The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-02-11
Foreign Items.

EARTHQUAKE AT ToNGArABoo. The mission
brig John Wesley, from the New Hebrides, reports
that on the night Of November "a a severe shock
OF earthquake was felt at TUngataboo. Ii was by
lar the heaviest shock experienced there during
the past twenty years. The John Wesley was
the only vessel anchored IN the harbor at the
time. The shock was felt ia an alarming manner
by those on board, but on shore the whole island
misunderstanding ground rising and falling with a
progressive motion like the waves OF the sea,
making 1t impossible to stand. About tour miles
from the town Of Neukalofa u large valley was
formed, where before it was n level plain. The
weather two days before the occurrence was ex-
tremely hot and sultry.-S. NJ. Herald
INDIAN CooLIEs.-The Government of South
Australia Is about to take Il decided step towards
the solution of the difficult problem oil providing
50 cheap labor " for the Northern Territory. In
the past, Mennonites from Southern Russia
japanese, kanakas, and Chinese have all been
suggested as desirable immigrants, but the pro-
Jects Tor their introduction by the State fell
through, although the Chinese have succeeded in
obtaining a pretty firm footing by their own uu-
aided enterprise. Now that the sugar-growing
industry seems likely to be established on a large
scale IN the North, the Government has deter
mined to despatch. Major Ferguson to India to
try and arrange for Il regular supply Oh o1olie
labor.-AuStrdL0sidn.
How TO TEACH READING.-At IA recent meet
ing OF the St. Louis Pedagogical Society, the
duCctlOu VI TcduiuS III tue fuOlC SCHOOLS was
exhaustively discussed. One speaker wished for
reading with emphasis without stopping to spell
or explain. Reading. he thought, should be
taught in a manner similar to music. II music
was taught like the present system of reading,
the learner would be stopped at the end of each
chord, and questioned on the history and phi.
losophy of music before going to the next chord
to obtain harmony and melody. Another teacher
said that often in his reading-classes he gave the
pupils newspaper and magazine articles to read
silently at first, and afterward aloud, such parts
as were peculiarly interesting to them. thus cul.
tivating instructive reading. He claimed that
the best results and Iairest tests in reading were
obtained In instructive rather than in voice cul.
ture READINGS. F. Bulletin.
The VIsLIN FOR GIRLs. "A correspondent
writes to the Queen - do not know whether
1t made much way in the provinces, OF which my
acquaintance and experience are small, but in
and around London for twenty miles round there
Is hardly a family, blessed with IN average en-
dowmeht of girls, in which one of them is no
learning or destined to learn the violin. | even
attend the practices of concerts given by many
amateur musical societies in and around London
and generally find young ladies among the ranks
OF the violin players. On all sides there is album
dant evidence that the movement is general anC
strong. The violin dealers and masters tell the
same story. and | cannot doubt that ten years
hence the violin will be far more common in the
hands oi young ladies than it ever was 10 former
days among t!ieIr fathers and uncles."