The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-07-01
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

va A'AEi VT bao
pleased His Majesty to appoint the Hon. DAVID L..
GREGG, late United States Commissioner at these ISL
ands, to be his Minister of Finance. We understand
that MIR. Gregg will be presented to the Privy Coun-
Gil and enter on the duties of his office to-day. We
also learn that His Majesty has conferred ON Mr..
Gregg Letters of Denization, granting him all the
rights of a subject. 1t viii be seen that we were cor
rect in our announcement some weeks since. that the
above appointment was determined on.
FROM PUGET SouND.-we are indebted to Messrs.
Hackfeld & Co. for late Puget Sound papers, brought
by the bark Friendship; our dates are to May IS.
The accounts from the new gold mines in that terri
tory are as glowing as ever. One man just returned
says he saw a man take out S4S III one day, and
that three men with a rocker took out five and a half
ounces in half a day. A large population is destined
to coagregate in the vicinity of the mines in a very
few months.
An Indian Battle is recorded as having taken
place on Snake River, about sixty miles from Walla
walla, on the 10th of May, in which Col. Steptoe,
commanding the American forces, consisting Of four
companies, three of dragoons and one of infantry,
encountered some fifteen hundred Indians-Snakes,
Spokans and Puloosas. After a spirited fight on both
sides, Col. Steptoe was forced to retreat, with the loss
of fifty privates and three officers; Captain Winder,
Lieut.. Gassen, and another whose name was not
learned. Col. Steptoe also lost two howitzers, besides
twenty-five baggage wagons, and all his animals
except sixty horses. In his train were two hundred
and fifty mules.
HEDGE PLANTs-We would call attention to the
advertisement of Mr.. Holstein, who has charge of
the agricultural Society's garden in Nuuanu Valley,
offering acacias for sale for hedges. In Aus
tralia the plant is used for hedges, and grows rapid
ly, sometimes attaining to a height of sixteen or
twenty feet. In the variety of coloring and its gen.
eral beauty, it is not excelled by any hedge plant.
We hope it will be successful here, and commend it
for trial. -
AN OFFICIAL ToUR-Wc understand that the
Minister of the Interior leaves town to-day on an of
fetal tour on Oahu, and that he intends in a similar
manner to visit all the islands. An occasional visit
of the Kings Ministers to the remote parts of the
kingdom cannot but have a beneficial effect in max
ing the governed and the government more acquaint-
ed. --
ANoTHER-Mr II. Wood has presented us with a
monstrous specimen of m arrow squash, of unknown
dimensions and weight, but somewhat larger than a
"piece of chalk" grown in the garden of j. II.
Wood, Esq. The I" orderly proposes that we put it
up as a prize for the next target practice, and acting
on the hint we've consecrated it to be pierced with a
bullet. When wanted, please call for it, with OF
without uniform.
The " MORNING STAR'-sailedo on Thursday last,
on her second westward voyage among the Microne-
sian Islands. She starts from here some six weeks
earlier than she did last year, and it is probable,
Though not c~ertain) that she will go still farther
west on an exploring expedition to the Pelew and
Hogolen Islands.
PUBLIC LEcTuRE.-We learn that DIR. Prick propo-
ses, on next Thursday evening, to deliver a lecture on
the subject of Sc Love and Charity which the pub
lie are invited to attend. The Bethel Chapel, we
learn, has been applied for, for the purpose, and due
notice will be given of the time and place.
~ We would call attention to the list Of letters
advertised in another column.