| Show THE SANDWICH ISLANDS rhe THE crater of mauna loa sandwich islands is again in a state of eruption the hawaiian gazette gazelle of june says nir dir mr tir william L green has just returned from a visit to the summit crater 0 of f mauna loa lua which he found in full action the fountain varying from one hundred to two hundred abd and fifty feet in hel hei height ht the appearance pe arance of the interior of IS ar cording to 3 mr in greens description ha hab has 8 c hanged very much from what it was in plumber of lat jat year now the cone nis fis have disappeared except one spro t ally ably lately thrown up which is directly the high wall on the west side 1 l 1 ae tic fountain mis is located about where t was in september but is now in the centre centro of a cire circular ular lake of nolten molten lava covered over with a ark aara surface and perhaps five hundred feet feul across from the centre of this lake a constant lava jet is thrown up early in january the and ath this sum nau rau crater was in terrible notion action and the iava inva was thrown so high as to be distinctly seen from hilo huo at this time the cones were probably thrown down and the floor of the crater much changed As the walls malls of the crater are eight hundred feet laigh the lava liva et in janai january ary must have leen deen at least from twelve to fifteen hun d di e nd d feet high to have been seen at mo hilo c c residents at the bay are very positive out its haying having been cl clearly ariy arly visible at fiat flat t point what a grand sight eight that must have been a stream of lava thrown dp up from an immense depth to A height ov over erfour four foun thousand feet above the level cf of the geal seal on oa this trin trip to the summit ar r green was accompanied I 1 cd by miss bird the second female who ever visited the crater of a fact worthy of record of the matter of a treaty of reciprocity with the united states the commercial adu Adv Advertiser eriser of june says since rineo Thur thuc thursday last the rumor has been carrent current that the king kins in cabinet council bita hita agreed to the negotiation ot of a treaty ol 01 reciprocity with the united states on the nasis basis of a cession of pearl fear I 1 harbor the siet e it generally known that there was a cabinet meeting last week weeks and that the reported subject ot of discussion was the pro posed treaty ot of reciprocity has bass it may be surmised given r rise ise lse to the statement now BO so confidently made that nis his Maje ad v visar bisers havo have agreed to make the offer ot of a cession ot of territory we applied at the poi roi eign mcc office but were courteously in ormed that the minister was not at liberty 0 0 make any statements in reference to I 1 it t the public must mast therefore form its own con diu elu elisions elusions as to the truth ot of the rumors alluded to and the tho most natural one ander jader the circumstances will be that not belag denied the rumors have llave a basis ot of truth the same paper gives the following as a sample of the productiveness of the he islands we have been informed that the L chuc plantation lian Pian tation tooer off 00 tons of sugar from a hundred ac we question whether a larger quantity has cren ever been taken from the ibe same arca area in tn any other country if t bis his b s is not proof of the extraordinary rich s ress sass of our soll what further proof f is wanti i most of the amble arable laud on kattai kauai is 01 cis aie tle ae same gamo character and well adapted to f aming t and this comes concerning a i local character of celebrity POOR nili anyone who has been een ta to the tho sandwich islands knoma wili zm na ragsdale rag Bag sdale better known as bill one ot of the most moat extraordinary characters we believe we ever metin id rk T twains I 1 rou ron coughing Koug hing it a graphic de 4 option of poor bill is 13 given no better hearted man we ever met a true bohe 1411 lle ile never was enemy but lj own halt half Ila lia hawaiian wallan wailan and aud halt ameri i tw gu was a true blue republican and id much to inoculate the natives with his i as dorilis For lios ilis past dast three years ho he had eca een uca practicing law at hilo and now we lra ira ra irom the hawaiian gazette that he aas become a confirmed leper on the last ej bip p of the steamer he was c conveyed to the p r settlement on mol Wol molokai the t i t ien aen davs ot of june the disease developed cy ry rapidly rapid ly in him and he became we are irl trl irined iri ned aed one of the saddest cases in the h ii pital As soon as ts ho he found that the disca d a was rapidly developing he acted with bie ble oble courage made up his mind to separ i it t himself from his family and remove to lok iok ioki at in this respect ho lie showed tl tho 10 blest patriotism the visalia says the wc vt ither ithe r thero ithe is delightful and that the thermometer rarely ex cee eee Is ninety de derees degrees rees ve ry delio 1 tf I 1 at ninety so 0 I 1 it t is at it sev 0 |
