The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-24
Continued
American News.

IL uISpbONh IlO ~
that the demand for the repudla-
ton of foreign indebtedness is
becoming stronger, and that more
trouble is brewing. Not only are |
they in debt over head and heels |
to foreigners, but the Government |
has loaded itself with obligations
to it's own citizens which can never
be carried out 1t will not be sur
prising, therefore, if steps to repu-
date are taken, and naturally the
| foreigner will be the first to suffer.
The marriage of Miss Charlotte
Di Zerega, daughter of John Au-
gustus Di Zerega, to Sir Frederick
FARMLAND, Baronet, Of England,
Lieutenant IN the Royal Dublin
Fuslliers. and a son of the late Sir
William FARMLAND, Colonel in the
Royal Engineers, was celebrated in
New York on the 10th instant.
Mrs. Maria Price, colored, died
the other day at the age of ITO.
She saw General Washington many
times, and after life of sixty years
Of slavery, purchased her liberty.
The sale of valuable collection
of the effects of George Washington
and his executor and nephew, Law
renee Lewis, was held in Phila-
delphia during the week. Among
the articles were Washinton's prl-
vate account books, letters, docu-
ments and personal effects kept by
his relatives as mementoes. A letter
,, from Washington to Lewis, another
letter advocating the abolition OF
slavery, small pocket memoran-
t dunn book, six tickets of the Della
ware Lottery, with memorandum
f bearing their numbers in his own
writing, "a picture of Betty Wash
ington, and other articles.
On the 18th instant, the House
Committee on Banking and Cur
y rency adopted resolution to re-
quest the House to set apart day
i for the consideration and DISPOSE
ton CT Chairman Dorsey's bill to
!; reduce to $1,000 the minimum
amount of United States bonds
which the national banks shall be
required to keep on deposit, and to
n permit issue of circulating notes by
the national banks to the full
amount of the par value of the
1t bonds deposited. This would, it is
said, increase the amount of money
If in circulation by sl8,0O0,000, and
. would result in a freer issue oil
national bank notes. When the
o bill comes up IN the House, Chair
man Dorsey will move an amend
ment to provide for the issue O.
greenbacks whenever the nationa
% bank circulation falls below S185,
100000.
- Foreign News.
:. Paris dispatches say that The
~ greatest fears are entertained fol
l. the safety of the Russian expedi
N ton which set out in March, 1889
n to continue the exploration of Thi
.e bet and if possible to react
~ LHassa Owing to the fact tina
no news of the expedition has beer
received for several months, geo
70 graphers and friends of the missing
lie explorers have nearly given up al
at hopes of hearing that they are a!iv,
Is and we'll. 1t is feared that the en-
Re tire party, which numbered twenty
ar Russians, has persisted. They ma,
=, have fallen victims to the hostility
~ of the Thibetans, or have perishet
of cold and want on the loft,
II plateaus of Thibet, or on some o
S. the great mountain slopes. 1t /
g. understood the Russian Govern
ment will Immediately send a part,
out to see if any traces can b
found of the missing explorers.
Clarence Greenhouse, Unltet
States Consul. General at Yoke
u hama, has resigned his position t,
Or accept the high office of adviser t.
of the Corean King. Greathouse wa
re formerly one of the most prominen
Is lawyers at the San Francisco ban
h and was one of the first appoint
ments made by the Cleveland AID
" ministration in 1884. He was on
" of the eleven Chief Consul
erals, and one of the few who wer
is not removed at the time of tn
is change of Administration.
b. From Berlin comes the an
d. nouncement that for some tim
d. past the Kaiser's personal finance
Of have been hopelessly involved b.
- his own reckless expenditures, an
&c it has even been reported that b
u has had to borrow %, 900, 900 mark
~ from the banker Herr Won Bleich
re roeder, on his note of hand. A