The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-13
NEWS OF WORLD
CONDENSED

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next year.
The German warship Moewe has left
Sydney for New Britain.
one white child has died of plague
at Capetown. Three others are suffer
ing.
Chinese losses in the recent fight
westward of Paotingfu included three
hundred killed.
M Mcdonald broke the Australian
plunging record at Sydney, covering
6S feet ~ inches.
The Yale, Lick and Coburg observa-
tories all report the new star as d1mtn-
! ishing in brilliancy.
The British regular army is to be
increased to over 100000. The cavalry
will be armed with rifles.
The Chamber of Deputies has adopt
ed bill providing for death duties
ranging from l to 49, per cent.
Ii Hung Chang states that Chaung
Yuhsien has now been punished in &C
cordances with Ministers demands
H. NJ. S. Porpoise has left Sydney
for Portsmouth. She will be replaced
by the Phoebe, now en- route to sgd
ney.
The Queen Victoria Memorial Com
mittee decided that the memorial shall
be of a personal and monumental char
acter.
Four hundred Welsh Fusil1ers sta
toned at Hong Kong, have been order
ed to Picking to relieve the Australian
contingents.
The foreign ministers consistently
ignored the Empress Dowager through
out the negotiations, recognizing the
Emperor, alone.
A cable has been received announc-
ing the death in London of Mr.. James
Huddart. the founder of the Canadian
Australian line.
The legislative assembly of New
foundland has extended the modus
vivendi with regard to the French
shore until December.
Prisoners admit that Botha has re-
ceived crushing blow. He, with 1000
men, is retreating north in the direc-
ton of Koomati Poort
Over thirty thousand people witness
ed the proclamation of the king ana
the review Of the troops by Governor
Tennyson, al Adelaide.
The Wesleyan Conference at Sydney
passed resolutions in favor of the con-
summation / Methodist union next
year by IS votes to 10
Il is stated that iiougemont of
Wide, Wide World farce, Is in Mel
bourne, aud cuntemp.aLeS occurring
tour throughout Australia.
Fresh opposition is being shown to
the Jesuits in Spain and Portugal ow-
ing to the detention of several heIresses
in the converts of the order.
Several German 15-pounder quick
firers supplied to Aldershot. proved de-
fective and half the guns have been
returned to Woolwich disabled.
The London county council is matur-
ing a scheme for housing 10000 people
at cost of s1, 100000 The weekly
rentals of tenants will range from 6s
to 9s Cd
The British War Office is raising
from the infantry reserve battalions a
regiment solely for garrison duty In
the Mediterranean and other non-Jrop-
zeal stations.
The Duke of Connaught has been
made first and principal Knight of the
Grand Cross, and Great Master of the
Order Of the Bath, in succession to
the Prince of Wales.
Mrs. Mcdonald, found not guilty at
Sydney, on the ground of insanity Of
the charge of numbering her infant,
Alexandra, has been ordered to be de-
tanned during the Governors pleasure.
Mr.. Conger, the American minister az
Peking, has been granted sixty days
leave. Mr. w. w. Rockhill, the Ameri-
can special commissioner, will take Mr..
Conger's place, continuing the peace
negotiations.
1t is estimated that the Beers lost a
thousand in killed, wounded and pris-
oners during January, over 200 dead
being actually counted. The losses in
February up to the present are esti-
mated at 500.
Ogaden Somalis, on February 10, at
tackled the British zareba at Sannasa
in the East Africa protectorate. They
were repulsed, losing $50 men, The
British had II killed, including Colonel
P. j. Maitland, of the Indian staff
In the House of Commons, bill in
troduced by Mr.. ]. Yoxall, member for
northampton West, providing for an
eight-hour day for miners, was read
second time by PIP to 1879 votes Sixty
five Nationalist supported the mea-
sure.
The Germans have began to transfer
to the British the Picking Shanhaikwan
Railway. The British have resumed
control of the Picking -Tien-tsin section.
The question of the cost of repairs to
the line has been reserved for diplo-
matte settlement
In the House of Lords Lord Sails
bury, at Baron Avesdury's suggestion,
consented to the appointment of a
committee to inquire into the hours of
labor in shops, though he repudiated
responsibility for accepting the deci-
sions of the committee
The imperial government has award
ed the widow of Lieutenant Greve, be-
longing to the New South Wales
forces, who was killed at Paardeburg
in February last year while attached
to the Royal Highlanders. a pension of
ESQ year, with a compassionate al
lowance of Els yearly for each OF the