The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-04-01
LATEST NEWS.
pate. to che 18Th March. Inclusive.

The death of Ex-Governor VIM. Irwin is
announced in the California papers. He
made creditable record as a politician in
California. He was of Irish descent
James Irvine, California pioneer, died
at his residence, Folsom street, San Fran
cisco, March 18th, aged SO. He possessed
freehold estate in Los Angeles county.
los, 900 acres in extent, the cash value of
which is not less than 100000. 1t was
acquired in 1857 at three bits" an acre.
There is a coal mine on the property, leased
to the Southern Pacific. 1t adioins the IA
nous Riverside Colony He likewise pos
sessed great deal of other valuable prop
erty and paying investments. No charita-
bic requests. His only son, now aged Is,
succeeds to his vast property. James r.
vine was born near Belfast, of Scotch-Irish
stock.
General Pope was retired from the United
States army, March 18th, on account of
age. He commanded the military division
of the Pacific.
Immense snow falls are reported in ST.
lesia. Several villages are completely
buried and the inhabitants are obliged to
dig their way out. Five children were
frozen to death while going to school.
The managers of the London theaters are
up in arms against the new Theatrical bill
as playing will then be absolutely at the
mercy of the Metropolitan Board of
Works.
General Dixon has assumed command of
the troops in the Soudan.
Austria has decided to prohibit the
e
school in the empire.
Nearly all the men in the National Fed
Grafton of Miners and Mine Laborers in
Pennsylvania are now out on a strike
The Egyptian Government expects to
derive large revenue from the results of
the discovery of petroleum in the Khe-
dives dominion.
Agragrian reform is making progress in
Poland. Many of the provinces are donat-
ing land to small holders and appropriat-
ing the estates of large owners.
An Austro-Hungarian company has OBJ
tanned a monopoly of the carrying of pc
trOleum to Europe by steamer from the
wells in the Caucasus
The steamer Sardonyx, with $50 Chinese
passengers and freight of coal for Mazatlan,
sailed on the nth March, from Victoria,
B. C. The SardOnyx is the first steamer of
the New Mexican and British Columbia
line.
The House Committee on Foreign At
fairs has shelved Morrow's anti-Chinese
bill, and will postpone action upon the
question until Henley's bill is called up.
Henry Thomas Pelham, Earl of Chiches-
ter, is dead
= King Humbert of Italy has decorated NJ
Pasteur.
The anti-socialist statute is to continue
in force in Berlin.
Prince Amedee de Broglie has been badly
wounded in the side in duel with swords
with Viscount Trederne.
Captain Waddell, who was in command
of the rebel privateer Shenandoah during
the war, is dying at Annapolis.
Hanlan has accepted challenge to row
Wallace Ross a three-mile race on the
Richelieu river at st. Johns, Quebec, for
s., ZOO.
The Swedish papers announce the com
ing betrothal of Crown Prince Oscar of
Sweden and the Princess Louise daughter
of the Prince of Wales.
It is announced that tt1f6fa1 treaty, and
for one defining the Tonquin frontier.
The Reading Railroad Trustees have
finally agreed upon their reconstruction |
plan. 1t provides for creating a new fifty- |
year general mortgage at 4 per cent for
300, OOO, 600
The commercial prosperity of Germany
turing the past year is shown by the large
dividends just declared by the principal
banks and savings institutions of the coun-
ry.
The bill to increase the pensions of
Widows and dependent relatives from So to
II a month was passed as it came from
he House of Representatives, u. S. Con-
ress, and now only requires the signature
the President to become law
Mouktar Pasha, on behalf of Turkey.
pposes the proposition made by Sir Henry
'rummond Wolff, British High Commits
oner to Egypt, to reduce the army of
The Londonderry and Belfast branches
the Irish National League, in accord
nee with the advice of Parnell, will re-
ain from having demonstrations to irri-
tie the Orangemen.
Michael Davitt, in a speech at Oxford,
lnounced that his idea of home rule Gov
nment was that it would always be rep
of the Crown and have com
and of the Imperial forces in Tr"'
ne power OF veto should = Land. o
which wonI Ov allowed the b
rs, 20 or 80 r. .dconsist of 300 mem :,
II - u whom, perhaps, might not :.
ONE Rulers. The Government should :
INSIST of Ministers of Finance, Land, Ag- ,'
ulture, Local Government, Public 4
orks and Education, and should have o
ntrOl of the Police, Customs and Excise a
.partments without which it would be a a
'ce. He believed that Ireland would not "
pose import duties. W
Various German, Russian and British ~
societies announced their in ;e
ltion to cooperate with the French So =;
ties in celebrating the fifteenth anniver-
V of the Paris commune on March 18th. -
a characterization, 10 / &c