The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-09

loan OF S50,OOO, 900, the money to be
used in the construction of railroads
and other productive works. This
proposition, while accepted by the
people of Victoria as a whole, has
aroused some opposition as to its de-
tails; consequently the Government
has re-considered the measure, and
has come to the determination to
limit the amount of the loan to
$30,000,000. Of this amount S10,O00,-
600 are to be raised each year for the
next three years.
Bismarck will appear in the Ger
man Reichstag on the 18th OF Novem-
Der. He will oppose the Government
on the labor and social questions.
The Prince of Wales will celebrate
his fiftieth birthday on the 9th of
November. He will be given presents
by many European potentates.
Destructive floods occurred in
France, England and Spain on the
oath, 18th and Goth of October.
Sporting News.
A great crowd greeted John l.. Sui
livan and Joe ChOynski on their
arrival from Australia on the steamer
Alameda. Sullivan is trying to ar
range for a fight with Slavin after
June next. Choynski wants a battle
with Corbett, but will hardly get it,
Corbett having whipped him twice
already.
SunOl reduced the worlds trotting
record at Stockton on the kite track
on the 10th of October. She made
the mile in 2:084 being half second
faster than the phenomenal record of
Maud S. made seven years ago.
PalO Alto, Senator StanfOrds FAM
Gus trotting stallion has gone a mile
in 2:10 at Stockton tieing his record
with that of Nelson, the Maine stall
lion. He is to be sent against Aller-
toms 2:094 very shortly.
Haggin has raised his offer to $125,-
600 for the famous horse st. Blaize
which was recently sold at auction
for 100000.
Direct, the fastest pacing horse in
the world-recOrd 2:06-has twice
beaten Hal Pointer in match races in
Nashville.
Charles Dutch the Australian was
beaten in his boat race with Henry
Peterson on Oakland creek on the
Goth. Dutch was very unskillful in
making the turn. Probably 5000 peO-
pie saw the race.
George Slosson easily defeated Jake
Schaefer at 14-inch balk line billiards
at New York on the 26th inst. Slos-
sons playing was remarkably steady
and it is conceded that he has no
equal at this particular game.
Shipping News.
There is fine fight on among the
sailor boarding masters of the city,
and for the first time in years the
"bloOd money" system of shipping
sailors has been abandoned.
Stewart MenZies has proposed that
the newly organized Traffic Associa-
ton run steamers to New York via
Cape Horn in sixty days as an alter
native if the railroads will not reduce
rates.
The steamer Alexander III. is in
from Petrapaulovski. There was but
little practicing on the Siberian half
of the Behring sea last summer, and
the men on Copper Island had orders
to shoot anyone who tried to land.
One schooner was seized.
The revenue cutter Richard Rush
has gone to Ounalaska to carry the
mails. This is an unusually late
time for steamer to go north on this
Grand.
The man-of-war Mohican nearly
went to the bottom on her recent
voyage to the Behring sea. A valve
chamber blew out, making q hole in
her side. The damage was repaired
however.
The whaling fleet is coming in.
All reports of the massacres of the
crews of the steamers Mary D. Hume
and Grampus which wintered near
the mouth of the Mackenzie river
were groundless. These steamers
made the best catches of any of the
feet and wintering in the Arctic is
sure to be INDUCED in frequently in
consequence hereafter.
The Australia arrived two days
earlier than she was expected on her
last trip. Captain Houdlette mis-
understood his sailing orders on the
last trip down and started from Ho-
nolulu two days earlier than he
should have done.