The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-02-19
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preservation. Weight of relics about so pounds.
Skuthorpe starts for Sydney next coach
The AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN IN NEW ZEALAND
The members Of the Australian Eleven, who
visited England and played a number OF matches
last season in the various Counties with so large
an amount of success, commenced a tour through
New Zealand on Jan. 18th. Their first match
was the Eleven VS.. % of Invercargill. Tne latter
managed to run up a score oil III In both innings,
but the Australians won in one inning with SO
runs TO spare. The next match, UerSuS % of
Otago, was played on Jan. 20, 81 and %, and
resulted in another win for the Australian Eleven
by A runs. The scores were Australians, first
innings, 112 second innings, los total, 2l7.
Otago twenty-five, first innings, 81, second in
nings 90. The match against Is of Canterbury
was in progress when the mail left, the Canter-
bury men had scored 90 in their first innings,
and their opponents 95 for 3 wickets.
Following the Chilean forces in Peru and
Bolivia are hundreds of Chinese, lately employed
on haciendas visited by the ChiIeans. This horde
complete the work of rapine and plumber begun
by the invaders.
1t will cost the cotton planters of the Southern
States 40, 900 600 dollars to market this seasons
crop, of which 25 900 900 will go into the pockets
of negro laborers. This is better than slavery.
The schooner Mavis. Captain Rosen, arrived at
Sydney on January 11th from the Solomon Islands.
bringing news of further atrocities by islanders
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Sydney schooner Zephyr, and bis crew have been
massacred. The information is from native
report, hut Captain Rosen has no doubt OF its
authenticity. The Mavis was trading at Choiseul,
one of the large islands of the Solomon Group.
on November Ii, when q party of natives came
off to the vessel at a place called Bobetana, and
stated that the Zephyr had recently been at the
island and when she touched at Vavissy or
Wonda, some 70 miles from the abOve-named
place, the natives attacked the crew, and put
them to death in the usual native fashion. Alter
plundering the vessel of trade and island produce,
they burned her. Another report stated that a
white man and two natives had escaped. The
Zephyr was O schooner of 65 tons register, built
at the Bay of Islands in 1867. She traded for
some years between the Solomons and that
port, and was of late engaged trading among the
islands for Captain Schwartz, of the schooner
Leslie. Captain Rosen states that owing to the
success which the natives have achieved in their
attacks on European vessels and traders, scarcely
any part of the Solomon Islands is now safe for
vessels to visit, as the natives openly state that
they will capture other vessels, and that they
find the business more profitable than the ordinary
trading.
A destructive fire occurred in Sydney on 11th
ulto., by which the stores of NJ. Bechet, importer,
which stood between the Savings Bank and the
Daily Telegraph Office were Quilted. The loss is
estimated 1925 ,000.
VALPARAISO, January 2l.-Further intelli-
gepce which has been received from the seat of war
in Peru fully confirms the information previously
received respecting the capture Of Lima, the
capital of Peru, by the Chilean forces after q most
desperate fighting. 1t is now announced that the
Chileans, following up their victory, Immediately
advanced upon CallaO, which is six miles distant
from the capital, and is the principal seaport Of
the country, which place they also captured after
a short resistance. 1t is now expected that the
war will be speedily brought to a close.