The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-08-24
LATE NEWS NUGGETS.
Intelligence from All Quarters by
the Australian Mail.

bourne, will continue i'm business.
The Worlds Socialist Congress is
in session at Zurich, Switzerland.
The London Bank of Australia is
organized with capital of S2O,OO0,-
600.
The Victoria, Australia, Legisla-
ture has passed the income tax by
Il to 3S.
Five million dollars worth of gold
has been shipped in one week from
London to New York.
The n. u. Loan e. Mercantile
Agency Co. will probably resume
operations ut an early date.
The Australian and New Zealand
Land Co. have declared a dividend
of seven percent in London.
The Conservatives intend to pro-
pose the recommittal of the Irish
Home Rule Bill for consideration of
II new clauses.
Owing to financial failures there
are 100000 unemployed in the prin-
cipal cities of the United States, and
$4,000 in Chicago alone.
Mr.. w. H. Grenfell, Liberal, has
resigned his seat as protest against
the retention Of Irish members in
the House of Commons.
The Australian cricketers have
played ~ matches in England, of
which they have won IA and lost
seven, while six have been drawn.
The ship Frances Arago, with a
cable to be laid between Queensland
and New Caledonia, passed Thurs
dry Island August 8 en- route to
Brisbane.
Germany has decided to construct
a military port at the mouth Of the
Elbe, to protect the Baltic and
North Sea Canal, at cost of g.
100000.
Public opinion in the United
States comments on the action of
the President in promptly dealing
with the silver question, and post
poning the tariff revision.
Insurgents who attempted to take
the city of La Plata, in the Argen-
tine, were repulsed by the Govern
ment troops after an engagement in
which 400 rebels were killed.
The Sydney Telegraph says edi-
torially, Since the beginning Of the
second week in July there has been
marked recovery in almost all des-
criptions of Australian securities in
London.
The Government accepted an
amendment compelling members of
the Irish Parliament to take the oat h
of allegiance, and another amend
ment excluding priests from sitting
in Parliament.
A motion by Mr.. Storey, that the
Home Rule Bill should become law
after passing the House of Commons
thrice, regardless of the House of
Lords, has been counted out" in
the Commons.
A mass meeting of 10000 people
ut Liverpool (England), has pro-
tested against the Government per-
uniting the Irish members to domi-
nate the Commons by sitting the
Home Rule debate.
Sir Edward Grey says that British
interests have been fully maintained
in Siam, and that France has signed
an agreement asserting to a ''builer
State" Mr.. A. j. Balfour considers
that "buffer State" is poor sub.
stitute for the separation of Siam.
The "silver" Democrats in the
House of Representatives have
agreed to oppose the repeal of the
Sherman Act, unless the present sys,
tenn is replaced by free coinage
They have resolved to appoint q
committee to draft Free Coinage
Bill.
1t is reported 10000 MIDLAND
miners are discussing an offer of the
masters to resume work on the ole
terms. Thirty thousand Welsl
miners have resumed work at an adj
vance of one-half percent. The
Scotch miners intend to strike un
less their wages are raised shilling
per day.
A convention of Parnellities, helc
in Dublin, passed a resolution to tn,
effect that no Bill would be accepta
BILE which did not fulfil the condi
tions Mr.. Parnell demanded in 1891
and that no settlement could b'
considered final until the prisoner.
now in confinement were amnestied
hui Ilic CIdlLls VI lue cNlCUcu tcuauts
satisfied.
kilograms from New York stat,
that the closing of the silver mine!
in Denver has caused extreme dis
tress among the people. Thousands
OF persons are in starving condi
ton, with no better shelter thar
that afforded by tho parks. Thu
citizens, fearing that riots may en-
sue, are organising committees 70
the distribution of charitable relic
among the destitute.
There is ministerial crisis in New
Zealand on he temperance question
Sir Robert Stout, who has returned
to the Legislature as a free lance
promoted bill for local option t,
its passage on second reading. Tn
Ministry had promised that if ST
Roberts bill passed second readin!
it would bring in bill to satisfy al
: parties. On a motion to wait for tn
i ministerial bill, the Government wa
e sustained by a majority of only two
In the House of Commons ST
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Conserva
/. tive member for Ecclesall Sheffield
inquired if the Government Wer