The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-11-15
FROM THE ORIENT,

terrible Experience of the q. s. $. Jun
iata - Items of General Interest
From Japan Papers.
Cholera is very prevalent at Picking.
Brunei has been placed under British
protection by treaty with it's Sultan.
rice famine exists in Borneo and the
mortality amongst the Dyaks is very
great.
The Russian cruiser Rynda, with the
Grand Duke Alexander on board arrived
at Nagasaki.
American citizens in Shanghai and vi
cihlty were to have a mock Presidential
election on the 9Th.
TOXIC brewers have had their petition
Tor abatement of a recent special duty re-
jected by the Government.
The Gazette hears that foreigners re-
siding outside of treaty limits are being
| requested to move within the settlements
proper.
The British Consul demands an in
demnity from the Manila Government
Tor the illegal arrest of bank agent
named Townsend.
| A well-known member of the Japanese
community OF Kobe has been sentenced
| to Is months imprisonment at hard
| labor for opium smoking.
The wife of the Rev. II. Corbett, of the
American Presbyterian mission at Che
foo, died suddenly during her husbands
absence from home on October 9TH.
1t is rumored that the Picking Govern
| ment has under consideration a scheme
OF tariff reprisals, as a counter action for
the expulsion of Chinese from the United
States.
In remarking on the fact that beri-beri
! is prevalent in North China, it is stated
that the disease is known as kaki in
Japan, "and it is strange that the word
kaki in the Malay language means
feet, " in which and the legs the dis
ease has its seat.
Most remarkable weather is reported
IN the Chinese Sea, being described as a
mOnOtOnous calm, the sea covered with
| thick filthy slime, the fish mostly all
on top of the water. These conditions
| are feared as the fOrerunner of storms
| such as last year overwhelmed the Brit
ish gunboat Wasp and other ships.
A movement is on foot in which ma
| tives are interesting themselves, fol-
| erecting handsome monument in mem
DRY of General o. S. Grant in Toxic. Ii
| will be placed near plantation of hinOki
a species of fir tree, and kashiwa, a
species of oak, which the General planted
on his visit to Japan. The monument
will be inscribed in Japanese and Eng,
fish with the most notable services of the
great American General.
An item is copied from a Shanghai
paper as follows: We are informed that
the welcome but unusual presence of q
U. S. man-of-War, the Omaha, in Oul
harbOr is due to fears entertained al
home that the recent passage by Con
gress of the Chinese exclusion supple.
mentary act may lead to demonstrations
on the part of the natives against Amer
lean citizens in China. We are happy
to say that so far there are no signs, in
Shanghai at least, of the natives gener
ally being stirred up to the commission
of any Outrages, by the news that Chinese
labOrers who have lett San Francisco fol
a trip home will not be allowed to return
even with certificates.
The U. S. gunboat Juniata, which
arrived at Singapore October 9Th, from
Hongkong for New York, had a terribly
rough experience in a typhOOn whel
about 300 miles out from HOngkOng
The gale lasted nearly two days and dur
; ing that time the Juniata lost four of be-
l boats, blew away her new StOrmsalls
damaged the steering gear and shipped
so much water that the ports had to bt
) broken open to relieve the ship. Thu
mast covers, tightly laced round TIN
spars, were blown off as if they wer
made of paper and the men working OF
deck threw away their oilskin and super
l fiuous clothing to avoid being blown
overheard. The boats lost were torn OF
O., by the wind from the davits and blown
away like matchwood. On the secon'
, day of the gale Commander Wise wa
! thrown heavily to the deck by a sea, ant
! sustained injuries in the face beside
: breaking his nose. Most OF the clothin!
of the officers has been spoiled through
water, of which there was at one tim
three feet in the ship. The ship at on
time was in a critical position and hat
the engines stopped the fate OF the Juni
alta would have been sealed. The shll
! was likely to remain at Singapore tort
t night, and go to Tanjong Papar Dock
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