.
N. de Lesseps is preparing to leave Paris
on his way to Panama to look after matters
connected with the Isthmus Canal.
1t is proposed 10 hold reunion next year
Of all the Indiana cavalry regiments in the late
war
Three years time and 100000 will be re-
CURED to remove the broken rocks about He'll
Gate, y. Y.
The telephone rates having been raised in
parts of New England the telephones are or
derei out in great numbers.
The Tennessee negroes are holding meetings
and resolving that freedom from the dram
shop is the elevation Of our race"
The Police Jury at Sabine parish, La, at
recent session, limited the amount of whisky
TO be prescribed by physicians to patients 10
four ounces.
In New York the Chinese drink ripple,
has been found to contain IS per cent. alcohol,
sud henceforth vendors viii have TO obtain IL
censes TO sell it.
Information has been received at the Navy
Department Of the death Of Chief Engineer
Van Hevenberg, serving on the lroquois, now
in Payta, Peru.
II Is announced that Bartholdi, tue French
artist, will leave France on the oath October
20 superintend the erection Of the great Statue
OF Liberty on BedlOe's Island, New York.
Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary OF
State for India, has acceded 10 the request for
a searching inquiry into the affairs Of India
spart from questions Of policy.
The Warsaw Courier SAYS the Germans will
shortly he prohibited by the Government from
residing within 4 specified zone around the
fortified places in Russia.
Dnring the races at Melbourne, Australia.
lately, fifteen horses fell in one race out OF
forty-one that started. One jockey wac killed
and seven were badly injured.
The slight dispute between Havana officials
and the British Consulate, owing TO the for
Iner's seizure Of the latIers archives for debt,
has been amicably arranged.
Lieut.. Ichentze, who is carrying the pres
euts Of the United States Government 10 the |
Siberian natives in the vicinity Of Iona, arriv-
ed at Irkntsk on September 10th.
The Car has forbidden the celebration OF !
the anniversary Of the freedom Of the Serfs
next March. The celebration, it is believed
by Russian officials, was TO be taken advant- |
age Of by the Nihilists for an uprising, hence |
the ukase.
President Cleveland never changes his mind; |
at least SO say his intimate friends 1t is /
therefore hardly probable that, as Gov. Hill |
himself has been refused assistance, any I
special pleading for him upon the part Of his |
agents will have effect
President Diaz Of Mexico has granted full 4
pardon to all political prisoners except Editor l
Chevarri Of e. Monitor Republican, aud Ed |
itor Garlic Of e CoTrso dc LINES. The phi |
soners pardoned include a number of news |
paper editors and students.
The Deputy Minister Of Agriculture at
Ottawa is opinion that the outbreak of hog |
cholera in Essex county was caused by throw /
ing diseased hogs into the St. Clair river at |
Detroit aud from passing vessels, aud by the |
drifting ashore Of the carcasses.
The navigation season Just closing on the /
great lakes, has been the worst known for /
years. Keen competition, low rates and the |
smallpox have been tho principal drawbacks, /
the smallpox epidemic being the sole cause /
Of several lines OF steamers tying up.
In an address in London lately, Cardi- I
nal Newman said that the Protestant Church |
Of England was the great bulwark of that /
cess TO those defending the Church. and said I
that he and his friends would Join in defend /
ing it.
The inventor Of process for refining sugar
by electricity at an expense of forty cents I
ton has appeared aud asks Sl2, ZOO, 900 for the |
patent. Ii is said that the process is to be |
tested in England.
1t is proposed in Spain to start feet of |
Il.
the little port OF Palos, IN Spain, on August
3, 1892, the four hundredth anniversary Of the
sailing Of Columbus, and to have the feet sail
to San Salvador over the ronte taken by the
great diseoyerer.
A letter to the Herald from Rio de Janeiro.
dated September 2eth, says: Yesterday the
Senate concluded the discussion Of the bill on
slavery and adopted it as it came from the
Deputies: SO that the law will i,n ,,rnmul-sted