The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-03-12
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

% A bag will be kept open at our counter for the
reception of papers, letters, &C., for the Yankee, till
ten minutes before her sailing. Three numbers of
the Commercial have been issued since the departure
of the Post, which can be procured in wrappers,
ready for mailing. -
CooLEs.-Discharged coolies are becoming q great
source of complaint in our city. They are about the
streets at all hours of the night, and of course resort
to every kind of petty thieving. We were glad to see
a petition circulating praying the Privy Council to
enforce again an ordinance which was in existence
several years since requiring the police to arrest every
coolie found about the streets after 10 P. NJ. We
trust the law will be revived and enforced.
WHARvEs.-Are the authorities aware of the frail
condition of the wharves, particularly Market Wharf.
Many of the piles are so entirely decayed, that we
should not be surprised to see a horse and cart fall
through at any time. This decay is owing to the petty
thieying carried on at night by the boat boys, who
moor their boats under the wharves and strip the
piers of their copper. This matter is alluded to by
a correspondent in another column.
PER YANKEE.-A large number of our townsmen
and old residents are leaving in the Yankee, many of
them for pleasure, and nearly all of them purpose
returning in the summer and fall. The travel between
this port and San Francisco is evidently on the in
crease, as every packet that has left or arrived for the
past few months, has been crowded to it's utmost
capacity. The Yankee takes about 60 passengers.
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"a" The steam-tug was partially hauled out of the
water on Monday to examine her bottom. Her stern
post fastenings, bolts, &C., we're found entirely rotted
off. And her iron rudder actually has a hole eaten
through it, though it is two inches thick and has been
In the water only eight months@so very corrosive Is
the warm salt water of our latitude. We understand
she is to be hauled out and repaired next week. Fo,
this purpose a marine railway is very much needed.
Acc1DENT-W. N. Ladd, ESQ. was thrown from his
horse on Wednesday last, and had his collar bone
broken. He is improving.
Cos.-Why are we lead to believe that His Roya
Highness Duke Constantine has never been weaned
Because he was at Brest (breast) when we las
heard of him.
IS After setting up the above rather apocrypha
effusion, our native compositor, who occasionally get
off a good item, hands us the following, which mt,
the other into the background.
Why is an angry boy like a very rich man
Because he's q vroh child. Beat that if Won, q
A SAILORS YARN.-Most of our readers are wei
posted up in the whaling business. but the following
tor a "fsh story" is o little ahead of ANYTHING W
have heard lately. A number of blubber hunter
were together the other day spinning yarns, whel
one OF them "a shore-whaleman, who does his whalin,
on land, and is of but little account at sea) was expa
tiatlng largely On his skill, and related among th
the wonderful exploits he had performed last seaso1
:" up north, that he struck a whale and killed hin
with the first iron. which ON being tried out, mad
TOUR hundred barrels. An old skipper, who had sa
quietly by during the whole of his fsblowing.
jumped on his feet, took a long breath, and exclaimed
There, gentlemen. that will do for you, but Just Sc
here Fourteen years ago, when I was in the OIL,
! John .fdanas, of New Bedford, we got a sparm whal