The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21
LETTER FROM EuRorr-No. lO2.
LONDON, March oOtb. 1888.

LONDON, March Goth, 1888.
The sailing OF the German SIS. Ehrenfels, Capt.
Fisher, with some 700 emigrants on board for
Honolulu direct, was a great event for the pJrt Of
BTeme.5aven, on the % d ult., and hardly ever
before had such crowds eongTegated on the docks
and wharis 10 bid the vessel and it's passengers
goodbye. The Ehrenfels is a new steamship,
built in 1882 by Wigham Richardson, Low
Walker, Of 232S tons (l5lS nett, with four
watertight compartments and wa,cr-ballast.
During her two previous voyages to the East
Indies her sea-going qualities have beer found
excellent. The steerage is higher than usually
en- passenger boats, and contains two divisions
one for the married couples and children, the
other for bachelors. The only single woman
was married on board on The day Of sailing.
The emiSrants from the lower Weser districts
went on board in the forenoon, and later Il
specitl train from Bremen brought the others,
principally from Northwestern Germany. The
vessel has bceu fully equipped for its 80 to
TO days vnyase, and even took along an electric
apparatus tor lighting its way through
Magellsn Straits at night. As the vessel was
towed out, cheers were raised by the eurigrants
and by their numerous friends on shore.
HAWAIIAN CoNsULs.
La consequence OF the debate in The Gei man
Parliament on the subject Of emigration to the
Hawaiian Islands (fully referred to in my last
letter., Herr j. G. Pauger, Hawaiian Consul
General at Bremen, has addressed a letter 10 the
- Weser ZeItuns," of that city, in which he
very ably reiutes tie charges brought against the
Hawaiian labor system, especially those By the
deputy, Herr kaTP. In reply to a paragraph
which appeared in the Standard, with II view TO
showing that the Hawaiian Kingdom is very in
significant, Mr.. Manley Hopkins, Hawaiian Con-
sul-General here, published a letter, in which,
without attempting to dispute the fact, he OBJ
serves that by the laws of perspective all objects
at a great distance appear small, and then quotes,
without further comment. the leading figures
from the recent statistics of Hawaiian commerce
during 1882, which 90 far to show that little
Hawaii is after all not quite so Insignificant.
PARAGRAPHS.
Sir Arthur Gordon, IL. NJ. High Commissioner
for the Western Pacific, referred in n recent lee
ture on the Fiji Islands to the announcement Of
the death Of ex-King Thakombau. He said he
wished publicly to express not only the regret he
felt at the intelligence, but also his sense OF the
loss which the colony OF FIJI had sustained there
by. ST: Arthur has just been appointed Governor
of Ceylon, but, | believe, has not yet definitely
accepted the post.
TIE German Emperor has appointed Herman
Meuel Consul OF Papeete, Tahiti, in place of
Gustav Godefroy, resigned.
The French Government have selected New
Caledonia. the New Hebrides, and the Loyalty
Islands, in tie West Pacific. as places to which
habitual criminals shall be transported under the
Bill now pending
The report of the Universal Postal Union for
1882 states that the Union now includes a popu-
latIon Of nearly S32 millions, and an area Of over
so million square kilu!neiers. The acccssions TO
the Union in 1882 inciaded Hawaii and
Nicaragua, and since the beginning Of the present
year Costa Ricl has been added to the number.
The Campus, S~chratmeyer master, sailed
March 2nd from Bremen for Honolulu.