The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-02

fee General Terauef1i, vice chief of
the staff board, and General Kodama.
encouragement Of Formosa, were
spoken of as the probable successors.
II now appears that q decision has been
arrived at in favor of the latter, who
is to hold the portfolio of the War Of
flee in addition to his present post for
the time being. General Kodama has
been telegraphed for md ie expected to
arrive in Tokyo about the 2oth inst. 1t
is unprecedented that Cabinet Minis
ter should simultaneously hold the post
of governor-ge general of Formosa. but
this position will be only temporary,
and as soon as 2 suitable successor is
found Viscount Kodama will be reliev-
ed of his post in Formosa.
ASSAUITING FOREIGNERS.
About 9 p. m. on the 5th inst, while
four foreign gentlemen and lady We're
riding their bicycles through Kita-S -Shi-
nagawa, near Tokyo, a number of
workmen belonging to factory set on
them. They struck the lady, and NAL
treated the other foreigners, who at
tempted to protect her. The foreign
ers at once reported the matter to the
police, but the culprits are Still at large
ORIENTAL BRIEFS.
Prince Arisugawa is suffering from
slight illness.
Prince Konoye is reported to be suf-
fering from throat trouble.
Viscount Tanaka has been laid up in
his house with slight illness.
Two further cases of plague are re-
ported from Yuasacho, Wakayama
Ken.
Another-a fatai-case of plague is
reported from Yuasacho, Wakayama
Ken, today.
Fifty vessels are said to be frozen up
in the Peiho. The ice formed with un-
expected rapidity.
Mr.. Song Kun. the new Corean Min
lister to Japan, arrived in Tokyo on
Monday morning.
The flagship of the French Asiatic
Squadron arrived at Nagasaki from
Taku on the 10th inst.
Mr.. Yusabura Sakaki died on the 9Th
AT Paris. He had an extensive knowl-
edge of French literature.
The export Of matches from Kobe
during last month amounted to 59S, 155
yen, against Asa 571 yen for the preced-
ing month.
The Tsubataguchi-Um section Of
the Nanao Railway, damaged owing to
the rough sea, was reopeued to traffic
on the 18th inst.
Mr.. t. Cowen, editor of the China
Times, and two others left Ujina for
North China on 18th inst. in the trans
port Sakura- -maru.
The Government has decided to es
tabish a quarantine office in Osaka and
to adopt rigorous measures to stamp
out the plague in that city.
The body of one of the sailors of the
Inuiima-naru. which sank in the IN
land Sea, was found ashere at Hama
dera, near Osaka, on the 18th inst.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha contem-
plates providing a storeship at each
port along the Yangtsze, where the
cGmpany's ships are accustomed to call.
The Russian Government has ordered
the Baltic Shipbuilding Yard to con-
struct a dispatch boat of some 5000
tons, at cost of $4,000 roubles, for SER
vice in the Far East.
The president of a French company
at Tonkin, engaged in distilling alcohol
from rice, is reported to have arrived
at Tokyo recently with q. view of in
specting the sake brewing business.
| 1t is reported that several million
taels of horse shoe silver; which had
been brought to Moji from Tien-Tsin,
have been forwarded to the Shanghai
branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank.
Admiral and Mrs. Beardslee left Yo-
kohama on Wednesday for Shanghai in
the S. S. China After short stay in
Shanghai they will visit Manila, via
Hongkong. and are expected TO return
to Japan next spring.
/, The Japanese Christians think OF
starting daily paper of their own.
They have decided to dispatch Mr.. Rem
kichi Hawai- in order to collect contri-
buttons in America, England, France
and some other countries.
The Echo de Chine says that the
troops that are to winter around Pc
- IN
British, 5000 French. 1900 Japanese, q
500 Italians. 1,750 Americans, and 25t
Austrians, in all 26,500 men.
/ Marchioness Nabeshima, manager OF
the japanese Nurses Association, Wis
iited Yokohama on Tuesday afternoon
and saw the American and German in
valided soldiers now receiving treat
n,ent in the hospitals on the Bluff
Last Saturday afternoon a memoria
service in honor of the correspondents
who fell during the Japan-China wal
was carried out at the Asakusa Hon
ganji. Those who returned safe to ia
pan and the relatives of the victims at
tended the function.
The Kamijf-maru, the second sailing
vessel built after the foreign style ii
Japan, which saw the light in 1880 al
sHyogo, has come to grief on coastfne
voyage. She sank in a storm off Miya-
ko. The crew escaped, after experienc-
ing great naTuSnfPS ana danger.
The people along the coast of Teshic
province, Hokkaido, are unable to i'm
port rice in winter. and have to sub
sist on potatoes and beans. This fall
the Otaru-maru was conveying rice
and other food stuffs when she met q
storm and turned back without reach.
ing the province. The inhabitants are
therefore expected to be in great dis.
treSS from want of food.
The S.,hj hof DR. vi n era
American sanitary inspector at Yoko.
hama, has decided to prohibit the ex-
port of kishu oranges to the United
States and Canada owing to the out
break of plague in Wakayama Prefec.
ture. 1t is also stated that he will agair
enforce the quarantine of steerage pas
.sengers for America, which has beer
suspended for time being.
The appearance of foot and mouth
disease among milch cows has caused
the Metropolitan Police to prohibit tht
transportation of cows in and out o.
various wards and districts. No fewe
than 140 cows are suffering from dis
ease and the sanitary authorities have
strictly ordered the keepers not to sci
the milk. The dairy men are thrown
into CONSERVATION in consequence O
this official order
The two most important subjects t,
be introduced at the Hiogo Ken Assem-
bly, are a subsidy for the raw silk tradt