The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-04-25
TWO DAYS LATER NEWS.

uS jain w. ~ 'oollcy, Sapo'
babel, arrived this morning, 16
days from San Francisco, with two
days later news. Following is a
summary
Boulanger denies the report that
he has been banished from Belgium.
Froude's first novel was published
April Sth.
A local government bill for Scot
land was before the British Parlia-
ment April sth.
Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife of
the musician, is dead.
DIR. j. ID. Kidder of the Smith
sonian Institute, is dead.
The town of Smithfield, N. c.,
has been almost destroyed by fire.
SANKEY'S letter to the British
Geographical Society was read
April Sth.
The All-Americas beat the Chi
Cages at New York April Sth, by
score of z to 6.
The cornerstone of splendid
Masonic temple was laid at Denver
April Sth.
Dispatches from India say that
$4,000 persons have been rendered
homeless by the great fire at Surat.
To add to the prevailing distress
cholera has broken out in the town.
The Spanish Government has re-
fused China's request for permits
sion to establish Consulates in Ma
nila,and at other points in the Span
ish colonies in the Pacific.
The body of boy named Stein
fat was found April 9th on the road
near Hamburg. The throat had
been cut, the abdomen ripped open
and the entrails removed. The
body was otherwise sheckingly mutt
4 lated.
General Rosenbach, Governor of
Turkestan, is returning to RTash-
kend. He reports everything tran
quill along the Afghan frontier. The
Amer of Afghanistan is returning
to Cabul.
A heavy storm of thunder, light
ming and hail broke over Norfold,
q Va, April 7th, doing much damage.
The U. S. ship Pensacola sank in
the dry dock where she was being
II prepared for sea. One of her sea
valves had been opend for inspection
and another one was out. The tide
fooded the dock and she filled with
V water, and getting off her keel sank
q before she could be got in position
again.
n A despatch from Shanghai, April
n 18th, says, Won Kwang Pei, former
ly of the Chinese Embassy at Wash
ington, advocates the expulsion Of
every American in the service Of
& China, as reprisal for the expul-
sion of Cinnamon from America. In
a memorial on the subject, he refers
81 with contempt to the American
navy which he declares would be
powerLKss in aggressive movement
SAMOAN AFFAIRS.
M Ex-Minister Kasson, one of th,
Samoan Commissioners, who sails
with Commissioners Bates ant
II Phelps for Liverpool, in declining
to express an opinion, April 9Th, il
regard to the stand taken by til,
III U. S. Government, said:
M 1--WE all wish to enter the confer
ence as free as possible from an,
utterances on the subject. We hav,
conaidered the main question whicl
confronts us for decision. 1t is I,
agree upon some mode of protecting
the rights of foreigners at Samo'
without interfering with native indie
pendence. Our general aim will b
to secure good order at Samoa ant
maintain the principle of equa
rights of the powers intereste'
there" Kasson, when asked if h
thought the destruction of the nava
squadron at Samoa would affect thu
settlement said, he thought twould
There would probably be NOR
strenuous efforts to reach settle
ment so as to render unnecessar
the maintenance of an armed fore
at the islands. Mr.. Kasson said Ii
did not think that COMMISSIONS
& Bates article in the Century maya
zine would have any effect upo
Bismarck's reception of the commi:
sion or Bates individually, and va
Of the opinion that the matter wa
much exaggerated. The conference
will meet early in May.