The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-11-24
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY. NOTENBER u.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

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NOTES OF THE WEEK.
SruufN pEA1u-Ourc ommuuity was shocked 10y
the announcement on Monday morning last that
. Dr. seth Porter Ford was ou his death bed. lie
lived through ilc day, and died aho.t 10 o'clock
ON Monday evening. His Illness Wa, contracted
The previous wrvS. De- having been called nap dur
ing the night % attend "a patient. and uuguurdrd!s
leaving the sick room in "a Precipitation. ne con-
tractcd cold. which settled ou his lungs. terminating
in death. Ir. L. arrived here ia lS5I. in thc ship
IL. b. Forbes. from Boston. aud has p~ractic"d in
this city for over fifteen years. He WAS "a pupil of
Or. Valentine Mott and AN associate OF Or. Willard
Parker. Of New York. both of which eminent ply
sicians often spoke of him as one Of the most skill
fl surgeons that they ever knew. He certainly
possessed almost supcJhuIuau medical skill. and
persons now living, given up a. past recovery,
owe their lives 70 his skill. lie had a large prac-
ticc. and possessed The most uuboundcd confidence
Of his patients. At the time of his death he was
physician Of the [. :. Marine Hospital. a position
he had held for several years. lie was also physi
elan of The Hawaiian Insane Asylum. lie was
- Years of age, and was born in Washington.
L.itchlicid County, Conn. where IL brother and
other relatives now reside. His funeral will bc at
tended from the Bethel Chapel on Sunday after
burial service will be read. His sudden death -
possessed as he was of II vigorous. strong constitu-
ton, will remind all of the uncertainty of life.
VERY SrRANGE-We learn from Mr.. Frank Sin
clair. who arrived last week from Sydney. that
while in that city he saw in the S0u,, en Cross of
Auckland. New Zealand. a notice of the arrival
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not and cared not where, OR, perhaps, they We're
induced by the Bishop of Oxford 10 emigrate as
Missionaries "i the new reformed Catholic Church
10 convert me -'"'''eS oil '""t distant colony.
Strange things do sometimes happen IN tins world,
and not the least 50 are some OF the denouements
of this Mission. The story of the trials of this uE-
nanny cou,I, and Tho causas tbot Ia1 10 tbo;r
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sePt''"'i nom -. JAS VIM '''Se .e ar !"
Jingle, ana shame the psicdo-phlIanihroplsts OF the
Hawaiian people. whenever they are made public.
Why do not the Ministers rive some statement er
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Their organ Are t'ey "r"ld 10 pnDilSh the lacts:
IL not. ltl w lear II lItlti.
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NEWSPAPER PoSTAGES-The following item will
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countries bevond GERMANY, when forwarded in th99
closed mail to Prussia, must BE- fully prepaid TO
their destination. at the rates named Russia, in
cludIIE flilaIu anu l oiahi, cthCS oWeaeI' ~
Uria. TioIstoin cents. Sri,garLni O cont, IInI
via Switzerland. II cents PapaI States. via Swift
zerland, II cents; Turkey, via Jerusalem. IA cents;
%reect. IA llltStt, r teulS iulhes' i! iiiTs'e.
India Dutch and French noss.ssions vi, Trieste
10 cents" -
NEVER SAID a WoRD.-It is well known that ma
tives have Il great aversion to dimes, even when
offered in change as a hali-real. or 81 cts. A store
keeper in this city had accumulated a quantity of
the drspiSed decimaiS' and having a use for them
one day went TO the place o; deposit ana they
were missing Calling the Hawaiian counter
jumper, the ipiloWlnS dialogue TOOK place: " W mere