GENERAL ITEMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 19 January 1899, Page 3

GENERAL ITEMS.

News comes from Home that the assistant librarian at tho Vatican, while examining State documents of the sixteenth century, has found the original manuscript of the treaties of Gallileo. One manuscript js all in Gallileo's own handwriting and ends with the words, "Written in Borne, in the iJtoJici Gapden, on Bth of January, 1616." An Italian syndicate has purchased a site and obtained the right to establish gambling saloons at San Remo, similar to those maintained at Monte Carlo. The White Star Steamship Company is making arrangements to run a line of steamers betsrcss Hawaii and Puget Sound ports. Another line is to be run 1 between Now Orleans and European ports and America. President M'Kinley haß requested , Archbishop Ireland to go to the Czar's . Peace Gonfgrence as the representative ' of the United States. !£ has pot yet ' been decided whether the dietingui^fied • representative of the Catholic Church ■will be the only delegate of America to the conference. Mr W. T. Stead advocafcec a "great pilgrimage of peace through all -<iafcj,ons^ beginning at San Francisco and ending afc St. Petersburg." It is expected that Secretary Hay may annul the exclusive cable franchise now Jjfild at Hawaii by the Pacific Cable Com- • papy. To to effective the annulment must be issued b^for/s January 2nd. i Several Republican leaders haye demanded such action qn the ground that ibjjp paWe should belong to £he United ! States. The President has been asked to order such annulment and to {jsue a special message to Congress asking an appropriation for laying the cable from San Francisco to Hawaii. Despite the solemn edicts of tho European Powers and the ironclad rule of the Turkish Government that no warship shall pass through the Dardenellea, the little Bulgarian Government ha 9 defied tjiem and the one ship of her navy will pa6B through £hs forbidden waters. The Bulgarian vessel is "a 'tCiiyOfio gunboat ju9t completed at Bordeaux. There was only one route for the ship to reach home, and much diplomatic correspondent fin £he subject was necessary. 1 finally th.o liulgznqp. diplomatic agent at Constantinople informed f,he Pprte that mi .case authorjsatjon was not granted for the gunboat to proceed through thp payd.oaojles, his Government would hold the Porte pospfinaibla if the forts guarding the straits arrested her passage. As a result the desired authorisation was granted,