The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-07-27

with Nicaragua, and is now on the way home.
Captain Count Monts, who visited Honolulu in
April. 1876, with II. G. NJ. ship Tineta, and was
presented to the King. was in command Of the
large ironclad GrosSer KtUftTst, which was sunk
May 81 by accidental collision in the Channel. lie
was the last to dive off the sinking ship. came mp
and went down three times, but was eventually
saved. H. VI. :. AIbairoSS arrived at Chatham
Dockyard yesterday to be paid Of. She has been
over four years commissioned in the Pacific. The
Tenedos is now in the Mediterranean. The Times,
of May %, has the following :" The Sandwich
IsIuuds-Messrs. Ransomes * Rapier have re-
ceived an order for the full equipment Of a rail
way for the Sandwich Islands, as a beginning Of
railway work there The working out Of Obser-
vatioas taken at different stations during the last
transit of Venus have not yet been completed, and
the Astronomer Royal has requested permission 10
retain the extra computers now engaged on the
work until September next. Captain Tupman. the
chief OF the stations on Hawaii, meanwhile gives
the suns distance as 1921 900 miles. with a pos
sible error of 200. 900 miles. r. A. Proctor, the
astronomer, has just published a book on " Tran
sits Of Venus, past and coming, from the first
A. d. 1859. TO the transit of 20l2 an account Of
the one in December. 1874, ana the results OBJ
tanned by the British expeditions. The annual
report of the Board for the Protection of Abort
gines gives the total number Of natives in the
colony of Victoria as IA, and Of mixed blood aud
half-castes 29O. Among the passengers OF "A late
West India steamer was Mr.. :. Crosby. Hawaiian
Consul at Callao. Peru, bound for Paris. The
West India sugar crop is now coming in. and is
said to be very large on all the Islands but Cuba.
Lecturing before the Royal United Service Insti-
tute. Mr.. ThOs. Brassey, NJ. T., referred to the pro-
posed transfer of Pembroke shipbuilding yard to
Sydney, and said that the growth Of the Russian
navy in the Pacific made ii necessary for England
to have such facilities in that mart of the world
Mrs. Brassey has just published - A Voyage in the
Sunbeam with many illustrations, some of them
of Hawaiian scenery. the volcanoes. &c. The num-
Der OF the Leipzig Illustrated AeDS OF April p
contained Well-eXecuted portraits Of King kala-
kaua, his two sisters and the Queen. The July
number of PeteTmdnH'S Geographical MdgaziHe will
publish an excellent map OF the leeward group of
Kauai. Niihau. Lehua and Kaula, accompanied by
a descriptive article by your correspondent. The
last Hamburg biographical Monthly contains a
graphic description of Kilauea. by DIR. Max Buch-
ner, who visited Hawaii in 1876. A recent num-
Der of the French magazine lie Globe brought an
article on The Volcanoes of the Sandwich
Islands" by L.. II. de L.. a protessorship of Eng
lish Language and Literature will be founded next
year at the 6ouTishing young University of Otago,
N. u. The Japanese Government has Just awak-
ened to the necessity of preserving its forests. and
stringent regulations have been passed. which will
not only hinder the too rapid destruction OF
forests, but also increase the area covered by
woodlands-an example which Hawaii would do
well TO follow before it is too late. The execution
of a native of Tanna by hanging on board II. NJ. :.
Beagle is attracting attention in Parliament, and
papers have been called for. Referring to a dis
patch stating that Consul Layardah, at Woumea,
had recommended the execution Of the alleged
murderer, Mr.. BOurke very properly stated that
no instructions have been issued from the Foreign
Office empowering British consuls to advise the
execution of natives in the Pacific. The Paris
Geographical Society has accepted the following
position for Honolulu 2lo lS' 5G.S" north lat,
1879 81 So west long, as determined by the Bri-
Transit party. AT the Royal Institution. Pro-
fessor Flowers recently lectured on the Native
Races of the Pacific and before the chronological
Society, DR.. d.. Sharp read a paper on some Niti-
dulidae from the Hawaiian Islands. +. b.