The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-09

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Vancouver early last month.
Three hundred foreigners guard the
British prisoners in Pretoria, all the.
burghers having gone to the front.
One of the Beers killed at Glands
Laagte was found to be an English
soldier, as he wore three British med
ais.
Maude Come, ''the Irish Joan of
Arc" is in New York urging Irishmen
in America to strike blow at Eng
land.
The highlander war in San Francis
co put a stop to the usual festivities
of the Chinese New Year celebration
in that city.
The offer of Ceylon to equip and de-
spatch to South Africa f25 mounted in
fantry at the expense of the colony has
been accepted.
The British Government has accept
ed gifts of horses from the rulers OF
the native States of Mysore, Jodhpur
and Cashmere.
The British soldiers admire the Aus
tralasians' quickness in mastering the
lay OF the country, and capacity for in
dividual fighting.
The British Consul at New York has
received 5000 offers to serve in South
must enlist in England.
A third of the Britishers wounded
at Magersfontein have recovered from
the effects of their injuries, and have
rejoined their regiments.
Numerous wrecks have occurred OF
the French coasts, where extremely
bad weather has prevailed. Several
Atlantic liners are overdue.
The New South Wales second con-
tingent will be armed with wire-cut-
tiers to clip the barbed-wire guarding
the Boer trenches.
President Kruger has rejected Sir
James SieVwright's offer of an ambu-
lance without thanks. He explained
that he did not accent siftn from an
enemy. 10
Lewis Balfour Bradbury, one OF the
young lieutenants of the Gordon High
landers killed at Glands Laagte, was
a second cousin of Robert Louis Ste
venson.
The doctor who has charge OF Presi-
dent Krueger's health and nerves is a
Canadian, DR.. Gillespie by name, who
was noted in Ontario for his tact and;
| persuasive powers.
| Lord Wolseley, replying to recent
criticisms, has declared that the Brit
| ish guns are equal to any in Europe,
whereas the Beers are using heavy
guns in fixed positions.
Captain David Poole, an old sea cap
tain and business man of San Francis
co, died in Berkeley, CAL, on Janu-
airy 90. He was for several years
United States Consul at Mauritius.
A struggle is impending between the
two claimants for Governor Of Ken
lucky and the soldiers on duty will sup
port the one they think has been le-
gally elected Probably they will stanG
for Taylor
Another discovery of petroleum OFF
has been made near Kotuku, near
Greymouth, N. T., where the other OFF
4 springs were found. 1t is reported to
be of splendid quality. and the guam
tity apparently unlimited.
Claude E. HARRISON, former Stan
ford student and brother of Billy
HARRISON, the famous Stanford half
back, was blown up by the accidental
discharge of a lot of dynamite Janu-
airy 29th at San Mateo, Cal.
President Wheeler of the University
Of California is going East. He will
deliver lectures during his trip and
visit Columbia and Harvard Colleges
to meet men who are being considered
as candidates for University of Califor-
MIA positions.
Nathan Marks, the Boer spy, whose
life is valued by the Transvaal State
Secretary at the price of six British Of
ficers, kept a cheap restaurant in Cape
town, and was witness at the trial
= of O'Donnell, who shot Carey, the in
former in the Phoenix Park murders
trial.
g A field cable is a curious thing. II
Is almost unusable if laid on grass, but
8 can be run over with impunity BY
heavy wagons. When the Derylshez
b cut the wires in the Nile campaign
messages were sent by joining the in
f struments to the railway metals, and
using the Nile as return.
0 A traitor at Rendsburg (south OF
Colesberg) started food train. having
: detached it from the engine. down
declivity towards the Boer lines. Ths
: British, finding 1t impossible to checf
+ the runaway, brought the artillery q
bear and destroyed the train, thus pre-
d venting the supplies from falling mt