The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-04-21
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS

herman steamship com PSuASS
have raised steerage rates TO
America S25.
Flour has gone up So cents
higher in England, making an adj
vance of S1.32 for March.
Bulgaria offers $4,000 reward for
the capture Of the murderers of the
late Minister Of Finance, NJ. Belt
chef.
Parnell has been defeated by a
majority Of 500 in the election for a
member Of Parliament from the
Sligo district.
ROME April 5.-It is announced
that Baron Favs, late Italian Min
ister 10 the United States, viii sail
for home on April 18th.
4 special from Rome, printed in
the Examiner Of the 7th inst, says
the arrival of the text Of Fava's
first note showed that the misun-
Outstanding was due 10 Blaine's
interpreting the demand for trial
SIS s demand for conviction. The
Ministry is indisposed TO push the
matter beyond the demand for 4
recognition of the principles Of in
ternational justice. The excite
ment has entirely subsidized.
4 cable message received by =
business house IL New York from
Santiago, Chile, states that an eX-
ira session of Congress assemblies
on the 18th inst, and that Balma-
ceda Is not willing TO withdraw.
The Royal Commission appointed
70 examine Westminster Abbey in
It's relations 10 future burials re-
port that there IS comfortable room
for 20 or 80 more; but space can
be made for IS more by devoting
every available spot for the purpose.
The present rate Of Abbey funerals
Is about one year.
4 statue Of Paul de Chomedey
B. Maisonneuve, who founded Montreal
IN 1912. has reached that city from
Paris. Ii Is the work of L. P.
Herbert and cost $4,000. II is to
De erected by the city IN the Place
d'Armes Square. The statute is
made Of bronze, is nine feet high
and viii stand on granite pc
destal.
4 London dispatch Of April 9Th
20 the San Francisco Examiner,
says: II Is stated that the German
Government has sent instructions
20 the United States Minister TO
ascertain what, if any, guarantee of
protection the American Govern
ment gives TO German subjects re-
siding IN the United States.
The present controversy between
America and Italy Is viewed with
no little satisfaction at Berlin, and
the worst possible form given to it
by the German press generally.
The motive is not so much unfriend-
illness 10 the United States as to
put 8 stop to German immigration,
which is already making itself
severely felt IN the lack Of laborers
for agriculture.
Newfoundland attempts to get
even with Canadian interference in
her treaty proposed with the
United States, by the refusal to
sell bait TO Canadian fishermen
which privilege she extends TO
Americans.
Ten-dOIlar gold-bearing quartz Is
said 70 have been discovered in =
quarry by the Housatonic Water
Company, Connecticut. This dis
covery Is located in ? country ira
versed by outlying ridges Of the
great Appalachian Range, along
which. from Georgia to Canada,
minor developments Of gold-bearing
quartz and gravel have been made
from time to time.
The Canadians propose to in
crease the efficiency Of their mill
ia and new defeuses are being
constructed ct Halifax. The latter
may be considered = general meas
ure Of imperial policy, but the MI
Iitia movement can refer 70 no
thing but possible complications
with the United States. The
new plans VIII raise the
Canadian force TO about two-ffths
0f our own organized militia. The
uuorgauized militia Of the United
States Is about double the entire
population OF Canada, men, women
and children.
NEW YORK, April g. The Her
aids Washington correspondent
says: e I have exclusive informa-
ton to-day that three vessels Of the
squadron Of evolution have recent
" been grounded and their bot
toms so badly damaged that Rear
Admiral Walker has recommended
70 the department that they be Or
dered to Norfolk at once for dock
ing and repairs The Chicago, Bos-