The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-13

STILL HELD.
Garrison Has Ample
RatiOnS.
.BOER FOOD RUNNING LOW
Seventh Division Began Embarking
on January 4th--German Farm
ers Arrested at Estcourt.

LONDON, Dec. 29.-The Times cor
at Ladysmith, writing on
the 10Th inst, says that the garrison
had food stuffs for two months.
The only trouble they experience in
this connection is in regard to the
forage
The enemy's shelhng is improving in
accuracy and consequently causing
heavier casualties than formerly.
Boer Food Short.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-The Times cor
respondent at Delagoa Bay says that
the commissariat is well supplied bus
that the families Of the burghers are in
a sUate of great des.itudon. the price Of
the necessaries of life having advanced
a hundred per cent.
The Beers are now experiencing the
difficulty of purchasing supplies from
the Continent without shipping bull
lion which is liable of course to be se1z-
ed by the British warships.
Troops Embarking.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-The 9TH Division
commences embarking on the 4th of
January.
The Government has accepted the
battery of the Honorable Artillery
Company.
Germans in Custody.
CAPE TOWN, Dec. 29.-Herr Hartis.
Director of the Hanoverian Mission in
Natal and Herr Stueke. a German far
mer, have been arrested on a charge of
the enemy.
They claimed the protection OF che
German flag. and have been remandcC
TO Estcourt Jail.
Some Reconnoisances.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 29.-Although no
actual fighting has taken place the
British made some small but success
FIJI reconnaissance in the neighbor-
hood of Kimberley, the Modder river,
Chiveley and Sterkstrom.
The Beers are in the meantime i'm
proving their entrenchments and
mounting guns at Colenso.
Considerable bodies of Beers are con-
stantly on the southern side OF the
Tugela.
New Coal Mine.
YOKOHAMA, Dec. ga coal mine
was lately discovered about a mile dis
tant, in a southern direction, from the
Seki Station on the Kansai Railway
Line. According to the report OF H-
Tajima, Kogakushi, the mine Is said
to have a very promising future, the
mineral yielded being by no means iu-
ferior in quality to the best Kyushu
coal. On the completion of the ueces-
sary arrangements for the opening OF
the mine 1t is supposed that about half
million catties of coal can easily be
turned out every day.
The Plague Expenditure.
TOKYO, Dec. 29.-The plague being
anything but on the decrease. the local
governments are busy completing their
arrangements for the determination of
t--e dread scourge. The prefecturai as
semblies which have already voted spe-
cial funds for the above purpose are as
follows: Osaka. $500; Hyogo, $4,000;
Aichi, 7,4OO; Wakayama, $500; Okla
ys-ma, $500; Kochi, 1900; Hiroshima.
1900; Fukuoka, 1900; Yamagatd, 3
300; Kagawa, 2,400; Yamaguchi, 2,400;
Tokushima, 1000; Nagasaki, 1000;
Shizuoka, 1900; Miye, 1900; Chiba,
l.0VU' My d5ls JUUs AOmOrl, SUOs NdBd-
no. 700; Kagoshima, 500: and Tottori
400 yen in round figures.
More Piracy.
HONGKONG, Dec. 21.-A Canton cor
respondent sends us the following in
stances of recent piracies:
On the 18th inst. a Suntak boat laden
with a cargo OF rattan and carrying
passengers was about TO star. fer
I,Ongmun. Pirates had ascertained
that there were several hundred dol
]. 5 n the boat, and four of them went
on board as passengers. The captain
having got wind Of the character Of
these passengers asked them 20 leave
They. however. refused to 90, and, pro-
ducing revolvers and pointing them A..
the crew compelled them TO get ready
20 start. The alarm was raised. some
people on shore sounded gongs. and a
big crowd having collected. the pirates
were about 20 be seized. They. how.
ever, slipped the ropes by which ire
boat was mOOred 70 the jetty and show
81 on. They were pursued by severli
small boats, and just az this time a
s-eam-launrh named the Hung Wrrg.
having q k0nguun boat In Tow arriv-
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