The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-09-03


LETTER No +S-LOSD0S, june 18th, 1881.
NOTES
while HaWaiians are being iccimated by the
smallpox, the inhabitants Of this great city are
no lees suffering from the terrible scourge. BY
the ofhcIal report, the total number Of deaths
from smallpox in LONDON, during the l. weeks
Ecm July Ist - ApE.! 3Oth was g2O. of which
$50 took place IN private dwellings and the
Others IN the public hospitals. Lately the deaths
have averaged 50 per week, about 10 per cent. VI
-he cazes proving fatal. There are now over
1000 ctses 90 tle Metropolitan hospitals AMI NJ
uorc rom available. - that old huIk- are being
ssei 80 hospital ships. kilograms from Ha-
ANNA STATE thI. lhr7 years regular crop s
19w c7.imatsI 20 5000 tons, being . decrease
% $500, " over l. Zee cent, as compared
~i.a last year The Hawaiian bark Iolani,
GarreI-, mister. slilsi from Bremen. May 2lst
D= Honolulu, and pa--sd OF Psnzlu-s 90 ,ne
Goth.
LETTER No. 4y--LJyD0S, July lst, 1851.
NAVAL NEWS.
Captain James =. Erskine K. y, Las been ap-
pointed 70 the Nelson, when commissioned. in
which ship be goes 10 succeed CommJdyre Wilson
N the command OF the Australian station and o.
relieve the wolverine As hag-ship. The Nelson.
y guns, armour plated, double screw 1923 tons,
1000 horse power, - a new ship and has not yet
been in commission. The screw sloop Mutine, 6
guns, Commander X. Edwards, sailed from Ply
mouth on June 10Th for the Pacific station 70 take
:be place Of the Inflated Doterel. The corvette
DaDac. Captain Jarves. arrived AZ Spitheai ON the
2fth ult. from the Australian station, where she
has been Ia commission since 1877. She was
relieved by the Miranda. The German gunbOats
Habicht and Now were at Apid, Samoa, by last
accounts, having relieved the Hyena and Nautilus,
under orders 20 come home from the South Pacific
BY way of Suez Canal.
NOTES.
While . despatch from Paris announces that
-hs Panama Canal can be built in I years and IL
a Gust OF 100 million francs below the original
estimates, direct news from Panama i much more
uDiayOrable. The works on the canal are reported
% be making very slow progress and dissltIsiac-
zion and Reorganization prevail among the en-
pi0yecs. The stations have been abandoned, the
working brIgadss disbInded and many wsrkmen
discharged. y number Of engineers are said also
- have returned home. Esqurmalt, rhe only
British naval station ON the american shores %
The North Pacific, has been put in q complete
state OF d suse, be- an extensive system vi forth
iicatiOns. executed under the authority Of the
Canadian Government. The heavy ordnance,
equipments etc. have been purchased IRON the
AAtAN 'f0N@AAA4Nilbr lbf IIEitlU Gttatt INST
month agreed to the bill establishing q mail ser
vice TO New Caledonia by way VI Reunion and
Australia In consequence OF the numerous out
RACES which have recently taken place among che
Western Pacific lslauds. the British Government
- now considering the best plan for maintaining
law and order IT. that part Of the Pacific. The
new arrangement will probably be Of an inter-
national character, with a Mixed Commission
Court for the trial Of KidnappeTs Of different
Municipalities.
LETTER No. jl.-LONDoN. July 18th, 1881
NOTES.
The following Reuters telegram. dated san
Francisco. June 2gth. has been published here
Oy MI the Iapers Intelligence from Hawaii
received here. reports that the Swedish contract
immigrants were badly treated and that sickness
arrived at Victoria, Vancouver Island, on July
9TH, direct from China, having On board 800
Chinese immigrants. An attempt was made 20
collect the provincial schOOl-tax, a. the Chinese
we're landing. but the latter attacked and beat
:he officials and refused payment. The recent
census Of EictOria, Australia, gives the present
number Of natives 76S against 1880 in 1871 and
Of Chinese IL 500 against 5000 ten years ago.
4 recent number OF :be Saturday ReUieu1 thus
speaks OF " HONOLULU Sketches OF Life. Social,
Political and Religious in the Hawaiian Islands.
lS2S-6l, by Laura Fish Judd. .. Mrs. Judd's
account Ol the Hawaiian Islands - worthy the
attention 1f those who are az all interested 10
che fortunes - . peculiar, euviabie. and. we
fear. n doomed community. Her sketches have
nc any rate the merit % comparative breyity.
though there - q certain dispr1PortiOn IN the
space given 70 different topics. not according 10
their intrinsic value or general interest. but @
the connection herewith. There has Just been
published e Historical Sketches OF Savage Life
IN POLYNESIA, :" SvO., BY the Rev. W. W. Gill.