The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-04-29
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Great floods are reported along the
Lismore river in Sydney, N. 5. w.
1t is stated that no criminal has
been executed in Cardiganshire for
more than sixty years.
Paris is beginning to suffer from a
ruinous exodus of visitors, driven
away by fears of dynamite.
There is a report in Washington
that Charles Emory Smith has re-
signed the Russian Ministry.
The French Senate has voted to
limit to eleven hours the daily time
of factory women and children.
Russia has sent 10000 disused
rifles to Turkestan and sold them to
the Turcomans for mere song.
European cities are growing ner-
vous at the prospects al an outbreak
Of anarchsm on the LIST of May.
Large quantities Of Persian opium
are imported into Berlin for smoking
purposes and also for use in ciga-
retJes.
Wales and Scotland were buried
under snow drifts from two to five
feet deep during most of the last
week of March.
The Senate has confirmed the nom
nation of f. l.. Coombs, of Napa,
CAL, to be Minister of the United
States at Japan.
The Queen is said to have person
ally urged Salisbury to use great dis
cretion in the negotiations that he
successfully retarded.
Mrs. Welthea Little Sprague, wild
ow Of Seth Sprague, died lately at
Duxsbury, Mass. She was one hun
dred and three years old.
Captain Benjamin G. Toncom, pro-
minent in the vessel service on the
Great Lakes, died at Duluth, of
paralysis. He was fifty-eight years
old.
Suit was begun in the United States
Court at Denver involving the title
of ninety persons to l347 acres of
land in Fremont county valued at
$300,0O0.
For the first time in Jewish history
the Jews sang the Tooth Psalm to the
tune of "Old Hundred" at the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the Hamp-
stead Synagogue.
Lushats, raiding on the rear of the
British columns in India, surprised a
party working for an English tea
planter, and massacred thirty coolies,
beside capturing others.
Besides the construction of the
great Siberian Railway the Russian
Government has under consideration
the building of road to connect
Persia with the Caucasian System.
An Eiffel tower is to be construct
ed at Lyons by a company organized
for the purpose. 1t is to serve the
use of popular observatory, the
admission to it being one franc.
The Arab landowners of the Fan
zibar protectorate are praying for
the reduction of the Glove tax, as
they are, they say, being ruined by
low prices and scarcity of labor.
The Ferdinand bridge over the
Danube Canal at Vienna is to be re-
placed by new one which is 10
have a row of shops on either side
and the footways covered with ar
cades.
Copenhagen has under considera-
tion plan for circular street rail
way to girdle the city and connect
with all the other lines. The system
will be double-tracked the entire
length.
A new reservoir is being construct
ed at Glasgow, Scotland. 1t will
cover an area of ninety-two acres,
and will have water area of eighty
three acres, while it will hold 548,-
900, 900 gallons.
In seventy-seven German cities,
aggregating a population of 7,600,-
600, 26 percent of these cities sell
water by meter measurements exclu-
sively. Berlin has used the meter
exclusively since 1878.
In about couple of weeks White
law Reid, ex-Minister to France, says
he will resume his labors as editor of
the New York Tribune. cit will be
a pleasure" he says, "to get back to
my old desk and routine again."
The Chinese method of subduing
a rebellion is quite as effective as it
is barbaric. About eight thousand
natives who recently engaged in bat
tie with the imperial troops were
either put to the sword or burned
alive.
The people of Genoa, Italy, pro-
pose to celebrate the memory of Col
umbus by an exhibition which is to
open on June lst next. 1t will not
be commercial and Industrial dis
play merely, but will also appeal to
all lovers of art.