The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-20
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SURVEY OF EAST
ERN HAPPENINGS.
incidents of Political, Commercial
and..Social Interest From Far
Eastern Journals.

YOKOHAMA. Dec. 7.-As may be re-
membered, says a correspondent Of the
N. c. Daily News, a special decree Of
the Empress Dowager was issued about
a couple of months ago. commanding
1.-The stoppage for ever (sic) of the
sale Of substantive official rank and
titles by the 30th Of October last. No
matter how large sum OF money Il ay
be offered for a substantive official
rank after the above date, the Boards
of Revenue and Civil Appointments
were strictly forbidden to receive the
money. on pain of her Imperial Males
TVS deepest displeasure. This declara-
ton did what IT was desired to effect
a feverish desire amongst the monicd
classes throughout the Empire to pur-
chase substantive rank, with an eye
for future possibilities. whilst amongst
officials and others possessing the lower
grades of rank rush was made to buy
additional rank of a higher grade.
thinking that this was their last
been that ten days before the SOtn Oc-
tober limit. the Board of Revenue re-
ceived from the Viceroys and Govern
ors OF nineteen out of twenty-five
provinces of the empire no less than
twenty-seven million taels. odd. from
the sale OF substantive rank. as the
first results OF the Empress DcwaGer's
edict There were still ten lays more
sales from the provinces when the
above accounts were made up. whist
It was estimated at that time that The
returns from the three provinces CT
Yunnan. Kueichou. and Shensi. not yet
then received. would run up 10 at last
three million and a half taels. or.
roughly speaking. thfrty-five million
taeIs from the whole empire. NOW.
let US see what the Empress DOwager's
.'stOppage forever means. Already
comes the report tHa. encouraged by I
these highly gratifying results. the !.
Empress Dowager "in response to the 1
urgent prayers OF the Board Of Rev
enue. Is thinking OF extending the time
limit TO another twenty days IA certain .
Of the provinces"
BEARS IN THE HOKKAIDO.
People are still occasionally attacked
by bears IN the HOkkaido. The latest
case reported IN the VernacuiGr IaperS .
occurred in Osarabetsu. Takasu- mura,
Ishigarf province The victim had paid
al visit TO the house OF a friend. and
on his way home was attacked by =
bear Early next morning n man found
a large bear devouring what appeared
20 be a human body in n field close TO
the village On being interrupted TIE
animal threatened 20 spring upon the
man. who took TO his heels. InfOrma
ton was Immediately given 20 Tire po-
lice station, and officials proceeded TO
the scene. The bear. however. had dis
appeared. The ground around the body
was stained with blood and the clothes
or the man were torn. He had severa!
wounds on the head where the bear
had clawed him. and some of his bones
were crushed. The body presented
horrible sight. Three OF the villagers
went out with guns in search Of the
hear and succeeded IN finding it, They
fired andl the bear fell TO the ground,
but on approaching IT the animal sud
denly sprang up and knocked one OF
the men down. The other two men
then fired and killed the animal. The
bear was very large one, measuring
over feet I'm height.
ERUPTION IN KAMCHATKA. i
During the month of July last begin {
ming on the TIN and ending on the
2Zd, there were constant eruptiOnS OF I
the "Tuatch" volcano on the Kan ,
chatka Peninsula. 4 terrific roaring,