The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-09-11
From Our Regular Correspondent.)
LETTER FROM EUROPE.-NO. 81.
LONDON. August 9Th, 1880.

~ LONDON, August 9Th, 1880.
Every day brings fresh news of the great exertions
Russia is making to concentrate a powerful war fleet
in the Pacific, in case of a war with China or some
other power, snd as some of these vessels may visit
Hawaii, an account of their movements must be of
interest to the ADVERTISERS readers. At present
the Siberian hotilla under the command of Admiral
Stackelberg consists Of his ~fagships, the wooden
clipper Dhigit, z guns, the aviso Abrek and four
g%unboats, with together % guns, and some smaller
vessels. There are now on the way thither the iron
clad frigates Minnie, % guns. and Prince Pojarski.
the latter q fast sailer with 20 guns, including ten
300 Founders, the cruisers Rasboinik (the Robbery
and Nsjedsnik, with II guns each, and the clipper
Kreuzer, 8 guns. In June last The Grand Duke
Constantine inspected seven more vessels, which
have been prepared at the Imperial dockyards at
Cronstadt to reinforce the Pacific feet. OF these the
screw cruisers Africa and Zabiaka sailed June Is,
and the floating battery Kreml followed on the 9th.
The latter however in crossing the Gulf of Finland
came into COLLISION with a Danish steamer and had
to put back to Cronstadt for repairs. On the 30th
the cruiser Rossia left that port with 800 men on
board. including 4 generals, ii colonies and 60
other officers, as well as sappers, miners, artillery
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millions cartridges and 10000 t~orpedoes. besides
two large completely armed torpedo cutters. This
vessel will be the sixth cruiser in the Pacific and six
more are to follow; 1900 more volunteers both Of
ticers and men are also going out to strengthen the
Pacific forces. On July 9Th the armed clipper Plas-
toon sailed from Cronstadt, followed by the merchant
steamer Malaga with munitions of war, officers
families and q detachment of marines. Orders have
also been given to prepare at once, four more of the
best torpedo boats and several vessels have been
chartered for transport service to the Pacific. The
ironclad Peter the Great has also left
Revel and the fast cruiser Europe sailed from Cron-
stadt July II, taking two staff and 85 other officers
and $50 soldiers. The ironclad frigate General Ad-
miral with 6 inch plates and four IL ton and two
81 ton guns, the corvette Askold and the cruiser
YsrOslsf, now at Marseilles, will soon follow. Pro-
badly the first class ironclad Duke of Edinburgh and
for the Pacific. The clipper Zhemtchug left Crou-
stadt July %, and 8 Russian transport frigates have
already passed through the Suez Canal on their way
to the Pacific. The commandment over this
great feet. which when complete, will number &c
large war vessels. 30 torpedo boats and a great
number of screw gunboats. transports, sailing
schooners, steam lighters and cutters, has been con-
ferred ON Admiral Lessofsky, late Director of the
Ministry of Marine. who in 1868 commanded the
Russian feet in the American waters. He has al
ready arrived at Port Said, where he will join the
Europe; Captain Novosilsky of the Peter the Great
will be his flag Captain and second in command.
The Spanish Government has also just decided to
send q number of men-of-War to the Pacific.
THE r. C.. WYLIE.
This Hawaiian vessel. which sailed from Bremen
April 16 for Honolulu. has been lost at sea. A
LlOyd's telegram dated Valparaiso July 20 reports
that the R. C. Wylie. Capt. Rackemann, barque of
472 tons register. built at Elspletts and belonging to
has been burnt at sea. The crew took to
their boats. were picked up and landed at VAL
paraiso.
THE -RMAN-HAwAII TREATY.
At the meeting of the Federal Council of the Ger
man Empire June LIST a notification was received
from the Imperial chancellor that the treaty of COM
merce. navigation and consul ship between Germany
and Hawaii, signed at Honolulu Sept. I9, 1879 and
passed by the German Parliament. has received the
Imperial ratification and that the exchange of the
documents took place April &c between the represen-
tatives of both countries.
Volume XII of the Encyclopedias Britannica, Just
published contains the article on the sHawaiian
Islands " by j. 7. johnson. The Duke of Man
chester, President Of the Royal Colonial Institute, is
shortly going out on a long voyage to visit all the
Australian colonies and will probably return by way
of FIJI and Honolulu. NJ. des Voeux. the acting
Governor Of FIJI during the recent absence of Sir
Arthur Gordon, has been appointed Governor of the
Bahamas. while Sir George. Strahan, late Governor
of the latter group. has been named Governor and
Commander-in-Chie of the Colony of Tasmania and
its dependencies. The Royal Geographical Society
announces that the subject for examination 10 1881,
for which it annually offers medals to the chief pub
lie schools, will be Polynesia. including New Zealand
both in physical and political geography.
- NAVAL NEWS.
The officers and men of Fl. M. S. Shah, have
erected q monument in Victoria Park, Portsmouth in
memory of their shipmates, who died during the
commission in the Pacific and 10 the Zulu war. The
composite sloop Miranda. 6 guns, Captain the Hon.
Danse, which has been in commission on the Austria
liam station since 1876. This vessel is just reported
as having bombarded two villages in Samoa where a
general massacre of the white residents was appre-
hended, but later kilograms state that quiet has been
restored. Fl. M. s. Bacchante will soon start for a
cruise in the Pacific with one or both of the Royal
on board. The German corvette Prince
Adalbert, with Prince Henry of Prussia on board,
has arrived at CapetoWn July 20; she is expected
home at Kiel by way of Plymouth early next month.
The German aviso Move Captain Won Kykbush,
sails in September for the Pacific to relieve the
The Australian Steam Navigation Com
pany IS reported as having decided to extent its re-
gular trips to Fiji and Tonga in future also to
Samoa, for which purpose the annual subsidy of
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