The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1876-01-19
From the Colonies.

Early on the morning of the 18th. the steamer
City of Melbourne arrived from the south in
place of the Colima, which, as we announced
last week, was temporarily disabled on her
voyage down. The accident occurred in S. lat.
So O9' long. 1873 81 W, one week after
leaving Honolulu. Previously the vessel had
made very fair run, averaging 263 miles a
day, her highest days run being 277 miles.
We quote from a letter of passenger giving
an account of the affair
AUCKLAND. N. z. Dec. IS, 1878.
EDITOR GAZETTE, DEAR SIR We left Homo
lulu in the p. NJ. S. S. Colima Nov. 49, and arrived
here Dec. l3, % days passage. Our delay occa-
stoned by the breaking Of the crank on the Goth Of
November, and after fitting spare one, which oceu-
pied three days, that one broke in two places Deecm-
Der I'd while We were at dinner The noise aud the
jar oceasOned by the humping of the broken crank
frightful lady tainted and many, if not all,
less alarmed After the engine was
stopped the alarm ceased. One Of the cylinder heads
was so damaged as to be useless. The ship having
experienced Chief Engineer, he, with his assist
ants worked night and day the broken crank, and
after five days started steam again, and proceeded
with but one engine In the time We were GO
ing comfortably along under sail at the rate of abou
i,s.s..i ,r,v uuray anu fright, we had every
thing else to make the voyage pleasant and cheerful
Captain ShackfOrd and all the officers and servants
of the noble ship deserve and have the praise of all
the passengers.
The news is unmportant.
SYDNEY, December S.-The Postmaster General,
in the Legislative Assembly, last evening stated that
Mr.. Forbes one of Mr.. II. II. Halls sureties. in the
recent Pacific mail contract, had offered large sum
of money to be released from his liabilities.
During debate the Pacific mail service the
Government stated that Mr. H. H. Hall owed over
C,r,,
The Loan Estimates for the proposed railway ex-
tensions amount to nearly three millions sterling,
and the of ESQ, 900 is provided for immigration.
The crop reports from the country show that the
colony will probably require to import a much larger
quantity of breadstufs next year than for several
seasons past
The demand for postal cards in Sydney is greatly
increasing, especially amongst commission agents.
1t is proposed to supply water to Sydney by means
Of artesian wells.
The largest land sale ever held in Adelaide took
place the other day, when $500 acres Sold rea-
Using nearly 100000.
Some ten-year- old blue gum trees at Warepa N. T.,
found to have grown inch in hight every day,
and one inch in diameter during twelve months.
1t is said that gold recently found near Ingle-
wood, Victoria, by two Germans.
Clever youths in Melbourne put sixpences in their
mouths, and smoke tobacco for a couple Of hours.
The coins then appear like half soveregns in the gas
light, and are made to pass for such
The FIJI Times of Dec. 4th thinks that the action
of the government in prohibiting the sale copra by
the natives until their taxes paid, is unwise
sinterruptng the trade, which rapidly growing
and tending to encourage azness among the natives
In response requests from the northern and south
ern sugar districts of Queensland. the Government
have arranged that Mr. Mackay shall visit and report
upon the central factory system of sugarmaking in
French West India Islands.
The Chief Justice of FIJI, on the sth of Nov, was
occupied in the Supreme Court in the of Castles
VS.. Berrill. The claim was Of savsge for the
schooner Dauntless, that ran upon the reef some
few weeks since, The claim made for $500
in all. His Lordship decided there Admiralty
jurisdiction with the present court but the pow
to be vested in this court their way from
England. A verdict for fs and E5 given to the
plaintiff for loss of anchor and damage boat in
ures and losses sustained in helping to get the vessel
of.
The Sydney Morning Herald. of the 18th October,
that Mr.. Audley Coote who returned from Lon
don by the Cyphrenes on Friday evening, and who
left for Hobart Town, via Melbourne, on Saturday,
is said have concluded in England and France the
necessary preliminaries for cable between Cape
Moreton, in Queensland, and New Caledonia. 1t is
also reported that the promoters Of this cable contem
plate another from New Caledonia the Fijis, and
that is expected that the Imperial Government will
grant subsidy for the latter undertaking.