The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-09-24
LATEST FOREIGN News {.
AucAinnd, September IL, per S. s.
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1t is, however, significant that moth
ing is heard Of similar movements on
the part of Austria and Germany.
1t now appears that the cause of
the recent ministerial change in Tur-
key was the too friendly attitude of
the Prime Minister towards England.
The British Ambassador at Con-
stantinople has now demanded an
apology from the Porte for firing on
British merchant vessels passing the
Dardanelles in july last, and in the
meantime has discontinued his visits
to the Sultan.
The death is announced of NJ
Jules Grevy, ex-president OF the
French Republic. He was born in
1907, and first came into distinction
as counsel for the defense of the re-
volulionists of 1880. During the
presidency of Louis Napoleon M.
Grevy opposed the policy of the
future Emperor. After the Franco
German war he again came to the
front, and from 1871 to 1873 was
President of the National Assembly,
and in 1876 was elected President Of
the Chamber of Deputies. On the
retirement of Marshal MacMaion
from the septennial Presidency of
the Republic, M. Grevy was elected
his successor, and was reelected in
1885. In 1887 he resigned owing
principally to the Limousin or decor
alton scandals.
AT the Trades Union Congress at
Newcastle the voting for the eight
hours limit was 302 in favor of it
and 236 against. The Congress re-
affirmed last years motion relative
to the legal eight hours, an amend
ment declaring that the establishment
of uniform eight hours would SER
iously injure workers outside of GER
tain favored districts being negatived
amidst cheers. The debate was at
times very heated, and the closure
had to be applied. A later despatch
says the Trades Union Congress de-
cided by PAP to l16 that the legal
eight hours shall not come into oper.
alton without the consent of two
thirds of the organised members of
the trades unions.
A Greek statesman, presumably
M. Tricoupis, has assured M. Blow
itz, the Paris correspondent of the
London Times, that unless the Turk
ish Sultan comedies justice to the
Cretans, the Greek feet will take the
matter in its own hands.
The Russian Government is uneasy
at the attitude adopted by China,
and has decieed to store immense
quantities of munitions of war at
Vladivostock.
The British Government has ar
ranged with the Canadian Pacific
Railway to convey number of regi-
ments in given time in the event of
wal.
An injunction has been granted in
London at the instance of the Chilean
Junta ordering the steamship to
whom the silver on board the Es-
piegIe was transferred not to part
with it.
Inquiries made as to the effect of
the Mckinley tariff indicate that it
occasions much less injury to trade
in the United Kingdom than was at
first expected. The exports to Am
erica for the first quarter of 1891
show an actual increase over the
corresponding period of the previous
year.
The Queen of Roumania is worse.
Parnell refuses to attend the Chi
cago Convention in October.
Mails from Japan have arrived at
London in 10 days l05 hours via the
Canadian Pacific.
Many lives have been lost by dis
astrous floods in the mountainous
province of Syria.
The Pope has ordered accommo~
dation to be prepared in the Vatican
lGr ZzUO PFencn pllgrllnS.
The Pope has ordered a pastoral
exhorting the Polish Roman Catho-
lies to exhibit devotion to the Gar.
Trials of the new explosive at
Liege have been successful, giving
80 percent more power than any
others.
Four hundred senators and depu-
ties from different countries will take
part in the Peace Congress at Rome.
A sensation is caused in Madrid
by the formation of new army
corps 1t is understood that the
reason is due to serious local roting.
A seminary for Roman Catholic
priests has been opened in Surrey,
being the first establishment of the
kind ia England since the Reforma-
ton.
The Parnellites only succeeded in
obtaining $4,000 towards establish
ing daily paper. They will there
fore start an evening paper instead
Of morning.
1t is rumored that the French con
tract for the Russian loan provides
for the transfer of seven million
pounds worth of gold from Paris to
st. Petersburg by the end of the
year.
Cholera is raging at Aleppo and
Anitah, in Syria, and is spreading
west. Two thousand deaths are re-
nOrted daily.