The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-09

Russia will float a new loan of three
and quarter million pounds in Eng
land.
A survey is to be made for railway
from Cloncurry to the Gulf of Car
pentaria, Australia.
The last of the principal Swiss rail
road lines, the st. Gothard, has been
taken over by. the government.
Edinburgh University will benefit to
the extent of nearly $4,000 by the will
of the late DR.. Thomas McKie.
A very great increase in the trade
between British Columbia and the
! Western Coast of Mexico is reported.
Sixty fishing vessels foundered off
the coast of Spain on May 26 and
| hundreds of fishermen were drowned.
The French battleship Danton, being
launched at Brest, stuck on the ways
and it will take some weeks to release
her.
The Cuban government is buying field
artillery in France for her army and
rifles in Germany, spending upwards
of a half million dollars.
M. Paul Tissandier, pupil of the
Wrights, has made a flight in the old
| Wright machine at Pau, manuevering
the aeroplane for an hour and four
minutes.
| A grave situation is said to have
developed in the island of Hayti, the
I Haytians having invaded Dominican
territory in May and hoisted the Hay
tian flag.
! Dowager Queen Margherita, of Italy,
has been confined to her bed for the
past two months. She is said not to be
in imminent danger, although suffering
much pain.
| An extraordinary appropriation of
$29, 100000 for naval construction has
| been asked for from the Italian Cham
| Der of Deputies. This is to provide for
the construction of four Dreadnoughts,
| three scouts and number of torpedo
boats in the next three years.
At political meeting held in Shelf
field on May %, at which Premier AS
quith was present, the building was
stormed by suffragettes, several of
whom were injured in their attempts
to rush the meeting. The Premier slip
ped away from the building by a side
| door.
! The Michigan Pacific Lumber Com
pany have completed the purchase of
10000 acres of timber land in the
southern part of Vancouver Island The
firm of brokers who negotiated the
sale aver that it is only the beginning
of enormous investments in this direc-
ton.
An important discovery has been
made ON spur of Mount Darwin, on
the west coast of Tasmania, where an
| immense lode of burrum sulphate ex.
lists, about two and half miles from
the Mount Lyell railway. 1t is said
to be larger and purer than any lode
yet found in the world, and steps are
being taken to develop it.
immigration to Canada from the Unit
ed States this summer will, it is con
fidently expected, exceed all previous
records. One hundred thousand people
from the States will cross the boundary
line during the fiscal year The move
ment is already so large that the regu
lar officers of the Department of Immi
grafton have been obliged to ask TO
assistance.
Sultan Mehemmed V. has signed tn
death warrant of thirty-fve men foun,
guilty of taking leading part in tn
Adana massaeres, the death sentenc
being approved of by the majority o
the Turks. There are yet many Arme
man women captives in the houses o
| Mohammedans and the Sultan is be
ing urged to cause steps to bring abou
| their release.
The problem of the command of tn
air has become a matter of paramount
Importance to all European Powers. TIL
British War Office is giving great col
cessions to followers of the science c
aerial navigation. Land on the Sail
bury Plain, carefully fenced or polio
guarded, has been flung open to boni
= fide expermentalists in the art of aerii
navigation. and sheds are to be ereete
for the shelter of aeroplanes.
The Manchester ship canal. while
failed to pay its way in the EARL,
years of its operation, is today carr
ing a big tonnage and providing
profitable investment. During the pa
year about 100000 was added to Il
total cost, which at present amounts
ID over f16,600,000. The canal, which a
commodities seagoing steamers of CO
siderable size. has made of the gre
city of Manchester a maritime port
Notwithstanding the reduction by t
Imperial Government of the sum all,
s, ted for railway development in Ind
during 1909-10, the doubling of railwi
tracks is proceeding vigorously on
the principal lines. Traffic has mere;
ed to such an extent that it can
- longer be worked with safety on sins