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Show Hawaii as a x.i'no.v. im uKuwi.ia ism)HTNLi: ro. iuiu: rwuinii.mia. The Sandwich Islands, which com-tw-u the Hawaiian kingdom, writes Mist L. N. lladsooch In Ihe Ailatuj riiarfrr(y, He perfectly ltolate.1 lu mid-I'ucllUi mid-I'ucllUi ocean, In latitude from IK ifeg, rm inln. to Si ilc,;. SO mln. north of the equator, while their longitude Is from IM deg. to lti'J dog. west from (ireen-wtch. (ireen-wtch. Thus they are almost uiuldls-tant uiuldls-tant from China and Jsmu ou the one hand, from California and lleiloo on the other; and they are the most northerly, as they are Ihe ouly Important, Import-ant, Island cluster of the Polynesian Archlielago. They are 13 In number," 8 being ot oonsldsrable size and Ihe rest but Insignificant Islets, namely Haw-all. Haw-all. Msul. Othu. Kawal. .Molukal. La. nai, Nuuau and Kahoolawe.All aru Inhabited, In-habited, except Kaboolawe, which was abandoood a few years ago To reach Hawaii nowadays Is, says Miss lladeuoch, uo very dlnlcuit task, since It lies on the direct line of route taken by the splendid stsamsrsof the most rapid ra-pid mall tenke which exists Hetween Auttrallitla and Lund in. Having crossed the Allautlo and founlour way to Ban Franelsco, "Hie tfueen City of the Uoldrn West," we re-embarked re-embarked there In ono of the steamships steam-ships or Ihe Oceanlo or Union com. pauy, and, arter -a run of 2100 miles, arrived In a wsek'a time at Honolulu, ou Oahil, the capital ol the Islands. The traveler from Australia ships at Sydney op Auckland, as the rase may be, Prom the first, Honolulu Is distant dis-tant SI8I mllss, a voyage of little ri'ioie than a fortnight; Auckland being nearer by 1181 mllre, the lime between ports Is from four to flvedsys shorter. The advantages enjoyed by these Islanda as regards position mutt be plslnly evident. Were they nutbluK but a set of barren rocks they would still asaumo an Importance, lying as they do In the very pathway of trade between the United HUtes and Australasia, and Ihe great emplrea of China and Japan, The completion or the Canadian trans-continental railway rail-way has revealed to them a fresh vista of prosperity. Were the Isthmus of Panama opened up, or, better again, the Nicaragua ctuial, and weru the proposed American cable, or a llrltlsh one, to the uolonlcs laid, which Is to touch at Honolulu, there can bo no doubt they would Increase the opportunities and Inestima. bit value of Hawaii to Ihe trading nations at large. When, lu JJ. lion lo Ihls, to say that, Jor exciedlng beauty and grandeur of scenery, for fertility of soil and salubrity and equability equa-bility of climate, It Is a varyiaraulse upon earth, Is but to state the simple truth, II will be seen that the possibilities possibil-ities In the future of Ihls little kingdom aro almost Illimitable. Tho letting of the gem Is grand, but the Inlrlnelo value of the Jewel Is beyond compare. Had Ita situation aa regards commerce been nil, Ita own wondrous gifts must assuredly have secured for Itaeufllcl-eucy Itaeufllcl-eucy of odmlratloti and regard. I ssy nothing nf Ita situation Irom the strategic strate-gic point nf view, tumuli this lnts It cut as Ihu future "Ulbraltar ol the Pacific." |