The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-07


French attack upon the Hovas on Sep |
TENDER 10th, outside OF Tamatav, says /
that after seven hours of desperate fight
ing tfse French were compelled to retire |
with the loss of sixty men. Not single |
Frencilnan succeeded in mounting the
earthworks of the Hovas. The Hovas
gained another victory over the French
at Sakalava, in the north. The French
commander was killed and the army
fed in confusion, leaving forty dead on
the field. The Hoya army returned to
Tamatav, where there was great public
rejoicing over the defeat of the French.
A banquet was given in honor OF the
victorious troops.
GermRn-A tBeFtcaus Must Go.
The Foreign Office at Berlin has mott
fed Mr.. Pendleton, the American Minis
ter, that it is intended to expel the Ger
man-Americans residing at Schleswig
who emigrated to the United States be-
fore becoming liable to military service
and returned after being naturalized.
The recent order of expulsion OF other
German-Americans remains suspended.
Coal Mime disaster Lm wales.
Dispatches from Pont-y-Pridd, Wales,
say seventy-fve corpses have been re-
covered from the Ferndale pit, where the
explosion occurred. 1t is feared others
are buried in the debris. The scenes in
the vicinity OF the mine are pitiful.
Fatal Accident at Lake MERGED.
A terrible accident, resulting in the al
most instantaneous death of two men
and probably fatal injury OF two others,
/ occurred December 26th, at Lake Mer-
ced, one of the bodies of water from which
San Francisco is supplied by the Spring
Valley Water Works Company. At that
point the company erected a building
LAG feet long by 80 feet in width, in which
were placed the engines and pumps nee
esSary for forcing the water through
pipes into the city. There were two large
pumps capable of throwing 5000, 0OC
gallons of water daily to an elevation O
305 feet, and three sets of tubular boilers
(six in alb, fifty-six inches in diameter
sixteen feet long and five-sixteenths o
an inch thick About o'clock in the
afternoon, one set of boilers exploded
with terrific force, blowing the building
to atoms, scattering pieces of all th'
boilers in every direction, and leaving
but mass of debris to mark the seen,
of the awful accident.
Excitement i'm ROumania.
1t is announced that the Queen Q
Roumania will be confined in January
She has been childless since her mar
riage in 1869, on account of which Their
was project on foot few years ago TO
divorcing her, but this the Pope discour
aged. If boy should be born Their
would be tremendous enthusiasm anon
the Roumanians, who idolize her, Will
they are Indifferent to King Carl and hi
Prussian relatives.
The Cubans Hopeful of Independence
{ The nAs~s that the Queen Regent {
: Spain has granted amnesty to all politics
and press offenders in Cuba is known t
) every Cuban in New York The Cuban
) say that it is great triumph for thei
cause, as it goes to show that Christin
: is anxious to gain their affection an
: confidence. They regard every conces
: sion made by the Spanish throne a
e merely another stepping-stone@ that wi
9 hasten their day of independence. d.
Y j. NJ. Paraga, who was colonel in tn
$ late Cuban rebellion, said: ''The caus
: of the insurgents looks brighter than
s has in long time,' but he would NJ
q say whether the Cubans in New Yor
contemplate sending an expedition. HI
> position az chief of the insurgents r,
4 Guires the utmost reticence. Anoth,
Cuban said that aid would be sent fro
Il New York in short time
e staniey's Congo Railway.
IS Stanley is elated at his success III s
If curing capital for the Congo railwa
The "Times" is disposed to throw co
e water on the project, but the money
k there and Manchester men are at Il
Of back of it. Subscriptions to the sto,
i viii be opened in New York, as we'll
= in the thirteen capitals of Europe, so
IS to give the scheme an information
Of character, but the bulk of the funds W
ct be received in London, where the IA
r, way is registered and its control
D. located.
n Canadian Politics.
s. A general election in the Dominion h
been decided on. 1t is reported that
N John Macdonald fears to meet Il
N House, owing to the hostilities OF t
a. French in the Riel meta and the
N knowledge thShen Parliament meets
3 1lgl ~ revelations of corruption and mis-
government will be laid bare by COM
mittee to be asked for. A convention OF
Sir Johns supporters to arrange plat
form will be held, and dissolution will
be declared as soon as Sir John returns
from England in January. Much excite
ment prevails in the provinces.
American Politics.
The railroad lobby is working hard to
prevent the forfeiture of the grants to the
California and Oregon and Oregon and
California roads.-At no time since
April, 1873, have the payments of duties