The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-08-28
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
san Francisco. August IA. per $. 5.
Australia.

The Royal Observatory OF the Cape OF
Good Hope has discovered Encke'scomet
on its return.
England has requested the postpone
ment of the sale at Port Townsend of the
seized Canadian schooners.
Queen Natalie will appear personally
before the synod to present her side of
the difficulty with King Milan Of Servia.
The Bulgarian question will soon be
discussed by the great and directly inter-
ested Powers in congress to be held at
Berlin.
The Canadian steam cruiser Dream
captured an American fishing vessel near
Campobello recently. The boat was
towed to st. Andrews as prize.
Wells College main building has been
burned at Aurora, n. Y, and the trus-
tees have decided to rebuild. 1t is the
College from which Mrs. Cleveland grad
uated.
Parnell's libel suit against the London
Times will be for CSC, 900 and be tried in
Scotland. 7. P. 0Connor and John
Redmond have also entered suits against
the Times.
From India it is telegraphed that there
Joliapla pass. A British force 1S5 strong
with four mountain guns is marching to
attack them
The Convent OF the Sacred Heart, New
York, was burned Aug. Is. Loss $780,
600; insurance, 100000 All persons
in the building numbering 1875 escaped
without injury.
The Woodland Mail says: James G.
Fair, who runs the G. F. Reed ranch,
took down $11 900 in gold coin to
Knights Landing last Saturday to pay
off the monthly wages of the hands on
the farm. Such is ranching in Cali
fornia
Star-gazers may look out for the new
comet discovered by Prof. Brooks Of
Geneva, N. Y. 1t is moving easterly
about one degree daily, and is just above
the star Lambda. The comet has large
head and short tail, which, strangely
enough, apparently points to the sun.
The total vote of the United States in
1884 reached 10, 14S, 061, but for 1888 the
total is expected TO pile up close to H.
100000. The larger fraction of the ex-
pected increase of 100000 will be
composed OF native born young men,
who will cast their first vote for Presi-
dent next November.
Leary's second great log raft reached
New York safely on Aug. 10. This raft
is 592 feet long, ffty-four feet beam,
thirty-eight feet deep, and draws twenty
three feet OF water. 1t comprises pa, 900
spruce logs, valued at about $50, 600. To
transport such mass OF timber by or
binary methods would require over forty
lumber schooners, and would cost $780,
600. The successful passage Of this log
ship from Nova Scotia is regarded by
lumbermen as great innovation, des-
tined to revolutioniZe lumber transporta-
ton on that coast.
A parade OF sixty or seventy delegates
to the national convention OF the Ameri-
can party in Washington took place in
that city on Aug. Is. Mayor Hewitt OF
New York and Senators Stanford and
Hearst OF California are ON numerous
list OF possible nominees OF the party for
the presidential candidacy The one
plank favored above all by the Californi-
ans is in short that no nonresident alien
can own property in the United States,
and that no resident alien can own land
except within certain prescribed limits.
1t is said that one-eighth OF Texas, one
sixth OF Colorado, more than one-eighth
of Wyoming, and One-fourteenth OF Cali
fornia, are in the hands OF Englishmen.
One hundred and twenty-five thousand
acres of the richest land in the world,
located in the San Joaquin Valley, Cal,
is owned by Sir William Heckley. 1t is
mortgaged to an English nobleman in
the sum Of $125.000.
The Republican tariff bill, to be offered
in the Senate as a substitute to the
Mills bill, is making progress in its
preparation. Its trainers have availed
themselves of all the information posi-
BILE from the tariff debate in the house.
That debate is said by Senator FRYE to
have been the most remarkable that
ever took place in any country in the
history OF the world. He probably
referred to the variety OF informa-
ton adduCed under the rule linn
iting speeches to five minutes.
A greater diversity OF opinion is shown
among Senators on the subject OF sugar
and lumber than any other, but it is pro-
bable that 30 per cent. reduction on
sugar and possibly small reduction on
lumber will be recommended. The out
look at the present time is that the bill
will not be taken up for discussion in the
Senate before the LIST OF September, and
it may be that the session will not come
to an end until October, for as many as
ffty-fve Senators are said to have an
nounced themselves as prepared with
tariff speeches, and that number would
take up a month in delivery. 1t is even
probable that the session may continue
until the Presidential election