The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-01-22
Miscellaneos Items.

The announcement that the Viceroy of India
desired to be relieved has been contradicted.
A statue of Minerva by Phidias has been dis
covered during the excavations which are being
made under DIR. Schliemann's direction at Athens.
Serious bush fires have occurred in South Aus
tralia. accompanied by great loss of life and pro-
perty. In one place. a woman and her five
daughters and q son were burnt to death.
Tuhi, the Maori who murdered Miss Dobie has
been hanged. a singular circumstance occurred
In connection with this affair. Tuhi asserts that
it was drink that caused the mad impulse under
which he committed the murder, and before his
execution, wrote a letter to the Governor of New
Zealand praying that as he was to die, spirits
should die also. The following is the text Of the
letter 81 have heard that l am to be put to
death on Wednesday, and | am willing to die on
that day, but | have n word to say to you. As
l am to die, let spirits die also. Do not leave
any of its kind in the world. Let it be destroyed
from the face of this earth, lest it should remain
to cause trouble to man. Man should then be
answerable for his own troubles. If it was des-
troyed it would be well. Man would then seek
his own troubles. Then it would be well there
would be no cause for trouble. That is all from
Tuhiata."
The revenue ofGreat Britain for the last quar-
ter of 1880 shows an increase of SIS, 900 900 over
that of the same period in 1879. .
experiments with the sugar De6t nave proved
very successful in New Zealand.
The Pope has written q letter in which he
counsels the Irish clergy and people to separate
themselves entering from revolutionary acts.
The President of the Swiss Confederation, who
had been but quite recently elected to his posi-
ton. committed suicide in the streets Of Berne on
the 9th ult.
1t is rumored that a German feet will visit the
Pacific during this year, starting about March.
The Hon. Mr.. Boer, Attorney General of
Queensland, ommitte suicide on board the
Rotorua during her last passage from Sydney to
Auckland. He placed the muzzle of a gun load
ed with a charge of duck-shot under his chin and
discharged the piece, causing instant death.
A ship named the Juno, from America, with a
cargo of arms, has been seized off the mouth of
the river Shannon, on the West Coast Of Ireland,
where, 1T is presumed, her cargo was to be land
ed. The capture was effected without difficulty,
but the occurrence has caused q great excite
ment in the district around the Shannon.
The death of {" George Eliot the well-known
authoress, took place on the 22nd December.
SOUTH SEA ISLAND NEWS.
A Patent Slip MARINE Railway is about to
be erected at Levuka.
IL. NJ. S. Alert arrived at Levuka on the 18th
Dec. from Tonga. At first, as the ship approached
the port, it was generally surmised it was a ship
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the Governor, and all was hustle and confusion.
Bunting was recklessly hoisted, school children
prepared, and the various members of the public
bodies rushing about in dismay to find their
addresses, when. all at once, it dawned upon the
mistaken community that they had been inno-
Gently but thoroughly {" Sold"
The missionary barque 90 John Williams" has
arrived at Sydney from Samoa. The war was
still raging in Samoa when she left. with little
prospect of cessation, unless the English, German,
and American Consuls interfere. In the other
islands the chiefs had ceased fighting but were
watching each other. Malietoa, the King, is
dead. His successor is endeayorine to brlug
about a reconciliation, but with little success.
1t is believed that united action Of the Consuls
will prevent further bloodshed.
40 Solomon Islanders engaged on one of the
German cotton plantations, on Samoa, took to
the bush, and were so hard pressed with hunger
that they seized a boy who had fled with them,
and tied him up, and had a portion of him mapped
off by running a knife more than skin deep along
the favorite joints. A wild pig appeared, and
they left the boy and rushed after the pig. The
boy was discovered in an exhausted state by
Samoans.
The steamer Genie, of the Marquis De Rays
expedition, arrived at Sydney on the 9th Dec.
The Captain reports that, on the midas arrival,
New Ireland will be resolved upon as the site of
the new colony, at Port Breton, at the southwest
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getting the combined crews and settlers to clear
the lands, cultivating, building houses, &c. Five
houses are completed. One building was removed
from Takitaki to the new settlement. The build
ings are distributed over about two miles and the
colonists are comfortable, and working vigorously.
They comprise two classes-one connected with
the Marquis de Rays company, and the others
free settlers. There are two harbors half annie
apart, named English Cove and Irish Cove.
There is anchorage in deep water, and a splendid
stream of fresh water runs into each harbor.
The formation of roads is proceeding steadily
one to the Tikatiki district, q distance of five
miles. The captain of the Genie states that he
spent several hours in three streams n~avigable
for steam launches, and went up seven miles on
the shortest one. The colonists are in good
the place.
The chiefs of Rotumah have made a request to
the Government of Fiji, that the Island should
be annexed by the British to FIJI.
The new Church on Norfolk Island was conse-
Grated on November 18th. Quite a company of
clergy wentdown on the mission schooner "South-
ern Cross" to be present on the occasion. The
took forty-seyen visitors in all. The
church which is erected as a memorial of Bishop
is built of stone. 1t has some beautiful
stained glass windows; the gift of the Vicountess
The floor of the apse and the aisle of
the church, are laid with Deyonshire marble,
presented by friends. The font is of the same
material and of great beauty. This was presen-
ted by Bishop Patteson's sisters and near rela-
Miss Yonge the author OF the T" Life of
Bishop Patteson, . gave the organ and a sum in
aid of the building fund.
A devoted old servant of the Bonapartes has