The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-23
BRITISH NEWS IN BRIEF

The population, of the British Empire
| is now 400, 900, 000
The Royal Scots of Montreal are to
have an armory costing $4,000.
! Forty-five vessels were launched by
/ Scottish shipbuilders during August.
J Sheffields University is now assured,
although about 100000 is still required
for the foundation.
The Ceylon pearl fishery has ended.
The total receipts are valued at $780,
900 rupees, the largest amount on rec
ord.
The Dominion Government is about
to spend something more than three
million dollars in improving the de-
lenses of Quebec.
A Coventry firm states that, al
though they had sold 5000 motor cycles
the demand was now three times great
er than it was a year ago.
An agreement has been concluded be-
tween Great Britain and France for
laying a cable between Reunion and
Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
Canadas trade with South Africa is
increasing to such an extent that the
Government has arranged for a fort
nightly trip instead of monthly.
A new hotel to cost one million dol
lars is planned for Ottawa to be erect
ed on the site now occupied by the
Grand Union Hotel. 1t will have $50
rooms.
The profits made by the Crystal
Palace of London last year were G16,-
40 No fewer than 2,505,5 99 persons
passed through the turnstiIes during
the year.
The British naval authorities, having
concluded elaborate experiments with
turbines, have decided to adopt them
for a new battleship which is to be
built.
Reports have been received from the
Hudson Bay territory of the existence
of diamond fields in the district. A
party of prospectors is preparing
search.
AS a local memorial to his brother,
the late Mr.. Cecil Rhodes, Colonel
Frank Rhodes had signified his inten-
ton of restoring the parish church of
Dalham, Suffolk
Great Britain has signed a treaty
with Nicaragua acknowledging the
latter's sovereignty on the Mosquito
coast and abrogating the use of San
Juan del Norte as a free port
Considerable interest is being taken
in antiquarian circles in Scotland in
a proposal to restore the Standing
Stones of Stennes, often alluded to as
the Scottish Stonehenge" |
English oak is to be used in building
one Of the country palaces of the Mi !
kado of Japan. A contract for the
timber has just been placed with a
London firm.
Lord Kitchener has awarded the new
challenge cups for the best trained
battalions in India to the 1st Bat
talon the Queens Royal West Sur
reg RegimenD and the both Baluchis.
The Lord Chancellor has introduced
bill giving effect to a convention con-
GUIDED between Great Britain and the
United States to include bribery in the
list of extradition crimes.
There are now in or near Bolton near
Y 100000 spindles running full time,
md producing fine yarns from Egyp-
ian and Sea Island cotton. Another
1000 spindles will be working short
Y. ,
AT an estimated cost of a million !
terling, new ocean wharf, to accom-
nodate three million tons of traffic. '
las been projected for London, and the
cheme approved by the Thames Con- ]
ervancy.
BY letters received from South At {
lea recently, says a Cornish paper, We
-ather that no steady, able miner need !
ear not having work there The pay
: 20s per day-just as good as before {
he war. | r
A new tool steel has been placed on
he market by a firm of Sheffield max