The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-04-27

IIi- ~Eyoerency the Minister q Foreign AHArs. with hs
family, AMI VI. tellara, secretary y ie hI@rtueri, embarked
viii Nc al~,ut about two months.
The Gazette further says that the season for
touring has set ia" So it seems. - far as the
Foreign and Finance Offices are concerned. 1t Is
also announced Tint during the absence of His For
eign Affairs Exccllcncy, the Minister Of the Interior
VIII discharge the duties Of the Foreign Ofirc. These.
it Is supposed. viii mainly consist in carrying the key
in his pocket, during the next two months. The
principal business of the Office, which includes the
quarterly settlement Of salary accounts, will, it Is
said. be deferred until the return of the incumbent of
the office. The Minister Of Finance being absent in
the United States, and the Minister Of Foreign Rell-
tons on u pleasure trip Of several months, away from
the seat of government, would seem 10 demonstrate
that one Minister, with u competent clerk for each
department., would be all sufficient To keep the
mill - n going, and save a pile Of money, in the
way of salaries, travelling expenses, &c. &c, which
now is quarterly taken out of the public funds.
ST. GEORGES SoCIETY.-On Tuesday evening last,
the above named society held its annual meeting at
the Public Hall, on the corper of Nuuanu and King
streets. There are some two hundred subscribers to
this Benevolent Association. and like the American
Relief Fund Association, and many other similar
benevolent organizations in Honolulu, it has been
productive Of no little good in assisting the poor and
needy. The annual dues payable 10y the subscribers,
are six dollars per annum, or fifty cents per month.
Those of the American Relief Fund are double that
amount, being II Il month. The latter have, ii is
said, some 500 loaned out on interest, with a very
fair balance in the Treasurer's hands. The proceed
i:.gs at the Tuesday nights meeting were harmoni-
Gus, and the s~ociability that the occasion gave rise 10,
will no doubt tend to the advancement of the grand
cause of charity, in which the st. Georges Society
is engaged. All true Britishers ought to join it.
- The following account of the death of Il man
under peculiar circumstances, should lead persons TO
be careful about drinking water in the dark. We
once heard of a young lady in Honolulu who, on at
tempting TO drink from a tumbler in the dark, found
a centipede lodged in her mouth, which was fortu-
nately got rid of without a sting or a bite.
A musician belonging to one of the French regi-
ments has Just met with an extraordinary death ut
Vera Cruz. He was engaged 10 play ut n ball, and
being very thirsty went out into the garden, and
finding Il water bottle on the terrace took ii up and
drank freely. Suddenly he raised cries Of agony,
and upon assistance arriving it was found that an
enormous c~entipede had fixed its mandibles in his
throat. The animal had taken up its abode in the
neck of the bottle, and was washed into his mouth in
the act of drinking. a surgeon who was called was
obliged to cut it to pieces, but the poison from the
bite caused death in a few hours.
\ SHIpwRECK.-Our friend Stiggins, whom We
sometimes see on the corner, was going down town
the other day in company with Muggins, when he
observed a dog that had been killed lying in the
street. Stiggins paused, and gazed on the dead ami
NAL, and at last remarked-' Here's another ship
wreck" "a shipwreck Where?" "Why there's
q bark that's lost forever" Muggins growled and
passed on, grasping his meerschaum tightly in his
hand. -
JUVENILE THIEF.-A native boy, about Ii years
of age, was on Friday brought up in the Police Court
for stealing a bag of blacksmiths' coal from the Es-
p~lanade. He acted as his own lawyer, with singular
sclf-possession and acuteness, but the proofs were too
strong, and he was sent to the R~eformatory School