The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1882-03-15

IL uenleu the BRITISH commissioners claim to take
possession of her effects to dispose of in case of
a British subject dying here /; but appointed him
/ with Mr.. Walker, the British Vice Consul admin
/ lstrators of the estate, they consenting to the
jurisdiction of this Court The position of the
British Commissioner Under the orders of a Ha-
waiian Court seem TO be anomalous.
CORRESPONDENT enquiries why the postage on
letters from Hawaii 10 France and Germany is
larger than from those countries to the Islands, If
our correspondent will look up the L. p. L. rules
he will find that there is a maximum and a mini
mum charge allowed. Large countries like the
United States, Great Britain, France and Ger
many can afford 20 use the minimum. but all
small countries, for the sake of revenue avail
themselves of the larger rates. Hawaii does not
charge the full rate that would be allowed by the
U. z. U. rules. The countries of South America
avail themselves of every cent that can be derived
from this source of income, but the rates of the
great countries never differ no matter where they
are sending in the Union. Fuller information
can be CLEANED from the pamphlets issued by the
Central Bureau of the L. y. u.
Nor much is known about Corea, but every now
and then an isolated bit of information about
Coreans gets into print. The last piece that has
turned up is relative to their musical proclivites
Unlike other Asiatic nations these people have
fine taste for European music. 1t was stated lately
that the COrean Ambassador in Japan was anxi-
Gus to obtain the services of foreign musicians to
instruct some of his countrymen whom he had
brought over with him. This is certainly a curl
Gus feature among people, who are, according to
the Celestial Empire Ignorant of sluggish tenn
permanent lnhospitable TO strangers and possessing
the worst vices Of SCANDINAVIAN and northern
tribes" If they admire this art, they are also
adopts in one of the EuroDean vices. Drunkenness
Is one of their besetting sins. Champagne and
sherry, brandy are, according to one traveller.
their favorite beverages but they will take brandy
and sherry JaH de WieHr. Claret is the only thing
they cannot stomach. Anyone wishing to cure
the Coreans of this vice and also of outstanding
NhlT Lett ratn - n.
pean music. Perhaps the musician will prove the
better missionary in this rude land.
IL answer to a remark of the GAzErTE's. that it
would have been satisfactory to have had letters,
similar 10 that published by Mr.. Davies in the
Times printed in the German papers, number Of
communications have been received containing
clippings of German papers by which il is clearly
shown that such action has been taken. 1t appears
that very virulent attacks against our labor sys-
tenn had been brushed up in several of the German
papers, based upon the abominable charges of the
Chronicle These had been promptly met by
letter from the pen of gentleman who was practi-
cally and thoroughly acquainted with the whole
labor system of the Islands The letter was
reproduced in all the German papers that had
gwen circulation to the Chronicle calumnies. and
further copies of the counter-statement were for
warded for translation 10 Madeira and the Azores
The Ue-eT ZeititRy, the paper in which the coun-
statement appeared, has large circulation III
Norway, so that the antedote will be read in that
country as we'll and will no doubt be translated
into the yernacular of the country. After hearing
this, we must agree that our German friends have
have given the widest circulation possible to their
retHtation of the calumnies published against us.
ANEW work on Siberia has been lately published
by Mr.. Henry Landsdell. 1t is spoken of as the
wallace's Russia" The great value of the book
IS its accounts of prison life Mr. Iandsdeu
sxpodes the ATROCITIES of the Rassophobist in
much the same way that Thomas William Akin
son did twenty-five years ago. Not that the pri-
sons are not bad enough but the prisons of Siberia
IRE by no means 30 bad painted. The very
worst he visited were in Abo, and wiborg in Fin
and. These were most dismal The descent was
by steps, candles had to he used in visiting
prisoners in the lower rooms only dim light
inferred through windows IN the wall ten feet
hck. The irons used were ten times the weight !
# any others he had seen in Europe. A notice Of
. Nihilist prisoner who had been concerned in |
,ne Of the attempts upon the life OF the late En-
,eror is interesting. He was sentenced 10 tho I
mines, and no doubt popular imagination rcicrad f.
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