The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-01

Austria mas warned oerVla 10 DC less
bitter in its comments of the Imperial
power.
The war feeling in Italy is considered
to threaten to prccipltate a general
conflict.
A valuable wood, much like ebony
in appearance, has been discovered
in Borneo.
A bill to reorganize the Landwehr
has been submitted to the Austrian
ReiChsrath.
In Egypt the river Nile is too low
for irrigation, and the cotton crop is
month late,
Eight thousand striking Belgian
miners in the Charleroi district resumed
work last week.
In Malaga workmen are allowed if
teen minutes leisure in each hour to
smoke cigarettes.
There is talk Of Peru getting back
some of the nitrate territory Chile
wrested from her.
Russia is reported to be purchasing
100, 1000, 900 bushels of rye and storing
it in preparation for war"
In view of the fighting near Melilla,
Spain has withdrawn from the Morocco
coast her military attaches.
The coal shortage in England, owing
to the strike, has led to the scheme to
import the fuel from America
Three quarters of million people in
England are absolutely starving as a
result of the great colliery strike.
Emperor William is having the safety
of his yacht tested prior to cruise
with the Empress and his children.
The Swiss Postoffice conveys any
thing from postal card to barrels OF
wine, scythes and bundles of old iron.
The wine cellar Of the House Of
Commons is 100 feet long and gen
orally contains about $4,000 worth OF
wine.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Calcutta says that the large imports Of
silver to India are causing great diff
Guilty.
There are at the present moment
eleven pretenders to the various thrones
of Europe trying to make good their
claims.
A gentleman speaking through the
telephone during a recent thunderstorm
in London was flung violently across
the room.
The Sultan of Morocco has forbid
den the expectation of wheat and bar
ley from his territories after December
9, 1898.
The contract for the Syrian railroad
from Haifa to Damascus has been
awarded to the Chicago firm of Huss
& Townsend,
Baron de Worms, namedas the head
of syndicate which had bought Lower
California, states that he never even
heard of the matter.
Business at Havana, Cuba, is par
alyzed by the fact that the Government
officials are forbidden to accept bank
notes in payment of duties.
Duke Augustus of Saxony, grandson
to the late Dom Pedro, the deposed
Emperor of Brazil, sailed from France
last week for Rio de Janeiro.
The Honorable Artillery Company
of the city of London, which dates
from the time of Henry VII, is the
oldest volunteer corps in England.
English hospitals are credited by
Professor McKendrck with saving,
last year, the lives of Io,722 con
sumptives, 5000 of them men and 6So6
women.
Gladstone, in his speech at Edn-
burgh week before last, spoke I2,4oc
words. SO long as he can do that he
must be pronounced a pretty lively
British citizen.
France has abandoned her demand
for the dismissal of the Danish officer,
in the Siamese service, in compliance
with a wish of King Christian, expressed
through the Car.
The cremation of the body of the
Socialist Benot Malon has revived in
terest in this method of disposlng OF
the dead, which, thus far, has not made
much progress in France,
The Peoples Palace of London, the
great triumph of Socialstic phllan-
thropy it is now reported, has proved
a failure through mlsmanagement, all
of the officers avoiding responsibility
wherever possible.
There is now singing in France,
under the stage name OF Princess Pea
hontas, a half breed Indian girl whose
voice is said to have been discovered
some years ago in San Francisco by the
late Karl Formes She has high
soprano, pronounced of worth by the
Berlin critics.