Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-03-13
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.

famine.
A bill to recompense the sufferers by
the recent London riots will be intro
duced into Parliament.
Secretary Whitney is charged with
being implicated in the Broadway Surface
Road swindle.
1t is probable the claims of the
Chinese injured at Rock Springs, Wy.
T., will be placed before Congress at an
early day.
The House Of Commons has voted
the sum necessary to pay for medals
given to Canadian volunteers in the
campaign against Riel.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon was in
the Senate February, 25th and gave
notice that be would speak on the
Chinese bill the next day.
M. Carter, the Hawaiian Minister,
regards the attack on the treaty as the
outgrowth of business jealousy between
the refners of New York and San
Francisco.
The Parnellites are greatly irritated
at Capt. O'Sheas action in opposing
Mr.. Healy's position on the question of
granting medals to the Canadian
volunteers.
Senator Miller of New York intro
duced bill in the Senate on February
25th, to establish postal savings de
pository as branch of the Postoffice
Department.
w. E. Forster, formerly Chief Sec
retary for Ireland, who has been i'll for
some time, is now confined to his bed
in his London residence, and is in a
very weak condition.
The bill to establish quarantine
station at San Francisco has been
referred to the Committee on Endemic
Diseases, Of which committee Senator
Stamford is member.
The House Committee on Territories
has directed an adverse report to be
made on Townshend's bill to organize
the entire Indian Territory into the
Territory of Oklahoma.
A committee of the Hungarian Diet
has given its approval to bill for the
suppression of Socialism. Under the
provisions of this measure summary
dealings with all Socialists are author
lied.
The amount of standard silver dollars
in the Treasury, after deducting the sill
yer certificates in circulation on Feb
ruary goth, was $50, ,5S7,546, as com
pared with $61627,S42 in the Treasury
July 81, 1885.
Howard Vincent, member of Parlia-
ment for Sheffield, has been offered the
office of Chief Police Commissioner of
the city of London. Mr.. Vincent
once held the office of Director of
Criminal Investigation.
The news is confirmed from Chi
nese source that China will not consent
to the cession of Bhamo and adjoining
districts to England. If England does
not yield, China threatens to organize
rebellion Of the native tribes.
The ministers of the London Wes-
leyan Circuit have formally recorded
their conviction that Rev. Mr.. Dyson
was not an accomplice of Mrs. Bartlett
in the alleged poisoning of the latter's
husband, and will raise fund for MI.
Dyson's defense.
Mr. Shawl Lefevre, the ex-Postmaster-
General, in an article in the Nineteenth
Century, advocates the federal princi-
pie for Ireland, with large powers Of
autonomy, and retaining representa-.
ton in the Imperial Parliament. He
indicates that this is Mr.. Gladstone's
scheme.
The Attorney-General instituted pro-
ceedings on February 10th to forfeit
the charters and dissolve the corpora
tions of the following railways: The
Hastings and Dakota, the Minnesota
Central, the Southern Minnesota, the
Southern Minnesota Railway Extension
Company and the St. Paul and Sioux
City Railroad.
A sensation has been caused in
Madrid by the discovery of a conspiracy
to affect the stock market for specula-
tive purposes Bogus kilograms we're
sent to the principal stock brokers OF
Barcelona reporting fictitious quota
tions in Madrid, and ordering large
sales. The result was that the markets
were badly disturbed.
The British Government has APP
proved Lord Duferin's request that
strong expedition be sent against the
ShAns The troops forming the ex-
pediton will leave Mandalay on March
9TH. The British Commissioners in
Burmah are authorized to secure the
submission of the chiefs either by brb-
ing or by fighting them.
Mr.. Sexton, the Nationalist, has
given notice in the House of Com
mons that he would move a resolution
to the effect that the House condemn
the action of the Privy Councillor, in
making speeches in Ireland tending to
excite rebellion. Lord Churchill,
against whom Mr.. Sexton's resolution