The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-18
ORIENTAL NOTES.

Shanghai is now being visited by a va
riety company the Flying JordanS,
which for the past eleven weeks had
been an attraction at various places in
Japan Their business manager, Mr..
Leon Mooser, recently went to Shanghai
and arranged to take the Aston House
Garden, where, in a marquee, the COM
pany viii give its performance.
The measure recently adopted by Korea
OF prohibiting the exports of cereals has
brought about disastrous effects on every
port in the peninsula. For instance the
trade in Masampho has been affected SO
badly that the business transactions
there are almost entirely stopped. The
only business now going on in that port
is said 20 ne the export of a small num-
Der of cattle and the import of liquor
The report that the government has
failed in its negotiations in selling loan
bonds abroad seems not to be well found
ed. A Tokyo paper learns on coed au-
thority that the negotiations in connec-
ton Herewith are still being directed
under charge of Mr.. Takahira, the Japa-
nese minister to the United States and
it is expected that the introduction Of
foreign capital will be carried out sue
cessfully at no distant day.
An earthquake shock was felt at Yoke
hama and Tokyo about 7:20 p m. on Mon
day. In Matsu Province it was felt more
severely and caused some damage to
the Japan Railway. a portion of the
permanent way between Ichinohe and
Fukuako sunk about two inches while
the walls of Shiriuchi and Hachinohe
Station was damaged. The work of re-
pairs was Immediately executed and no
suspension of traffic occurred. Hakodate
sustained some damage, having also felt
d strong shock the same evening.
The trial run of q locomotive turned
out by the Railway Cars Manufacturing
Company of Osaka was held on the 18th
inst. The result of the trial was very
satisfactory in all respects. Subsequent
ly the locomotive was purchased by the
Formosan Governors Office and shipped
off to Formosa. 1t weighs about thirty
one tons, measures thirty-one feet and
eleven inches in length, and can draw
thirty passenger cars at the rate of thirty
miles an hour. 1t costs less than the
foreign-made locomotives, but its dura-
bility remains in question, though the
company is confident that their locomo-
tive may be as durable as foreign ones.
On Tuesday the Kanagawa police au-
thorities We're communicated with by the
Yokohama Local Court, says the Times,
to the effect that on the 30th ult. when
some officers and men from the Yoko-
suka Admiralty were engaged, in compli-
ance with the request of the court, in
the sea off Hommoku in destroying eight
bombs which had been confiscated on
some previous occasion and had beer
kept for a required length of time by the
court, two of the said bombs failed to
explode and dropped into the water and
We're lost. Under the circumstances the
Court begged the police authorities to
warn those who may happen to pick up
those dangerous objects to report the
matter to the authorities.
The Japanese sealer Kiyomasa Maru,
Captain Watanabe, manned by twenty
three men. while in the Kurile Sea re
Gently encountered a storm and was
blown to the Behring Sea. Having lost
his bearings and a steamer being sighted
the captain lowered a boat and boarded
her for the purpose of verifying the po-
sition of his vessel. The steamer proved
TO be a Russion cruiser, the captain OF
which charged Captain Watanabe with
sealing in Russian waters, and took his
vessel to the port of Toborovsk, where
the captain and crew were put in prison
They were subsequently sent to Vladi.
vostok, where they were charged with
the offence. but by the assistance OF a
Russian university student, who showed
much sympathy with them and took IL
their defence. they were acquitted.