The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-12-12

hanIan Will 90 lIlO DuSlnSSo III nus
tralia.
Yale has defeated Princeton at foot
ball by 10 to O.
The challenge of the Yale eight oar
crew to the Cambridge University crew
has been accepted.
John Nj. Ward, the shortstop of the
New York Baseball Club, has been sold
to the Washington Club for 1900.
Ward is now in Australia with Spalding's
team.
G. w. Oldrieve, who walked on the
Hudson river TO New York, has won his
wager of $500. He suffered terribly from
exposure.
In six days walking match at New
York, LittleWood, an Englishman, beat
the worlds record by walking 623 miles,
1872 yards.
Efforts are being made to arrange
at the Golden Gate Athletic Club, S. F.,
for Sc, $50.
Charley Mitchell offers Jack Dempsey
81 ,OOOif he can face him for eight rounds.
If Dempsey can stay Mitchell will then
sign articles to fight to finish for $4,000
a side, each side to have only eight spec
tators present.
John L. Sullivan offers to make Char
lev Nit hell present OF 81 500 if he will
stand up before him for eight rounds.
Mitchell makes similar offer to Sulli-
van.
Foreign Affairs.
At Zanzibar the British consular auth
critics have issued a proclamation in re-
gard to the slave trade, in which they
warn British subjects of the penalties for
making illegal contracts. The slave
owners have united in monster petit
clio kno ~, fl,oVv
assert has been in practical allegiance
many years. It is reported that the en-
tire plan of blockade has been changed
in order to include the whole coast.
Two hundred AlSatian recruits from
Colmar, Thauna and Mulhouse attacked
their military escort and wounded a
Prussian soldier. The mutineers are
said to have taken refuge in Switzerland.
Wholesale arrests of other recruits have
been made. Four Prussian officers were
assaulted and seriously injured by
French sympathizers at Strasbourg.
There has been a serious consensus of
opinion that the French Republic is in
desperate straits and that its downfall is
of repute have expressed most pessi-
mistic views on the subject, out of which
a sort of scare has been generated.
Emperor William opened the Reich
stag. In q speech he said the tours he
had recently made convinced him that
the desire for imperial unity was deeply
rooted in the people. He emphasized
the pacific character of Germany's for
eign relations and policy, and said his
visits abroad, which had been under
taken with view to effecting al under
standing in the interest Of peace, caused
universal confidence in the maintenance
of peace. The Emperor made no refer
ence to any military bills or credits, and
touched but briefly upon East African
affairs.
The Orient S. s. Co. has offered
to build three steamers, each Of
$500 tons, to carry the mails from Ply
mouth to Halifax in five days.
The Offices of the Town and Country
Journal in Sydney have been burned.
The loss is 100000. The offices were
the finest in Australia.
A conference of influential Australians
and Canadians was held in London. Sir
Donald Smith presided. The question
of laying a cable from Vancouver to
Australia, to touch at Hawaii, Tanning
Island, Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand,
was discussed and approved, and it was
voted to urge the Imperial Government
to support the project. It was said that
tralia, by this route, would be four shill-
ings per word
Lieutenant Wissman will wait on the
Emperor to resign his commission in the
army and state his plans for the Emin
Bey relief expedition. The Relief Com |
mittee has asked q resolution seVering !
all connection between the committee |
and the East Africa Company. It is ex-
pected the company will ask the Reich |
stag for loan of ten million marks.
Hertenstein, President of Switzerland, |
who underwent amputation of the right |
leg, because of disease of the arteries, |
failed to rally from the shock, and died. |
In a speech at Edinburgh Lord Sails |
bury declared himself in favor of wo- |
mans suffrage, and said he hoped the |
day was not far distant when women
would be allowed to vote.
Sir Morell Mackenzie has resigned from |
the College of Physicians, having been
censured for violation of professional |
confidence in connection with Emperor
Frederick's illness.
The Queen of Belgium while driving
out, was Missed and groaned at by |
a passing band of Socialists The by
ISLANDERS gave cheer for cheer.
A rumor reached Bonny from the
Upper Niger that Henry M. Stanley is
proceeding at the back of the great oil
rivers under the British flag, and that
the natives are friendly.
Illness of Emperor William.
There have been sundry reports of late
that Emperor William is suffering from
an acute attack of his chronic trouble
swelling inside the ear-about which the
doctors are much alarmed. 1t keeps
him awake almost continually and drives
him to constant occupation for relief.
The trouble had become worse during
the last few days. It is announced that
owing to a cold the Emperor will remain
indoors during the rest of the week. If
the ear malady should take a serious
turn there would be an immense excite
ment all over Europe.
Later news states that the Emperor is
slowly recovering, but is still confined 10