The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-08-05
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Per o. S. S. ZeaIandia, San Fran
cisco, July 2Sth.

cisco, July 2Sth.
Governor Pennoyer of Oregon is talked
of as possible Democratic nominee for
the Vice-Presidency in 1892.
1t is understood that the directors of
the Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Company are considering the advisable
ty of placing two faster vessels on their
line between San Francisco and the
Orient and Withdrawing the Oceanic and
the Belgic. The steamers of the COM
pany are all chartered from the White
Star line, and the vessels spoken OF to
come to San Francisco are the
Germanic and Britannia of that
line These two steamers are
nearly equal in speed to the Empress
of India and the Empress of Japan of
the Canadian Pacific line. They are
sumptuously fitted up, For several years
they have piled between New York and
Liverpool.
A train of five steel cars have been on
exhibition in Chicago. This unique
special train is looked upon as the first
sign of a complete revolution in railway
car construction. 1t is the first train of
all-steel cars ever run in the world.
King Pomare of Tahiti is dead. He
died on June 18th, and with him died
the last of his race and the last King of
Tahiti. He was born November 8, 1889,
and became King in 1877. On June 20,
1880, he signed the treaty of annexation
with France. His death ends the dynas-
ty of the Pomares, which commenced in
1893 and gave the country four kings and
one queen.
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capitol building and residences of prom
inent government officials at Cordova,
Argentine Republic. 1t was a revolu-
| ton on small scale.
MONTREAL, July 26-Rumors in circu-
lation here indicate that the fall of the
government is considered certain shortly.
1t is confidently stated by several we'll
informed politicians that Chapleau has
approached Laurier and offered to form
a coalition government with him, and
that Laurier has written the conditi ons
of the proposition, of which the main
feature is that Laurier shall make his
own selection, but give Cbapleau the
portfolio of railways. Laurier has not
yet decided what to do.
LONDON, July 24.-Advices from Stan
ley Falls, Congo Free State, tell of can
nibalism among the natives. The ma
tives along the Lomani river, who had
blocked the stream with hundreds of
armed canoes, killed and ate fifty natives
friendly to the Europeans. An expedi-
ton of ten Europeans and fifty Arabs
soon after left Stanley Falls to punish
the cannibals, and after a days battle
succeeded in routing them and occupy
ing their villages. Hundreds of rebel
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The official census of France shows a
total population of 38,O95, $50. This is
an increase since the last census of 2O8,-
584. The increase is entirely In urban
population, the rural population having
decreased.
| VIENNA, July 24.-The Niue Erie Press
says that Crown Prince Ferdinand of
Roumania will shortly visit England,
when he will be formally betrothed to
a daughter of the Prince of Wales.
LONDON, July 24.-The London Times
announces that the Imperial Bank of
Melbourne has suspended payment, with
liabilities of G15O,O 900. The depositors,
it is said, will suffer no loss from the
failure.
DR.. Koch has decided to devote his
whole time to the supervision of his bac-
THEOLOGICAL institute.
California is 10 have a new illustrated
magazine which, it's promoters claim
will rank in artistic and literary excel
lence with the best publications of the
East. The first number is in press in
this city and will have among its contri-
butors d.. II. de Young, ex-Mayor
Spence of Los Angeles, w. G. Morrow,
Ex-Governor Limal A. Sheldon, ex-Sena-
tor Warner Miller, W. A. Spalding, DR..
Walter Lindley, Theodore Van Dyke,
Mrs. j. G. Carr and others. The maya
zine will be illustrated in d manner
never before attempted on the Pacific