The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-10-21


others eventually drifted on to the
Arabian coast, where they were
rescued by Bedouins.
San Francisco Service.
LONDON, Sept. 29.-The Post Of
flee has definitely declined to re-
new assistance to a continuance of
the San Francisco mail contract
except under union rates. Mr.. w.
B. Perceval, Agent-General for
New Zealand, is seeking an inter
view with Mr.. Arnold Morley, Post
master-General, on the subject.
America and Home Rule.
WASHINGTON, October ). - Mr..
Chauncey Depew in the course of
a speech said that there were
scarcely hundred thousand vot-
ers in America who were opposed
to Mr.. Gladstone's scheme of au-
tonomy for Ireland.
The Coming War.
VIENNA, October 3.-Austria is
increasing her military expenditure
by half a million.
BERLIN. October 4.-The Army
bill secures Germany 10000 addi-
tional men annually, besides SO
batteries of artillery. There will
also be some increase Of cavalry.
Two Thousand Killed.
PARIS, October THE French
troops routed the Dahomeyans at
Porguessa, killing two thousand.
Their own loss was only 10 killed
and % wounded.
The Slave Trade.
LONDON, October s. 1t is stated
that 500 Gilbert Islanders have
been shipped to Mexico, where they
will be sold to planters.
Kanaka Labor.
LONDON, October Sit is report
ed that Lord Ripon has informed
the Anti-Slavery Society that he
considers the safeguards provided
by Queensland against the abuse
of the labor traffic all sufficient.
Disappearing in Europe.
HoNGKoNG, Oct. 2,-Forty thous-
and persons have died in China of
cholera.
LONDON, Oct. 3.-The cholera is
disappearing in Europe.
BERLIN, Oct. 1.-Mr. Stanhope,
the New York Herald reporter,
who was inoculated with anti
choleraic vaccine by M. Pasteur's
assistant, has been refused admit
lance to the Berlin hotels. The
deaths in Hamburg yesterday have
fallen to 81.
Rioters Shot.
LONDON, Oct. Figaro pub
fishes what are asserted to be the
suppressed details of the recent
spinners' strike at Londoz, in
Poland. A mob attacked the Jews
and outraged and murdered their
women. Cossack troops INTERVIEWED,
and two hundred of the mob were
shot. General Gourka, the Cover
nor-General, issued orders to "Kill
without mercy do not spare
powder"
Russia in Central Asia.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 7.-Colonel
Yanoff is reported to be training
the Kirghils for service with the
army.
The French Tariff.
PARIS, Oct. There is a grow
ing agitation in France against the
Protection tariff, especially in as
far as it effects wool.
London's New Mayor.
LONDON, Sept. 30. -Alderman
Stuart Knill, a staunch Roman
Catholic, has been elected Lord
Mayor of London. He refuses tc
attend official ceremonies in the
Protestant Church, but expresses
his willingness to appoint locum
tenens. On his making this an
nouncement there was great boot
ing and uproar, and much heck
ling. Several of the speakers pre-.
dicted return to Popery.
The Homestead Strike.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3O.-Carne.
gie's armour plating works have
been closed, and probably the
whole of the works at Homestead
will be shut.
1t is stated Carnegie's mills had
to be closed, because non-Unior
hands were taken on and proved t
be incapable of doing the work re
CURED.
Depression in Shipping.
The depression in shipping i:
making itself acutely felt in The
shipyards in Hamburg. Owing tt
the scarcity of orders, Messrs
Blohm & Voss, the principal ship