The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-08-12
European Corresponding.
PROM L owS CORRESPONDENT.
LETTER Ne. Solomon, July 10, 1882

LETTER Ne. S7.-LoSDoN, July 10, 1892
PERSONAL NOTES.
The following Honolulu residents are now in
Europe: Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Phuger are passing the
summer at Sanct Blazien, Baden Mr.. c. A.
Williams, with Mrs. and Miss Williams are now
at Paris, and VIII soon go to Switzerland; they
will probably return to America next year.-Mr.
and Mrs. Frederick Banning are residing at
Wiesbaden, Germany.-Mr. Theo. II. Davies,
after a stay Of several months here, is about TO
return to Honolulu.-Mr. Alexander, of Haiku,
paid q visit to his sister at Stuttgart last month,
and after a short trip to Switzerland and London
he returns to Honolulu by this mal.-Miss Lot
tie Alexander remains at the Musical Conserya-
tory at Stuttgart; l hear that she will, some day,
prove TO be another Hawaiian nightingale.-The
Bishop OF Honolulu attended the Conversations
OF the ROYAL Colonial Institute last week.-Sir
Henry Parkes sailed on the 2d inst. on the
lr;ent S. S. John Elder, for Sydney.-The sad
Tvs of Captain Hopes death at Honolulu
cached the Admiralty here on the 81 inst. by
cablegram; Captain CT. r. Hope, was appointed
to the Champion in December 1880, then COM
missioned at Sheerness; Captain Russell G.. S.
Paisley has been appointed to succeed him. join
ing the vessel on the China station.-Vice-Ad-
miral Robert Hall, c. B., who commanded
Inns. TeTmagant in the Pacific in 1868, died
OH the llth ult.-The London Gazette all
nouncs that H. VI. the Queen has been pleased
to approve Of 7. Charles Elliott Anderson as
COnsul-Genergl FOR the DOmlnlOnS of Canada, to
reside at Ottawa, Tor the King of The Hawaiian
Islands. Mr. William Kupsen has been APP
pointed swedish Consul at Levuka, Fiji.-It is
expected that Sir J. Pope Hennessy, Governor of
Hongkong, will resume his official duties in
November next.
PARAGRAPHS.
A cable despatch from the Hawaiian Minister
of the interior has been received by the Royal
Commissioner of Emigration here, requesting
him to stop shipment of Portuguese emigrants
till further orders. This decision, which Is pro-
bahly dDa 10 the refusal of the Hawaiian IpGiS-
lature to grant an appropriation for Immigration
is very important at the present time, when SO
favorable a spirit exists on the part of the Por-
tuguese to emigrate to Hawaii, and it is TO be
feared that the suspension of operation just
now, will prove prejudicial.
The coolie traffic between India and the
French Island of Reunion has not yet been stop
ped, but the Governor-G neral has received
orders that the emigration must be suspended i'll
October, unless the French Government gives
such guarantee as will ensure the execution of
the Emigration Convention.
The Maori chief Hirini Taiwhanga, with two
followers,-Wiremu Publ TIE Hihi, and Hakena
Parore, have arrived here by the Australian
steamer. They come as a deputation represent
ing the Ngapuhi Tribe, to appeal to the Impe-
rial Government against repeated breaches of
the treaty of Waitangi by the colonial authorities.
Their spokesman speaks excellent English,
having been educated in the late Bishop Sell
wyn's mission school. They bring an address
and some presents for the Queen.
The Germqn Commercial and Plantation Co.
of the South Sea Islands, which acquired the
possessions of the late Godefroy firm in Samoa,
has issued its yearly report, from which it APP
pears, that the account for 1881 closes with Il
net loss of 30, 900 marks. or $4,000 There is
a mortgage of So, 900, 900 i'll 3 per cent. bonds
on the Samoa plantations. In the beginning of
1881 some 100 laborers were employed on them,
while at present there are barely 1000.
One of the largest military furnishing estab-
lishments at Berlin has received an order from
L - f.o NIL r,pH1 ~
of leather equipments, comprising helmets,
cartridge-pouches, belts, saddles, &c.
The Daily .NetDs writes A curious series OF
what might be called Blue Books, but for the
fact that though their wrappers present many
y~arities of color, blue does not happen to be
among them, has reached us from Honolulu.
They consist of the biennial reports to the
Legislative Assembly of various officials of the
Administration of King Kaulakaua, and refer to
finance, judicial statistics, immigration. condi-
ton of the country, and the industry, cOmmerce
aud health of the people of Hawaii.
The reports which are drawn up in a methodical
manner, present many facts of interest, and in
dictate a remarkably complete and intelligent
organisation in most departments of the State.
NAVAL NOTES.
H.M.S. Swiftsure, the new flagship for the
Pacific, arrived at Rio Janeira on the End inst.
The Triumph was to leave Coquimbo the end
of June for Valparaiso. to meet the Swiftsure at
Sandy Point by the middle of the present month.
The Russian jronclad Peter the Great is under
orders to proceed to Vladivostock, in the Pacific,
with $4,000 pools of war material. The Ger
man corvette Elizabeth, 10 guns, Captain Holl-
man, arrived at Yokohama, May 10th, 33 days
from Honolulu. A Lloyd telegram states that
the Adonis arrived at New York on the 26th
ult., $50 days from Honolulu.
P.S.-July 11th.
The Hansa left London on the 22d of June
and arrived at Lisbon on the 26 of the same
month. She left again on the I'd or Sd instant
on the 18th instant. But as there is no tele-
graphic connection with the Azores, we shall
have no news of her departure until the arrival
of the next mail at Lisbon, due there about the