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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 749, 3 January 1870, Page 3

Earthquake: in Fiji.—The Fiji. Times states that an earthquake has been felt on the Upper Rewn River. Mr writing from Nui Siga, on October 11, says : —There was an earthquake here on the 2nd inst., about noon, the like of which I have never experienced, and I assure you [ have felt some severe shocks of earthquake in New Zealand. The vibration was something similar to that of a ship settling after encountering a heavy sea. It lasted for at least eighty seconds. I thought the Fiji houses would tunble down every moment ; they have, however, stood through it, although in a slanting posi tion." An Australian ats t d San Francisco Line oe Steamers—TheMelbourne Argus, speaking of the advantages to be derived from the establishment of a line of steamers between Australia and San Francisco, says : —One thing appears to us to be very certain, that if the capitalists of San Francisco organise a line of steamers to Australia, and, find as we fear they would, the immediate traffic unreuiunerative,, they will set to work with charcteristic determination to create a traffic j and in so doing, they will resort to every conceivable device for the purpose of advertising the Colonies as a field of settlement, as well as for the multiplication and extension of the commercial relations of the two countries. And if, as some speculative thinkers believe, events are tending to wards a grand confederation of all Englishspeaking peoples as the future masters of the globe, we should rejoice at whatever enterprise promises to bring into closer amity and more frequent intercourse the Anglo-American aud Anglo-Australian branches of the family.