The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-05-29
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Dysentery cases continue to occur
in Yokohama
/ The foUndation-stoae Of . new SIN,
4 agogHe has been laid in Hongkonx
II 4 commercial school was opened
on the 18th inst at Minato. Tbaraki
Prefecture.
There Is dearth OF pilots at Co
lombo. which is causing great delay
10 steamers visiting that port
The Tung Wen CJapanese) College
at Marking, founded by Prince Kono-
ye, has now been removed to Shang-
hal
Over forty unlicensed jinrikisha-
drawers are reported to have been
arrested by the police in the Kanda
Ward. Tokyo, May 16.
Mr.. George SchfIIing. the round-the-
world walker. arrived at Moi from
Nagasaki May Is. He is coming to
Yokohama via Kobe on foot.
a gigantic block of iron ore weigh
ing 50 tons, ordered from England by
the Kure arsenal, was brought to Ku-
re by the Ava Maru May Il.
The Japanese first class cruiser
Iwate, built in Finland, was to arrive
at Yokosuka May Is. She is COM
manded by Captain Yamada.
The well-to-do Chinese in Picking
are burying their valuables in antici-
patton of the withdrawal of the for
eign and the return of the Chinese
troops.
Owing to the prevalence of warm
weather during the last winter, the ice
making business in many parts of
the Japan interior proved to be q
failure
1t is feared that the damage done to
H. NJ. S. Centurion by her recent
collision with H. NJ. S. Glory at Woo
sung is greater than was at first
reported.
Hail and frost are reported from
Hirotamura, Kita Saitama-gori. and
HOMO, Kotama-gori, Saitama Prefec-
ture, on the afternoon and night of
the 18th inst
The railway authorities have con-
structed four dining cars. which will
be attached one each to some of the
! through trains running between Shin
bashi and Kobe
The conference of the chiefs of the
telephone Offices of Kyoto, Osaka, Ko-
be and other places was opened at
the Department of the Communica-
tons on Inc 18th inst.
Extensive robberies at premises oc-
cupied by foreigners continue unabat-
ed at Newchwang. Scarcely a night
passes but what some foreign house
hold has been looted
May 10, mischievous person pour
ed kerosene into five wells of Kita-
kata-cho, Yokohama, which are the
sole sources from which the people
of the neighborhood draw water.
The application made to the author
tiles of the Nishinari Railway Com
pany for raising the third class pas
senger fare from sen 5 rim to sen
per mile has recently been sanction
ed
The French cable steamer Francois
Arago, with submarine cable on board
arrived at Singapore from Calais on
April 26th and after coaling left for
Annoy She is 3343 tons. 800 # long.
~ #. broad and % #. deep.
The messages sent by wireless tele-
graphy from the Ophir on the voyage
from Malta to Port Said do not ap-
pear to have been very satisfactory.
Communication was only obtained
with Crete after repeated efforts.
The owners of the coal briquette
factory at Doirokubi, Nagasaki, are
about to reclaim the foreshore to the
extent of 5000 tsubo. for the purpose
of increasing the plant. The output
| of the factory is estimated at some
ST, 500 piculs month.
The Directors of the Aoto Bank
met May Is and decided to offer their
properties as security for loan in
order to resume business. They ex-
pect to raise yen 100000. II they
succeed, the Savings Department will
be reopened Immediately.
A Hangchow despatch of the 10th
inst states that the present condition
of the silkworm industry in that dis
trict is fair: bul the total crop this
year viii not be so good as was ex-
pected some time ago. on account of
the smaller number of silkworms
Matched out.
The Kokumin thinks it is very re-
| gretable that voices are occasionally
raised against japanese emigration to
the Pacific coast of America. There
may be Objectionable features in the
emigration of low-elass japanese, but
they are no worse than in the case
of similar European emigrants.
The repeated calls of tenders for
the construction OF two tunnels in
connection with the extension of the
Nagasaki Waterworks have ended so
often in failure that the Municipal
authorities have arranged with
contractor. named Adachi, for the lat
ter 10 undertake the work ar a cost
OF yen 1890.
A new kind of postal pillar lately
invented by Mr. Takashichi Tawara-
va viii be set up from next month in
Tokyo. Osaka. Kyoto. Yokohama, Ko-
be and other principal places under
the direction of the Communications
Department. the authorities of which
viii first distribute some 100 of the
same TO the above places by way of
trial
A Chinese gentleman living near
Shanghai presented to the Rev. Tim