The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-06-10
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Monthly Letter from Europe.
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LoNDoS, May let, 1870.
.Aapai .Nrrt-ReAr Admiral Hancock has just
been selected by tile Admiralty 20 succeed Rear Adj
miral CocbrAne, as commander In chief VI the facihc
station. Admiral Hancock. whose last command was
second in command Of the channel squadron VIII
hoist his flag on board the shah, 70, iron screw
frigaie, now being brought forward nj Portsmouth
for commission. Admiral COchrane, Who was APP
pointed June 9th. 1873, will return home la the Re
pulse. u. screw flagship, armor-plaicd. Captain X.
Garter. as soon as he IL relieved ny Admiral Hancock
who is expected 10 arrive on bis station about the
latter end Of June. The Shah will be the htt vessel
ton. recently adopted BY the Admiralty. Admiral
Hancock has appointed Captain Nm. X Kennedy 40
his flag captain. This officer, who is already well
known at Honolulu, has just Published a book on
Sporting Adventures la the Pacific while la com
maud Of II. b Ms 4. Reindeer" with Illustrations
by the author. Sampson Low. The screw corSsttcs
Psersi, 3, Commander COokson, and IsHtdos, .,
Capt Pollard, are 10th under orders TO return home
from the Pacific station 10 be paid out Of comuission
at Davenport. The Challenger reached 81 Vincent
April 10Th. and was 10 leave for home ON the 10th.
The Hawaiian bark X. G. Uyiie, Captain Moltcrs,
having left Honolulu Ia December last, arrived safely
at Bremerhaven on Sunday morning, April 9th' after
& trip Of 1873 days.
myths and Songs from the South Pacific. a coll
lection OF late aud early Polynesian legends, by the
Rev. w. w. Gin, Tor - years missionary In the
Hervey Islands" (King x Co.. IL n laudable at
tempt TO rescue the mythologic legends, dramatic
hymns and funeral dirges Of Mangaia, the southern
most isle Of the group. from the total Oblivion into
which, like these Of Hawaii, they must ere long fall
before the advancing influence OF the reading school
and society Bible. The Rev. A. w. Murray has alec
published, " Forty Years Missionary Work IN Poly
nesia and New Guinea" At the Linncan Society,
Prof Dickie recently read a paper on 80 Polynosian
Alge - at the Arthropologioal Institute, Mr.. Ranken
spoke on - South Sea Islanders"
Capt. q. L. Tupman, r. NJ. A., IL now superin'end-
ing at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the reduo-
tons Of the British observations Of the Transit Of
Venus which he himself successfully observed at
Honokaupu, Honolulu, Dec. 3, 1874. Major Noble,
X. A, has just been appointed judge ON the part Of
England in the section OF Artillery and War-like
Stores at the Philadelphia Exhibition. where he may
meet some OF bis Hawaiian friends. n II.
p. Sy-Admiral Hancock will not 90 out la the
Shah, as originally intended, but proceeds In tho
mail steamer this month 10 Panamn, where he will
meet the Repuise. whcreupon Admiral Cochrane will
strike bis Gag and the new Admirals will be hoisted
on the mizzen. Admiral Cochrane, Capt. Carter and
the Admiral's STAFF will come homo by the mail
steamer from Panama. Capt Kennedy will mean
while commission the Shah with n complement Of 600
men and officers, and take her out for service on the
Pacific station.