The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-14
NEWS FROM JAPAN.
A Tragedy of Adventure By Sea-
Caroline Island Trade.

VANCOUVER, B. c., June IA, 1893.-The
Canadian Pacific steamer Empressof ia
pan arrived last evening with 125 cabin
passe ngers, 2S7 Cinnamon ana ia Japan
ese. Among the passengers are Lady
Kintorea. wife of the Governor of South
Australia, and Miss A. Taylor. who mas
spent three years in the wilds of Thibet.
The following adyices were received b Y
the steamer
The Japanese government has COM
menced suit against the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company for
$S50,000 damages in connection with the
sinking of the torpedo boat Chiohima
Ken by the steamer Ravenna last year.
The case will not come up until August.
Since the japanese Parliament, last
February subsidized national steamship
lines, the Nippel Yusan kelsha Com
pany has arranged to establish rast lines
to Europe ard Australia. In three
months the company will have regu-
lar monthly service of three chartered
steamers to Australia. and if the venture
is successful will replace them by mod
ern vessels. The company intends secur-
ing six steamers for the line TO Europe
| via the SueZ canal.
The United States Marshal at Nagasaki.
who was arrested on the charge OF assist
ing to export Japanese women for iH-
| moral purposes, has been honoraply ac'
Quilted.
The Japanese Government has just car
ried out the important financial opera
tion of redeeming twelve million yen
worth of six per cent. public loan bonds.
tits semi-officially announced that the
remaining portion of the six per cent.
debt, namely. six million yen, will De re-
deemed in October next.
L oh him b1Io NC hoT Q a.
terprising sake brewers intend exporting
a large quantity of the national beverage
to Chicago, in order to extend the trade
outside The limits of the Empire. II will
be distributed free on the Chicago Fair
grounds
Tami, brother to the King of the Caro-
line Islands. is at present IN Yokohama.
His errand is very simple one, being to
| ascertain whether knives such as are
used on the islands are procurable in
Japan or not When the ship bearing
the Prince upon this errand left the Isl
and she was escorted ont OF the bay by
| 200 canoes bearing the royal family and
principal natives. The German mer-
chants, jealous of the growsh Of japanese
lstrade in the Caroline Islands. habitually
| tell the natives that the knives which the
| Japanese self there are aot brought from
T! japan but from Germany. Hence the
royal investigation.
Another volcanic eruption has occurred
in Fukushima EighU7 years ago the
| Bandaisan volcano buried miles of fertile
country under a deluge OF volcanic
| debris, destroying innumerable lives. and
| now an eruption has taken place in a sis.
| ter peak called Higashi AZum. No lives
were lost by this last eruption. Beth
| peaks have been included among the ex-
tinct volcanoes of Japan prior TO this
! sudden outburSt.
| The expedition of Lieutenant Gunji to
| the Kurile Islands has come to a tragic
| end About the last of March the Lieu
/ tenant. with party of thirty men, set
| out in small boats from Toxic for the in
| hospitable Kuriles to form settlement.
| Such long voyage northward in boats
so small invested the expedition with pc
| culiar hazard and interest. The Emperor
| contributed in aid of the enterprise and
| the people regarded it with enthusiasm.
as the band of men were OF tried mill
| tary capacity. But the expedition came
| to tragic end. Two of the boats OF Jns
seventeen were lost in storm. It has
| been reported that Lieutenant Gunji ha
! in despair committed suicide. but this il
| denied by his friends.
| American Memorial day was observed
| by the usual ceremonies at Yokohama.
| The graves of American sailors wert
| decorated. The officers and crew of the
| q. S. S. Lancaster took part in the exer
ciSeS.