The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-11-05
NOTES OF 3 WEEK.

evening of October 30th. business of the even
ing related to the approach Anniversary exercises,
which were appointed to held at the Bethel on
Friday evening, the 18th kstant, at halfpast seven
o'clock. Agreeable to the requirement of the %consti-
tuition, the following twelve persons were nominated,
from whom six are to be balloted for at the Anniver-
sary meeting, to fill the vacancies of those retiring
this year s. N. Castle, EAH. Allen, |. Bartlett, T.
O. Hall, Gen. Miller, Co ksApw. J. Mott Smith, Dr.
Guillou, Capt. Luce. C.. 7Lewers. and G. b.
Ingraham. al
A statement was made Vt the meeting, showidXl
that the debt upon the s Hkme'' had been reduce
more than one-half since the h Anniversary. De13i
November II. 1885,, s1714 s8Skpresent. Rft
ceeding $3.50. Besides paying Of RNv4S&fssth Che
debt. additions. repairs, &C., cost ~ $1,000,
have been made upon .hsSestes 4 good
library has been ad4el md in every respect rem
dered more coRGGsIe. At the Anniversary, full re-
ports may blsFsxpected from both the Treasurer and
the Exc dive Committee.
Trustees are happy to announce that the
Z1ome y is now in successful operation, answering
& the design of its projectors and patrons.
4 A full attendance is requested at the Anniversary
meeting. A collection in behalf of the " Home +"
will be taken up. -
A CooLIE SUIcIDE.-Last Saturday intelligence
was brought to town by natives that a dead body,
supposed to be that of a C~hinaman, was hanging from
q tree in a gulch near the foot of the Pail of Koolau.
The Marshal at once dispatched a policeman to the
spot, who cut the body down and inferred it It was
evidently that of q Chinese coolie, but it had hung so
long that decomposition was far advanced and it was
impossible to distinguish the features. The we'll
known recklessness of life of this class of our popula-
ton readily explains the little sensation created by
the intelligence that one of them had committed sui
eide. -
OIL AT HrLo.-By a letter from B. Pitman, ESQ.,,
date of Oct. 20, we learn that several ships at Hilo
were waiting an opportunity to ship their oil, amount
ing in all to some $500 barrels, and the wish is ex-
pressed that ss they had one of the vessels there that
are up for freight at Honolulu We would suggest
that the easiest way of getting over the difficulty
would be for those ships which have oil to send home,
to quietly get under way some fine morning, and a
few hours will bring them to Honolulu, where they
can be well and promptly attended to. We have some
five or six vessels here loading oil and bone, and
freights are low. -
DIsPATcH@The baskesiae Jenny Ford arrived on
Wednesday of last week with a full cargo of lumber,
equal to $50 NJ. feet, to Fl. Hackfeld & Co. By Sat
urday evening she was discharged, ballasted aud
ready for sea, sailing ON Sunday morning for Tekalet,
Oregon Territory. -
A MICRoNEsIAN BooK.-We have seen a specimen
of the first printing ever done in the Bonape Ian
guage, which was received from The Rev. MHSSturges
of Ascension by the las
's,,s srs's a ~ n ss s1ns the s. slp sssa!as' and J
catecbiSs. Considering the fact that none of the
missionaries had more than a theoretical knowledge
of the art of printing, the present specimen is highly
creditable to their perseverance in the pursuit of
knowledge under difficulties The first time that a
language is g clothed in the majesty of type may
well be considered a highly interesting occasion, but
in this instance, unfortunately, the people who speak
the euphonious dialect of harsh ~gutterals and clash
ing consonants before us, are fast passing away ,sand
like the snow drift before the solar heat will have dis
appeared before the sun of intelligence has fairly risen
over their isles. A Hawaiian printer and a supply
of materials were dispatched in the Morning Star,
which left here for Micronesia on the Sth of August
last. -
Coon WoRK.-At the company drill on Saturday
last, Fire Engine No. l threw a stream sixty feet high
through five hundred feet of hose, up hill from the
foot of Nuuanu street. the suction hose being in the
dock. There were but sixteen men on the brakes.
NATIVE LANDsIIARKs.-The aptitude of natives in
their intercourse with foreigners to comprehend and
reproduce the vices Of the latter, while what we es-
TEEN as virtues are apparently '' too hard'' for them
to learn, is a point in ethics which every one who
has lived among half-civilzed people must acknowl-
edge. But our ra 'ers are probably not aware of
the extent to which the rascality of native " crimps''
and &c landsharks'' is carried among Hawaiian sea-
men at this port. The latter are robbed in every
conceivable manner by their own c~ountrymen.-
Standing on the wharf a day or two since we heard
a hearty cheer given by a party of natives-long-
shoremen-and on inquiring the reason were told
that tho Co,,Jb 4norico bod Sonarad owau ond tho
piiikaa was over. Her crew, many of wnom were
natives shipped here, were fairly gone, and the
+, $ sharks could now divide the spoils. One way in
which we are told the unsuspecting victim bled is as
follows: the crimp makes an arrangement with the
salesman at some of the many cheap clothing stores
about town. to whom he takes the newly shipped sea-
man to lay out his advance in sea clothes. Here he
recommends this and dissuades from that article with
great apparent dsinterestedness, until the money is
all invested at rates which are a large percentage
over the price of the goods as fixed by the owner of
the store. This surplus the s~hop-boy and the crimp
divide, after the sailor is gone. Sometimel wife,
who for years has refused to live with her husband
turns up at the moment when he ships and claims
his advance as her means of support during his alb
sence. In a hundred different ways is the Hawaiian
seaman aeeced when he ships and too often heeccd
on his return if he makes a voyage. We wonder that
so many are found willing to repeat the expert
ment. -
CALIFORNIA STEEL PLows.-The attention of far
mers is called to the advertisement of 7. O. Shaw in
another column. Mr.. Shaw has recently commenced
the manufacture of plows il San Francisco. With
an experience of many years in the business, and
with u~nequaled facilities, he is enabled to manufac-
ture q pillow unsurpassed for utility, beauty and fin
ISL. They are made of cast steel-the mould board.
Landslide and shear are all of cast steel. CAUSING the
pillow to run much lighter than any before used.
The SCIENTIFIC AMERIcAN.-This is a very valua-
BILE periodical published in New York, which ought
to be taken and read by every mechanic. The pub
fishers in their circular say :. The general character
of the Scientific .americaR is well known, and, as
heretofore. it will be chiefly devoted to the promulsa-