The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-05-22
FOREIGN NEWS.

not as yet been violent.
The war furry between Greece and
Turkey has blown over, both Powers
countermanding the recall of their
ambassadors, which had caused a
connection in the East.
Allen o. Myers was fined $500 and
sentenced to three months in the
County Jail at Columbus, O., for con
tempt of Court, for writing an objec-
tionable article in the Cincinnati
Enquirer during the tally-sheets trials.
The Senate has passed two bills
for the establishment of a quaran-
tine station on the Pacific Coast.
The sum of 100000 was voted to
establish station at San Francisco,
and $4,000 to establish station at
San Diego.
The Sultan of Morocco hesitates
to submit to arbitration the dispute
between his Government and the
United States, regarding the impris-
onment at RABBIT of persons under
the American Consul. The Consul
is awaiting further orders from
Washington.
Blakeley Hall has been unable to
send cable dispatch to the New
York Sun for several days. His cipher
dispatches were suppressed in the
telegraph Office. The Berlin mails
were rified in the postoffice and the
house in which he lodges at Chariot
tenberg, opposite the palace, is in
tested with spies.
Advices have been received in
Washington announcing a change in
the Japanese Cabinet. Count Ito, it
is said, has resigned the Premiership.
Count Kwioda succeeds him. The
Department of Agriculture and Com
merce has been placed four times in
charge of Admiral Inamoto, who will
retain his duties in the other depart
ments. Count Ito has been made
president of the new Priyy Council
which has been formed 1t will adj
wise the Emperor on all important
questions, and is expected to play an
active part in Japan.
Col. Switzer, of the National Blu
resu of Statistics, states that at the
request of the National Druggists
Association, he has just concluded an
investigation as to the proportion of
the liquor consumed yearly in this
country, used in the arts and manu-
features. He has found that this
percentage instead of so as had been
claimed, or even 80, was only 10 per
cent. Col. Switzer also said the
annual consumption of strong drink
in the United States averaged an
annual cost of $47 to every man,
woman and child
At session of the National Re
form Associations annual confer
enee, held in Philadelphia recently,
DR.. S. G. Baldwin of Boston read the
initial paper on The Chinese CUES
ton He ridiculed the fears ex-
pressed over Monaghan immigration
and represented the average China
man as industrious, sober and law
abiding. The charge that the Chi
nese will not become citizens he met
by the statement that the laws oppose
their doing 50. 1t is really surpris-
ing, says a California writer, how
huently some people can talk upon
subjects they know nothing about.
Several large Government CON
tracts for guns are under way at the
South Boston Iron Works. Among
the orders is a twelve inch iron breech-
loading steel tubed rifed gun, cast in
1885, and on which nothing has been
done for some time. The principal
work, such as boring the steel tube
and inserting rifed and breech-load-
ing mechanism, is finished and ad
justed. When completed the firing
charge of the gun will be 265 pounds
of powder, throwing a proiectile
weighing 800 pounds at an initial
velocity Of LOO feet per second. The
gun, with carriage ready for use,
weighs ninety-four tons.
Senator Stanford, it is telegraphed
from Washington, is evidently pleased
with the action of the Republican
Convention of California, which in
dorsed him and sent an unpledged
delegation TO the Chicago Conven-
ton. He says that the State Con
vention evidently did not understand
the status of the Chinese Treaty in
the Senate, when it called upon the
California Senators and Representa-
tives to oppose that instrument.
With the amendments proposed, he
regarded the treaty as avast improves
ment upon the existing treaty and the
laws enacted in accordance there
with. Senator Stanford says that he
especially requested his friends to
make no attempt to put his name for
ward as a candidate for the RepubI
can nomination for President, and he
continues to deny that he is in any
sense a candidate for the position.
There is no doubt in the minds of
Californians in Washington that the
delegation viii give a Complimentary
vote for Senator Stanford, but some
of the delegates chosen were evident
" unexpected by those who had M