The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-09
The Hawaiian Gable.

The Hawaiian Gable.
The United States steamer Alba
tross, which was transferred from the
United States Commission of Fish
and Fisheries to the Navy Depart
ment, for the purpose of surveying a
route for a submarine cable between
San Francisco and Honolulu, arrived
in Monterey harbor on October %,
having finished her initial trip OH the
work.
Chilean Affairs.
The elections in Chile resulted in
the overwhelming defeat of the Gle
rical party. The Liberals have q
large majority in the Electoral Col
lege, the duties of the members of
which are, to a great extent, similar
to those of Presidential Electors in
the United States, with the impor-
tant difference that the members
themselves select and appoint the
new Chief of State. The popularity
of the Liberal party is shown by the
fact that it has elected thirty candl-
dates for the Senate, while the Cleri-
Gals elected two. In the Chamber of
Deputies the Liberals will have con-
troll of the House with q majority Of
thirty, the returns showing the cleo
ton of siXty-tWo Liberals and thirty
two Clericals.
A dispatch of October 10Th says
that the demand of Minister Egan for
the safe conduct of persons who have
taken refuge in the American and
Spanish legations has been granted
by the Junta.
SignOr Carlos del Rio, late of the
staff of President Balmaceda, is in
this country. He declares that
Balmaceda is not dead and that he
effected an escape. The report is not
credited.
Foreign News.
DR.. Walter Dempster, United States
Commissioner of Immigration at New
York, has returned to the country
from a trip through Russia. He says
that not only are efforts being re-
doubled to drive the Jews out, but
that measures are being taken to
make it SO uncomfortable for the
Germans there that they will be only
too glad to follow the Jews.
Major Wissman, the African ex-
plorer, has left the German service
because Baron Soden, of the German
East African Company, forbade him
to transport steamer to Victoria
NyanZa.
De Giers, the Russian Minister of
Foreign Affairs, has held a conference
with King Humbert, of Italy, and
Premier Rudini. It is believed that
Italy will be withdrawn from the
triple alliance, as Russia is now able
to ensure her against encrOachment
from France.
The previous reports of famine in
Northern Russia do not appear to
have been exaggerated. There is
great suffering among the people in
that section of the Empire, and Gov
eminent assistance is being rendered.
Over-prOduction is the cry among
the textile manufacturers in many
parts of Germany, markets. being
stagnant and orders unsatisfactory.
The Mckinley bill is accredited with
having caused the falling off in the
trade. The outlook is gloomy for the
winter, especially in Silesia, where it
seems inevitable that the majority of
the operatives must be idle during
the winter months, and much dis
tress is already apparent.
1t is announced that hereafter the
Canadian Pacific will be used as a
military road by the British Govern
ment in moving troops to and from
India. Men destined for service in
the British navy will also be moved
over by this line.
Another disastrous storm ragged over
Great Britain on the 10th instant,
wrecking several small vessels.
The French are strengthening their
forces in Algiers.
The British steamer Oceanic has
arrived from China with further news
of the anti-missionary riots in that
country. The riots are not over by
any means.
A revolution occurred in Paraguay
early in October against President
Gonzales. The movement was crushed
and the usual executions followed.
The Emperor William has given
up the task of raising beard, and
has come back to his first love-the
moustache. The event called for
cablegrams from Europe without
end.
Benjamin Poison, United States
Consul at Sheffield, and cousin of ex-
President Cleveland, has made a re-
port to this Government showing that
the trade of the place with the United
States has fallen off fully fifty per
cent. in the past year in consequence
of the Mckinley bill.
All of the British sealers recently
seized in the Behring Sea have been
released by order of the British Gov
eminent.
At a quarterly meeting of the Man
chester Chamber of Commerce re-
Gently, the President said trade was
still depressed, and that the latest
returns received were unsatisfactory.
The President blamed the Mckinley
bill, the Barring Brothers and South
American troubles for the state of
affairs complained of.
A revolt is feared in Buenos Ayres.
The industrial situation of the coun-
try is simply paralyzed and gold has
advanced to $50 premium.
The death of Parnell does not seem
to have reunited the Irish parties,
but to have driven them further
asunder. The bitterness that is ex-
pressed by the factions surpasses
belief and fights with sticks and
stones are of almost daily occurrence
in some part of the island. An at
tempt has been made to blow up the
office of the National Press of Dublin,
a McCarthyite paper.
Berlin has Jack-the-Ripper
butcher. The assassin escaped after
killing and partially dissecting the