The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-09-22
THE
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY: SEPTEMBER %
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

located on the same street where the former one
was, but a little further north. The old loca-
ton IN the police station building was never liked
by the members and tended TO make tie company
unpopular. With = new engine. new house. new
hose. and new members. the company ought now
TO prosper, if ever.
- We observe, in orr exchanges. that san Fran
cisco : introducing the steam fire engines, and
providing z paid tire department. Two arrived
by a rccen; vessel. making three now in that city.
They propose to have four in all. These four
steam engines. will do greater service than ten
hand machines. no matter how well manned the
latter may be-. The great advantage OF the former
Is. they never tire out. Thoy viii work twelve or
twenty-four hours necessarily. throwing 4 constant
stream Of water. enough 10 deluge any building in .
short time. As they are more expensive. than the
hand engines. both in original cost and in maintain
ing them. perhaps the time has not arrived for
their introduction into Honolulu. where fires very
seldom occur, and where. owing to the fact that
stoves are not used except in cookhouscs, dis
connected from dwellings, there Is less liability to
coufagrations. To this in a great measure, we
attribute our freedom from fires.
NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE.- Tue anniversary Of
Chilean independence occurred on Saturday last.
the 18th. and was celebrated by the Chilean Con-
sui. d.. G. Waterman. Esq, with a spread at his
residence, the late Kings seaside ranch. in Queen
street. Nearly all the members of the diplomatic
corps. the principal merchants and residents paid
their respects TO the representative of Chile on the
occasion. In Chile. the anniversary consists OF
three days, the 18th, 10th. and 18th of September.
on each of which days one of the three decisive
battles was fought. These of Chacabuco and May
pc are referred to in history as the final battles.
and Gen. O'IEiggins, who was in command of the
Chilean forces was chosen Dictator. During the
present war with Spain, the plucky little republic
has had on her side tue sympathy and good wishes
of every government and people excepting Spain.
With that lcviathan iron-clad. the DUNDERBURG. and
her 10 and 2O-inch guns. which the telegraph re-
ports the Chilean government was bargaining for,
she will be ready to meet all the ships that old
Spain can send against her. We hope she will sue
coed in buying the monster iron-clad, and getting
another chance at the Spanish ships.
New ZEAIAND-Our readers are aware that a
line OF monthly steamships has recently been estab-
lished between New Zealand and Panama. The
first steamer arrived at the latter port about the
first of July. having made the trip in 20 days. The
price of passage is $50 or $3.50 between the above
ports. and passengers can 60 through from Auck-
land to Liverpool in rs days. This must prove a
great incentive to trade and travel to that distant
toi'h VI Ni-'NAA eAA Us fAbSl'lItN y.
Since the discovery of gold there some ten years
since, the influx of population from Europe has
been large. From 1861 to 1861, the population
nearly doubled. The Southern Cross, of June g.
gives the following statistics:
The total population Of European descent. not including mill
Us. Of whom 100. $50 were males, Go SIS we're females, The
military and their families amounted to 1873, giving a gross
total Of 1Si.lSl souls.
The following is the population Of the chief towns :-Auck-
land: 1&I2Si New Plymouth, 2,sIii Wellington 47t1' Napier,
{ ! 49,. NsSun. 4 lutuu. ~ { tel g rs lEtLpl
ton. 2.5S9; Dunedin, 1880, Invercargn. 2.ZlS.
via ba. w ~.O as foi L 'sI1 HR aSpsia%%%n a sa[ 1872: r are ssEf.n 4.B gEa:
Wellington, II $50; Hawkes. Bay, 1906 Otago, 1909; South
s s:s3 o'O'' N'''""' ii''iO' marlborough '''i'' Canterbury
The quantity OF land fenced in 1864 was 1O72,3s3 acres,
against 30, 40 acres in 1851 and 1916 acres 1861. The acre
age under crop ia 1904 was Ss2,655 acres, against 2ol4O acres
live stock in 1864, was $50, O63y against 5.oSs557 in 1861
MmEoRs-seldom have the public seen at one
time a finer display Of large and elegant gilt mir
rors. than were on exhibition on Tuesday last at
c.. 5. Bartow's sales-room. There were between
thirty and forty. varying from six feet in hight and
four feet in width to two or three feet dimensions,
the frames elegantly ~ornamented. but most of them
slightly stained with sweat or bilge water. The
eight largest sold from s75 to S9j each. There
were several oval frames, about four by five feet.
surmountcd by large gilt eagles. These sold in the
neighborhood of $50 each. The rest ranged from
$50 down to SO each. The glass was heavy plate.
quarter of an inch in thickness. clear and beauti-
ful. Two of the largest were purchased for the
Public Hall, in Nuuanu street, TO which they will
prove an ornament, and add much to the beauty of
the room. when lighted up and filled with specta-
tors. We understand that another similar lot Of
mirrors will be sold soon by the same auctioneer.
STEAMER KHAUEA.-TLis vessel will leave as
usual on Monday next for Hawaii. but will lie up
1,,;,,r tIn FlI,,uinr u-.al- counp,,o aiur Oa.,hnr I
and resume again Monday. Oct. s. She has made
seven trips since last overhaulcd. and both in
leaving aud returning been up o-time in every
sense of the word. Her faithful captain. Familiarity
known as Mae appears to be the right man in
the right place. and to know his route about as
well as any skipper in the service. Would it not
pay the owners better if the fare for deck passen-
gers were reduced To the old rate? Formerly one,
two and three hundred natives went up each trip.
There would be more native travel. no doubt. but
whether it will make the total receipts larger.
those interested ought to know best.
SPIDER BIrE-on Wednesday,. August 18th, in Nevada. =
man named briggs was bitten by a black spider. After suffer
ing intense agony during the whole of one night he was able
to be up the next day.
We clip the above from one of our California
exchanges. in which we often see similar notices of
the bite of the tarantula spider. We are not aware
that there are here any venOmous spiders. among
all the varieties that are so abundant. In fact.
our housewives look upon these insects as domes-
tic favorites and seldom Kill them. as they live on
flies. mosquitoes and small insects of various kinds,
reducing their numbers at SOM seasons of the
year very materially. Spiders here are a real
blessing. but we wouldn't on that account recon-
mend the Agricultural Society to import any new
varieties. in order to propagate the species.
BRITISH POLITICS.-We would call attention to
an article on our fourth page, from a London pa
per. giving an account OF the great popular reform
demonstration in London. on the defeat of the
Gladstone Ministry. 1t gives a more vivid idea of
the intense feeling OF the masses on this question.