The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-15

mandarins from Canton on Friday re-
ncrted that the authority of the man
darins at present is limited by the CITY
walls. or within the radius of a regiments
All the rest Is under the IN
surgents' rule. The leaders of the move
ment ii is reported, are drawing up proc
lama tons calling upon their followers %
to protect foreigners and their property,
as they are really friends of the people,
in consequence of which the Mandar1ns
have always hated foreigners and en-
couraged ruffians and robbers to perse-
cute and slay them; 90 TO stay All Man
chus. wherever found, and their para
sites: and 90 to abstain from pillaging
villages and cities and those who bear
no arms on their persons.
BRIEF ITEMS FROM HONGKONG.
The Toxic correspondent of the North
China Daily News says: According TO
kilograms to the Press here, it is rumored
in Vienna that the Mikado will visit EG-
rope next spring. The rumor is said to
have no foundation in fact, which is
pity. for the wonderful reign of the pres
ent Emperor of Japan could not be more
fittingly crowned than by personal visit
TO the men whom he will now acknowl-
edge as fellow monarchs, but whom he
would at one time scorn as barbarianS,
unworthy to address the Son of Heaven.
Rumor has it, says the Straits Times,
that some native regiments will soon be
raised in India for service in the Colo
MES. to take the place of European troops,
and that Singapore and Mauritius are to
be the first to have the new regiments.
The Home authorities expressed the de-
sire that India should raise these battal-
ions for local service only, and differ
ence of opinion on this point with the
Government of India delays the issue of
orders regarding the new regiments
A correspondent reports from Seoul to
the Asahi that the proposal of Mr.. Sands,
the American Adviser to the Corean I'm
perial Household, to raise a loan in Amer
lea for the Corean Government, has fail
led. Mr.. Sands had proposed to raise five
million yen, on the security of the mines
in the thirteen provinces of the kingdom.
The scheme met with the approval of al
most all the State Ministers, but was at
last rejected by the Throne, who, It is
said, regards the proposal as a source of
national danger in pledging the mines of
the country.
An attempt was made on the life of the
Empress Dowager by an alleged Boxer as
the Imperial party was proceeding from
Taiyuanfu to Hsianfu on the 4th inst The
as. ailant was Immediately executed. A
telegram received in Shanghai from Han
kow on the 14th inst. announced that
the Chinese Emperor has already arrived
at Hsianfu.
In order to prevent the spreading of
the rfnderpest to TSingtao, where al
present large quantities of cattle have
been gathered from the hinterland, the
German Government of Kiaochow has
prohibited the import of oxen, sheep and
goats at Tsingtao from Shanghai.
/ On the 14th instant a tornado
occurred at Tsingtao. Shantung, in which
sixteen buildings were damaged, one mar
killed and eight injured.
The expectation of arms and ammunI
! ton from the colony to Brunei is for
hidden by the Straits Government for ST,
months from the 5th inst.
One day last week the Protestant Gem
etery near Macao Fort, Canton, was des
ecrated In consequence some soldiers OF
watch at the fort have been beheaded.