The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-27
NEWS AND NOTES.


Remonstrances are being received
by the British Government from
eminent men in the Canadian Dom
inion, protesting against the removal
of the restriction now in force
against Chinese immigration into
Canada
The Russian Government has or
dered the completion of a network
of railways to the German frontier,
which will enable the Gar to mass
troops there on short notice; 800
locomotives have been ordered for
delivery in May.
Blaine's most determined enemies
will not deny his faculty of putting
things. His speech to the American
Conference was complimentary, per
suasive, suggestive, logical and in
spring. It also possessed the
browning merits of point and brew
ity. It was an suspicious opening
of what should prove an important
movement in American affairs.
Elk President Grevy thinks that
the elections will result in giving
France a more stable government
than she has had since 1870, and that
the new members of the Chamber
of Deputies are just what he re
quired when he was President.
The most gigantic irrigation
scheme in the United States is that
which the Bear Lake and River
Canal Company of Ogden, Utah, is
carrying out. The canal is to cost
$3,500,0OO, and will be $50 miles
long, 10 feet deep and 40 feet wide.
Its source will be the Bear Lake Of
Idaho. In it's course it will irrigate
100000 acres of tillable land.
Thomas Stevens, the bicyclist,who,
after making a. tour of the world on
his wheel, was sent to Africa to
"discover Stanley" has returned to
Zanzibar. He has failed to find any
trace whatever of Stanley. His mis-
sion is complete fasco.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-Delegate
Dubois of Idaho, IN an interview to-
day, predicted the admission of
Idaho as a State by the coming Con
gress.
Advices from Brisbane state that
the natives of Southwest New
Guinea have massacred Rev. Mr.
Savage, sent out by the London
Missionary Society, and number of
native teachers, and the crew Of the
cutter Mary, belonging to the soci-
ETY.. The steamer Albatross, be-
longing to the Queensland Govern
ment, has been dispatched to the
scene.
The new cars of the california
on Wheels" exhibit are now being
loaded in Oakland with their dis
plays from the various sections and
will start from thence eastward on
or about November 1st They are
the first vestibule cars ever made on
the Pacific Coast.
OTTAWA, Nov. 6.-The failure of
the Labrador fisheries and the desti-
tuition of the fishermen are attrib-
uted to the inroads of American and
French fishermen, who use trap nets
and other engines for the wholesale
destruction of fish.
New YORK, Nov. 6.-Albert G..
Allen, a student at the University
Medical College, who has become in
same, was discovered feasting upon
human flesh in the dissection-room.
NJ. Droz, head of the Department
of Justice in the Swiss Government,
has written to Washburne, the
United States Minister, apologizing
for the illegal arrest of certain
Americans. M. Droz says reason
able damages are obtainable by
applying to the Court of Appeals at
Berne.
Bituminous rock as pavement is
to be tried generally in San Fran
cisco. The mayor vetoed the ordin-
ance providing for it's adoption as
paving material but the Board of
Supervisors passed the measure over
his veto.
The recent decision of Justice
Lawrence of New York, in which he
upheld the trust cause of the will of
the late Samuel J. Tilden has been
reversed by the Supreme Court of
that state. The fatal cause provided
for establishment of public libraries
in New York and other large cities
and the decision was based on legal
technicalities solely.
The Commercial Advertiser, not
ing the decay of the Knights of
Labor, says that New York city will
be represented at the general con-
vention, at Atlanta, by only two
delegates, representing a member
ship of about five thousand. Three
years ago New York sent fifty dele
gates, representing membership of
100000.
The balance of trade is rising in
favor of the United States now,
and exports exceed ten millions.
Aarfrttgfmfnt.