The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-03-12
FOREIGN NEWS.
TRANSATLANTIC.
THE PANAMA CANAL.

~ uNoI"'Nh VI w ~
says: Rousseau, the delegate APP
pointed by the Government to in
spect the work on the panala caual,
telegraphs that he is on his return
homeward, in company with Chief
Engineer Jacquet. 1t is reported
that he apprised the Government
that it was useless for him to await
the arrival of NJ. De Lesseps, and
that the French delegates ;re not in
accord with the views of Charles De
Lesseps on questions of cost and
the time in which it is possible to
construct the canal. The report of
NJ. Rousseau, and also that of NJ.
Jacquet, are said to be 50 adverse
that the Government has already
decided to refuse to authorize the
issue of the lottery obligations in
connection with the canal construc-
ton.
SOCIALISM IN ENGLAND.
The New York Herald's London
correspondent has interviewed Hynd-
man, one of the three mel. on trial
for melting the recent riot. He is
man of liberal education. holding
the degree of Master of Arts from
Cambridge, and once was possessed
of considerable property. He also
has enjoyed the advantage cf foreign
travel, in the course of which he
visited this country several times.
While protesting friends nip with
continental socialists, he discloims
for himself and his disc pies any
direct atliliation with them. His
aspiration, he says, is fur, "con-
structive" revolution in distinction
from obstructive" on. Eng
land, he believes, is the OIL 6 country
where it can be achieved I aceqbly,
but he intimates that il there is
long obstruction, force, ,ie "Hlid-
wife of progress" will h invoked
even in England. II, army,
militia and the police, he processes
to know, are already horeycombed
with his notions. "We are not
ready to fight yet" he VS., "but
in few years we shall e able to
say to the monopolists, surrender
peaceably or look OUT
A QUICK REJOINpEl..
In the House of Commons, Feb.
20, Charles T.. Lewis. the anti
Nationalist member, was il motion
quickly countered by James O'Kclly.
The former, during the notices of
"order of business" put on the
paper one that he should ask
whether the Government proposed
to renew the Irish Act regulating
the private possession of arms. Mr..
O'Kelly instantly from the Parnel-
lites asked whether the Government
proposed to disband at some time
the Orange lodges that were threat
ening civil war. On this the Liberals
and Parnellites united in vociferous
cheers.
Count Won Hatzfelt, the German
Ambassador, has notified Lord Rose
berry of the establishment of a Ger
man Protectorate over the Marshall,
Providence and Brown Islands.
Prince Bismarck has given orders
to the German naval commander in
the Pacific to despatch a vessel at
once to haul down and remove all the
German flags from all islands in the
Carolince group on which they had
been hOisted previous to the arrange.
ment recently come to under the ad.
vice of Leo XIII. The news of these
instructions has caused satisfaction
at Madrid.
Mr.. James G.. Blaine is building
a very beautiful house at Bar Har.
Dor, Maine, and his family vii
occupy it next summer.
The widow of General Grant il
sixty years old. 1t is considered
certain that the sale of her husbands
memories will make her within th,
present year a rich woman.
Many influential Euglishmen
headed by Mr.. Edward a. Freeman
and Mr.. John Morley, are forming
an association for the promotion O.
home rule.
Lord Salisbury's Government fel
on the anniversary of the death O.
General Gordon, who wa killed a
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