The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-18
FROM THE ANTIPODES.

By the arrival of the S. S. Ala
media files of Australian and New
Zealand papers to December I'd and
Samoan papers to the 9th inst. have
been received.
New Zealand.
The event of the month past has
been the opening of the New Zea-
land exhibition at Dunedin.
Preparations are being made for
the celebration of the jubilee of
the colony at Auckland on January
18th.
During October two Chinese ar
rived at Auckland and twelve left.
The first wool sales of the season
were made on November 9th.
Prices were very good and showed
an advance of one penny per pound
on last season sales.
The ship County of Carnarvon
bound from Newcastle to Valparaiso,
is supposed to have foundered off
the Coast. All hand lost.
Messrs. John Dillon, John Deasy
and Sir Thomas Esmonde have been
pleading the Irish Home Rule cause
with great success; $4,000 have
been obtained for the fund.
The bark Rebecca Crowell, the
first vessel to carry New Zealand
fax forward sailed from Wellington
for Boston on October 26th.
Captain Yates has been elected
mayor of the Onehunga district.
The French flagship Duquesne
sailed November 5th for Cherbourg
via Valparaiso.
New South Wales.
Searle, the oarsman, is i'll with
typhoid fever.
Smallpox is stated to have broken
out at Adelaide, South Australia
also in Melbourne.
The federation movement grows
apace. The subject has overshad-
owed all others.
The new mayor of Melbourne is
Matthew Lang.
The Sydney Centennial hall was
opened on Nov. 9th.
The New South Wales Parliament
opened Nov. 26th.
The German man-of-war Alexan
drina was to sail about Dec. l fol-
Samoa to relieve the corvette Sophie
The Norwegian bark Norge was
burned at sea and the passengers
and crew took to the boats. The
ship Candide rescued them and
brought them to Port Jackson, ar
irving Nov 26th.
The German warship Alexandrina
arrived at Sydney Nov. 2 and re-
ports having hoisted the German
flag on the Solomon group and also
on the Howe's group. A village was
burned as reprisal for murder OF
two Germans.
Growing is made by business men
at there being no local insurance
agents.
Heavy rains have visited Apia.
Apia experienced an earthquake
shock on November 10Th. No dam
age.
Thirteen islands have been an,
nexed by II. B. M. S. Egeria, "situ-
ated near the Ellice and Phoenix
groups"
The Samoan Times states that ali
is now quiet and peaceful in the
group.
Although Samoa has an exclusion
act, yet Chinese now arrive there in
large numbers.
The q. S. S. Adams and two Jap.
anese training ships had arrived al
Apia.
Thanksgiving day was duly cele.
brated at Apia by an entertainment
on board the Adams. Malietoa and
Mataafa, with their suites, were
present.
The butchers propose TO reduce
the price of fresh meat TO 20 cents
per pound.
The New York Tribune SAYS the
throne of Hawaii can be had for
100000. 1t is wonderful how light
ly the New York and Boston papers
speak OF Hawaii since San Francisco
took from those cities the trade Of
that kingdom.
When l think of the towel, the old
fashioned towel, that used to hang
up by the printing house door,
think that nobody In these days OF
shoddy can hammer out iron to weal
Guinness, the brewer, has given
$1,000,000 for the erection of i'm.
proved dwellings, for the laboring
poor of London. There is some