The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-09-23

represent in London, the Anglo
American Investment Company
and the city of London Con-
tract Company. The Anglo-Amer-
lean Investment Company has
several schemes on foot, each
of which is big investment in it.
self. 1t has placed $4,000, 900 in
railroads in Arizona and New Mex
leo, and will probably complete
contracts in few days for the pur.
chase of three large sugar planta-
tons in the Sandwich Islands, now
owned by corporation in Hawaii.
At Paris the proposed Sahara
Railway seems popular with inves-
tors, and no less than three COM
panies are now struggling for the
honor of bankruptcy in the service
of humanity on the sands of the
great desert.
Mr.. II. c. Davis, of St. Paul, con-
firms the report that the American
Steel Barge Company. of Duluth,
proposes to build at some point
on Puget Sound, one of the largest
shipbuilding plants in America,
commencing work before the first
of next year. The company will
be prepared to not only build and
equip the steamers of the peculiar
pattern of the McDougall steel
barge, but steamers and ships of
all classes, from men-of-war down.
The expense of putting this enter
prise on its feet, says an exchange,
will be about s2,0OO,OO0, and as
soon as it can be done line of
steel barges will be constructed
and placed in service between the
North Pacific Coast and all the
principal South American trans
Pacific ports. This transportation
scheme is one of the most impor-
tant commercial enterprises ever
attempted on the Pacific Coast.
There appears to be an unpleas-
ant colloeation of disease germs in
various foreign countries which are
widely separated from each other.
Cholera is raging in Japan with
extraordinary virulence. If the
newspaper stories are to be be-
lieved the mortality is quite ex-
ceptional. In France a new form
of influenza, or la grippe, is said to
have broken out. Unlike the last
visitation, it is quite frequently
fatal. 1t has features which resem-
bic the symptoms of typhoid; it is
accompanied by high fever, an alb
normal temperature, blister on the
tongue and acute Inflammation of
the throat. A similar malady is
said to have appeared at Berlin
and st. Petersburg where whole
have been attacked. |
Cases of true Asiatic cholera are
from England. !
1t is stated that the German |
Electric Company of Madrid has in |
contemplation the installation of
plant for electric ploughing on a
large property in the central part
of Spain.
Lady Edith Ward, who is re-
ported to be betrothed to Count
Herbert Bismarck, is tall and
very stylish young woman. She
is very highly educated, if not es-
pecially pretty.
Imperial Rome has just been
captured by an electric street rail-
way company which proposes to
run line from the Porto del Po-
polo to the Ponte MolIe, two miles
the city.
Sporting Items.
An injunction is wanted against
he Pelican Club in London to re-
strain them from having glove
lights in that city.
1t Is stated that the DIVER Bros.
nave lost s15O,OO0 in racing this
year.
The father of John L. Sullivan
lied on the 9Th inst. at Boston.
IohE is an orphan.
George Dixon, resident of To
onto, walked across the Niagara
gorge on a seven elghths inch cable
IN the 9th inst.
a race for $4,000 side is pro-
oosed between Salvador, owned by
!. b: Haggin, and Kingston, owned
" the Dryer Bros. A mile and
IN eighth is the distance proposed.
SulllTan's appearance as an actor
las caused Kilrain, Ashton. Cor
,ett, Jackson and McCsffrav +o