The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-05
THE PLAGUE IN JAPAN
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compensation, and the other being In
favor OF paying the proper damages
me supporters of the latter proposition
are however chiefly actuated by the
reason that they have advanced money
10 chinese and japanese. and, in tn.
event of their not being paid compen-
sation for their destroyed property
the creditors of these men would not
De able to get their loans refunded. II
Is therefore probable that the Hawaii
an Government will again order the re-
opening Of the Court of Enquiry.
Miscellaneous.
"A RUSSIAN volunteer steamer with
lou troops arrived at Nagasaki en-
route TO Vladivostock on the 23rd inst
according to a vernacular paper. a
Japanese legation Is to be established
IN Madrid, and will probably be opened
In October.
On April 11th the two reconstructed
y. .. cruisers Isla de Cuba and Don
Juan de Austria were placed in COM
mission at Hongkong.
IL Is reported from Korea that an
EhgIsh capitalist has purchased
ground at Chemulpo for the erection
OF cigarette factory.
n return as to the mortality of Ma
Gao shows that plague is spreading in
macao. From 9TH January to dale
there mad been 20 deaths from the dis
ease.
We learn that the submarine cable
between Nemuro and Kunaiiri Hok-
kaido, was cut by an ice-fioe on the
list inst; and, in consequence com
munication is interrupted.
The result of the tests of yrirelass
biography held In Ava province lately
Is Kept secret by the authorities Tbev
are preparing to hold another test be-
tween Funabashi, Chiba Ken. and Tsu-
ktjima, Toxic.
1t is reported from Picking that for.
large guns, ordered from England nv
the Viceroy of Fukien province Cbina
nave arrived at Fukien and are short
" DC distributed among the forts on
the coast of the province.
Bangkok is suffering severely FROM,
epldemics just now. Cholera is the
morsl OF these, and there is little won
uer at TINS, seeing that the Menau,
iNer' from which the water supply is
TAKEN Is brackish at this time of year.
Prince MILO and Count Okuma ar
riVeo at kioto, to attend the meeting
concentrating the 10OOth anniversary
Oh the death of Kanko (scholar and
statesman. On Friday the Count de-
nvered a speech on the history of the
iiiustrlous hanko at the building of the
city assembly.
AT the forthcoming Imperial wedding
ceremony, among other invited guests
present, viii be III. E. Mr.. La Ha
uhs' the Corean Minister to Japan.
who will bring with him the grand
Gordon of the Korean order, which h.
VIII present to the Emperor and the
Crown Prince on behalf of the EN-
peror of Korea.
shanghai contemporary writes that
the total sum received for advertise
ments by various Japanese newspa-
pers and magazines is said to be 2.3OO.-
600 yen annually, which is nearly equal
to the receipts of the Government for
kilograms. The figure seems tolerably
large, but is not more than one-tenth
Oh the figure for the United States. We
tGazette) should like to show where
the writer got his figures from?
The Kobe Herald prints in it's last
issue a long letter from a Japanese on
the subject of physical culture in jap
an; the writer admitting fully that his
are degnerating from
polygamy and other causes; and ad-
vocating closer following OF Euro
pean and American domestic life as a
natural remedy for the weak constitu.
ton and deformed physical condition
which now so generally and unfortuu-
ately exist.
The Japanese cruiser Chitose, built
at San Francisco. has attained a speed
of BIZ knots per hour on a trial trip.
or l11 knots per hour in excess of her
speed. The Chitose is $50 feet
7 inches long by 40 feet inches beam;
she has displacement of ATS tons,
and her engines, which are supplied
with steam from cylindrical boilers.
work up to $500 horsepower. She
carries 80 guns (all rapid firing) and
five lance torpedo tubes
The Japanese battleship Asahi. re-
Gently completed at Elswick, had a
narrow escape from destruction Oh
March End. The ship was lying at
Portsmouth 6ockyard taking on board
her battery. when a six-inch quick
firing gun, weighing five tons, fell from
the derrick from a height of thirty
feet, barely missing the ship, and drop
ped into the water. Had the gun fall
en- on the ships deck it would have
gone clear through the bottom, sink
ms, possibly permanently injuring, the
vessel.
We IN. C. Daily News learn from
Wei-hai-wei that Colonel Bower and
Major Penrose, escorted by Captain
Pereira and a company of the Chin |
ese Regiment, are going~out shortly to
ielimit the frontier of the territory
leased by the British. The Chinese |
are to be the Tartars !
Yen and Ii and Captain Lin. 1t would |
seem that this work should have been |
lone eighteen months ago, but appar-
entity our Government have only Just |
discovered what a valuable acquisi-
ion Wei-hai-wei is.
A dispatch from Chicago, datei |
March 2Sth, states that Mr.. T. Fushita,
Japanese Consul in Chicago, speaking
II advices he has just received from /
Japan, in which 1t is stated that the
steamer Needles, carrying 5000 tons OF |
,oal from Virginia, had arrived at Ma