The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-08-03
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDA Y. AUGUST 3.
News OF the Morning.

The mails Er America anil Europe will he di-
patched by the lark CsIs.iia, closing this afternoon
at 2 O'Clock. Files u the ADvEETisEE with news
to date, enn be hal 1t the counter.
The q. $. ship LaekGpasHa sailed on Tuesday on
n cruise % the Westward, understood to be to survey
MiIdlebrOok I-Llnl and reef She will return about
September Is.
Ills ExeeIleney the Minister Of Foreign Affair."
entertained the American Minister Resident. with
several Of the diplomatic eorIs ON Friday evening
last week. On Monday the American Minister Resi-
dent entertained Captain Reynolds anil the diplomatic
corps AMI ON Tuesday the Ati0rney-General gave
n d~iplCmatis dinner.
Hs Majesty has been ia town the past week. and
held several Cabinet Councils and conferences with
the American Minister Resilient, ON the proposed
reciprocity treaty. Il is generally understood that
the King flvors the adoption or this treaty as n meas
ure calculated 10 benefit his kingdom AMI the interests
Of all classes; anil his Ministers cordially second his
views.
His Excelleney DR.. Hatchi~n met With a serious ac-
eident on Tuesiay afternoon Last, which nearly proved
fatal ~ he was crossing King street. at tie Junction
Of Fort, n will bullock, which was being lei TO the
ship -fustraIiaH, charged on him and caught him On
his horns. tossing him some ten feet or more in the
mir. The Doctor fell heavily ON his head, cutting his
scalp severely On the coral pavement. The wound
was dressed ~ DE. M'Grew and Kennedy, AMI tie
patient viii probably not be laid up more than TWO or
three weeks at the f~artles;.
The British ship -7usiTGiiaH arrived on Monday,
30 days from Newcastle, en- route for San Francisco.
with q cargo Of Goals AMI a large number Of passcn-
gers. She brings dates to June ). Passengers report
great distress existing at the colonies, and that.
owing to want Of sufficient rains for nearly two years,
most Of the crops AMI the mines were "A failure.
They represent - harl times there, that hundreds
we're leaving fur California, AMI thousands would
follow If they could get the means.
In one thing, the Hawaiian Government certainly
excels, AMI this i, the science Of hanging. We
question whether IN any other country, muT,ierers
are hung So scientifically and with - little pain TO the
culprits as here. In each Of the recent executions Of
criminals, the arrangements have been - perfect,
that the body ceased to move after the fIl, showing
that life became instantaneously extinct. So long a.
hanging Is 4 law Of the land, it is well that the exc
cution should be As painless as possible.
On our first page will lie found an interesting letter
from LA Paz," describing a visit to Nihau, an
island which to most Of our readers, Is a terra iaeog-
Hifa. Very few, even Of our oldest residents, have
ever VISITED it. Niihau was the first Island of the
group which Capt. James Cook discovered, and is
probably the Oldest one
y clever description OF the examination Of the
Makawao Female Boarding School will he found in
another column. These new schools promise to effect
more for the real welfare Of the native race than the
oil system Of eiucation. by taking children from
their homes when young and bringing them up under
foreign care and with foreign ideas and habits.
There ought to be twenty such institutions in the
group instead Of half IA dozen.
The meeting ON Thurslay evening Of those inter-
estel in the organization Of the proposed Union Club,
was well attended, and judging from tile remarks Of
speakers, a warm interest il felt in the objects Of the
organization, which are to provide literary and social
entertainment FOR the young men Of Honolulu, adding
perhaps 4 gymnasium and other means Of physical
General M'CoOk and Major WCIehouse
we're present AMI warmly seconded the movement.
trust IL will succeed.
Our next mail from san Francisco should hardly
locked for before the 10th, aud from that date to
the 10Th or 18th, by the clipper ship RATHER, which
was to leave sun Francisco about August !.
The steamer EIIausa, having been thoroughly re-
itteI, Will leave for Llh.ina and Kona ON Monday
next.