The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-06
NEWS

PLAGUE DOCTORS: HONGKONG,
May l9.-The Japanese doctors engaged
specially to deal with the plague have
proven unsatisfactory through their
want of knowledge of the English Ian
guage. Three of them are being sent
back to Japan, and four are retained in
the colony to undertake meteorological
work.
EMPRESS BIRTHDAY: YOKOHA-
MA, May 2l-May 18th being the BIRTH
day of the Empress of Japan Her Ma
jesty will receive in audience the Min
listers of State and other high officials
on the morning and give them a ban
quet at noon.
CROWN PRINCE COMING: The
japanese Minister in Bangkok reports
TO the Foreign Office that the Crown
Prince of Siam, who recently gradual
ed from the oxford University, will ar
rive via America some time in August
next.
EARTHQUAKE: YOKOHAMA, May
26.-The heaviest shock of earthquake
which Yokohama has known for sew
eral years was felt last evening at $780,
lasting sixty seconds. 1t was followed
by another somewhat lighter at six
minutes past nine, and by still another
at 1915,
THROUGH SIBERIA: II is officially
announced that the through service OF
the Siberian railway from Nladivostock
to St. Petersburg was inaugurated on
May l.
MAY YOHE: YOKOHAMA, May 26.
The latest news about Captain Strong
and his wife, the former Lady Hope, is
that the former United States army
! captain and son of a New York mayor,
is to be his wife's manager in theat-
| rical tour that will take in Great Brit
ain and the larger cities of America,
| North and South. 1t is rumOred that
Captain Strong may himself try the
| boards and appear in plays with his
wife, as this would prove drawing
card, If only for reasons of public Gu
riosity. The British public would pay
to see him and so probably also would
! the Americans.
POSTAL ANNIVERSARY: With re-
gard to the forthcoming Japanese Pos
| tai twenty-fifth anniversary it is stat
| ed that the cOmmemoration postal
cards to be issued on the occasion are
divided into three kinds, viz: the so
called private made card, bearing no
denomination; 40 sen international
card; and return card of the same.
These will be issued To the amount Of
seven million copies and the printing
Bureau is now busily engaged in turn
ing them out. The sale of the new pos
tai cards will take place at the various
post offices from 6 a. m. on June 20.
JAPANESE SCHOOLS: At the end
of the last fiscal year there were in
Japan about 26,S56 primary schools
with 92, S96 instructors and 1858, 500 stu
dents
TO VISIT THE FAR EAST; 70
KOHAMA, May 26.-Rumors are again
circulated Of probable visit of the
Russian statesman and financier, Mr.,
de Witte, to the Far East. He will
leave St. Petersburg, it is said, at the
end Of May, and travelling by the ST.
beran Railway to VladivostOck will
remain there about a week. From VIA
| livestock he will again take the rail
way to the LiaOtung peninsula, calling
at NichOlesk and Hardin en- route
| Dalny win be specially inspected. By
this the end of July the terminus will
have been reached and subsequently
the Minister will proceed to Tientsin
and Pekng thence retracing his steps
to Korea, whence, thence visiting Sc
Oul, ChemulpO, MasampO and other
places, he will cross to Nagasaki, and
go on to Kobe, Kyoto, Yokohama and
Toyko. At the end Of August Or the
beginning of September Mr. de Witte
will return to Russia, via NladivostOck