The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-09-08

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

OChSELfES@NC PS"SeS
our subscribers that we have secured the services of
Mr.. J. H. SLEEPER to fill the place formerly occupied
by Mr.. Sheldon in the editorial department of this
paper. Mr.. Sleeper is already f~avorably known to
some of our readers as q frequent contributor to our
columns, and we doubt not that his connection with
the paper will rebound to the mutual interest of its
patrons and the publisher.
- In response to the frequent solicitation Of our
subscribers, we shall next week commence the pub
LEGATION of this paper Semi-DeehIy. to continue to the
close of the year, December 81. 1t will be published
on Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week, in the
same style and size rs Mt present, and our advertising
friends will please notice the change in the days Of
issue. We commence it as an experiment., and should
our patrons demand its permanent continuance, we
are ready 10 meet their wishes. Our extra charge to
each subscriber, for issuing the semi-weekly, will be
Ttro Dollars for the four months. This arrange
ment will enable us to give, each week, more foreign
and miscellaneous news, and we trust that it will
be acceptable to all. But cur patrons should
bear in mind that our expenses under the change
will be considerably increased, and we shall need
their cordial support.
- In all that relates to the shipping and whaling
interests, our efforts will continue as heretofore to
make it the earliest and most reliable medium Of
news in the Pacific. Our patrons may rest assured
that in this respect the Commercial will stand where
it always has stood.
DEATH OF AN OLD CITIzEN.-Mr. Henry Sea. au
old and esteemed citizen of this city, died on We'd
nesday morning last, after an illness Of n few days.
Mr.. Sea was an Englishman by birth, and came to
these islands about the year 1912. He was secretary
to the British Commission in 1913, and subsequently
secretary under General Miller. About the year
1852 he was an auctioneer. Latterly he followed his
old trade of a printer. The Honolulu Dashaways,
Of which society he was a member, passed last even
ing the following resolutions:
Whereas, 1t has pleased Almighty God, in his good provi-
dence, to remove from US our late associate HENRY SEA, by
ResoIped, That in the demise of Henry Sea, this society has
lost an active and useful member, and the community a good
and energetic citizen, and we s%ympathise with his afflicted widow
in her melancholy bereavement.
Rescued, That in respect to the deceased, this society attend
to the widow Of the deceased and that they be published in the
p. C. Advertiser and Potynssian newspapers.
A New CoAsrER-The following account of Capt.
Chadwick's proposed schooner, copied from the New
London Chronicle, will be interesting to our island
readers. We should be glad to see a few more first
class vessels among our coasting feet
AT the ~ship-yard of Mr.. William Miller on Fort
Neck, the first steps are being taken for the construc-
ton Of a very fine clipper schooner. The vessel is
ordered by parties at Honolulu, s. L., and is to be
employed in the island coasting trade from that port.
She will be of the burthen OF about 16O tons, and as
the chief point in view in her construction is to en-
sure capacity for high speed, she will be very long
and sharp built. The contractors say she will be the
sharpest schooner ever built at New London, and al
though they don't say the fastest. they expect her to
be so. As yet, theaeel Of the new vessel is not laid,
the work on her having been but very recently COM
menced; but she is be put up with expedition and
will be launched some time in October next. She is
intended as the mate to the RamOi, built some years
since Mt the same yard for the anne parties, and it is
the intention to make her a superior vessel even to
that splendid craft. Her anne is not yet determined
upon" -
The SrEAMER.-We quote from a Boston paper the
following account of the steamer now being construc-
ted for the purpose of facilitating our inter sland
communication. The tonnage given is probably a
typographical error. 1t should be 354 tons:
GA steamer of 314 tons burthen is to be built at
East Boston. to be used in carrying passengers and
freight between the Sandwich Islands. She will be
$50 feet long, 26 feet 6 inches beam and 10 feet deep.
She will have q composition propeller 9 feet in diane
ter, and will be rugged as a hermaphrodite brig.
She will be completed in four months. The parties
for whom she is being built have an exclusive grant
from the king to run a steamer between the Islands
for a term OF five years, and this boat is the pioneer
! of their line" -
- Rewards to the amount of $500 are offered
for information that will lead to the arrest and con-
viction of the person or persons concerned in the re-
cent general poisoning Of dogs throughout our city
500 by the Sheriff. and $500 by a COMMITTEES of
citizens. Some of the finest dogs in the place have
been poisoned, and we trust the reward will result
in disclosing the perpetrator of this rascalty.
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The HoKU LoA.-The excellence of this new ma
tive paper seems to be appreciated. 1t has already
attained a circulation of between three and four
thousand copies, and everywhere the natives show
great eagerness to obtain and peruse it.
THE KISo.-His Majesty and Suite arrived here
in the Maria yesterday morning. from Lahaina. 1t
is his intention to make but a brief stay in Honolulu,
and he viii probably sail again to-day or tomorrow
for windward ports.
r. WARN wEATHER.-Old Sol has been very fierce
- Lest few days, and the weather has been very
The thermometer has stood 1t So in the
ef midday on several Of tbepast few days
IN unusual Prs q metter blis@u st to defer
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