The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-09
Condensed News
OF the Old World

lines. This will necessitate the building
of number of new bridges, the pre-
liminary work on which is already be-
ing put in hand.
French sailors have gone on strike
at Marseilles and the movement is like
ly to extend to other French ports, and
if it becomes general it will seriously
affect navigation.
The Earl of Ronaldshay was forced
to apologize for slurring remark made
of the Countess of Grannard (Beatrice
Mills) by King Edward, who was great
ly incensed at the incident.
Porcher Island, near Prince Rupert,
which has an area of about 800 square
miles, has been practically all taken up
by colonists, chiefly from the United
States, during the last six months.
The new Spanish Navy to replace
warships during the Spanish American
war is to be constructed by British
| irm-Messrs. Vickers, Son & Maxim.
| The agricultural development of
! Natal has more than doubled during the
| last four years, and the prospects for
| 1909 are excellent. Weekly shipments
of pineapples and oranges are now TAX
ing place.
! 1t is announced that if Lieutenant
| Shackleton makes another attempt to
reach the South Pole he will attack it
from the other side, probably starting
from the Falkland Islands, off the ex-
tremity of South America.
The Treasury officials sent to Ireland
J 10 To ha uali11tv of old q or
pension claims have completed their
/ 900 persons now in receipt of pensions
/ are to be struck off the list.
| Carnarvon, the fourth of six counties
| of North Wales in succession, held its
/ Easter quarter sessions without any
/ criminal business coming before the
court. The other three counties were
| Flint, Merioneth and Anglesey.
OF the ffty-one locomotives which
! the Vulcan Foundry Company, of Lam
cashire. are building for the Indian
| State railways, fifteen will be for ex-
press services and the remainder of the
standard goods type for mixed traffic.
The Consolidated Fund accounts, just
issued, shows that at March 81, 1908,
| 1861 decrease of s15,529,679 on
+! the previous year The amount of debt
permanently reduced in the year was,
1 however, f1S029, 679.
! An anonymous donation of 100000 as
a commencement to the fund of $780,
/ 600 which it is proposed to raise to
/ build and endOw national memorial
! theater to Shakespeare was announced
/ by the Lord Mayor at meeting of the
general committee of the fund at the
Mansion House.
Recently there has been erected at
Port Elizabeth, South Africa, monu-
! ment to the honor of horses killed in
battle. The monument consists of an
oblong pile of granite, on the top of
which are two fgures-a llfe-sized
bronze horse and a kneeling soldier of
fering the animal its food. The figures
are beautifully executed.
Lord Kitchener will hand over the
command of the trops in India early
in August TO General Sir o Moore
Creagh, and will leave Immediately fol-
Japan. where he will investigate the
japanese military system. From Japan
he will go to Manchuria and be shown
over the principal battle nelus Dy Jdpd
nese officers who took part in the var1
Gus engagements.
: The selection by China of Prince
Tsai Chen, a lesser noble of the EN-
! pire, to return China S thanks to Japar
for the visit of Prince Fushimi, of the
/ japanese Royal house, on the occasion
of the funeral of the late Chinese En-
, peror, is regarded by Japan as al
! insult. The japanese exculpate Prince
q Fushimi for the hostile feeling agains
Japan developing in China, but blam'
{ members of his suite.