The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-08-19

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night, and on Thursday, six out Of the eight landed
on Niihau, an old man and a stripping having proved
unequal 10 the task. It is barely possible, but not
probable. that the unfortunate foreigners on the
schooner were seen and picked NJ by some of the
native fishermen Of Niihau, but the general belief is
that they have persisted.
FIRE. NApoIEoH-sunday last. August Is, the
celebration ac1bsrling TO the Catholic Church of the
+" Feast Of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, .
took place at the Catholic place of worship in this
city ny the performance of high mass. Anumber of
native and foreign dirnitaries were present. besides
several of the foreign Consuls. The first Napoleon,
it will be remembered, on that day concluded n con-
cor3gt with The Pope. and. abolishing the thousand
and one holidays then observed in France, decreed
that the fete .Sfapoleoa should he the only binding
day of public and strict national observance. Ever
since, under the Empire and under the tCitizen
King the fifteenth of August has heen observed by
Frenehmen generally. On Sunday Fl. B. Ms frigate
HarannaE, lying in our harhor. displayed the tri-
color at the main, and at u VI. fred a national
salnte. -
SAuoE DRowNEp.-A seaman belonging to the
RaranaoA was drowned last Monday III one Of the
deep pools nj the Puehuehu Falls in Nuuanu Valley.
II is supposed that being no swimmer. he ventured
beyond mis- depth and was drowned. The alarm wac
Mt once given nv two of his shipmates. but when the
natives by diving brought up the BODY, life was ex-
tinct. This j. the second or third instance of seanen
being drowned 1T the same place. and all man-of-
wars men. On Tuesday his remains were inferred
in the Nuuanu Cemetery, followed to he grave by a
procession n his ~shipmates.
BrEs-Another colony of honey bees, making the
fifth. swarmed on Monday Inst in DR.. Hfilehrand's
garden, and Sere successfully hived by him. There
are now nine hives in his possession. including the
four original ones imported. and al are doing well.
We understand that hives of bees can now be pur-.
chased, at $50 per hive, of the Agricultural Society,
who own those in DR.. Hilebrand's charge. We
should ike to see them introduced at Hilaond Maka-
wac. where. If properly attended to. they would rap
idly increase and soon become profitable.
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MovIyG AND RATsIyG.-Quite a number of build
ings about town have been raised recently 20 n higher
grade, consequent upon the filing in and repairing
of streets. Mr.. Booth, TT the corner of Nuuanu and
Hotel streets, has, so to speak, turned his premises
6 8 end for end. = the billiard room having been moved
on to the corner, thus changing places with the bar
room. These movings and raisings are all performed
in m expeditions and satisfactory manner BY Mr.. C.
W. Vincent. -
THE LIHoIrHo.-This favorite Hflo packet has inst
been thoroughly overhanled and put in the best re-
pair. Under the gentleu1anly charge of Captain
Lovett, her spacious cabin will no doubt be often oc-
cupied on the pleasant trip from Honolulu to the
&c City of Pele.'' and we can with confidence assert
that any business or freight entrusted to his care viii
be promptly executed and safely guarded. The L.
her regular trips tomorrow.
DIR. tricks LEcruREs.-By a communication from
Dr.. Prick in another column it will seen that he
has for the present postponed his lectures upon the
times of Wat Tyler. 1t is to be hoped that intellect
ual improvement may present sufficient claims to the
attention of our community, before the busy season
as shall enable the Doctor to carry out
his original intention of lecturing.
~ Mr.. H. F. johnson, who visited Honolulu some
months ago from San Francisco for the ostensible pur-
pose of engaging in teaching and lecturing, delivered
lecture at the Fort Street Church, and afterward
to San Francisco, was thrown from his
horse on the 4th of July at Oakland, opposite San
francisco, and died in consequence of the accident.
WATERsPoUrs-Last Friday and Saturday alter
moons those who CHANGED to look seward in the d.
rection of Barber's Point might have seen a splendid
of Natures wonders in the shape of water
spouts. Had the wind been on shore, Puuloa might
have caught a $ washing down.
KIILED.-A native boy, about fifteen years of age,
was amusing himself on the lelekonfi, or swing, fixed
to the top of a cocoanut tree, on Friday last, when
having attained a hight of some fifty feet from the
ground, by some means he slipped out of the swing
md fell He was taken up senseess, and life was
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LEGAL NoTfcs.-Notice of petition in bankruptcy
against William Maxwell and L. F. Beatty is given in
The last Polnesian, and that g.. P. Griswold and II.
Rhodes, Esquires, have been appointed Commission
,rs to try the question of bankruptcy.
Sun 5rRoKE-Last week a native, going along
King street at noon, bareheaded, suddenly tumbled
,ver, insensible. with oil the symptoms of sun stroke.
however recovered. This is the first instance of
we remember to have heard Of Mt these
stands. -