The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-04

\ Maori was executed at Auck-
land, New Zealand, on May ID. He
murdered a whole family.
H. B. u. S. Rapid has gone from
FIJI to Samoa, and viii probably re-
main there for a considerable time.
The Trust and Agency Company
Of Australasia has declared q div
dend at the rate Of 224 per cent. per
annum.
The sum Of E1,192 has been re
ceived by the Brisbane central com
mittee towards the Parneu indem-
nifty fund.
At Dry Greek IS. A. a strong
stream Of water has been struck at d
depth Of 250 feet, the yield reaching
10000 gallons per day.
The Agent-General for Tasmania
predicts that the colony he repre-
sents will possibly become a mari
time power in Australasia.
Experts agree that it is almost i'm
possible that the recent fire at the
Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, can have
been caused by the electric-lighting
apparatus.
Mr.. Deakin, Of Victoria, has prom
ised to support the request for the
elevation OF the political status Of
Western Australia to the level Of the
other Australian colonies.
The sum Of $4,000. shipped on
board the r. N. S. Iberia at Sydney.
has been stolen. The theft is sup
posed to have been effected while
the vessel was at Melbourne.
The Union Company's steamer
Australia and the tugboat Awhine
cOlided in the Rangitoto Channel.
The tug was 50 seriously damaged
that the captain ran the vessel ashore.
Three members Of the Salvation
Army have been sent to prison by
the Sandgate (Q) Bench, for having
refused to pay d fine OF Is and costs
for playing musical instruments in
the streets.
The past years operations Of the
Melbourne Harbor Trust show that
the cash receipts amounted to up
wards OF G45O,OOO, an increase of
$4,000 upon the receipts for the
previous year.
The body Of man has been found
in solid block of marble at a quarry
near Orange, New South Wales. It
is nearly perfect, but the head shows
unmistakable signs of being scalped
before death.
Sir James Ferguson, Political
Secretary to the British Foreign
Office, states that 10 reports nave
beer received as to the alleged per
secUtiOn of Protestant natives at the
Island Of Mare, in the Loyalty
Group.
Trade between Australia and
Japan will probably be opened, Mr..
Murdpck, late of the Brisbane Gram
mar School, having been commits
stoned to report on the lines Of jap
anese produce likely to suit Austria
han tastes.
It is reported that Canon B. WI
berforce is about to undertake a
temperance lecturing tour IN the
colonies. His visit will be in re
spouse to the request Of the New
Zealand Temperance Alliance and
other organizations.
The Queensland Treasurer states
that when the colony is out of debt,
has established its credit, and has a
little balance, the tariff will be re-
considered, as the Government do
not intend to create a surplus for
their successors to spend.
Seven hundred and fifty cases of
apples ex Iberia, from Australia.
sold at Is. Sd. to It's. Cd. Pearmains,
Crowseggs, and New Yorks aver
aged los. A shipment Of pears and
tomatoes by the same vessel was
heated on the voyage, and the CON
signment was failure.
The French are establishing more
protectOrates in the South seas. The
Austral Islands have just been
brought under French protection,
and other groups and islands Will fol-
low at an early date 4 French war
vessel went to the Humphrey Group
recently to establish a protectorate
there, but failed owing to native
hostility.
The recuperative power Of the
bread fruit trees at Samoa is marvel
lOus. They were apparently almost
destroyed by the recent hurricane,
and it was feared that the natives
would consequently suffer famine.
Two or three weeks after the dis
aster, however, the trees had recov-
cred, and there was every prospect
of a plentiful crop.
The application of a solicitor of
the Supreme Court Of New South
Wales for admission as a solicitor IN
the Supreme Court Of Queensland
has been refused because the Chief
Justice of that colony has been told
by the Chief Justice Of this colony
that Queensland solicitors Will not
be admitted to practice in New
Wales.
Mr.. Robert J. Creighton. who has
been to Melbourne and Sydney
striving to arrange for the c0atinu-
ance of the San Francisco mail
arrived in Auckland by
the r.. Nj. $. Mariposa from
Sydney on April u. He has
since been in the South.
where he has interviewed the Gov
eminent respecting the mail service,
a subject on which he has already
had considerable corresDOudecew with