The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-06-02
lcO~rrespoDdencs Of the p. q. A6vertissrl
Monthly Letter from Europe.

LoNDoH, nay Lat, 1877.
caused BY The destruction Of forests. Another waning 10
ago vas considered a sanitahufs and visited A. such by nun
erouS invallds from iDdiaj to-day Il IL one Of the most
caused solely By the wanioD dsstruelIon ~ the Efests' which
has caused redaoee rainfall and h~ightened temperature. n.
tai q nas,itios, reports .on ,hs highlands the ssnbatsd
the valleys, where they stsEnaie 10 permanent dsprsssiOns
and send out perDici0us vspors. The sources of rivers have
Win aooas Lsfss Gss.. q lssa, los@sIly hishiy PsoSaS.
are now no,onOasly unhssnhy. Rains nn with ssisaS.:;
Thsence, ne nased Dry ground Gao sbsorh bui iins, ehsIs s.
out, which ohsn prove fatal ia a few hours and n0w seen 20
become sPdsnisL The present. situation o. nsarua. d
a speedy rsplAnting o~fforests On the plS.eaHs and highlands q
LiTERAET HorEs-Ths Rev. &. }. whilmss, fq the Nae,
- year congreg,tionai missionary On the SCUM eea Lsisads,
his own supervision "a comparative Malayo-PolynssIA tram
mar aDd dictionary The work win contain a oomparalvs
ish-PolYneslan and q Polynesian-Engnsh dictionary -PstsT-
P %1s. 90 Ss tSs edSsSar. Msss y q. - Psei T.. y. .sS so..o WI, .; sa'...s
liable map ~embodying the observations and soundings made
Wilson's Mercantile DireotoEy d The worh." Just pubushsd
here, eontains On some 5000 pages The nsns. % ue mos is-
distant Hawai-. 80 minute are It's detaiis. that Ihsrs are en-
suciOnssrs, bankers, b~laeksnhha. b,oksshen. brofsr, bstehe
ts, eonaels. eoopes and % On ihuoa9h The Nhoe alpkabet Of
vette "Askold," which visited Honolulu 10 ls7s. has published
an account o. the ship,. 'rlp, containing a chapter on Bawan
be the seat q government Of the ooloay q EDL az shs queen
The AHtrOn0mer HOyM TeNntV inf1fu1ad fnrlAment, that che
has selected Suva on the Wanna Lew Island ~ the capital
calculations Of the transit Of Venus are Ia a forward state, bat
that IL would be yea some months, before the Typographical
reports arc o-ompleted-Fnonda Of the celebrated Traveller
Edward Mohr, who visited Honoluu on a whaleship In 16Lh,
will be sorry 90 hear that be recently died on the African weai
coast on an expedition into the lnterfOr-DI Max Buchner
recently lectured before the Geographical Society at Hamburg
on New Zealand, KandAvu and Hawaii, which islands Ne vIs-
tied last year and where ne particularly studied the present
state Of the natives The Society Of Voyages" az Pnris 10
nov preparing the first Of a series Of trips aToand she world
Er instruction and smase@sntl ne tI,P b % l.a, a noo.hs.
sagere steamer, will leave nAvre Jane s0th aud touch Al no
nOluiu on the way from San Francisco 10 ~ and Australia.
The German Parliament has just sanctioned the treaty with
King George Of Tonga, by which the latter cedes "Manoi-wAr
Rock" In the Nayao group "a q coal harbor.
NAVAL hEwa--CaptAin Stevens Of The "Barraeouta" has
been found guilty BY court martial Of charges Of misconduct
preferred against him By the ships pAymaster and dismissed
from the ssrvioe-H. N. corvette "Emeraid" IL being com.
missioned for service On the Pacific station -Lleutenant w.
II. Graham, late Of the "'Tenedos" takes the Runboaf .aea-
GulS 70 the west coast Of Afica-H. N. q. ssMyrmidon. -
PaOlGa. Pr