The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-07
NEWS AND NOTES.
arts had a postofice in 1862.

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The British government has &C
,epted tenders for building seven
teen War-ships.
Grasshoppers are said to be eating |
up everything on Kansas farms
excepting the mortgages.
The Earl of Dunraven is men
toned as likely to succeed Sir Ii. B.
Loeb as Governor of Victoria.
It is announced that Lord Ran
dolph Churchill has become news
paper proprietor ID Birmingham,
England.
Eighteen grocers in Cincinnati
offer their customers 3 per cent dis
count if they will carry home their
purchases.
The freedom Of Edinburgh was
conferred upon Parnell recently, the
audience rising and cheering for
several minutes.
The French Government proposes
to warn the electors that Boulanger
is ineligible as a candidate for the
Councils-General.
Great activity prevails in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard getting the war
vessels ready for August trials in
Narraganset Bay.
The Javan planters and natives
have joined in a protest against the
coming Of any Chinese to Batavia
or other Javan port.
The dismissals Of officials who
sympathize with the Boulangist
movement continues in the Govern
ment departments Of France.
The Spanish Government has for
hidden any demonstrations calcul-
ated to encourage the Pope to go to
Spain in the event of his leaving
Rome.
The growing scarcity of whale
bone is tempting many an old whal-
ing skipper to leave his fireside
again to try his luck in the Arctic
regions.
Several murders of late have start
led the people of Paris by the auda-
city and cruelty of the murderers.
Plumber seems to be the principal
object of the crimes.
The survey of the new wharf at
Pango Pango, Samoa, as a coaling
station for the United States, has
been made. The government will
keep 10000 tons of coal there at all
times.
The enforcement Of the Sunday
law at Cincinnati is causing consid-
cradle trouble. Two officers of the
Law and Order League were at
tackled at Eickler's Garden and badly
beaten Sunday.
The American rifemen were pre-
sented memento of the Queens
Wimbledon badge which is consid
cred high honor in London. The
rifemen left for Paris. They speak
well Of their treatment.
It is asserted that Mary Ander-
son is suffering from Paresis and
will never go on the stage again.
She is in England now and knows
no one, nor does she recollect any
thing that has ever occurred in her
career.
English money has purchased four
more cigar factories at Havana.
Englishmen now own six of the
principal factories there. It is no
ticeable that almost the only cigars
sold are made at the English fac
tories.
An unusual movement Of Russian
troops between the Turkish frontier
and Kutais, Tifiis, Alexandropol and
Erivan is reported. It is estimated
that $4,000 men are already concen-
trated, and more coming toward
that center.
News has been received that Dir
ates surprised the French Fort at
Chobo, in Tonquin, and tortured the
Commandant and corporal, who
fell into their hands alive. The
formers two children were killed be-
fore his eyes, and he himself was
then slashed to pieces.
The city government of Joliet, ILL.,,
thought that the morals of the com
munity demanded a license fee Of
$4,000 for each billiard table. The
billiard tables have disappeared from
Joliet, and so have a good many
drummers whose visits were very
convenient to Joliet business men.
Mrs. L. Willis, the Samoan wife of
the missing contractor, has received a
letter from him. He is in Honolulu,
working at his trade and is getting
good wages. He writes to his wife:
my creditors worried the life out of
me, and 1 thought [ would leave
the country" Mrs. Willis is finding
a good sale for her book, and con-
tinues to pay the installments on her
home on San Jose avenue.-Ex.
The annual report of the Fish
Commission shows that last year
101 $4,000 shad were distributed to
the public waters of the United
States, and 95,0O0,0O0 white-fsh.
Goldfish were Matched to the extent
of 100000, and pollock to the num-
Der of 100000. There were, also,
distributed 50,190,000 wall-eye pike,
over 10000 carp, and 159,803 trout
of different varieties.
It is expected that the naval re-
view to be held at Spithead early in
August, in honor to the visit of the
Emperor William of Germany, will
be the most splendid ever witnessed.