Show I HAWAII SHOWS AVERY A-VERY BAD FRONT How the Japanese Government Looks at It I MAY HAVE TO CHASTISE HER ASSASSINATION PLOTS ON I SEOULA KOREA Jaws Impose New Tae on Land and Leaf Tobacco Eebellicn in the Philippines Not Yet Over Attack At-tack Upon the House of the Colonial Co-lonial SecreturJ Vancouver B C July tThe steamship steam-ship Empress of China has arrived from the Orient Among the passengers is Judge Mowat of Shanghai who presided at the trial of Mrs Carew and who is now en route to England on a holiday trip The Empress brings the following follow-ing advices The JIji remarks in reference to the difficulty with Hawaii that the government gov-ernment officials at Honolulu are somewhat saucy and not the least intimidated in-timidated by the presence of the warship war-ship Nanalwa in their waters They believe that Japan will not dare adopt so extreme a measure as to go to war with so small a country being ashamed to do so I is this that causes Hawaii to show such a bold front I Is a pity that this should be so for i Hawaii Ha-waii goes too far we shall certainly be compelled to chastise her Japanese laborers who were refused admittance into Hawaii and who were sent to Brazil have declined to go there Over 20 arrests have just been made in Seoul Korea in consequence of the discovery of an alleged plot to assassinate several prominent persons Japanese papers allege that the Russian Rus-sian party was at the bottom of the plot and that they are now taking advantage ad-vantage of Us discovery to induce the king to return to the Russian legation Professor Tanawadat who occupies I the chair of physics and seismology in the Imperial Japanese university is said to have invented an earthquake alarm which will be exhibited at the I Paris exposition in 1900 The Japanese government has imposed im-posed new taxes on land and leaf tobacco to-bacco in order to meet the increasing demands upon the treasury since the warFresh Fresh efforts are being made to have the murderers of the queen of Korea f punished a petition having been presented pre-sented to the king to that effect The West river was opened to foreign for-eign trade on June 4 without any friction fric-tion with the Chinese The rebellion on the Philippines is not yet over A few days ago an attack at-tack was made by the rebels upon the house of the colonial secretary of the Philippines which is situated in the center of the town of Manilla Fortunately For-tunately for him he was absent at a dinner party otherwise he would have been killed His servants were locked tip by the rebel visitors and the house carefully searched No damage was done and none of the property was I stolen |