The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-10-16

Hope Bank are under reserve liza /
bility to pay thrice the amount ac-
tually called. The liabilities of the |
bank amount 10 e3,250,000, due |
mainly 10 customers.
On September 23d three fourths
Of Colon (AspinwalI was reduced
to ashes About $50 buildings were
destroyed, and ninety carloads of
freight in transit. During the fire
there was a riot, which was quelled
by the military, who killed and
wounded several persons. The
buildings destroyed included the
Post-office, Supreme Court, Alcal-
dia, Municipal Prefecture, agencies
of all the steamship companies, ex-
cept the French company, the Pa
citic Mail and Royal Mail offices
and part of the wharf, every busi-
ness of Importance on Front street
and all the hotels.
Bismarck announces that he will
be in attendance in the Reichstag
during the coming winter, as he
mas HO IulCliltOu W ilNS INV +"
bear, to sleep and lick his paws.
The German Government has
successfully tested quick firing
rife, which easily fires fifty shots
per minute.
During the past week the Irish
leaders, John Dillon and William
O'Brien have been arrested by the
British Government at the instiga-
ton of Balfour The English
policy, with regard to Ireland, is
now declared to be one of rule or
ruin, and it was said that promin-
ent Tories very strongly object to
this renewal of coercive measures.
Michael Davitt has begun the
publication in his paper, the Labor
World, of his series of disclosures
to the effect that the fabric of po-
litical events which began with the
dynamite explosions at the houses
of Parliament, the Nelson column
in Trafalg Square, and the under
ground railway some years ago,
and ended with the Parnell Com
mission, was the result of deep
laid conspiracy on the part of the
British Government to destroy
Parnell and his movement together.
A sensational account of an at
tempt to assassinate President
Diaz of Mexico on the 25th has
been pronounced a hoax.
Sporting.
Joe McAulifie and Slavin, the
Australian, were arrested the day
before the 25th inst, the day sci
for the fight, and their public match
was declared off. They met before
2 the Ormonde Club in private at
daybreak on the 9th, and Me-
Auliffe was easily knocked out il
two rounds. Slavin proved himself
in every way the better man.
John Il, Sullivan as an actor APP
, pears to be the same old tough that
he was as a pugilist. His lates
effort was to get drunk and make {
scene in the Hoffman House bar
!, room, New York. He wanted tt
I" lick the whole housefull," bu,
his ambition was not gratifed.
Nelson lowered the trotting stall
lion record at Kankakee, ILL.,, OF
:. the Goth, going the mile in 2:114
. AT the same time Faustian reduced
the two year old stallion record tt
! 2:234.
4 Shipping News.
The British ship Ventura, hence
! August 9th, for Ireland, was toweC
into port during the past week il
, badly damaged condition. Capt
: Lila reports that while 1000 mile!
y off the Mexican coast, his ship en-
countered hurricane which swep
6 the decks clear, carried away irol
. bulwarks and threw her on he
- beam ends. The sea made clear
=. breach of the vessel for severa
. hours, but she was righted by jet
tesoning the cargo. The escape o
:, the Ventura is regarded as miracu
lous. The British ship Queen Vie
;, toria was also disabled in the sam
= storm and returned to this port 70
i repairs. The underwriters ar
very much alarmed over the fac
. that five ships that were in thos,
: ATTITUDES at the time of the hurri
- can are now overdue.
Among the passengers CT tn
: Alameda on her last trip was Al
! fred Josephs,the famous Australian
bookmaker. He made many friend
here and received great ovation
on his departure by the sportin:
men of San Francisco.
The steamships City of New Yorl
9 and the Teutonic, which left New
York thirty minutes apart. touche,
y. at Liverpool only thirty-fve min
utes apart, the difference in thei
= = running time across the Atlanti
y. being only five minutes.
:, The captain of the sealin!
. schooner Maggie Mack reports tina
on August 10 while in the Behrin,
J Sea his boats attacked very larg
sperm whale, which returned tn
compliment by smashing two boats
killing two men and breaking tn
legs of another.
The missionary schooner Mat
thew Turner has sailed for tn
Caroline Islands. She took quit,
q number of passengers.
> The ship Henry Willard from
New York to Puget Sound has pu
in to Valparaiso in a damaged con