The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-24


British clergymen at the Palace at
Potsdam.
The Revenue Cutter Penilico has
failed 20 find any trace of Venezuelan
hlibustering party.
French newspapers are urging the re-
tention of Henry White as United
States Ambassador to France.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt may be
ostracized by King Edward for his con-
nection with the suicide of Nine. Ruiz.
The Turks and Persians INDUCED in
a clash at Teheran which resulted in
twelve Persians and seven Turks being
killed
Egypt is preparing to use the GASES
IN the Sahara as penal colonies, and
viii deport all her criminals to the
desert.
The government seems unwilling to
run Federal steamship in the Pacific
Coast and desires line that is indie
pendent.
The Right Honorable Sir John Gorst
has relinquished his political pension
of $4,000 a year, which he has enjoyed
since 1902.
Lightning struck the Holy Cross
Catholic church at Bay Settlement,
Wisconsin, during mass, killing one of
the worshipers.
The Federal Bureau of Statistics has
issued a report giving the facts con-
corning the commerce of Japan with
| the United States.
The submarine boat Kambola of the
| Russian navy was sunk in storm in
| the Black Sea and twenty members of
| her crew persisted.
A carload of liquor ordered by SOL
diers at Fort Riley, Kansas, was ship
| ped out again on its arrival, by orders
| of the commandant
| The revision of the American tariff
| is being watched with interest by the
Dominion government and Canada is
prepared to retaliate.
Viscount Arasuke Some has been APP
pointed Governor of Korea from JAPAN
| and Prince Ito has been named presi-
dent of the Privy Council.
| Germany is said to be in the grip of
| hard times. All trades are affected,
but the depression in the iron and steel
| industry is the most serious.
| The Spanish Minister to Cuba has
asked the Cuban Government to pay
portion of the Spanish debt, since
| the republic has assumed sovereignty.
| The complete federation of the South
| African colonies has been assured by a
| referendum held to decide whether or
not Natal should join the South African
union.
| George C. Collins, of San Francisco,
convicted of perjury and sentenced to
fourteen years Imprisonment has filed
a petition with Governor Gillett for
pardon.
June IA, which has been designated
"Flag Day. as the anniversary Of
the adoption of the United States flag,
was fttingly observed throughout the
| country.
! Charles c. Moore, president of the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
| has reached London, and will urge
Britain to participate in the Portola
| Festival.
Reform is advancing rapidly under
| The rule of the new Sultan in Turkey.
| Modern inventions are being introduced
| and telegraph Office has been installed
/ in the palace.
4 W. w. Rockhill, retiring American
Minister to China, was received in
farewell audience by Regent Prince
Chun who expressed cordial sentiments
to the United States.
Through the accidental discovery of
/ gold in the ballast used in the Belen
cutoff, new rich mining district in
1.-THE Manzano Mountains in Torrance
County, New Mexico, is likely to be
| developed.
The State Department is still in cor
respondence with the Ambassadors at
| London, Paris, and Berlin for American
| participation in the loan to finance the
| Hankow- Szechuen railroad, for which
an agreement has been entered into
with the European banking interests.
The managers of the Metropolitan
Opera Company in New York have en-
| gagged thu majority of the singers who
will take part in the coming opera sea
| son. The total salary list for the FIVE
months amounts to $2,000,000 All of
the singers were engaged in Europe.
General Fred Grant occupied the
place Of honor in the review of ten
thousand United Confederate Veterans
who marched in parade in Memphis,
Tenn. Owing to the age of the men
| it will probably be the last parade in
which they will participate as an or
ganization.
The proposed fourteen-foot-deep wa
| terway project from st. Louis to the
Gulf, has received blow as the Board
of Engineers have reported that such
| waterway is not warranted by trade
and that it would take $12S,000,000 for
construction and $6,000,000 year for
maintenance.
Mrs Oliver III. P. Belmont has ar
| rived in New York from London an
ardent suffragist, and has declared her
intention to devote herself enthusiast
tically to the cause by attacking the
national and state legislatures in lieu
of making polite speeches to gather
| ings of clubwomen.
The new school fraternity law in Cal
| ifornia is to be tested in the courts OF
Stockton and one of the students OF
| the High School is to be initiated into
some fraternity for the purpose of hav-
| ing the case brought before the courts
so that the question as to whether the
law is constitutional may be decided
for all time.
The Spanish liner Antonio Lopez ran
ashore on Fire Island with 500 passen-
gers aboard, among them being Judge
Powell of the Supreme Court of Manila
and a number of clerks, school teachers
o11 DurSoS in tho Government amnlOv