The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-07-21

SUNDAY LJQUoR LAws.-.A new excise law has
been passed and was carried into effect in New
York city on the 9TH of May. 1t prohibits the sale
Of spirits or beer. even by licensed vendors. from
midnight of Saturday until Monday morning at
sunrise. Thousands of people who had been ac-
customrl to take their bit,ers regularly on sundays.
and spent their sundays at the grog shops. SUD
denly found them shut up. and were compelled
either to 90 without or cross over to iIoboken.
where liquor flows as freely rs the water. of which
it i in great part composed. Mayor Hoffman is
carrying the law cut stringently. and endeavoring
TO regulate the sale of liquor, and stop lis Illicit
traffic. and with it the increase of crime. 1t is the
same system which has been Tor twenty years car
ricd out here, and with good results. An exchange
says Of Its operation:
No less than 1000 men have been obliged during
the last week 70 obtain licenses for retailing. pay
Ing 500 Ia $3.50 Tor the samc-chiefy the latter
amount. Is 500 Is the price only for permission To
sell ale and lager beer. The concert saloons,
dance houses. of the LIST and 4th Wards. houses for
prostitution and shelves resorts are refused u
license at all. Even that magnificent resort, the
L1Uyrc, near the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where the
most elegant waiter girls were kept. has been
" closed for repairs. The commissioners refused
10 license a single house on Thomas street No
grocer Is permitted to sell liquors. No woman is
allowed "A license nor Is any application received
except with the approval of the captain of the
pelice precinct. Pell street, near the Five Points,
is without a licensed house. One applicant was
refused, being told that his house was a resort Tor
pickpockets and that be was n pickpocket himself.
slaughter House Point" on Water street, where
two men We're murdered last year, is under con-
sideration.' -
Success To ENTERTEISE.-Mr Robt. W. Andrews
has purchased the stock and goodwill of the estab-
lishmcnt recently occupied by Mr.. Tannatt, and is
prepared 10 attend To- all orders faithfully and
promptly. Mr.. \. is 4 well-known and competent
mechanic. and will undoubtedly do well. As he can
mend anything from q darning-ueedle up to n loco
motive, in the most workmaulikc manner. We
recommend him to the patronage of all, feeling con-
fdent that he will give satisfaction to those who
may favor him with a call.
CHANCE FOR LUMBER-The Esplanade is now
literally covered with lumbcr-part left by the
Monitor. and the rest being discharged from the
barks Constitution and Metropolis. Now is n fine
chance for natives to get lumber for building pur-
poses. as there is plenty of lumber and plenty of
competition in the market, and as a consequence
lumber is cheap.
\ YANEEE Misunderstanding Mr.. Pfuger's store
we noticed a novelty. in the way of an upright show
case, which is turned by machinery. As the case
revolves, its contents of fancy articles are exhibit
ed to the curious. In larger cities such novelties
are common but this is the first thing of the kind
we have observed here.
rs His Highncss VI. KEkUANAoA. late Governor
of Oahu. has been dangerously i'll the past week,
and it is hardly probable that he will recover. He
is the father of our present King aud of the late
Princess VICTORIA. Last evening he was very low,
and failing rapidly.