The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-26
From New Zealand and Australia.
Arrival of the Nebraska.

BY the arrival on Monday Of the U. s, n
H., and A., mail steamship -NS5Taska, ia
receipt Of Auckland papers TO the 4th inst, and
Sydney 10 Sept 2Sth. We are ndeb'el 20 Pursei
Lsins for prompt delivery of files and memoranda.
The news is unimpOrtant The vote Of want o
confidence ia the New Zealand Parliament had been
carried against the Vogel Ministry, and Mr.. Stafford
at the head Of the government, at the
course of which loud complaints had already begun
60 be heard
The Court had given decision in the case Of the
steamship -VsTada, for running into the bark Bad
Their Houors had assessed the value Of the Bad
ger at 81 900, and adjudged against the .NSUada
payment Of that sum, together with costs Of suit,
the latter to be taxed in the usual why.
The Auckland Herald Of the I'd says:
\ dejeuner took place on board the Nebraska at
Wellington on Friday, September 20. at which 200
persons sat down, mostly members Of the Assembly.
leading citizens, and ladies' The Hon. ID. Mclean
proposed success and prosperity 10 the Nebraska.
her officers, aud owners Mr. Driver replied, and
said there every chance of a subsidy being
granted and IN four months the line woad be equal
20 any in the wOEld.
MARROW EsC,PE ERCM FIRE Yesterday morning
n few minutes alter the arrival OF the mail steam
ship NebrIscd from Southern ports she had a mar
row escape from what might have proved very
extensive dre. Captain Harding the fret To
discover the fire, and IL il owing his prompt action
that no serious damage was done It appears that
one OF the stewards had careIessly laid his pipe
down In his bunk alight, and there leftit Shortly
q
and on examination IL was found that the ash from
the pipe had set tho bOdoIothS= aIgbt-
Almost the last Of the old MaOris OF the land has
passed away. Eru PatuOne. brother OF the famous
chief Tamati Waka died on September 10, and was
hOnOred with public funeral. He. we'll as his
more famous brother. had always been favOrably
disposed to the Europeans and had afforded valua-
Bile assistance more than one occasion. when the
settlers had been attacked by their savage foe The
age Of Patuoue was set down at 90. but it is more
than probably that the old chief bad turned the 100
bered having been taken aboard the ship in which
the great navigator Captain Cook visited these ISL
ands-
Says a correspondent writing from FIJI
The Fiiian Government is cOuntcnanced and sup
ported by Captain Gordon Douglas, in command Of
her Britannia Majesty's ship-ofwaT COSSGck. Capt
Douglass exerts himself with great assduity in do
ing his utmost for the FIJI Government. Every
British subject who seeks interview with him. in
order to rrcitr his tale Of wOe-Of wrongs done
of injuries inAeted-rights iniTinged-losses sus-
tained-through the agency At the hands of the
Fiji Government h. tells clearly that the settlers
must ii they remain in Fiji, submit to the laws OF
the country. In TO influential deputa-
tion OF British subjects, who waited upon Captain
Douglas in order that their grievances through him
might reach England. he expressed much sympathy
with them in reference to one or two questions
notably an insult to the British flag. He promised
: institute most rigid investigation into tins case
but he has failed tO do
From samoa, under date Of July 20, we learn that
the natives still fighting and has all the appear
ance Of long and bloody The officers Of the
English man-Of-war have told them 10 stop their
fighting. but the big party will not They say, you
ought not to stop fighting, for rs soon you 90
we shall just start again They also say, long
we take not 20 hurt white men or their homes,
what can you dot You cannot stop US, in fact
will stop for you Captain Douglas fined them
one hundred dollars for breaking the treaty with the
whites by shooting aud killing native the Sa or
neutral ground The 6ue paid at II o'clock
sharp next day. The big party getting the best
OF it, though the Tuamasega little party fight
we'll aud against long odds, to l. They are fight
ing in four places the island Of UpOlu, viz, ,
Matautu, UaWa. Taleatti. Solumanu, at all Of which
places the big party the Etu-taua-,eli have the
best Of it. except at Mltlutu, where they have lost
ground. The StmOaus do not think anything Of
being shot, long the opposite party does not get
the head If man Is shot dead they do not count
him so unless he loses his head Some mornings be-
fore breakfast yCu may three heads cut Of
close the jaw Whether the captain will stop the
war not cannot ny, the man-Of-war Is not yet
gone. I should think that il will be most likely
stopped by his making a King from one side the
other or perhaps by arms July "a: Since writing
the above the man-Of-war has taken her departure,
and all that the captain did 20 talk Of what he
would do, and nothing else he has got the name
OF tanaa captain. On Tuesday last the natives had
good brush another, and the total killed and
wounded was about 10