The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-02

htI.
The Carnegie steel company have
notified the Government that they
are now in a position to fulfill their
contracts for armor promptly. Since
the strike they have been unable to
do so.
The Chilean bark Augusta was
fired upon and seized by the I. 5.
revenue cutter Wolcott, Oct. 18th,
in Puget Sound harbor, for at
tempting to leave port without
clearance papers.
Foreign News.
The German Government is hav-
ing great difficulty in putting its
army bill through. Won Caprivi
said the measure is working
Franco-Prussian war scare.
A band of kidnappers, who sent
young girls to slavery in Constan-
tinople, has been discovered in
Austrian Galicia. 1t is said that
over sixty girls have been made
away with.
On the ODD, fire destroyed the
warehouses of the Hamburg Ameri-
can Packet Company at Hamburg.
Total loss to docks, warehouses,
etc, $4,000 marks.
Recent floods in Sardinia have
destroyed over 200 people.
The marriage of Princess Marie
of Edinburgh and the Crown
Prince Ferdinand of Roumania
will be celebrated al Sigmarnigen,
Germany, in the near future. 1t is
stated that the present King of
Roumania will soon abdicate in
favor of his son.
The London Times has at last
admitted that there is some good in
America. On the 22d instant, on
Columbus Day." the ''Thunderer"
said " We are not sure that Mr..
Depew is quite just in his histor-
ical review. We have no wish to
depreciate the value and import
ance of the many services the
United States has rendered the old
world and ourselves. Not the least
thing among them is the spectacle
given of a material prosperity
greater than was ever before
known, and the energy and resolu-
ton which have done so much to
make the powers of nature subser-
Went to man, and which never,
perhaps, displayed themselves on
so stupendous a scale as in
the yet unfinished preparations
for the Columbus celebration.
1t would be idle to say that there
are other countries that could do
the same if they tried. The fact
remains that the United States has
done what has never been done
elsewhere, and has proved to the
world that wonders can be exc
cuted by the industrial enterprise
and skill which is animated by
patriotism and the resolve to lead
in everything"
There have been tremendous
floods on the Yellow River, China,
recently. Over q million people
are threatened with famine in con
sequence. The overfowed district
is $50 miles in length.
A great scandal is expected il
Paris at the revelations of the Pan
anna Canal trials, which are SCI
for the near future.
Sporting.
The Olympic Club of New Or
leans has arranged the following
fights for Mardi-Gras week: Cor
bett and Mitchell, heavyweights
Hall and Fitzsimmons, at catcl
weights (both men are middle
weight McAuliffe and Burke
lightweights. Corbett is travelin!
with his company of actors, an'
Mitchell is serving q two months
term in an English workhouse TO
knocking an old defenseless MAJ
down.
The half mile triplet bicycl
record was reduced to SO second
i, at Chicago on October 21st by Bun
: ker, Merrill and Winship.
! The National Club of Londo
: has offered purse of $4,000 for
= fight between Corbett and Jackson
Corbett prefers the Mitchell mattel
! George Hosmer and Jake Cav
daur defeated Hanlan and O'Cor
!, nor in double-scull race at Orillt
:, Ont, October 18th. Hanlan dl
!, miserably, and his racing days al
: over.
Robert Bonner will soon sen
= Sunol against her record of POS;
He has had bicycle sulky wit
large wheels made for the occasion
Stamboul trotted mile at Stocl
e ton in 2:104 on the 22d, and WI
d soon be driven for the worlds sta
IF lion record,
/, The Illustrated Tourists Cuft