Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-09-25
FOREIGN.
Russian Work on the
Black Sea.
ERUPTION OF CoToPAxI.
Russian lntrigues in Macedonia,
Etc, Etc.

from Vladikavkas to Petrovsk will be
completed in 1887.
1t is reported that the Sultan of Zan-
zibar has recognized all the claims of
the German Colonization Association
at Zanzibar.
OF II gold and 46 silver medals
awarded at Antwerp Exhibition, 9 of
the former and aa of the latter fell to
English exhibitors.
The salmon net fshings on the Tay
have closed The season, on the
whole, being considered very success
full one, and especially SO during the
last few weeks
The Royal Horticultural Society Of
London has awarded first-class certifi-
cate to DR. Paterson, Bridge of Allan,
for Saraceuia Patersoni, the first hybrid
that has as yet been raised. The plant
was presented by DR.. Paterson to the
Royal Gardens, Kew
Cotopaxi, volcano in Ecuador, be-
gan serious eruption before daylight
on July a3rd. Streams of lava, with
ashes and stones, overwhelmed part of
Chimbo, situated near Cotapaxi, and
100 houses were destroyed. The num-
Der of killed is unknown. Guayaquil
reports state that the eruption began at
A. NJ, sounding like incessant dis
charges of heavy artillery, shaking the
earth, and rattling windows and doors
At times there was a continuous roar
Guayaquil is 1870 miles from Cotopaxi
During the visit of the Car the
greatest precautions will be maintained
to keep him safe from any evil designs
which may be entertained against him
by Nihilists. 1t is stated that the Cars
morbidness concerning Nihilism is in
creasing daily, and that as result his
mind is almost unhinged with dread
He gives no credence at all to the per
sistent assertions of his police that
Nihilsm is crushed out. 1t is related
that during the recent imperial con-
ference at Kremzier the Car and
Czarina had different sleeping apart
ments prepared for their use each night,
and that they never occupied any of the
rooms thus set apart for them, but used
others in order to avoid all possibility
of being "located" by the enemies
whom the Gar believes perpetually
follow him. His Imperial Majesty, it
is declared, continues to take this pre-
caution, and allows no one to know be-
forehand where he will pass any par
ticular night, and never permits any Of
his attendants but his necessary body
servants to know where he is sleeping.
The correspondent Of the Standard at
Constantinople says; A friend who had
just returned from Salonica gives a
very bad account of the state of affairs
in that province. Bulgarian agitators,
whom it pleases the authorities to style
brigands, infest the country within a
few miles of the town, and murder all
unfortunate Turkish villagers whom
they may chance to come across. A
friend Of mine who had occasion to
travel in the interior on matters of busi-
ness noticed some half-dozen murdered
Mussulmans at different places on his
route. Matters In the province have
become much worse since some two
months ago the Russian Vice Consul at
Salonica took trip into the interior,
ostensibility to see the country, but in
reality to urge the Bulgarian peasantry
to carry on the agitation by numbering
and plundering Mussulmans, by which
system it is hoped by Russian diplo-
macy, as was the case after the infam-
Gus Bulgarian massacres, to lead to
reprisals on the part of the Turks, and
thus to afford loophole for foreign
intervention.
The Russian Government has de-
cided to transfer the administration of
its Black Sea fleet from Nicolaieff to
Sebastopol. The harber at the latter
place is being much enlarged, and i'm
mense forts and other works of defence
are being constructed around its ap-
proaches. The Car is also organizing
new fleet to be stationed at Batoum,
on the east coast of the Black Sea.
This little town is being rapidly en-
larged because Of its straregical inn
portance as the central point of Russian
defence of the east coast of the Black
Sea. This action of the Car in now
restoring to Sebastopol the military and
naval prestige which it possessed before
the Crimean war is regarded with mis-
giyings in certain British-Indian quar-
tiers. Besides making the above mill
tary changes on the Black Sea, the
Russian Government is erecting bar
racks for the accommodation of 5000
troops at Rostof, on the River Don,
twenty-five miles above its outlet into
the Sea of Azof and on the line of the
railway from Moscow to the Caucasus.
These barracks and their accompanying
defences will connect the military works
in the Caucasus with those in Central
Russia The Crimea is also being
strengthened by the erection of mum
her of new modern batteries at Keritlch
and Taguanrog. The latter place is
situated opposite the mouth of the Don
and on the north shore of the Sea OF
Azol and the former stands on the
Strait of Zenikame, which connects the
Sea of Azof with the Black Sea. The
Russian Naval Commissioner will re-
port upon the conditions Of all harbors
along the Greek and Turkish coasts.