The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-22

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
our own officers was most important In
the end he was brought to see the matter
in this light, and since then tout va
bien" These ships carry large numbers
of cadets, who soon make themselves at
nc me in the city, and to judge from all
al rearances they seem to be granted
vast quantity of leave. Salutes We're fired
on anchoring and returned by the guns
OF II. NJ. S. Cerberus.
REACTIONIST LI-PENG-H ENG.
IT seems that the notorious reactionist,
Ii Ping-heng. is not SO anxious to die
for the Empress Dowager after all, as 1t
is stated from reliable sources that when
lis mistress received his memorial to IN
dcrtake to flght foreigners in the north
and at once sent for him to come up to
Pei ing to b. made Viceroy of Chilli and
Imperial High Commissioner of the Pei
yang, Ii Ping-heng sent up two memo
rails, one after the other, giving the usu-
al excuse of illness and asking for time
to settle up his affairs at Marking before
sta rting for Picking. In reply to the two
! ~, ial limo IN n C.
patch, the Empress Dowager has tele-
grsphed twice 10 Ii Ping-heng command
| int, him to start Immediately for the
North in view of the urgent crisis pend
ing in comparison with which all other
D'atters are as nothing.
DYSENTERY VIRULENT.
Fifty-one fresh cases of dysentery
were reported, on July 30th. to the au-
thorities from various districts in Kama
gawa Prefecture, making 766 cases since
the outbreak this year. The disease is
especially virulent in the Upper and Low
er AshiSara districts.
SAILORS TROUBLESOME
The frequent troubles reported with the
soldiers and sailors of the U. s. varsity
Newark at Nagasaki has occaSioned tht
L. S. Consul at that port to apply to the
Megasak police station for four police.
men to be detailed for special service dur.
Ing the stay of the vessel.
RUSSIA AND COREA.
A Tokyo dispatch to the Osaka Asah
states that on the 9th inst. Marquis va
magata waited on the Emperor and re
ipCrted on the result of the Cabinet Coun
ell recently held, which, it is stated, wa
convened to consider proposal made b,
Russia in regard to Korea.
SIEGE ORDNANCE.
In addition to the ordnance already or
cCred for the Ctina expedition, four sieg
suns have been prepared fer shipment q
the military arsenal, Manila, and will b
taken with the expedition. These gun
consist of two finch rified mortars an
two 6-inch howitzers and an adequat
amount of ammunition.
These guns have not had any detach
n:ent assigned to them but it is though
they are being taken as provision /
case of need, as undoubtedly some sieg
! work is expected, in which event the ligh
artillery We are sending would hardly b
lof sufficient service, whereas these piece
, of artillery are very efficient against for
} tifica tons, etc.-Manila Times.
SMALL NOTES.
thousand wagons, made to the orde
4
North China, were shipped from Kol
for Tong-ku on the Sd inst.
Ii is reported that about 500 ounces
gold bullion have been imported by tn
kumagaye Company from Gensan. Kt
rea, per the Yamashiro-maru.
number of policemen and coolies. VIII
J hac been searching for the bodies of pel
\ sens killed by the eruption of Iwozan O
Mount Azuma, have been withdrawn, q
the mountain shows signs of again erup
ing
a mountain lily, about seven inch.
4 high and bearing 252 buds, was recent
Y discovered on a mountain near Senda
and is now in the possession of Kisul
Y Sato, a flower dealer in Omachi in tn;
y city.
q The Grand Order of Merit, bestowed u,
y On the Crown Prince of Japan by Il
Z Emperor of Corea, has been delivered
the Corean Charge d'Affaires in Toky
The decoration will be presented to Il
Prince Imperial in the month Of Septeu
Der when he returns from Nikko
We in Yokohama have not been alone
our experiences of very great heat, du
ing the past week. The thermometer
said to have registered 80 degrees at Os
ka. for the first time this summer. {
the 18th inst In Kobe the therrnomet
reached S14 degrees on Thursday and 9:
o. Friday.
Formerly the price paid for rats by Il
Kobe City Office was at the rate of 5 s,
= eech. The municipal finances. howeyt
would not allow this high price ~ to
maintained, and. since the 9th cit. II n
been reduced to sen each. Already. it
said, there Is a decrease in the number
rats taken to the police since the redu
ton in price.
There was young man from Leno