The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-12-06
THE PACIFIC
Commercial A0bfrtisrr.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6.
From cur Regular CorresPondentI
Letter from Europe-No. 81.

LONDON, Oct 10Th, 1873.
NEW BOOK ON HAWAII.
The -flheneum says "An English gentleman,
Mr.. Godfrey Rhodes, who has established a large
plantation and factory in Hawaii, aud who has re-
sided IN that island for many yeArs. has prepared
an elaborsSe account Of the Hawaiian group, which
he contemplates publishing 10 England. This re-
cord would naturally have greater value than the
impressions Of mere visitors to the interesting half
way house in the Pacific. One chapter Of this
work deals With the recent intercourse between the
Americans and the HaUaiIans. aud may shortly
make its appearance in q separate form
PRINCE HENRY AT HONOLULU.
A recent number Of the German periodical U6eT
Land aud -HesT contained several sketches of
Prince Henry Of Prnssia's visit 10 Honolulu By an
artist on board Of the Prince -AdqlbeTt. One pic
ture represented a native man and woman of Oahu,
whose portraits gave no very fatteriDg idea Of Ha-
gaiiasstyle of beauty; another showed the Prince
with bis suite in carriages driving through the en-
trance to Aliiolani Hale TO meet the King, with ka-
bij bearers in advance and kanakas lining the road,
and o third depicted the Princes departure, at the
boatlandiug with Pierce's ship c~handlery in the back
ground and TWO ladies presenting flowers to the
Prince, vino is standing in the boat.
Egag- DR. oTToTISocH
writes from Honolulu that be has succeeded in
making large collections in Oahu and Maui, and
that be has forwarded boxes containing 300 animals,
90OOpfahts and 8 splendid series of kanaka skulls
from the old Wainanalo burial grounds to Berlin.
NOTES.
NThe British Admiralty has contributed ITO charts
Of Adstralasia and Polynesia 10 the Sydney ExhIbi-
ton. The DAILY -Neu1s says. the Panama canal
would shorten the voyage Of ships from London to
Honolulu by 1880 leagues. Sir Geo. Elliot NIP. in
tends to erect q monument to Captain Cooke on a
prominent site IN his estate at West Glib near
W~hifty where the great navigator spent several
years The Imperial Commissioners now IN British
Columbia examining the defences have condemned
tenGbIe in case Of war. II. NJ. s. Opal recently
visited Pitcairn Island and placed an American
organ in the Church, asa gifi Of Queen Victoria to
the blsndsls; the first tune played was God save
the Queen
NAVAL NEWS.
At Callao, Peru, Sept. 10. Rear Admiral Stirling,
the new commander in chief in the Pacific, hoisted
his flag on board the Triumph, his predecessor,
Admiral Deborsey, has already arrived here The
British feet on the Pacific station now Numbers IL
vessels, and q new despatch boat and another iron
clad. the Shannon, 9 guns, 5439 tons and 1870
horsePosery are % the way out. The late flagship
commission in the Pacific. Rear Admiral Ed. Tur-
nour, who commanded the ChGTy6dis in the Pacific
IN 1861. has been gazetted Vice Admiral aud
Admiral Ohasr smith, who vas second Captain Of
the PreEidsnt, flagship Of Admiral c. b. Ross in the
Pacific in 1S3942. died Oct 8, at Tunbridge Wells.
The Baechante sailed Sept. 25 from Portland for a
cruise around the world with the Prince Of Wales
two sons on board; she goes first to Gibraltar,
- 11N1 a. AN7oA--
AsIanberg has hOisted his flag at Naples on board
the ironclad Minnie and sails via Suez Canal to
take command Of the North Pacific squadron, which
" to include u of the sWiftest vessels TO act as pri-
vateerB in case Of war. Yokohama will be chief
station Of the deet, which includes three clippers, the
new cruiser -Asia. built in America, and the corvettes
Dfhitgfrand Ras6oHfk and the new clipper NGeds-
mix, now on the way out from Cronstadt. The
Minnie is the first Russian ironclad that will pene-
trate TO the Pacific. Germany has now four naval
stations in the Pacific VaVaO in Tonga; Mioko and
Mskado. Duke Of York Island, New Britain; Jalluit
in Marshall group and Saluafata or UpOlu, Samoan
IslandL The .ATiadne and LEIPZIG have returned
home from the Pacific; the latter visited Honolulu in
May, 1873. The Prince -AdaIbeTt with Prince
Henry Of Prussia IS still in japanese waters, her
Captain. Msclean, will be appointed Rear Admiral
on his return in September 1880. The Bismarck
has sailed from Apia for Sydney to show her flag at
the Exhibition Her Captain Bernhard has orders
to negotiate similar treaties with the independent
groeps Of EASTERN Polynesia, like those already con-
cluded with Samoa, Tonga, &c The Nautilus has
passed Singapore on the way to the Pacific 10 relieve
the AlbGfT0ss- The Austrian corvette Heigoland
Is also at Sydney. Count Monts who brought the
VTnefn to Honolulu in 1876 has been acquitted for
the third time at the final court martial in connection
with the sinking Of the Grosssr KuIfHrst under his
command The RaIs, Rothfos master, sailed Oct.
LIST from Hamburg for Honolulu. f.. b.