The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-11-24
Foreign News.

Since the death of Parnell there
have been frequent factional fights all
over Ireland. The reunion of the
Irish party is now deemed almost inn
possible.
1t is reported that $4,000 German
colonists in the valley of the Volga,
Russia, are slowly starving to death.
Destitution is widespread all over the
Russian empire.
There has been another tremendous
earthquake on the island of Hondo,
Japan. The loss of life is very great,
over 1000 persons were killed and
is 600 houses destroyed in the town
of Nagoya. The towns of Kano and
Kasamatsa have been destroyed and
over fifty miles of railroad track
ruined. The total loss of life is esti-
mated at over 10000.
Paris has a new scandal. Nine.
Melba, the Well-known singer, who Is
being sued for divorce by her hus-
band, Mr. Armstrong, has been fit
ting all over Europe with the Duke of
Orleans, the son of the Count of Paris.
All France is laughing at this latest
scandal of the Orleanists.
Famine is reported at Chuchao,
North China. An uprising is feared
unless food is forthcoming.
A plot to assassinate General An
tonic Ezeta, brother of the president
of San Salvador, has been discovered.
He is secretary of war of the republic.
Another fearful storm occurred on
the English coasts on the 10th and
18th inst. Many lives were lost, and
immense damage was done.
A monument to Gambetta has been
unveiled in Paris.
Mr.. McDermott, a nephew of Par
nell, has publicly horse-whipped
Timothy Healy, NJ. P, for making
slurring illusions to Mrs. Parnell.
Colonel Engledue and William
Clark, of England, are in British Col
umbia, and promise to establish a
colony of 1000 to 700 Scotch fisher
men i'll British Columbia, if the
Legislature will give the land.
PATHS voice is said to be failing.
This is the twentieth time this has
been reported.
The British Foreign Office awaits
response from Pekin to the ultimatum
demanding the adoption of measures
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RACES. Sir John Walsham, the British
Minister to China, has been directed
to give the Chinese Government until
the end of the month to reply, when,
failing satisfaction, the combined
foreign fleet will seize Shanghai and
the other treaty ports on the Yang
tse-Kiang and the Powers will take
control of the customs of each port
until the matter in dispute is arrang-
ed. The British Admiral, now at
Uagazki, two days sailing distance
from Shanghai, has been warned to
hold the squadron in readiness.
Cholera is prevalent at Damascus
and Aleppo, and an outbreak of small
pox has been reported at Cadiz, Spain.
The Car celebrated the twenty
fifth anniversary of his marriage to
Princess DagInar OF Denmark, on the
10th inst.
Bloodshed is reported at Guayaquil,
Ecuador, in a political row. The
police killed several persons.
The Chinese Government is to
establish a Consulate at Hongkong
for the first time.
Sporting News.
Edward Hanlan rowed against the
worlds three-mile sculling record at
Victoria, B. c., on the S1st, and cut it
down to 10 min. Sec, or 5 seconds
faster than he ever rowed before.
Arion, a 2-year- old stallion by Elec-
tioneer, trotted a mile in 2:10f at
Stockton on the 10th. He is consid-
cred the most remarkable horse alive.
Sunol trotted in 2:1s at that age.
Senator Stanford says that if there is
horse alive that will ever trot in two
minutes, Arion is the animal.
Palo Alto has reduced his trotting
record to 2:O91, or only quarter
second slower than the worlds stall
lion record held by Allerton-