The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-18

LONDON, Aug. 4.-The Chronicle
gives a summary this morning of the
report of the commission appointed
last year, through the instrumentality
of Hon. D. r. Plunkett, Conservative
member of Parliament for Dublin Uni
versity, to consider any practical means
of benefiting Ireland. The Mccarthy
ties refused to join this commission,
which was formed of Unionists and
Parnellites, including DR.. Kane, John
Redmond, Joseph E. Kenny, M. P. for
Dublin, and Mr.. Gill. The report favors
the creation of a department headed by
Minister and responsible to Parlia-
ment for the development and further
ance of Irish industry, agricultural or
otherwise, with a consultative council
of forty-two members, representative of
Ireland's various commercial and indus
trial interests. The scheme would in
volve state aid, and the Chronicle learns
that the Government is seriously in
clined to take some action in the direc-
ton suggested. The department would
give bounties to promote agricultural
experiment and encourage cooperation
in the dairy and other industries.
The Post publishes long letter on
England's relations with Germany, in
the course of which it says: The main
tenance of British interests in America,
Africa and Asia may at any time in
volve the necessity of fighting America,
France and Russia. 1t behooves US,
therefore, to consider our relations
with the other powers. 1t is fact that
in January the question of how best to
fight the British navy was seriously
considered at Berlin, and the plan of a
campaign against England was worked
out. This fact has never been publish
ed before, and we are bound to admit
that the tone of the inspired German
press ought to put our statesmen on
their guard.
The appeal of the British Government
against the acquittal of Captain Lo-
thaire, the Belgian officer who caused
the English trader, Stokes, to be hanged
in the Congo region for selling arms
and ammunition to the natives, was
opened today in Brussels before the !
Superior Court of the Congo State. |
Captain Lothaire was present in the |
uniform Of his rank in the service of
the Congo State, that of major general. |
The day was occupied in a recital of the
facts by one of the jurists.
The Vienna correspondent of the |
Chronicle learns that the powers, with |
the exception of England, are prepar- |
ing to blockade Crete.
The POrtes demand that Greece |
should stop the export of war material
to Crete has caused the Greek cabinet |
to resign, but the King refused to ac-
cept the designations and ordered the |
Minister of War, on his own response |
bility, to stop the export.
The Spanish Chamber of Deputies to- |
night INDUCED in a long debate which |
failed in its object in finding out why |
the Government had not succeeded in
buying two ironclads. The Liberals
withdrew their motion of censure on |
the Minister of Marine, Admiral Bor-
anger. A terrific hurricane and hail |
storm prevailed during the sitting of /
the Chamber, and did much damage.
The Mussulmans have burned two !
hundred Christian houses in the vii |
lage of Kakodike, in the province of |
Selono, in the Island of Crete, and it is |
feared that the Christians as a reprisal /
Hostlities have been resumed in various !
parts of the island
The Standard Conservative denies /
the report that Sir Charles Tupper is to |
succeed the Earl of Aberdeen as Co
ernor General of Canada
The Daily Graphic announces that |
patriotic Spaniards living in the Ar
gentine Republic have given a Clyde |
ship building firm an order for a cruis-
er of 4,500 tons, to cost S1,6O0,00O, and |
to be delivered in eighteen months as
a gift to Spain.