The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-01-22

tary Ballinger has improperly used
public funds; American scheme of neu-
tralizaton Of Manchurian railway is
opposed by Russo.
January 1S-Comet is visible TO the
naked eye at the Lick Observatory;
Congressman Nelson introduces ten
bills in lower house. embodying adj
ministrations policy in regard to
conservation; British election returns
to date show 10 Liberals, q National
lists, II Laborites and 80 Unionists
This result gives balance of power to
Irish and is strong indication of vic
tory for the policy of home rule for
Ireland Argentine Republic decides
to build two Dreednaughts Paulham
wins $4,000 aviation prize at Los An
geles, travelling forty-five miles to Ar
cada and back at an elevation of a
thousand feet; site chosen at Kaimu-
XII, Honolulu, for an observatory for
the scientific study of Halley's comet;
$4,000 worth of opium captured
aboard the P. M. S. S. Siberia at San
Francisco; Republican Congressman
object to the appointment of radical
Democrats on the committee to inves-
tigate alleged Irregularities in the De-
partment of Interior and Bureau of
Forestry; Governors of thirty States
arrange to meet for a conference on the
promotion of administration harmony.
Senator Isidor Raynor, of Maryland, is
reelected.
January 19-University of Cpoenhag-
en- completes examination of original
data of Dr. Cook and rules that the
same do not substantial the claims
of the explorer to North Pole discov-
cry; British election returns to date
show ministerialists have won 100
seats to 121 for the opposition; Pres
ident Taft signs joint resolution call
ing for an investigation of Depart
ment of Interior and Bureau of For
estry; Captain Aaron Ward becomes
rearadmiral, U. S. N; inquiry into
charges of Representative Hitchcock
against Secretary Ballinger-charging
irregularity in use of public funds
has begun; Count Zeppelin plans air
ship to carry 300 passengers and to
put the same in regular passenger SER
vice between Hamburg and London;
Paulhan, accompanied by his wife, flew
twenty-five miles at Los Angeles;
Committee on Naval Affairs recon-
mends adjustment of bureau of equip
ment as being superfluous; Senate has
substitute bill providing separate
statehood for New Mexico, which is
expected to delay house measure;
Cheragan palace at Constantinople is
partially destroyed by fire; rebellion
has broken out in the province of Uru-
quay.
January 20-The defeat of the Brit
ism House of Lords seems to be even
more decisive, later returns indicating
that the government has elected 212
candidates and the opposition 1853;
peace negotiations between govern
ment and revolutionists in Nicaragua
abandoned and President Madriz is
planning for a decisive battle with the
enemy; the U. S. encouragement will
not abandon the suit to dissolve the
merger of the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific railways; Japan adj
yises China that she (Japan) will not
coincide with the note of Secretary
Knox in regard to the naturalization
of the Manchuri&h railway; Edward
Kent reappointed chief justice of
Arizona, with Fletcher and Doal as as
sociates; Senators Nelson, Flint, Su-
therland, Root, Paynter and Fletcher
appointed members of joint Congress
sional committee to investigate the
Ballinger charges, the House accept
ing the caucus nominees for its COM
mittee as follows: Mccall, Oismted
Derby, Madison, James, Lloyd; Rear
Admirals Sebree and Hubbard and
captains of the Pacific fleet received in
audience by the Mikado of Japan; dis
membered body of young woman
found in a trunk on the beach at Sc
attic; Paulhan, the noted aviator,
consents to give a series of flights in
San Francisco, beginning Sunday,
January 20.
January 21-United States Pacific
fleet sailed from Yokohama for Homo
lulu; United States takes steps to
prosecute the meat trust and in many
states movement are on foot to force
down prices, among thhm being a plan
to generally abstain from the use of
meat for thirty days; governments of
Japan and Russia formally reject pro-