The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-05-22
FOREIGN NEWS.

Karakoram Pass
A Quebec jury in the case of the
Salvation Army, indicted as public
nuisance, has returned a verdict OF
guilty.
The death is announced of Sil
Charles Tilston Bright, one of the
projectors of the first transcontinen-
tai cable.
The French and Spanish military
authorities are strongly opposing
negotiations between France and
Spain for two new railways across the
Pyrenees.
The Porte will dispatch troops to
quell the disturbance at Monastir,
Macedonia, where the Servians and
Greeks have rebelled against Turkish
authority.
George D. Nagle of San Francisco
has been awarded the contract for
the construction of the public build
ing at Carson, New, for $4,000. The
building is to be completed within
one year.
Further news has been received in
Berlin from the explorers, Kund and
Tappenbeck, whose expedition was
attacked by natives in the interior of
the Cameroons region. Seven of the
party were killed and thirty wounded.
The journals and collections of the
expedition were lost.
An epidemic of duels has been
prevailing in Paris since Dupreys
was killed by Hobert, his fellow art
critic. Eight other gentlemen have
met to adjust their grievances by
more or less disastrous conflicts.
Seven more "affaires d'honneur !"
were on the tapis, the most of which
were likely to come off Sunday, May
9Th.
The Irish Parliamentary party will
take no steps in connection with the
Pope's decree, but will leave the
question on it's merits to the appre-
ciation of the people. 1t is under
stood that the Parnellites will not
take action as a whole against the
papal decree. The exact terms of the
decree were still a profound secret in
Rome, outside of the Vatican, the
first of the month.
The Socialists have begun an active
agitation against the Crown Prince,
and the authorities are vigorously
working to unravel their plans. Fifty
thousand pamphlets, signed by the
revolutionary party, are being scat
tered in Berlin and Charlottenburg
Insulting epithets are mixed up with
+ threats of assassination A Socialist
named Marlslines has been arrested,
charged with printing the pamphlets.
In the British Commons, Smith,
the Government leader, replying to
question by Lord Charles Beresford
regarding the dangerous weakness of
the army and navy, denied that either
was inefficient Still, an inquiry into
their condition was desired; therefore
a commission would be appointed,
with Lord Harrington as president,
to report upon the civil and profes-
sional administration of both serv-
ices, and their relations to each other
and to the Treasury, and what
changes would tend to promote eco
nomy and efficiency.
The irritation caused by the decree
of Pope Leo against "the plan of
campaign" is msnifesting itself in
strong antipathy to Monsignor Per
sico, on whose reports of the state of
affairs in ireland it is believed the
decree is based. In the neighborhood
of the convent where the papal
emissary resides, the people who
formerly saluted him with respect re-
fuse to recognize him and the local
bakery refuses to furnish bread to
the convent so long as Monsignor
|. Persico is an inmate.
The bulletin of May 4th regarding
Emperor Frederick's condition says:
''The Emperor is free from fever and
able to rise. His strength is gradu-
ally increasing. No further bulletins
will be issued unless a relapse should
occur" That evening the Emperor
dined with the Grown Prince and
Princess, the Empress and his three
daughters. The Emperor's weak
ness especially affects his lungs. The
weather still prevents him from
taking outdoor exercise The Tos.
si8cde Zeitung says it has learned from
a reliable source that the local disease
in the Emperor's throat has increased
but little since the Emperor left San
Reno
A London despatch of May 1st
says: Now that the edict of the
Pope against the methods adopted by
the Irish Home Rulers has been pub
lished, the questions most discussed
in connection Herewith are, what has
the Vatican been promised as the
price of the decree, and who has done
the promising? 1t is quite certain
that neither party to the compact, if
one exists, will find it an easy matter
to carry out its agreement. Appar-
emily the Papal rescript has had as
little effect in altering the determine
ton ct the Irish Home Rulers as the
protests of Ulster Orangemen have
had in convincing the Parnellites that
all of Ireland that was worthy of spe