The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-19
Oriental Notes.

| Manchurian cartridges are stated to
| be fetching almost the price of Eng
| lish birds in the London retail trade.
| Railway traffic between Upasure and
Mazumi on the Shinonoi line, was
| blocked on the afternoon of the 22d
| instant owing to the collapse Of an en-
bankment on the section.
Vile and malicious anti-foreign pam
phlets are being circulated In the
printed in Tien-tsin, under the noses
of the provisional government.
The repairs at the palace at Hsian
are still going on, the troops there are
increasing in numbers, and officials
who had gone to Picking on family
matters, have been ordered to return
to Hsian. tE
The indemnity to be paid by China
has been fixed at 700. 600 900 taels, the
which is to be paid in fifty annual in
stalments of 100000 taels, or g.
100000 sterling, each.
According to Picking dispatch to
the Paris Herald Monsignor Fav1er Is
charged with having looted the house
of the former Chinese Minister of For
eign Affairs of money ana valuables
amounting to 9150,000.
The Russian admiralty has decided
Russian warships on the Pacific sta
ton. The two new vessels which have
just been built in the Finland dock
yards are to be sent to Port Arthur.
One of the officers on board an Am
erican warship in Nagasak was at
tackled by smallpox on the I'D instant,
and was conveyed to the local lnfec-
tious disease hospital. The ship is un-
dergoing quarantine outside the har-
Dor.
Four mich cows in a dairy at Nina
Enokicho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo,
We're recently attacked by rlnderpest.
A further spread of the disease being
indicated, the keeper of the dairy de-
cided to destroy the infected ANIMALS
with the remaining twenty cows. On
Monday night all the animals We're
slaughtered and cremated on Wednes-
day.
The Hsfn Wen Pao relates that north
of Chang Sha, the capital of Human,
a sudden end came to certain family
of farmers. One of them had gone to
the mountains to gather fuel, and see
ing a lot of toadstoolS mistook them
for mushrooms. Basketsful were TAX
en- home. and some cooked. Over TWEEN
ty persons died from the effects.
Not daunted by the experiences of
the great makigari at the foot of Full
last year, members of the Yamanashi
Sporting Club have organized a hunt
ing party on large scale and carried
out hunt at the eastern foot of Ka-
negatake and Chigatake in Yamanashi
prefecture. The hunt commenced at
daybreak on the 14th instant, more
than two hundred sportsmen taking
part in the affair. The prize consisted
OF a couple of full grown deer. The
pattue was continued the following
day, but no big game was bagged. al
though three deer made their appear
ance Some twenty of the more enthu-
siastic of the party gave chase to the
missing animals, but the result is not
yet known.
Despite the strong agitation carried
on by the judicial officials with refer
ence to an increase of their emoIu-
ments, the Diet has at last disapDrov-
ed the proposal and expunged the item
from the budget. A large number Of
judges and public procurators have in
consequence already sent in their res
ignations. On Sunday morning the
sixty-five Judges ard public procura-
tors of the Tokyo Chino Ku Safbansho
rendered their designations en- masse.
The number conprises all the judicial
officials of the Tokyo courts with the
exception Of two Judges and one pro-
curator. The exau1p'e will probably be
followed by the judicial officials in 9TH
er parts Of the country where the agi-
attion has been going on.