Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-02-04
NEWSY NOTES Of
M|KADO'S REALM
Cleaned Latest Files
Brought By Nippon
Maru.
SOMETHING ABOUT The
JAPANESE WARSHIPS
Gross Tonnage, Omitting Torpedo
Boats, Said to Reach 100000
ILLNESS Of EmperOr--Other
Interesting Matters.

From the files Of japanese papers
which arrived in the Nippon Maru yes
terday afternoon have been CLEANED The
following interesting paragraphs:
The gross tonnage Of the japanese
warships, emitting that of torpedo
boats. is said to reach 100000.
The present population of Yokohama
will be swelled to 2G6.7iS souls when
the proposed extension of the city is
effected in April this year.
The foreign tea trade at Yokohama
during last year shows the sales to be
30. 1i5.200 catties, valued at yen o.
S34.415.155. the average price per 100
catties being yen 2S.96l.
The Department of the Navy will In
augurate pigeon carrier service for
naval watch towers. and the first at
tempt will be made at the Saigo Watch
Tower this year, at an outlay of yen
500
The vacancy caused by the death Of
Colonel Yoshimi. head OF the japanese
railway corps. will be filled by Major
! Inouye. an engineer of great promise,
who studied for many years in Ger
many.
His Majesty the Emperor, for the
| first time since his recovery from his
recent indisposition. was able to attend
to affairs of state on Wednesday, Jan
uary 10.
According to an official report re-
ceived by the japanese Home Depart
ment from the Formosan Government
on Jan. 16. five new cases of the plague
appeared in Tainan Ken on the 14th,
and four of them resulted in death.
The newly constructed first class bat
tleship Hatsuse is reported to leave
England for home on the 18th Jan
uary. She is of $4,000 tons displace
ment, 10 knots speed, and Is equipped
with four 12-inch guns. six G-inct
guns and twenty-five quick firing guns
The number OF sufferers from tho
plague since its first appearance at Kobe
on the I'd of November. the year before
last. stands at 157 in Osaka: 90 in Hy-
ogo; 90 in Shizuoka II in Wakayama
and one each in Hiroshima, Fukuoka
and Nagasaki-a total of 223 The cpl
demic in Osaka and Wakaya is report
ed to be decreasing.
The statistics of the foreign popula-
tion of Nagasak show a total of 1918
including 1858 Chinese The Russians
lead the other foreign nations with 1i2
the Americans being a close second
with 1876, and the British numbering
10. The figures show total increase
of just I 900 for the year, of which the
Chinese contributed only fifteen.
Yokohama. Jan. pa Our cores
pendent at Hakodate informs us that
no less than twenty-three sealing YES
sells under the japanese flag will hunt
on the coast this year; in addition tc
this ten schooners Of the Victoria seal
ing feet are now Oh their way across
to Japan coast sealing grounds. Also
the following vessels have left Sar
Francisco for whaling voyage on this
coast: Banks Chas. w. Morgan, Alice
Knowles. California, Gay Head an:
John and Winthrop. This is the larg
est feet of vessels that has been hunt
ing on this coast since 1894 so the sea
son promises to be lively one.
The Gazette OF Yokohama report.
that an oil field covering an area o.
two million tsu6o situated in Kita
Kanbara-gori. Yechigo, promises 6
very good future and tn etrial boring
made during last year has given salts
factory results to the exploiters. II
is reported that two wells were recently
bored, and when the depth Of only for
ty-eight ken was reached in each case
petroleum came out In large volume
AS the field is a plain plateau, much
mention is made in the native press Of
the future possibilities of the district