The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-25


5000 rounds of small arms ammunition,
230 wagons, 1900 horses. and large
quantities of grain and stock have been
captured.
ACTION FOR ISLANDER.
LONDON, May 1o.-wernher. Belt &
Co. have issued a writ for Islander
against Mr.. Markham in connection
with his recent utterances in the
House of Commons.
CHINA.
LONDON, May 12ACircumstantia
advices from Singanfu state that Lu-
chuanlin and General Yungdu are sup
porting the Empress Dowager's reac-
tionaries, and are defying the Minis
tiers of the Chinese court
It is feared revolution is contem-
peror, and in favor of Prince Tuan's
son, Flu Chun.
The American troops have evacuated
Picking, excepting the forbidden city,
where the legation guard remains.
Most of the British troops at Tientsin
are returning to India forthwith
BRITISH TELEGRAPHS.
LONDON. May 11-Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach, replying to Mr.. Henniker
Heaton, said the deficit on British tel
egraphs in 1900 was e 500, 900, making a
total deficit since the government pur-
chased them of GS,O00,000 The public
could not have a return on. capital.
and at the same time have remunera-
tive concessions.
A CLOSE DIVISION.
LONDON, May lin the House of
Commons snatch vote on the Scottish
estimates gave the government a ma
jority of twelve.
Tpn CaTTCDTYDv
LONDON, May 11.-Lord Salisbury
has returned from visit to the Ri
viera in restored health
THE BARCELONA RISING.
MADRID. May 12.-Ten thousand
troops occupy Barcelona. The tram
ways have resumed running, and fac
tories have started to work.
TRADE WITH GERMANY.
BERLIN, May 12-The Reichstag
passed bill prolonging favored nation
! treatment to Britain and her colonies.
The Reichstag adjourns till November.
! A HISTORIC MAMMAL
! LONDON. May 12.-sir Harry John
/ ston, special commissioner to Uganda,
has sent to the British Museum the
skin and skull of mammal discovered
in the forests of Uganda and Congo
1t is supposed to be the historic hella-
dotherium. It resembles the giraffe
wild ass and tapir combined. The fore
head is scarlet, and the rest of the
skin is remarkably colored.
THE TURKISH POSTOFFICE.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 12-The
! Turkish government has accused the
directors of the foreign postoffice Of IA
cilitating and smuggling of an ambas-
sador'S returned note making an ac-
cusation offensive to the Porte. The
| ambassadors have cited the cases OF
Japan and Egypt in support of theil
contention to a legal basis for foreign
postoffices in Turkey.
ENGLAND AND WALES.
LONDON, May 1o.-The population OF
England and Wales, as shown by the
census, is 80, 525, 716 The population OF
the County of London is 1885, 034; of the
other administrative counties, 1850, 492
and of the county boroughs 9,139, 100. The
counties, including the other portions OF
Greater London, show a very large in
crease, while the agricultural counties
are stationary or declining.
The return for England and Wales
shows an increase of 3,523,191 on the last
census, taken in 1891, when the popula-
ton was 5000, 525. The increase for the
preceding ten years was 3,02S06S, so thai
exhibited.
In London county the increase was 324,
978, the population at the 1891 census
having been 4,211, 056 The increase dur
ing the preceding decennium was 3l5,5l2