The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-08
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Per ;. 5 Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco
November Goth.


November goth.
NEW YORK SUGAR MARKET, Novem-
Der 29th.-Raw is dull; refined quite.
No change in price since last advices.
One hundred shares of Hawaiian Com
mercial Sugar Co.'s stock were sold on
the 18th at sl5.
Foreign News.
The King Of Holland died Nov 23d,
aged IS years.
Heavy gales are prevailing in the
south and west of England, and many
vessels are seeking shelter.
An epidemic of influenza prevails at
Fuenfkirchen, Hungary. One thousand
persons are sick. a conference of doc
tors has been called.
Samoa's new Chief Justice reached |
New York Sunday.
John Louis Brown, the painter, died |
| in Paris.
Salvador and Guatemala have signed |
| the treaty OF peace.
| The German budget for 1891 will de-
mand a loan of G5 900 900 marks.
| Professor Koch suggests that his con-
sumption lymph be called Paratoloid "
in prescriptions.
The concentration of Russian troops
on the Armenian frontier is causing
much uneasiness at Etzeroum.
Odessa has been made free port by
the Car.
The result of the Italian elections has
been a sweeping Government victory.
The Premier of Madagascar refuses to
retract insulting expressions used toward
France.
Berlin dispatch says an English
patient with lupus was practically cured
after five injections OF Professor Koch's
lymph.
The Queen Regent OF Holland has
issued a proclamation declaring Princess
Wilhelmina Queen of the Netherlands,
! and accepting the regency during her
minority.
Count Julius Karoly, the well-known
Hungarian statesman, died at Buda-
Pesth of cancer of the tongue. He con-
cealed his malady from every one until
the last moment.
A "Jack the Ripper" has been oper-
ating in the vicinity of Elmsborne,
Prussia. 1t is said that no fewer than
r eight couples had been waylaid in their
, wanderings in the suburbs of that town
= within the past year and murdered. The
{ bodies of the women were fiendishly
\ mutilated.
The O'Shea divorce case was given to
the jury November 18th. AS neither
= respondent nor correspondent made a
= defense, the case was given to the jury,
who returned a verdict that adultery had
been committed by Mrs O'Shea and
q Parnell, and that there had been no
! connivance ON the part of Captain
r fishes Parnell's political obituary. 1t
ha n1ncf for fho nra0pnf OF
q least, to lead the Matt, nal party. 1t is
d reported the followers OF Parnell do not
l. desire him to retire, in which event the
leadership of the Irish party will be
). vested in Commission, of which Justin
Q Mccarthy will be President.
!" The British Parliament was opened
). Nov. %. The Queens speech says the
relations of Her Majesty's Government,
l. with the various foreign powers are I'M
r changed, and continues: 1.-The general
, condition of Ireland has sensibly inn
4 proved under the Statutory legislation
which you have applied; but l have
,. learned, with deep regret, that a serious
~ deficiency in the potato crop in certain
I, parts threatens a recurrence of those pc
d RODS of severe distress to which the
population OF the western counties il
s. peculiarly exposed by the industrial anC
lr | cCOllOilllC WHICH, tIlcO
II live. / trust the measures of my govern
:, ment may mitigate the immediate evi
e and diminish the probability of its re
- turning. 1t appears to be desirable, TO
81 the increase of contentment and thu
'r diminutiOn of political disturbance
throughout Ireland to take measures
n for augmenting the number o
n owners engaged in agricultural cult
a walton of the land. A measure
>. having this object in view will be lait
70 before you Your attention will be in
y vited to the expedency of allevating tn,
=" burden which the law of compulsor,
education has, within recent years, i'm
Of posed upon the poorer portions of tn
ar people. In case time for further legisla
ton should be found, l have directed tn
II preparation of bills for the enactment @
~ a reform in the system of county govern
!. ment of Ireland, analogous to that put il
N operation for Great Britain; for the es
tablishment of distinct councils for tn
extension of facilities for purchasin
ly small parcels of land in Great Britain
1; for amending the law in respect to tn
I'd compensation payable by employers il
1r case of injury to persons in their employ
ment; for consolidating and amendin
- the laws relating to public health; TO
~ the appointment of public trustees, an,
% for increasing the security of friendly SC
If cieties and savings. banks"
IQ American News.
August Belmont the well-knowl
IS banker died November oath at New
it York.
20 Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, fami
g. liarly known as "Mrs. Darlington, ,
~ died at Chelsea on the 25th aged sew
a enty-six. For many years he had beef
y. a victim of rheumatism. He died @
~ heart disease, having within a shor
ID time been Frustrated by the latter Attic
o. ton.
u. The United States Rolling Stock Com
20 pany of Chicago has been placed in til,
hands of receiver. The liabilities ar,
" $3,Sl6,000 and the assets $6,O53, 900
- Attorney High, of the company, says tn,
. failure was precipitated by slow collec
tons and the depression in the marke
u money.
Ie Judge Pratt of the Brooklyn Suprem,
.. Court has denied a motion of the trus
b tees of the Sugar Trust to vacate tht
le interlocutory decree entered agains
J. them.
~ Alfred Russell of Detroit is mentioned
as the successor of Justice Miller on the
IL Supreme Bench.
% An uprising among the Indians in the
q, Sioux reservation is feared.
3 The new cruiser Concord, on her tria
trip, made as much as eighteen knots ar
hour against strong tidal current. She
proved to be the fastest gunboat as vel
- built for the navy.