The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-09-30
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Foreign News.

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of employers to engage non union
men, wool merchants and squatters
to-day drove their own wool drays
to the quay. The mob hooted them
and tried to prevent the unloading
of the drays. Stones were thrown,
and the mob became so violent that
the Mayor read the riot act. The
police and the troopers then cleared
the streets.
France has entered into con-
tract to supply Russia with an
enormous number of rifles. Five
hundred thousand will be delivered
within eighteen months.
An outbreak has occurred at
Ticino, Switzerland, and a serious
revolution was threatened, but it
is believed that peace will be re-
stored.
A telegram from Valencia, Spain,
says that cholera is reappearlng in
numerous towns of the province
where it was practically extinct
last week. The same reports come
from Toledo. An increase is also
reported in the province of Cas-
tellon. There were fifty-three new
cases of cholera and eleven deaths
reported at Madrid on the 10th.
Rumor has it that Princess Maud.
the third daughter of the Prince of
Wales, may marry one of the
Rothschilds.
Gladstone is devoting his spare
time at Hawarden to the arrange
ment of memoranda, manuscripts
and letters, representing nearly a
ton in weight, so that it may be
available for the preparation of his
own recollections or for his bio
graphy.
The Alhambra at Granada, Spain,
was damaged by fire to the extent
of $4,000 on the 10th instant. In
cendiaries set fire to the building.
A dispatch from Sydney says
the Legislative Assembly, by vote
81 SO to II, has adopted Sir Henry
Parkes' scheme for Australian
federation.
The Irish linen merchants of
Belfast are hurrying shipments of
linen to the United States to avoid
the Mckinley tariff.
Official advices from Zanzibar
state that no proclamation has been
issued in Africa by the German
authorities sanctioning the slave
trade.
The large purchase of arms and
ammunition by the Nicaraguan
Government in New York is be-
lieved to indicate an early war
with Honduras. The relations be-
tween the two republics have been
strained for some time, and the
feeling has been intensified by the
late war between Salvador and
Guatemala.
A repetition of the starvation
scenes of 1879 is threatened in
Western Ireland, unless help is
forthcoming. The patato crop is
a failure.
A successful strike on the Pana-
ma Railroad occurred on the 18th.
The strike was against a reduction
of wages.
Sporting News.
In the bicycle races at Peoria,
Ills, Burt Myers made trial for
the five-mile worlds record and
lowered it FROM 1885 to 1S:564,
every mile from the second to the
finish being below the previous
record. H. E. Laurie lowered the
one mile American pneumatic tire
safety record from 1892 4-5 to
2.27 Is. The first quarter was
made in SO, the half lis 1-5, the
three quarters IN 1:51 4-5, and the
mile in 2:27 1-5. Myers and Mast
then lowered the American tan
dem two-mile record from 5:21 to
SIS Is. The wind was unfavor-
able and the performances are con-
sidered to be remarkable.
Davis Dalton, the English Chan
mel swimmer, has accomplished the
feat of swimming from Blackwell
to Gravesend, in the Thames, in six
hours. The distance was over
twenty miles.
Shipping News.
The bark Sararac has put in at
Montevidco for repairs. She was
on the way from New York to San
Diego with a cargo for J. D.
Spreckels 4 Bros, and was nearly
wrecked off Cape Horn.
The Fish Commissions steamer
Albatross has discovered new banks
of cod and halibut in the Behring
Sea.
The British Ship Queen Victoria
bound from Tacoma for England
has put into port disabled. She
was caught in hurricane near the
Equator on August 10Th. and mar
rowly escaped going to the bottom
The ship st. Mary, which was on
her maiden voyage from New York
to San Francisco, is reported
wrecked at Port Stanley, Falkland
Island. She was previously in col
lision with the British ship Eaton
Hall. The vessel and cargo were
worth about s250,000, and were