The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-01
American News.

American News.
1t is said that Secretary of War
Proctor is about to retire from the Cab
met.
Great progress is being made on the
Worlds Fair buildings at Chicago.
The War Department has decided to
place ten-inch disappearing guns on Fort
Point and Point Lobos and will supple
ment the defenses with rifled moriars.
The China rice crop Is reported very
short by Consul Simons of Hongkong.
The men-of war Charleston and San
Francisco have both been ordered to
Chile.
The United States man-of-war Galena
has been wrecked off Gay Head, Mass.
| No lives lost.
The Director OF the Mint, acting under
orders of the Secretary of the Treasury,
now refuses to issue gold for export.
Foreign News.
| The tests at Shoeburyness, England,
OF the Zalinski pneumatic gun built for
| the Victoria Government were a pro-
nounced success. At 1900 yards range
six projectiles were thrown into a rect
angle two and half yards long by one
and a half wide. The head of the Brit
| ish artillery says that such accuracy is
beyond anything he could have con-
ceived. The navy is still opposed to the
| gun for sea purposes.
Count Waldersee has visited Bis
marck at Friedrichsrule. Following the
recent conference between Waldersee
| and Emperor William the visit ia re-
garded as confirming the Emperor was
contemplating the re-adoption of Prince
Bismarck's method of government, and
that the Emperor had opened communi-
cations with the exChancellor
The relations of Newfoundland and
England over the fisheries are approach
ing crisis. The British Government ia
freely denounced in the colony and over
lures are stated to have been made for
the admission of the colony as State of
the Union.
1t is stated that the Dominion Govern
ment is being urged to ask Lord Sails
bury to station in Canada from five to
ten British regiments, quartering them
in Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, Toronto,
Winnipeg and Vancouver. 1t is urged
that the presence of these regiments in
Canada would do more to put down the
annexationlsts and put check to their
conspiracy than anything else could do.
Six cases Of leprosy have been discov.
cred IN the Chinese quarter in Victoria.
England has changed the boundary
line between British Guiana and Vene-
zuela. The Nenezuelans insist upon the
Esriquibo river and some fighting is re-
ported to have taken place.
Emperor William has refused to
modify his recent changes of the pass
port system of Alsace Lorraine.
DR.. Ludwig WindtEorst, leader of the
Socialist party in Prussia, died on the
18th inst. Next to Bismarck he was the
most noted politician in the empire, and
was the only man who was able to fight
the Iron Chancellor with his own weapon
-oratory.
Lawrence Barrett, the famous TRACE
dian, died in New York on the 10Th inst.
His death was due to heart failure. He
was one OF the iuost noted actors OF the
world.
The remains OF the late Senator Hearst
were inferred in Laurel Hill cemetery on
the 10th inst. The funeral Was attended
by 1000 people.
Shipping News.
The Hawaiian bark W. B. Godfrey.
previously iCpoit Cu StId1O6u, Is Il COtal
wreck. The vessel and cargo were sold
for e45O.
The Hawaiian bark Alicia, from New.
castle, n. 5. W., for San Francisco, put
into Apia, February LIST. leaking; she is
dlscharging cargo. Later-after dis
charging all except 800 tons of cargo she
drilted and fouled the brig Sea Wait, and
afterward went ashore; she was con.
M mad or ax,I
$3.50. By the loss of the Alicia at
Samoa the local insurance companies
and agencies are losers to the extent of
$4,000.
A Vancouver, 3. G., dispatch saws
that the Union Steamship Co. has made
arrangements to greatly enlarge its
wharveS, SO IS to admit the largest sea.
going vessels; work will be begun next
week.
The Hawaiian brig George H. Dou.
glass, winch Tor number of years has
been in the trade between this port and
the Hawaiian Islands, has within the
past two days been purchased from her
owners by Wightman Brothers. The
terms OF the sale have been reserved
Her new owners will place the brig in
the South Sea island trade. She will be
.5oNS AS1Ny iCl iiSI llTHG VOYAGE under
her new owners as soon az her Hawaii
an sugar cargo can be discharged.
There will be some opposition in tbe
Alaska excursion traffic this summer.
and 1T will be divided among the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company, Northern
Pacific Railway Company and the Cana.
dian Pacific Company. 1t is said that
the two latter companies will fit I'D the
steamers Danube and Scandinavia.
respectively, to compete with the P. G.
5. s., which has heretofore had
monopoly of the business.
The ship Merioneth sailed out of this
port at | O'Clock this morning bound
with a load of wheat for Cork, Ireland.
At her mizzen few the championship
flag presented to her short time ago by
). ID. Spreckels & Co., for having made
the fastest trip on record-eighty.six
days-from Cardiff, Wales, to this port
The Merioneth has made the run be-
tween here and Liverpool in ninety
days. Captain Thomas, her master,
proposes beating all previous record this
time.