Hawaii holomua = Progress., 1894-04-11
NEWS NOTES.

1
Snow storms throughout Bohe-
mia are prevailing.
General Crispo has been de-
| clared elected President of Yene-
zuela.
President Barrios Of Guatemala
is always attended by body
guard
Repeated and severe earth
quakes on the isthmus OF Panama
have created great alarm.
A bomb was found in the
theatre at Lucca. Italy. just in
time to prevent an explosion.
The Norwegian Government
has decided to present to the
United States the famous Viking
ship sent to the Chicago Fair.
4 dynamite bomb was found in
Buda Pesth cafe. 1t was ex-
ploded outside the city and found
| to have terrible force.
The French Senate has passed
| the bill creating a Minister of
Colonies, 225 to 80. and agreed
to the grant asked for in the bill.
A letter from Hawaii says the
business depression there Is very
great, and many people have
found themselves without en-
ployment.
William Waldorf Astor is now
a member of the Carlton Club of
London, the headquarters of the
extreme wing of the Tory party.
Meetings in eommemoration of
| the proclamation of the Com
mune of Paris were held at Paris
Sunday. There was no disorder.
Ex-President Yasquez of Hon
duras proposes to come to the
United States and look into the
pratical working of the American
system of government.
The annual report OF the Gu
nard Steamship Line shows trade
Improbable and disappointing
for the past year. Receipts from
second-class passengers alone
showed an increase.
A tariff war is threatened be-
tween Austria and Pussia on &C
count of Russia demanding that
the duty on Russian corn should
be reduced to form per double
hundredweight.
The Portuguese men-of-war
Mindello and Albuquerque pass
ed out of RIO Harbor with Da
CANA and seventy of his officers
on board lately. The destina-
tion is said to be Buenos Ayres.
The Empress of Germany, Rus
sia and Austria are at Abbazzia,
watering place, described as
"the Nice of the Adriatic. 1t is
in the Gulf of Quarnero, short
distance from Trieste and Finme.
1t is now recognized in Paris
that the principal incentive for
Anarchistic crimes is the inor-
dinate love of notoriety. 1t is
seriously proposed to prevent the
publication of the proceedings
against Anarchists.
The demonstration at Hyde
Park, London, lately to protest
against the action of the House
of Lords in rejecting the EN-
ployers' Liability bill. numbered
so, 900. Twelve platforms were
erected, from which speeches
were made. Resolutions were
passed to have the bill again in
troduced and to ask the Govern
ment to secure the abolition of
the House of Lords.
1t would appear as though the
fate of the nation depended on
getting the United States ship
Alert ready for sea by the 1st of
April.
The monitor Monterey left heI
buoy the middle of the week and
steamed down passed the island
and out into San Pablo Bay for
the purpose of giving her rudder
a trial. The monitor viii soon
90 to sea for the purpose of firing
the big guns in the turrets, they
not having been fired since the
armor around the upper part OF
the turret has been put on.
The boilers of the Yorktown,
still in drydoek. are undergoing
repairs.
The Boston has quite a large
gang of machinists at work on
her machinery.
Owing to the return OF the
Marion to Yokohama, she will be
repaired there instead of at Mlre
Island. She will go direct from
there to the Bering Sea.
The selection of Captain Ed
mund o. Matthews. Z. S. n, to
be chief of the bureau of yards
and docks department meets with
the hearty approval of all the
officers stationed at Mare Island,
and who are interested in its adj
yancement in the first rank of
navy yards.
An exciting boat race over a
three-miis course was rowed be-
tween crews from the Independ-
ence and Monterey, which WAS
won by the forlner by couple of