The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-09-05

SAID that ne had recently talked |
with Iii Iii, the son of LII Hung
Chang, Viceroy of China. Iii Ii
states that the secret society 10
Lao holds great sway throughout
the country from Canton to the
Yang-tse- Keang, a distance of 700
miles, and he does not doubt that
there will be an overturning event
ually but not Immediately. The
secrets of the society are very
closely kept. If anybody talks, off
goes his head, consequently no one
talks, and no one knows exactly
what is what, or who is who, but
the Tartar dynasty feels it.
There are ten foreign ships in the
Yangtse, besides two or three big
Chinese cruisers. In the Woosung
are eight big Chinese cruisers, two
or three gunboats and seven foreign
war vessels.
'The discomfort of the Chinese is
with the dynasty. There are SO
many people and they are increas-
ing so fast, and so permanent is the
discomfort that those in power see
the end coming"
Tacoma capitalists have pur-
chased the immense De Lion float
ing dock projected for Port Town
send, and have capitalized the Dry
Dock Company at 100000. The
dock will be finished next month.
A total of thlrty-five bodies have
been recovered from the ruins of
the building which collapsed in
Park place, New York. By their
names they appear to be almost all
German or of German descent. The
building was erected in 1872 and
had never been considered unsafe.
An expert who has been employed
for thirty-five years in placing
printing machinery, says that the
resting place for the floor was in
sufficient to support the enormous
weight on it. On the third floor
alone stood nearly forty tons Of
machinery.
Queen Victoria shortly after re
viewing the French fleet at Spit
head telegraphed to President Car
not, ~ wish to express to you the
great pleasure have had in re-
ceiving Admiral Gervais and his
officers at Osborne, and how much
I admire the French squadron
which I have just reviewed"
The French President replied,
III beg Your Majesty to accept my
sincere thanks for the gracious re-
ception you were good enough to
accord to Admiral Gervais and his
officers, and also for the sentiments
expressed in regard to the French
feet"
The death, in London, of the
Rt. Hon. Henry Cecil Raikes, Post
master General of Great Britain,
took place on the Oath August.
Mr.. Raikes was born in Scotland
in 1888, he was educated at Shrews-
bury school and Cambridge, was
called to the bar in 1868 and en-
tered Parliament in 1868. In 1886
Lord Salisbury appointed him Post
master General.
The Emperor of Germany has
shown himself again on horseback
in public. In speech at ban
quet at Berlin on the 24th he said,
owe all hope for peace, and should
war come it will not be our fault. "
It is announced that the Vene-
zuelan Congress has rejected the
reciprocity treaty proposed by the
United States.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley have left
Switzerland for Paris. Stanley
has almost recovered from the in
jury to his leg which he sustained
through fall while at Merriam.
The sealing schooner Sayward
returned to Victoria from the
Behring sea with 800 skins. She
is the first to return without being
ordered to leave the sea. The
captain says that seals were plen-
tlful and that he could have dou-
bled his catch but his Indian crew
became afraid of seizure and in
sisted on returning home.
| The State Board of Railroad
Commissioners have addressed q
letter to the Manager of the Union
Pacific informing him that the en-
tire line of the Kansas Central