The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-09
Anru 18th.
sPnEcKELs-DE YOUNG

The case of NJ. De Young against Adolph
Spreckels, which was set for April 18th.
was postponed to 10th April on application
of Spreckels Counsel who had been so
deeply engaged in other business that he
had not been able to attend to the case.
A further reason given for the delay was
the plea of " emotional insanity which
could be proved by Claus Spreckels VINO
was in Honolulu and who would not return
to San Francisco till the middle of May.
The case was subsequently continued, by
mutual consent, to May goth.
GENERAL MATTERS.
One man was killed and several injured
by railroad accident near Breckenridge,
Cola fire in a coal mine at Lincoln,
caused $1O0,0 900 worth of damage.-A regi-
ment of French Canadian volunteers has
refused to proceed against Rel in the
Northwest Territory The French repulsed
1000 Chinese, who attacked KEEP, in Ton
quin.-CIamagerau French Minister of
Finance, has resigned, and Sadi-Carnot has
been appointed in his place.-Leland Stan
fOrd's barn at Vina was destroyed by fire
with loss of 10000. One hundred and
nine animals were burned.
April 18th.
The Hague Banking Company has failed,
owing to defalcation of funds.-Damage by
foods at Belleville, Ont, will reach $780,
600.
IN THE soUDAN.
Three columns of British troops will ad-
vance from Suakin, Handaub and Otao,
respectively, and march toward Deberet, In
an endeavor to surround and capture Os-
man Dignas soldiers.
TURKEYS AID TO RUSSIA.
Turkey has positively assured Russia that
in the event of war no English ironclad
will be allowed to enter the Black sea.
Turkey has also declared that she could
make the Dardanelles impossible in few
hours, if necessary. Papers are chucklng
over the fact that 200 English steamers are
at present in the Black sea and sea of Azof.
The Turks are building forts at Batoum
with the utmost rapidity.
WHAT GLADSTONE SAID.
Gladstone, in the House of Commons,
stated that the Government had received
from Sir Peter Lumsden a reply to their re-
quest for an Independent report upon the
Penideh incident In this it is stated that
General Komnroff was advised on March
28th of the understanding agreed upon on
March 18th between Russia and England.
According to the terms of this understand
ing England was to deter the Afghans and
the Gar was to deter his troops from ad-
Vancing beyond the positions they then re-
spectively occupied until some subsequent
agreement about the demarkation of the
Afghan frontier could be reached between
the two Governments. The battle of the
Kushk river was fought, several days after
General Komaroff had been made aware of
the agreement not to advance. Captain
Yates. the British officer who witnessed the
battle, was assured by the Russian officer
who commanded in the fight that he knew
nothing of the understanding of March IL.
April 10Th.
IN THE soUDAN.
The British troops on the Nile are suffer
ing fortunes from the heat. The special
correspondents who went to Soudan with
WolseIey's expedition have all returned to
ENGLAND for q summer holiday and the
newspapers are dependent for news solely
upon the officers. One of the non-commls-
stoned officers draws very gloomy picture
of the condition of the troops. He says
that the huts which were to afford them en-
durable summer quarters, have not yet been
built and that the heat in the tents is simply
unbearable in the daytime, with the Their
mometer 112 degrees in the shade. The men
have nothing to do from reveille until taps
but to swelter under the scorching sun, and
from taps to reveille they are kept busy
fighting the vermin and reptiles with which
the country swarms. They cannot even get
anything to read, the Government having
interdieted the mailing of newspapers to the
soldiers for fear they will become democrat
lied by the wholesale condemnation by the
press of the whole Soudan business.
RAGGED REMNANTS.
The men are unc1othed, with the excep-
ton of the ragged remnants of the uniforms
in which they left. 1t is absurd as well as
cruel to keep the troops in such q fearful
country during the summer, as even those