The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-09-13
From our Regular CorresPondent-)
Letter from Europe-No. 30.
LONDON, Aug. 9Th, 1879.

LONDON, Aug. 9Th, 1879.
SUGAR PL6STERs
Will be interested to learn that the French Con-
sui at Valparaiso has informed his Government, that
all the sugar refneries in Chile being unable to OBJ
tain their supply Of raw sugar from Peru In conse-
duence Of the war between these republics, will have
to look elsewhere to supply their demands, which is
stated to exceed 30 million pounds per year.
GERMANY AND SAMOA.
Captain Zembsch of the Imperial Navy, the new
German Consul-Genersl for Samoa, Tonga and the
Western Pacific, started last month for his new
post via San Francisco. From Sydney q German
war vessel will first convey him to Tongatabu,
where be will have an interview with King George,
and then proceed to Apia, where be expects to ar
rive in October next, and make . round trip
through the archipelago. Captain Zembsch is &C
companied by bis secretary Herr Won Oerbzen, for
merly Of the New York Consulate.
The GOVERNOR OF FIJI
Before leaving for his colony last month Sir Ar
thur Gordon was presented with q farewell address
by q deputation Of the Aborigines Protection Society,
serve the Fijian people from the fate which has over
taken so many native tribes in the South Seas, and
for his reforms without subjecting native customs
and institutions to too rude q shock.
The FRENCH IN THE PACIFIC.
The French warship Victorieuse, with which
Admiral Dupetit Thouars was to take possession of
the New Hebrides, having been ordered to Chile,
another vessel will leave Noumea to explore that
archipelago. The French Press is urging the i'm
mediate annexation of the islands in order to pre-
vent England or Germany from doing 30. In Tahi-
ii the present population is 1851, of which 1902
are natives, ,343 Europeans and 406 Chinese the
latter have decreased some 120 since 1875. OF the
Europeans $50 are French, 263 English and 40
Germans. Papeete, the capital, has only 1852 in
habitsnts including the garrison. The last trade re-
turns ofTahiti value last years imports at 3 mil
lions francs $500, 000) while thu exports only
amounted to % millions (S500 ,000). During
June last a large number of soldiers and pardoned
convicts sailed from New Caledonia in transports, al
together over $500 persons.
NAVAL AND MARINE NEWS.
Rear Admiral Fred Stirling has left England by
mail steamer to relieve Rear Admiral Dehorsey as
commander in chief of the Pacific. By the last Adj
miralty return there are now nine vessels on this
station, and a squadron Of the same number in Aus
tralis in charge of commander Crawford Wilson.
Admiral Dehorsey has applied for an additional
grant of el00 900 in aid of the naval dock at Esqui-
malt. The Russian Government has sent out q
General accompanied by a naval captain to Eastern
Siberia to select a new fortified point on the coast
as a maritime station for the Russian feet in the
Pacific. The Opal, Shah and Tsnedos are ordered
home. The German corvette Bismlrk, l6 guns,
Captain Deinbard, sailed from Valparaiso March 1,
touched at Raiatea, Society group, in the middle of
April and arrived at Apia, Samoa, June %, relieved
the -dTfddne, which reached Batavia July 6. on the
way home. Her captain Won Werner, is said to
have hoisted the German flag at Mioko and Makado
in the Duke of York group. By the new contract
the P. & o. s. N. Co will forward the mails from
London to Melbourne in 80 days. The Orient Line
5. 5. CuSco has just made the fastest passage on
record between Adelaide and Plymouth her time
81 days 10 hours including detentions, beats the
hitherto quickest passage by "a hours. The new 5.
g.. RotomatanG leaves this week for the Pacific, be-
ing specially built to cary mails between Australia
and New Zealand. The AUGUSTA, Captain Shu-
macher, sailed July 10 from Cardiff for Honolulu.
NOTES.
The Strangers Home for A~siatics, Africans and
South Sea Islanders at Lime House is in need of aid.
O. A. Proctor, the astronomer, goes to the U. s. in
October next to lecture travelling westward and
reaching San Francisco in May 1880, he will then
go to New Zealand and Australia, thus passing
through Honolulu. Ceylon coffee planters are at
last succeeding in Kidding their plantations Of that
most destructive pest, the Hemeleia vastatrix, pop
prevalent in The Kona coffee district on Hawaii and
there called black blight. DR.. Noaris of the Botani-
cal Gardens. is the discoverer of a specific in a mix
ture of sulphur and lime, which is applied in a
state of powder to the leaves and branches of the
trees and one application of which sufices to des-
troy the flaments and spores in a few hours. F. b.