The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1895-04-16
Foreign News Items.

those made OF goosequ,lls.
The old whisky trust OF the United
States is TO be sued, to make il dis
gorge 100000 Of i'll cotton gains.
A Photographic desk on which a
speaker can record his own Grafton
is soon to he tested in the German
reichstag.
One franc for a quarter Of an
hours travel aud two francs for an
hour is the new charge OF Paris cab
companies.
The New York Assembly bill pro.
hibiting all pool. selling, book.mak
ing, bets aud wayers has passed the
Assemhly--ayes 81, noes |. Ii nos
goes to the Senate.
A brouzs statue OF Flora Ma do
nald will shortly be- erected at liver.
meas, Scotland, 5000 having been
left by recently deceased army
officer for that purpose.
Sir Forrest Fulton, common ser
geant of the City OF London, says
that crime in the British capital ia
rapidly decreasing. He attributes
this result to the spread OF temper
ance aud the Influence Of the edura-
! ton acts.
The ruby district Of upper Bur
NAH is about twenty. six miles long
and twelve broad, aud lies at all
elevation Of from 1000 to 900 feet
above the level Of the sea. The pre-.
sent area being worked for the gems
is about forty five square miles.
A lady is to form one OF the crew
in the forthcoming Austrian north
pole expedition. undertaken by the
famous artist aud arctic explorer,
julius Payer. She is herself an
artist OF talent, and volunteered aud
was accepted at Buda Pesth.
The latest thing in boycotts abro; d
is one recently iuaugurated by casual
paupers who had been in the habit
Of procuring daily allowances OF
food at the St. George Hospital,
Mile End, London. Becoming dis
satisfied with the quality Of food
doled ont ,h-y held an indignation
meeting and resolved not to pat
ronize the institution.
During a violent windstorm re-
Gently at Walsall, Englaad, two
chimneys on q hospital were blown
down. The bricks fell in . mass on
the roof, through which they crash
cd, carrying with. them niue bed.
ridden patients from the top floor
to the next. None OF tho patti n 5
we're killed, aud only one or two
were even seriously hurt.
The reconstructed banks OF Aus
tralis are rspdly clearing of the n
debtedness incurred as q resul, Of
the panic in 1893. The shareholders
were called upon to pay sonnet Eng
over S30OOO,0O0, but the periodical
calls have been met 30 freely that,
up to the presen, time, over 100000
in excess OF the amount due has
been received by the creditors.
Cattle belonging to an evicted
tenant in Tiperary were saved to the
owner in curious way not long ago.
They were to be sold at auction for
arrearages OF rent, but when the
first animal was knocked down the
crowd refused to take it from the
ring. Another COW was sold with
the same result, and then the auc.
tioneer abandoned his attempt to
conduct the sale.
At an inquest recently on the
bodies OF seven miners who had
bsen killed in Shropshire, England,
through the breaking OF a rope at,
tached to q cage, several witnesses
testified that for two years they had
known that the rope was in an un-
safe condition. They had feared ia
make complaint, believing that such
action on their part would have re-.
suited in their discharge.
While discussing the naval est.
mates in the French chamber, NJ
Lockroy pointed out that, while
these estimates amounted to almost
exactly two thirds OF those in Eng
land, the value of the French fee,
was not half that owned in tho isl,
and kingdom. He declared that in
this regard the future was disquiet,
ing. NJ. Lockroy's remarks caused
somewhat OF a sensation.
The Rome correspondent OF the
London Globe writes that the pope
is disposed to abolish the law o
cslibacy for secular clergy. Hi
holiness is said TO favor the idea o.
confining the obligation OF celibacy
to members OF religious order,
which impose VOWS OF poverty
chastity and obedisnce. The sovsr
eign pontiff is we'll aware that thu
law Of compulsory celibacy is all but
n daad LAT far among Marco n ial claruy