The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-03

states Dy purchase, the ports tnefeOI
remained foreign ports until they were
declared to be domestic by act OF Con-
gress.
Although Hawaii did not come in by
purchase, it is believed by the Treas
ury officials that the Attorney General
will hold that the ports of the Islands
at present, at least, are foreign ports,
and that commerce between them and
the United States is open to the yes
sells Of all nations.
NEWS NOTES.
VALPARAISO, Chile. July 25.-The
new Chilean cruiser AImlrante O'HIg-
gins arrived here today.
LONDON, July 25.-Tne Earl OF
Mimic has been appointed Governor
General of Canada in succession of the
Earl OF Aberdeen.
LONDON, July 25.-Don Carlos, the
Spanish pretender, according to a dis
patch from Brussels to the Daily Mail,
has hurriedly started to Switzerland.
LONDON, July 23-The Rome cor
respondent of the Standard says: a
wealthy American named RiegeI has
been killed while attempting to ascend
Mont Blanc without a guide. HIS
corpse was found ON glacier.
Admiral Thomas Leeke Mass1e,
known as the father of the British
navy, is dead. He was born in 1902,
entered the navy in 1918 and served
at NavarinO, BayrOut and st. Jean
d'Arce, and in China and the Black
sea.
MADRID, July 24-The Bank OF
SPANS report for the week ended yes
terday shows the following changes:
Gold in hand, increase, 1883 900 pese-
tas: silver in hand, increase, 6,636,00O
pesetas; notes in circulation, increase,
2.517,0 pesatas.
NEW YORK, July 23.-The indie
pendent Republican organizations OF
the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-ffth AS
sembly districts in this city have unan-
imously adopted resolutions favOrlng
the nomination Of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt for Governor of the State OF
New York.
NE WORK, July pa firm OF
wine makers at Rheims, France, has
offered the United States Government
/ 200 bottles of champagne for the SICK
and wounded soldiers. The Secretary
of the Treasury has issued orders that
the wine be admitted free OF duty.
CHICAGO, July 23.-Seven mort
cages, aggregating $2,O0O,OOO, at 4 per
cent. were filed for record today by
Levi 4. Letter. This is to secure the
heavy loan just contaminated by Mr..
Letter in order to carry his son, Joseph
Letter, through his disastrous wheat
speculatiOns.
Negus Menelik of AbyssInla, the
Lion Of Judah. is preparing TO visit
Jerusalem in 1900. He wishes TO visit
the scene where the mother OF his race
the Queen OF Sheba, was entertained
by King Solomon. According to his
own genealogical tree Menellk is the
ninety-saventh successor OF the queen
CLEVELAND, O., July "a manu-
featuring company of this city has re-
ceived one of the largest single orders
ever booked here. The order came
from Paris and was for equipment Tor
500 electric street cars. This includes
] 600 motors. ] eco controllers. 800 troll
legs and other detail The order Will
amount in value to over S50O.UOO
LONDON, July 25.-The report Of the
it failed through the refusal Of France
and Russia to join the other powers
in the suppression Of the export bOun-
ties The British delegates recon-
mend that the other governments null
lily the French and Russian bOunt1es
by the imposition Of cOunterva1Ilng
duties. as done by the United States.