The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-08-11
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Per o. 5. S. ZeaIandia, San Fran
cisco, TuIy aSth.

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Governor Pennoyer OF Oregon is talked
OF as possible Democratic nominee for
the Nlce-Presidencv in 1892.
1t is reported that Mrs. Frank Leslie
IS about to marry brother of Oscar
Wilde.
1t Is understood that the directors OF
the Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Company are considering the advisable
~ of placing two faster vessels on their
line between San Francisco and fine
Orient and Withdrawing the Oceanic and
the Belgic. The steamers of the com
pany are all chartered from the White
Star line, aud the vessels spoken of TO
come 10 San Francisco are the
Germanlc and Britannia of that
lhe. These two steamers are
nearly equal in speed to the Empress
oil 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.
4 train Of five steel cars have been on
exhibition in Chicago. This unique
special train is looked upon rs 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. lie
died On June 18th, and with him died
the last Of his race and the last King of
Tahiti. He was born November 3, 1889,
and became King in 1877. On June %,
1880. he signed the treaty OF annexation
with France. His death ends the dynas-
~ OF the Pomares, which commenced in
1898 and gave the country four kings and
one queen.
An attempt was made to blow up the
capitol building and residences OF prom
inent government officials at Cordova,
Argentine Republic. It was q revolu-
ton on 4 small scale.
MONTREAL, July 26.-Rumors in circu-
,ation here indicate that the fall OF the
government is considered certain shortly
Il is confidently stated by several we'll
informed politicians that Chapleau has
approached I.aurier and offered TO form
a coalitic government with him, and
that Laurler has written the conditions
of the proposition, of which the main
feature is that Laurier shall make his
own selection, but give Chapleau the
portfolio OF railways. Laurier has not
yet decided what to do.
LONDON, July 24.-Adyices from STAN
lev 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
ious natives were killed and wounded.
The official census of France shows
total population OF SS,095, $50. This is
m increase since the last census of 20S,
5S4. The increase is entirely IN urban
population. the rural population having
decreased.
VIENNA, July 24.-The Niue Erie Press
saws that Crown Prince Ferdinand OF
Roumania will shortly visit England,
when he viii be formally betrothed to
a daughter CT the Prince OF Wales.
LONDON, July 24.-The London Times
announces that the Imperial Bank OF
Melbourne has suspended payment, with
liabilities Of e15O, 900. The depositors,
it is said, viii 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 20 have new illustrated
magazine which, its promoters claim,
will rank in artistic and literary excel
Ience with the best publications OF the
East. The first number is in press in
this city and will have among its contri-
butors NJ. II. de Young, ex-Mayor
Spence of Los Angeles, W c. Morrow,
Ex-Governor Limal \. Sheldon, eX-Sena-
tor Warner Miller, w. A. Spalding, DR..
Walter Lindley, Theodore Van Dyke,
Mrs. J. c. Carr and others. The maya
zine viii be illustrated in a manner
never before attempted on the Pacific
Coast