The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-09-07
Correspondents OF the Pacific Commercial Adverils
LETTER FROM EUROPE.

LoKDoS, July 18th, 1878.
The bronze statue Of Captaln Cook, which Mr..
Woolner, X. A.. has designed for sydney, by de-
cree Of the New South Wales Legislature, has just
been finished and placed on exhibition here In the
large open space between the United Service Club
and the Athen@um, where II will remain for two
months, and then be forwarded 10 Its destination.
II represents the great mariner as be may have
appeared at the moment OF some great discovery
perhaps OF Botany Bay or Of Kauai-with his
right arm raised in exultation. The COSTUME w
that worn by naval men OF George ILLS time.
The figure Is 10 be placed on a grey granite pedes.
tai twenty-One feet high, on a site overlooking The
beautiful bay OF sydney, and visible even 10 Port
Jackson Heads. In connection herewith, Mr..
Allingham has written the following spirited lines
A STATUE FOR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES.
Cook, mariner Of whifby. gave ths chart
Another England In the great south Sea.
L.. Te-s%bodisd now By woolners art
VIII voyage 20 that Austrnlasian shore,
h Ssi s1ief. 2 a %f fSif e T Ensiish , %S4es cur OF Rss Say.
There, ON his breezy column, viii he stand,
The ~bloodless c~onqueror. viewing sea and land
FOR Charles, Vain the southern croes hangs bright.
And signify with that upiifted band,
Directing 10 al my brother Establishment r
Could not " Hawaii mel " procure n copy OF this
hoAhy "HN y Bf~NAhh ~ "" f1N h'1 R'Ahh W
Diamond Head, also show Its gratitude TO its mar
tyred dscRyererH
At the Anthropological Institute, a paper was
read last week on b" The Ethnology Of the Islands
Of the Pacific" by the Rev. s.. J. whiimee, for
many years a missionary In the South Sea. The
paper explained an photographic chart Of the Pa-
ciGc, colored according to the authors own obrer-
vations. He said the Melanesian or black race
.-s-A. L.. .,.orIaI a. The aInWfOfoaI uarVIa anA
probably extended once further across the Pacific
than now. The brown MaIayo-PoIynesian race
had doubtless ZONE from the west the diniculties
Of such migrations were not 70 great. az even
recently a vessel had arrived at Fotuna or Horne
Island. thought TO be a Chinese or japanese junk,
coutaioing 40 people. The third race in PolyDesia,
the Micronesians, differ considerably from beth
the others. They probably are primarily from the
Philippines or some other point 10 the Indian
Archipelago, but mixed with Melaneslan and
Malaga Polynesian, and perhaps Chinese and Ja'
paneso blood.
At the Astronomical Society, Captain Tupman
lectured on the measurements obtained from the
photographs Of the transit Of Venus taken By the
English expedition. This part Of the work proved
an entire failure. Yet another change has been
made in the determination OF the suns distance
from the transit observations. The fret estimate
Of 90, 3T5. 900 miles was diminished 10 0z, 300. 600,
while the latest Greenwich report gives about
%. coo, 900, which IL a satisfactory result, unlike the
others.
All matters relating 10 the construction OF q
Central American canal must be Of interest TO Ha-
waiians. According 10 the latest news from
Panama. Lieutenant Wyse has gone 10 Nicaragua
10 make arrangements for building an inter-
oceanic canal through that country.
On June Let u congress for concluding q worlds
postal union took place al Paris, at which Hawaii
was also represented. and communicated the pro-
liability Of later joining the union, which now
numbers some 80 States.
Natal Aeps-Tbe Tenedos IL again on her way
60 the PaciGc, and reached Bahia June 9Th. The
FdntO1ne, Commander Magnay. arrived at Ply
mouth July 9th, after Eve year, commission in
the Pacific. The Shah IA also on her way home.
aud will be replaced by the ironclad Triumph,
Captain Bradshaw, as flag -ship, which sailed from
Portsmouth May 21st. The German ~corvette
Leipzig. alter sailing from Honolulu June LIST,
arrived at Yokohama July 9Th. all well. Tho X.
q. Wylie left Bremen June goth for Honolulu.
VT