The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-26

BY JAPANESE

YOKOHAMA, Aug. 1s-Mr. WI
Kinghang 1851 and Mr.. Sun $3.50. the
have been expelled by the japanese
Government on account of their late
tagitation against the Chinese Minister.
Mr.. WI holds Chinese degree and is
a respectable gentleman. He and Mr..
Sun, having been ordered TO leave the
city by the a.. m. train departing from
Shimbashi on Wednesday, were convey
ed by the police from the Metropolitan
Police Station at Kajibashi. to the rail-
! way terminus, when Mr.. WI asked the
that he might buy some bread. Walk
ing along the side OF the moat, he fell
into the water, apparently in order to
commit suicide The water was not
/ deep enough, however, to drown him,
and the police soon dragged him out
and brought him to the police office.
This accident delayed the departure
of the Chinese students until noon yes
1 terday. A large number of Chinese
students came to Shimbashi station to
see their leaders off. There was
pathetic scene at parting, and these
two expelled students left for Kobe
| whence they will be sent to China by
the Kobe Maru.
1t is said that eminent japanese
gentleman is urging the Department of
| Education TO admit to our public
schools Chinese students who have no
| Recommendation from the Chinese Min
lister.
A BOTTLE MESSAGE TO HIS
K LOVER.
On the 22nd of July Umetaro Ashi-
naka. a fisherman, living in Kuremura,
KOCH District of Kochi Prefecture,
found while fishing in the sea near his
/ village a bottle floating on the surface
of the water. Curiosity led him to pick
lit up and he soon observed it contained
a piece of paper. Umetaro uncorked
the bottle and took out the paper on
which the following passages were
written in French:
"On July, 1900, at 4 deg. N. lat. and
169 deg. E. long. the ship met with a
pirate and I am on the point of losing
all my money as well as my life. AT
this moment 1 ask my loving girl, who
alone in the world knows what am
thinking now, not to cease loving me-"
| The DOltle IN question was apparently
first thrown into the sea near the Phil
ippines and was carried to our coasts
by the Black Current. 1t must have
been drifting on the water for two
years and one month.
THE USE OF VOLCANIC ASHES.
Volcanic ashes have been successfully
used in the construction of a breakwa-
ter in Otaru harbor by compromising
one part of the ashes with two or three
lparts of cement The utility of volcanic
ashes in this connection has, been first
clearly stated in the specialists confer
ence held in Germany in December last
and now the discovery has been sue
cessfully applied by Prof Hiroi, Direc-
tor of the Otaru Harbor CONSTRUCTION
offfce-the success being cause OF
lsome panic among the manufacturers OF
cement in Japan. Prof. Hiroi is now
carrying out further experiments with
the volcanic ashes, which abound in
Japan 1t is said, however. that none
other than the most experienced person
in cement manufacturing can discrimi-
nate the kind of the volcano ashes
which is most suitable for the purpose
from that which is less suitable.
PHOSPHORUS MINE DISCOVERED.
An official of the Department of Agri-
culture and Commerce has discovered
"a phosphorus mine in the vicinity of
Toba in Shima Province. The mineral
is mixed with manganese and the lay
er is from five to seven metres thick.
The mine resembles, it is said, the
phosphorus mine in Tennessee of the
United States of America. One thing
lregrettable in connection with the mine
| is that a certain capitalist had been
working it with view to getting man
ganeSe, until a few years ago. The
| miner did not know that there was a
precious mineral intermixed with the
manganese in the ore, so that he had
| cast away all the phosphorus into
valley in the neighbOrhood. The amount
of phosphorus thus wasted is large and
lit is utterly beyond recovery at pres
ent. Everyone knows that phosphorus
lis about twice as valuable as manga
lnese.
CONSCIENCE SMOTE HIM.
On last Friday evening a man was
found lying unconscious near the rail-
Iway line at Hamamatsu-cho, Sh1pa. he
LTas revived by a policeman and, on De
Ting questioned, he confessed that ne
had some days ago forged private seal
and, by means of it, got the sum or 300
yen from a certain merchant living In
the Kansai district. He had. however
narrowly escaped a vigilant detective
there and caught train for Tokyo;
but thinking that his arrest would be
sure on his arrival at the Shimbashl
station he jumped to the ground from
the train. He was consequently taken
to the police station at Shiba.
STORED UP DYNAMITE.
A quantity of dynamite, enough to
blow up a village, was lately discovered
concealed under the roof of the SuWa
Shrine of Sakata Mura, Kanagawa-
ken. The clandestine owner of the ex-
plosive was one Genzaburo Kano, liv-
ing in the same village, who, having
been a stone mason formerly, had stol-
en- the explosive from his employer
and had concealed it there in order that
he might have an opportunity of blow
| ing up the house of a certain gambler
whom he hated. The dynamiter is in
custody at present.