The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-14

of beggary by the strict enforcement
of harsh DEGREES.
Lord Randolph Churchill succeeds
the Marquis of LansdOwne of Viceroy
and Governor. General of India, and
Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of
the Admiralty, will be appointed to
the Governor-Generalship of the
Dominion of Canada, as successor to
Lord Stanley of Preston.
Flour which was recently purchas-
ed by the st. Petersburg City Council
for distribution in the distressed dis
tricts, has been found to be so adul-
terated that it Is unfit for food.
NEW YORK, December %.
A United States warship will con- |
vey to the Russian port the -four and
meat which has been purchased by |
private subscriptions In the United |
States for the relief of starving peas
ants in Russia.
An outbreak has taken place at
Yugnaron, Brazil, as the people OBJ
ject to the authority of General Peix-
Oton the head Of the government.
The convicts who are engaged in
the construction of the Siberian rail-
way made their escape to VladivOs-
tok, where they pillaged number OF
residences numbering the inmates
and outraglng the women.
Stansbury, the champion sculler,
did not leave for America in the San
Francisco mail steamer. His inten-
tions are not yet settled.
London's imports of frozen mutton
for the past year amounted to four
teen and three-quarter million car
cases.
Three printing presses owned by
st. Petersburg. A hundred arrests
have been made in connection with
the affair.
Russia is parleying with Germany
to secure admission to the new COM
mercial treaties.
Oscar III. King of Sweden and Nor
way has died from the effects of a Sc
we're attack of influenza.
M. Jules Simon, the French states
man and philosopher, is dead.
London was enveloped in a black
fog of unusual density during Christ
mas week. Nearly thirty deaths are
reported from drowning in the
Thames.
The Guion steamer Abyssinia has
been burned to the waters edge in
the Atlantic. All on board were
saved.
Southern Hungary has been visited
by q terrible epidemic of malignant
diphtheria. In several villages all the
children died from the disease.
M. A. Conroy, champion running
high jumper of Australia, has beaten
the record with jump of #. in.
1t is believed in Shanghai that
China is willing to cede FOrmosa to
Great Britain on similar lines to
which Cyprus was conveyed to the
British by Turkey in return for the
anti-Russian Alliance.
Twelve thousand persons are starv-
ing in Northern Finland.
Mr.. J. E. Redmond, the leader of
the Parnellite section of the Home
Rule party, has defeated Mr.. Michael
Davitt by nearly 500 votes in the con-
test for the representation of Water
ford in the House of Commons.
The Duke of Clarence and Princess
Victoria of Teck will be married at
Windsor February 9th.
The treasurer of the new Conserva-
tive administration in Quebec, Can
ada, has discovered deficit of $2,250,-
600 in the finances of the province.
An epidemic of yellow fever in q
virulent form has broken out at Rio
de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil.
Ninety per cent. Of the patients die.
Russia is building military rail-
way from Odessa to Kilia, in Bessa-
rabia.
Further riots have taken place at
Pernambuco, in Brazil. Several of
the rioters were killed. The Governor
of the province has been expelled by
the rioters.
In consequence of the protective
policy in France having raised the
prices of bread and meat, M. de Frey
cinet, the Minister for War, has asked
for an additional II ,000, 900 for victual-
ling the army.
Prince Christian, grandson of the
Queen of England, was shot in the
eye on December q, while out shoot
ing with the Duke OF Connaught and
Prince Henry of Battenburg at Os-
borne. The injury is only of slight
character.
News has been received of terrible
gunpowder explosion which destroyed
the Portuguese expedition at Magam-
ba. Sixty of the party were killed
and 10 wounded, among the latter
, being Senior Continho, leader of the
expedition.
The cargo of dynamite on board a
French lugger at Antwerp exploded,
and twenty of those on board were
blown to atoms.
Eight soldiers of the Russian I'M
perial Guard have been sentenced to
death for decoying citizens into the
barracks and numbering them.
O'Connor, the sculler, has issued a
chellenge to row anyone in the world
for purse of $4,000 a side.