The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-06-09
Correspondence of the p. c. Adyertiser.l
Monthly Letter from Europe.

LONDON, April 10th. 1877.
NAVAL - Sir Fairfax Moresby,
who held the rank of British commodore in chief
in the Pacific from 1850 to 1855, has just died, age
9O.-H. NJ. S. q" Shah" the new flagship for the
Pacific, reached Valparaiso, April 1st.-The Ger
man corvette q Ariadne," Capt. Won Werner,
leaves Oct. Ist for a cruise in the Pacific and may
call at Honolulu.
NoTEs.-Kidnapping in the South Seas having
again been brought up in Parliament, the Colonial
Secretary stated, that during the last two years
the trade has been brought within the narrowest
limits. no less than nine men-of-war being en-
ployed in keeping the traffic down. The notorious
flibuster Capt. Hayes is however still at large {;
there is some doubt as to his nationality, but none
that there is no iniquity of which he has not been
guilty; when last heard of, no effort was being
spared to effect his capture.-A return from the
Brisbane immigration officer shows that since 1868
sl97 South Sea Islanders have been brought to
Queensland; they came from SO different islands
and there were but 231 women among them. AS
many as 1867 have been returned to their homes,
while GAS are known to have died in the colony.
There is no European Interpreter in Queensland,
but many time-eXpired islanders have learned
enough English to interpret the different Ian
guages.-Besides Engineer Sprays Cruise of
the Challenger Sub. Lieutenant Lord George
Campbell has published his Log Letters from
the Challenger" Saturday Review y says about
the chapter relating to Hawaii Honolulu with
its ~lounging Kanakas. half civilized by Massachu-
sets missions, has been familiar to us in its recent
aspects by Mr.. Nordhof and other writers. Miss
Isabella Bird too has given us a very fOrcible
SSS BtiOh " bLO Low dAAAh fOAOhuOCEs Z
puted the most tremendous on the globe Ac-
counts of the late February eruptions are publish
ed by all London papers, as we'll as an Admiralty
report from Com. Long of the FantOme = in re-
gard to the erection of an enclosure of old can
mons around Cooks monument at Kealakeakua
Bay, an engraving OF which appeared in last
weeks illustrated News" while this weeks num-
Der contains well engraved portraits Of King
halakaua. the Queen and the Crown Prince.-The
German official Gazette - referring to the treaty
with the Tonga Islands says: 1t is true that King
George of Tonga has conceded to Germany a
plot oil ground on the Vavao-group as a coaling
station. His Majesty however fully upheld his
sovereignty ; there was no question of either the
eesslon of a port or surrender of the Kings SOW
~ereignty, all assertions to that effect being unfoun-
ded.-A great deal has been written lately about
Ava (kaval the national beverage of many
Pacific islands, made by the mastication of the
root of -Nacropiper NethysticuIa. 1t is not so
generally known that the Chichd of Bolivia is
made in the same way from Indian corn. Perhaps
the existence at points so widely apart of this
peculiar institution may indicate a common
The Rev. Mr.. Selman has succeeded as Bishop of
Melanesia to tue late Bishop Paterson. who was
murdered by Santa Cruz natives.-DuriDg 1876
the numbero of persons CT British origin who emf
grated TO Australasia was 80, 1876. F. B.
1.-THE writer in the Saturday Reriec, who talks
about Honolulu, is doubtless sone impudent and
ignorant, hungry photographer He has only to
take a walk through the purlieus of the British
Babylon to find white ssvsges-men, women and
children, more degraded Infinitely than the lowest
Z" kauaka," unredeemed by any evangel, even from
90 Massachusetts, demoralized, brutalized, sunk in
the mire of Babylonic London's Wanted civil
ization ~