The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-06-25

The fine steamer AjaS, Capt. Floyd, arrived at 2
A. NJ. on Monday last. 9 days and 10 hours from San
Francisco. From the papers at hand we CLEAN the
following items 81"
The Secretary of the Treasury has given permits
sion to G. Hutchinson d Co.. San Francisco, and
others, to send the steamer alexander TO the Seal
Islands, Alaska, to bring the skins of last years
catch to San Francisco, where they will be subject
to the orders of the Treasury Department.
The Government has information that q frst-class
European power. possessing only a few seaports.
has offered the Dominican Government 2,6O0,000
for the bay of SANTANA. in case the treaty with the
United States is not ratified. M
The President has signed the blu to enforce the
Fifteenth Amendment.
A vessel arrived from Hongkong, June /. with
I67 coolies at New Orleans. tom
The public debt statement shows a decrease of
$14,SlO,962 the coin balance in the Treasury is
$lO6,TSI,3Il, and currency, Sl4,243,Sl6-
The Times special says the President to-day
transmitted to the Senate a brief confidential mes
sage on the San Domingo treaty, lnciosing an addl-
tional Article as to extending the time for ratifca-
ton to July lst. He suggests certain amendments
which he deems it desirable the Senate should in
corporate into the treaty. In these amendments it
is proposed that the paragraph giving the United
States a lien upon the public lands of the Republic
as security for its underlined debt, shall be stricken
out, and that the sum proposed TO be paid for the
islands, SOC, 000-shall be absolutely the entire
amount to be paid by this Government. 1t also
proposed that two Commissioners shall be APP
pointed, one by the Dominican Government and
one by the United States. to receive this money
and apply it TO the extinguishment OF the DoInini-
can debt.
The New Zealanders, says the London Times, are
discussing the ~propriety of applying for annexation
to the United States. Why not? We need an out
post in the Pacific ocean, and we could not well get
one further out than New Zealand. The three ISL
ands composing New Zealand include an area Of
l0l 500 square miles. or more than the territory of
Illinois and Indiana combined. They are about
auual in size to the Peninsula of ItaIY- and are
chiefly remarkable as the country which. according
to Macauley. is to produce the future tourist who is
to stand on London bridge and sketch the ruins OF
st. Paul's. Those who are afflicted with Anglo
phobia would be ~gratifed at acquisition. by the
United States, of the country which is to enjoy, at
some future day, so distinguished a prominence
over the present Island of Great Britain.
New YORK. June 3-The Herald publishes the
forthcoming report of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee on Cuba. The report is very long it
opens by referring to the number of petitions In
behalf of Cuba, signed by 5000 people of the
United States, and recapitulates the history of the
early stage Of the patriots struggle; the progress of
the immense effort and the e~xertions of Spain 10
crush it.
from the time of the declaration Of independence at
Yara, Oct. 18th, TO the present, when they have
&c. 200 men armed. and 20. 600 enrolled and drilled
but not armed. and they claim. with a supply of
arms. they can put in the field 200, 900 men,
The action of Cuban men in the field since the
declaration of independence is reviewed at length,
and their courage, endurance and capacity, highly
extolled as worthy of the people.
The report details the official Information as to
the events in Cuba received by our Government.
az well as that of Spain, and declares che proximitv
Of Cuba gives these events an importance not fully
appreciated by another State. From the fact that
Spain seeks to reinforce her navy and war supplies.
while the Cubans appeal to our people for sympa-
thy and support, the Cuban Question becomes an
American question. 7afa So
The various outrages on American citizens and
the acts OF aggression on cur commerce by the
Spanish are narrated. and the harsh ~crnelties of
Spain during the progress So of the war are cited an
showing the character of the struggle and the in