The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-08
LATE NEWS OF
THE ORIENT

1t is stated that $1,000 bales of India'
cotton are to be shipped from Bombay
for Japan during the present month. Al
additional steamer has been chartered a
Bombay in order TO carry part of The
Icargo.
| 1t is generally understood that II. l. II
the Crown Prince has been DESTROYS II
travel over European countries and
America, and it is was reported that his
iHighness has communicated his desire &c
his Majesty the Emperor.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha has de
cided to construct a pier 800 yards long
and go yards wide at Chefoo. An En-
glish engineer Will be engaged to super
intend the work. which is expected to be
completed within two years.
| But for the genial weather that has
continued for the past few days Tokyo,
| says the Times, might have become very
| cold as was the case on the morning of
the Sth inst, when the whole city was
transformed into something like a big
crystal palace.
According to a wire received at Divi-
sion Headquarters, Manila, On Jan. 4th,
it appears that the L. 5. Army Transport
Wright, which struck uncharted rock
off the coast of Ramon Island, near Sd
mar. on Nov. 81 ard sank in about fif-
teen feet of water, Will, it is believed, be
got off the rocks and raised in few
days
The Central Tea Guild in Tokyo, says
the Mail are now busiiy engaged in MAX
ing a selection of tea which they intend
to ship to France, whence orders were
lately received. The whole consignment
is said to be about 10000 bags. including
green tea from Shizuoka, Yamashiro and
Yokohama, as well as black tea from
Nagasaki, and it will be forwarded at an
early date.
A heavy snowfall is reported from the
perienced a snowfall sixteen times in sue
cesSion, with the result that the streets
are covered with snow to a depth OF
shaku sun. Traffic is almost suspended,
and the horses and men have consider
able difficulty in negotiating the streets.
Such snowfalls have not been experience
ed for the last twenty-three years.
The representative of the Emperor of
Japan at the forthcoming coronation of
King Edward will be Prince Komatsu,
who has been twice to Europe and is
especially well known to the British roy
al family. He will be accompanied by
suite of high officials of the Imperial
Household Department and prominent
military and naval officers, and VIII leave
Japan during April.
The northern parts of Korea are now
said to be infested by hundreds of mo mt
ed highwaymen, who have come in there
from North China. They have an utter
contempt for the Korean soldiers, and the
local authorities are about to put In prac-
tice the very novel experiment of max
ing their soldiers cut their hair IN ordes
to make them appear like the Japanese
soldiers, so that the Chinese brigands
may be oVerawed!
In 1900 the total tonnage of ships flying
the Japanese flag was 100000 tons which
eco 900 tons represented steamships and
the remainder sailing ships and other
smaller vessels BY the end of last Oc-
tober the above figures had increased by
only six or seven hundred tons, and II IS
to learn that the Nippon
Yusen Ka.sha has now fallen from the
seventh to the eighth in the order OF
large stea mship companies Of the world.
Another Imperial Chinese Decree is Is
sued saying that after the Empress Dow
ayers return to the Capital, her Majesty
will appoint a date next spring to offer
sacrifices at the Eastern and Western
Mausolea as a mark of gratitude for her
safe return that the Emperor intends
in future to go on tours to other parts
of the Empire than those already trav-
elled and that the Ministers concerned
should devise economic arrangements for
the purpose.
The House of Commons met yesterday
for the first time this year. There was
a large attendance in the galleries Mr..
Manjiro Suzuki opened with a speech of
nearly an hours length on the Ashio az
fair He was followed by Mr.. Hiraoka
were made upon the Higher Agriculture
School. pensions on the North China war
account and other matters. In the or
lers of the day a discussion Of the Law /
IF Petition. suggested by recent Incl !
lent was the most interesting feature I
The House adjourned at $3.50 p. IN. There /
was no session of the House of Peers.
4 magazine, in mandarin, the Chin I
IIua Pao whose great usefulness has al J
,eady been noted, after brief existence 4
has been suppressed This shows. says !
he Shanghai Mercury. that the alleged /
iterati OF China are still opposed = IN /
Infusion of knowledge among the mass /
*. Againt this may be quoted the sol- (
owing decree just published by the
same paper: we hereby command that ,
he members of the Hanlin Academy ILL /
gently study ancient and modern his
DRY politics and Western sciences. so /
hat they may become scholars OF abili- /
y. for the benefit of themselves and the !
Government; and that the Chancellor Of ,
he Academy examine the members On /
he said subjects once in every month
and report the results TO the Throne