The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-27
ORIENTAL NEWS.
A Disastrous Typhoon in the
HaiDan Straits.
ATERRIFIG EXPLOSION OF A POW
DER MAGAZINE.
Fraudulent Chinese Certificates issued
at HonCkOn at
Bangkok Afraid OF
Depredations.
ATE0RIFIO EXPLOSION OF A POW

A Whitehead torpedo is said to
have been lost by FL. NJ. S. Pallas
on her visit to Bangkok.
1t is said that the Siamese gov
eminent has been making pur-
chases of rifles in Japan.
The reports of attempts to burn
the Roman Catholic convent at
Hankow have been contradicted.
The decline in exchange contin-
ued until the Goth ult., when the
rate of 2s. I'D. TT. was touched.
Since then it has advanced to Is.
Gid.
A large shop at Hankow, con-
sisting Of three houses knocked
into one, Collapsed on the night of
the 4th instant, killing four women
and boy.
It is said that the island of Sa.
NIT in the gulf of Siam, alleged to
be occupied by the French, has for
several years been claimed by them
as belonging to Campodia.
Several steamers will sail for the
Amur mail service have arrived at
Shanghai in sections and number
of workmen have been engaged at
the latter port to go to Nicolaivsk
to put them together.
1t is reported that the Brazilian
government have made a request to
the Japanese government to send
emigrants to Brazil with the view
of Japanese colony being estab-
lished in that country.
A telegram has been received by
the governor general of the Philip
pines authorizing the re-establish-
ment of the mint for the issue of
subsidiary coins, the scarcity of
which has been a source of great
inconvenience.
Latest news from Japan with
respect to the Russian gunboat
Vitiaz, sunk on the Korean coast,
is that she is again despaired OF,
and the members Of the Mitsu
Bishi shipbuilding yard were to
return to Nagasaki.
At the funeral of q young Japan
csc lady at Yokohama, the daugh-
ter of Mr.. Hirannus Sengo, de-
scribed as the Yokohama million
aire, the stands of natural and arti-
fetal flowers sent by friends were
so numerous that 500 coolies were
employed to carry them.
Mr.. Cote, well-known German
resident of Bangkok, has been SEN
fenced by the German Consular
Court at that port to one and half
years imprisonment and loss OF
civil rights for the misapproprla-
ton of 10000 ticals belonging to
an estate in which he was the
trustee.
E Telegraphic advices from Chung
king to Shanghai report that on
the 9th ultimo a fire was dis.
covered in some houses outside the
TAPPING gate of the city. In an
hour over four hundred families
: were burned out, the fire being the
most destructive experienced there
7 for the last fifty years.
The new mint at Formosa, we
learn from the North China Daily
News, turned out for the first time
a large quantity of ten and twenty
cent pieces on the Goth ult., the
Canton mint being unable to sup
ply the amount yearly required by
the Formosa government. In de-
sign the new Formosa money is
: like its Canton prototype, with the
exception that the name of his ma
iesty the Emperor Kuang Hsu is
omitted.
A bluejacket belonging to the U
s. S. Marion, named Byrne, has
lost his life at Hankow under mys
ferrous circumstances and foul play
is suspected. He left the hotel on
the evening of the 18th ult. to &C
on board his ship for more money
but instead of this he appears tc
have gone to the city and walked
along to a shallow lake or lagoon
about a mile and half from the
hotel. Here the body was found
next morning, quite naked except
for light singlet the skull wa;
fractured, and the back, legs and
shoulders were covered with
bruises.
The Hupao says that terrible
accounts of the distress prevailing
in Shansi, on account of the famine
in that province, have been brought
to Ningpo by a man who arrived
there on the 10th instant in the
steamer Pekin from Shanghai. The
4 man in question had with him two
$ girls, aged respectively 16 and 1,
r years, whom he said he had bough
n at Chang Ka-kao. Shansi, for ter
strings of copper cash each. Thu