The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-07-08
European Correspondence.
tFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
LETTER Ne. 84.-LoNDoN. May so, 1882.

NOTES AND ITEMS.
In describing the new British Admiralty map
of the Hawaiian Islands in IA recent letter, |
omitted to say, that this chart Is naturally very
much superior to the American map. published
at the photographic Office, Washington, which
Is stall based entirely on the old survey by Wilkes
U. 5 Exploring Expedition in lS4l, and in COM
parIsOn with which the new British map shows a
very different cOastline of ali the islands, as well
as II superior delineatIun of their inland cunfgu-
rationR.
English papers have recently published some
letters from passengers, on board of the steam
yacht CeylUn, describing their visit to Honolulu,
liIlO and KIlAuea. They are all enthusiastic on
tie rubject OF Hawaiian lie and scenery. but
one correspondent to the Daily NetCs makes
some serious complaints about the management
of the FOlcan0-hOuse. He says, thew found the
landlord drunk and disagreeable. and grumbles
about paying the exorbitant price o. ten dollars
ior the privilege of spending twelve hours in
the hotel, amidst insolenee, discomfort and re-
stricted diet.
The new palace. which has recently been
erected at IA cost of over a mIllio of dollars for
the King. is now completed. end 400 tons of fur
niture, valued at half ii million, has arrived to be
placed in it. | should have eaid fur the King
ni-Sam.
A violent earthquake occurred at the Azures on
the 2"d instant. destroying churches, public
buildings aud many houses. This is likely TO
further stimulate emigration To Hawaii.
Letters from Reunion state THAT no improve
meht has taken place in the treatment OF the
HIndoo coolies employed on the sugar plantations,
ana that deaths among them from violence are
now Of frequent occurrence.
The Queen has granted To the Anglo Australian
Guano Company at Hobart town, Tasmania. a
license to export guanO Tor three years irom De-
tOber. 1881, from Bird Island, in the South Pa
ciic. la-tude % 10 South, and longitude 1859
2S East. also to a priv tie firm from Sydney ISL
and. in latitude A % South, and longitude
III ID West.
A daily paper writes about Five Years in
Hawaii :'-'Captaiu Nicholson combines instruc-
ton and the results of actual experience, with
CHEEKY chat for the inquirng reader, who might
not be tempted by a drier catalogue of facts, con-
corning the Island realm of that genial gentle
man, who visited US last year, King David Kala-
kaua.' (The Daily Ne1os
Nicaragua has just joined the Universal Postal
Union, which now includes all South American
States, except Bolivia and Costa Rica. The Aus
tralian and South African Colonies have also begun
for entering. On the first instant
the Union embraced a teIritory Of over so millions
square kilometers, with a population of $780,
62S, 937 souls, or about two thirds of the worlds
entire population.
The recent solar eclipse was successfully OBJ
served by the foreign astronomers in Egypt.
Next year a total eclipse of the sun occurs with a
maximum totality of six minutes, with it's course
almost entirely over the Pacific Ocean.
This months Contemporary ReUieD contains an
article on 1.-The last King of Tahiti" by Miss
Gordon Cumming, author of L" AT Home in Fiji