The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-12-23
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
BRITISH AFFAIRS.

LONDON, december Ill he open
ing of Parliament is still eight weeks
distant, but the Conservative party
is already on the scene with three
amendments to the address in reply
to the speech from the throne. The
evident object is to test the strength
of the Government. A prominent
Liberal member said to-day: I'VE
expect the warmest time any Parlia-
ment has seen since the discussion of
the reform bill in 1882" The Minis
terialists, however, continue to be
confident of weathering divisions on
the address, and even hopeful of
passing the home rule bill.
Another trouble before the Gov
eminent is the renewed agitation of
Irish tenant farmers for an abate-
ment of the judicial rents fixed four
years ago. The tenants declare that
the fall in the prices of live stock
and farm products generally makes
revision of rents Imperative. The
temporary clause act of 1887 en-
powered the Land Commission to
reduce rents in the ratio of the de-
cline in agricultural prices. The
clause was operative for only three
years and expired at a time when it
would have done the most good.
The Government will ask Parliament
to restore the clause exactly as it
was.
DR.. Collingridge reports to the
London port sanitary committee
chat there is almost an absolute GER
tainty of an outbreak of cholera in
the spring, when all precautions now
adopted will be far more severely
strained than hitherto.
WHOLESALE BURGLARY IN CHICAGO.
Chicago, December Six burg
ar-proof' vaults and safes in as
many offices in the Equitable build
ing, at Washington and Dearborn
streets, one of the principal business
corners in Chicago, were forced open
some time during last night. Every
dollar in the entire building of five
stories was taken.
The exact amount of the cash
stolen was S145,533 Jewelry was
also taken in every office. The burg
lars examined all the valuable papers
in the vaults. but were careful to
take nothing but jewelry by which
they could be identified.
The work was the boldest yet at
tempted and was committed by eX-
pert safe-openers. The burglars
knew the building perfectly. They
knew just what parts of the place to
enter and what to leave untouched.
They lighted the gas in the Office on
the ground floor with the great Win
/ dows opening on Dearborn street
and commenced their robbery in
what seems to have been in plain
view of the opposite side of the
street. Tenants are indignant that
such bold defiance of police has been
possible in such public place, in
the heart of the city and within one
block of the central station.
They are also indignant that the
owner of the building had left it
utterly without the protection even
of janitor or private Waterman
Their Indignation in this direction
may result in as interesting an af-
| IAN dS tilc loDIJslS ltSell. l. HIS ullcl
noon, hopeless that the burglar:
would be captured or their property
recovered, the tenants decided t.
sue the owner of the building, Hurl
burt Levy, to recover what they hac
| lost.
THE PANAMA CANAL SCANDAL.
The Panama canal commission i
still worried and continues to stir ~
mud. A Paris correspondent give
the list of the sums of money paiC
to newspapers by the Panama Cana
Company by Rossignol, former Audi
tor in Bankruptcy, as follows; L
Petit Journal, 100000 francs; L
Telegraphe, 10000 francs; Jeziensk
director of the Telegraphe, 10000
francs; LIE Matin, 10000 francs; L
Gaulois, 1900 francs; Meyer, direc
tor of the Gaulois, 10000 franc:
lie Radical, 100000 francs; Senate
Magnier, director of L'Evenemen
$4,000 francs, and Patinot directc
of lie Journal DIES Debats, 1000