Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume VI, Number 9, 2 March 1867 — English Column. Home News. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

Home News.

The Morning Start left Boston on the 12th of November, and may be expected any time during this month. As she will be sent with the utmost dispatch to the Marquesas Is., all letters and packages should be sent to this office without delay. The New Hawaiian Bible has probably by this time passed its final proof reading under the laborious eye of the Rev. E. W. Clark. It cannot however be expected here till till in the fall. We are happy to announce that the old edition is very nearly exhausted there being but about an hundred left in the Book Depository of the Hawaiian Board. Reals and Dimes The most prminent feature of the week next to the storm, is perhaps the notice by the Minister of France, under date of Febuary 26th. and pubished in the Gazette on the 27th, "that from and after this date, the coin known under the name of the real will be received at this Department at the value of one American dime (10 cts); the half real at the value of half a dime. The English sixpence will be received at the value of one dime, the English threepence at the value o fhalf dime, and the one fran piece at the value of one and one half dime or fifteen cents" While we are heartly please at this move in the right direction, we regret that some time a little in the future, had not been fixed upon and announced as the date, after which not only the Department, but the members of the Chamber of Commerce would simultaneously adopt the same valuation of these small coins. As it is, the poor and ignorant will alone suffer loss by the depreciation, while those who are circumstances to dispose of their depreciated coin for foreign markets, will not only be saved from loss, but will profit largely by the change.