The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-03-26
WHITNEY & MARSH, Ltd
MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT. Box IN.
HOE OF ULU, n.
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

Sir Edward Arnold is almost totally
blind.
President and Mrs. Mckinley are at
Canton.
Troublous times are reported in
Panama.
The British troops at Cape Town are
being guarded against the plague.
Colonel Sanger of New York has
been appointed Assistant Secretary of
War.
In a recent sandstorm, sand was
blown from Sahara to Northwest Ger
many.
1t Is said that Germany will probably
demand very heavy inoepnity Of
China.
A futile attempt has been made to
blackmail a son Of Senator Clark Of
Nevada.
1t is said that Puget Sound is seeking
to divert the transport of troops from
San Francisco.
New York specialists have been sent
to Alaska to secure specimens of
northern animals.
The Washington officials are unable
to obtain accurate information as to
Russia's plans in China
/ A dispute as to the limits of the rail
way concessions in China renders con-
fliCt at Tien-tSin imminent.
London's new Bishop has expressed
a dislike for ostentation and regrets
that he must live in a palace.
/ Among the Victoria Crosses recently
awarded for gallantry in South Africa
two went to boys from the truant school
at Merthyr Tydwil.
/ Mr.. John owen, who six years ago was
a millhand at Oldham, has been made a
Fellow of Pembroke College, oxford. He
studied at Balliol College. taking his
bachelors degree with first-class honors
in history two years ago.
Another piece of the great plan of the
city of Rome in marble, the "Forma Ur-
bis of the time of Sulpicius Severus has
been discovered in the Roman Forum,
where it was used to stop a drain. 1t
has engraved on it the plan of the great
er part of the Baths of Agrippa, together
with the Pantheon.
Austria and Mexico have resumed inter-
course for the first time since the execu-
ton of Emperor MaXimlllian. Emperor
Francis Joseph has appointed Prince
KhevenhuellerM etsch to represent him
at the dedication of a memorial chapel to
his brother on the spot at Queretaro,
where Macmillan was shot in 1867.
fOuT TTSt-CldSS are 10 De
launched on the same day, March 5. in
England: the Montague at Devonport,
the Albemarle at Chatham, the Kent at
Portsmouth and the Drake at Pembroke.
Another ship of the Admiral class. lie
Russell, was launched two weeks ago,
being the first battleship launched in he
reign of King Edward VII.
! Roman mob unveiled a new bronze
fountain in the Villa Nazionale by force
recently. An injunction had been OBJ
talned against the exhibition of the
fountain, on the ground that the naked
figures OF Maids that adorned 1t We're
immoral A crowd armed with ;ools
marched to the place and tore down the
boards that enclosed the fountain.
A new province is to be formed in
India by placing the four districts of the
Punjab that lie beyond the Indus under
a government of their own. They are
the extreme northwest districts that
have been the scenes of the recent pet
ty wars, Peshawur, Kohat, Bannu and
Dera Ismail Khan, with the political
agencies of Dir, Swat. Chitral, the Khai-
bar, the Kuram, Tochi and Wana.
Bavaria has resumed relations with
Greece for the first time since the Athen-
ians drove out the late King Otto. AS
one result Prof. Furtwaengler, director
of the Munich Glyptothek, will go to
Aogna next summer to excayate the
Munich museum were found, in the hope
Of discovering evidence that may decide
what is the relative position of the
groups to each other.
Bangor in North Wales has Univer-
sty College where coeducaton recently
caused row, The students held an Els
teddfod, which seems to be the Welsh
for a glee club concert, and after that
there was Irritation and disregard of the
chaperons' seedlings. For this one
young woman was rusticated, when the
rest of the students threatened TO cut
Rotations In a body. but after n few
days thought better of 1t and submitted,
on Cerigo, the island at the southern
end OF Greece, divers are bringing up
art treasures that We're sunk 200 years
before Christ lucian tells OF snip
laden with art spells that went down on
/ the voyage from Athens TO Rome, ana
/ II IN believed that the wreck has been
found now, Besides many bronze stntu-
cites a life-slze bronze statue resembling
the llermes OF PraNiteles, has been
brought up, Some objects are excellent
ly preserved, but others are corrodrd,
While on their journey 20 Australia The
Duke and Duchess % Cornwall and York
VIII be escorted all the way by lrltlnh
tloots The channel squadron VIII aor
company them from Portsmouth q OF
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