The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-24
FOREIGN GLEANINGS.

The negotiations on the Behrine
Sea question have reached an impor.
tant stage on the way to final set
Element. At Washington on the
10th INST. the first announcement
was made that the prolonged diplo-
matte correspondence between Sec
rotary Blaine and Lord Salisbury
had resulted in an agreement
which, when approved by the
Senate would definitely settle the
dispute. The precise points at
which the departments have ar
rived is not yet made public, but
the Solicitor General of the United
States has said: 'In the last cor
respondence there was simply q
difference between the two govern
ments as to the point of arbitra-
ton. The correspondence since
then has resulted in a treaty,
which now only needs to be rati-
fed by tho Senate"
The accident which befell the
fine new steel ship Helen Brewer
at Port Glasgow is detailed as fol-
lows: The ship was lying at q
wharf, when an unusually high
tide caused her to tear the moor
ing posts out of the wharf and she
then capsized, filled and sank. She
was fully rugged and was to have
sailed in few days for Philadel-
phia.
A ship laden with Scotch splint
coal consigned to Spreckels Bros.
was burnt at sea on her ninety
second day out from Glasgow, the
crew were saved and landed at
Iquique. This is the third vessel
burnt at sea within the year laden
with the same kind of coal. An
other ship similarly loaded is out
1874 days and has not been heard
of since May 18th. Seventy-five.
per cent. has been refused to re-
insure her and it is feared that she
has met the same fate.
In the Searles will case Judge
Harmon decided that there was
"but one thing left for him to do,
and that was to set up the will, ,"
which was then admitted to pro-
bate. The usual appeal was noti-
| fed.
The German barque Hackfeld
sailed from Liverpool on the 18th
December, but was caught in a
terrific gale on the goth, and COM
pletely dismasted. She made what
way she could towards Queens
town for twenty-one days, and was
then towed back to Liverpool,
where she was discharged, repaired
and reloaded, and sailed for Homo
lulu on the 9th of April
The "whaleback steamer G.
W. Wetmore has reached Valpa-
raise. The Captain says that he
noticed nothing of the reported an
tipathy to Americans. The vessel
had no sooner reached the wharf
than a crowd of people boarded
her, believing her to be a new style
of torpedo boat. The captain and
crew were treated with the utmost
courtesy.
The barque J. G. Pfuger, from
San Francisco to Bremerhaven,
was driven ashore at Hastings, on
the coast of Kent, during a tre-
mendous storm. After desperate
struggle, the crew and passengers
were saved, the captain being the
last man to leave the ship.
It is reported from Brazil that a
revolt against the dictatorship of
President da Fonseca is rapidly
spreading through the important
province of Rio Grande de Sui, and
that the province of Grande Pare
has followed some dispatches
state that these provinces have de.
clared their independence. The
Dictator has sent strong squadron
of gunboats to the ports of Rio
Grande, but the local garrisons are
said to have gone over to the in
surgents. This province is great
grain producing country, and is
largely colonized by Germans who
can muster force of $4,000 men
of German origin. General Mar
tinez, who was banished during the
tast revolution, but allowed to re-
lurn, possesses great influence
there and if he be nominated for
President of the State, da Fonseca
will be powerless against him.
The Marquis de Rudini, the
Italian Premier, in the course OF a
long speech at Milan on Nov. 9Th,
announced complete equilibrium
of the budget. The established re-
ceipts were fully equal to the ex-
penditure, and he stated that even
a surplus might be expected. He
added: We have in our midst the
| Papacy, which sometimes assumes
a threatening attitude, but it's
sphere of action is limited to the
exercise of spiritual powers by q
law which cannot be lightly con-
travened, and also by the unani-
NOUS consent of those who thought