The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-06-29
San Francisco correspondence.
PER 80 e. MURRAY"

SAN FRANCISCO June :. 1851
by Capt. Bennett, Of the d. 9. Murray. / send
You the following Dieldn1e Of items Of news that
may interest you Islanders for know from expe-
perence that this il the dull season = at Homo
lulu and that you Editors likely to be hard
pressed for matter to fill your columns. In this
Emporium of the Pacific. Editors are more fortu-
nate-not to say more skiIlful. If they have not
got good subject at hand. they proceed to make
one by kicking up a muss with some other Editor
and calling him bad names or vigorously taking
up the canse of some aspirant to Office. fighting
tor II ISM The latter is the with
The Evening Dispatch,
A lively little daily, the principal Editor Of which
is understood to be J. J. Ayers. formerly of the
Duly Hateaiiaa Herald. in your city. which went
UP like a rocket and down like n brick. Ayers
has undOubted talent, and is tip-tOp newspaper
man. but he has got the wrong tack this time.
lie has thoroughly identified himself and the Dis
pdicL with ths eighthOur movement, which is now
making such a stir among the mechanics here and
elsewhere. He Is President Of the Worlsingmen 5
Convention which heads
The Eight-hoJr Movement.
They had public demonstration recently, and
the whole number who turned out in the process
sion was aseertained By actual count, to be 2,0G0.
including bands and military escort Deducting
these would leave the wOrkingmen about 1900.
The procession failed Of coming up to expectation
in point Of numbers. but everything passed or
auiefIy- The public feeling here well else
where. il that the movement must prove u failure
IL u mechanic works but eight hours q day. he
only expect tn he paid for eight hours work. 1t is
nonsense to say that men will much in
eight a. in nine or ten hours per diem The prof.
eet Is undoubtedly lostered, If not prompted, by
designing politicians.
The Dispatch of May 10th. has spicy and rather
inconsilerae article, drawn out by this semi-pOliti
cal contest. in which G. Walcott Brooks & Co. and
their correspondents in Honolulu. Walker. Allen
X Co. come in for a wholesale amount of abuse
whether deserved not. the present writer know
eth not. But let the papers pass.
A Turn of Fortunes Wheel,
/ must mention thing more, which the
papers have been giving different versions OF.
This Is the last will aad testament of J. ConstaE-
tine, who recently died here. Some of your read
may remember him. he visited Honolulu
several years ago. The property left by him is
yaIiously. estimated ut from 100000 to 100000,
and he il said To have devised it all 30 his daughter,
Mad. de Varigny, wife of your Minister OF Foreign
Relations Ii Is suggested here that this windfall
lift proves correct-may create vacancy in the
Hawaiian Cabinet. We have plenty of hungry
oice-seekers here, if you out, and can put you
up Minister to order. this side up, with care.
The Ritualistic Movement.
In Episcopal Church matters have recently
hal some little excitement between the ritual
stic and the antis. f. Dillon Eagan, Of st. james
Church. having gone in the former line farther
than Bishop Kip thought cOnduced to Protestant
ISM was interdicted from preaching any longer in
the diOceser and Will leave for the East the
steamer Of the 10th The Rev. Mr.. Post. who re-
Gently arrived here from Honolulu where he has
been connected with Bishop Staley's Reformed
Catholic Mission Is thus alluded to by the Morning
C''H- he having temporarily undertaken carry on
the service at 1t. James
- Rev. Mr. Post, who has been engaged by the
yestry ot this parish to supply the pulpit during
The temporary absence Of the rector. Oficiated on
Sunday. for the first time. lie Is very acceptable
To the congregation We noticed that he not only
followed all the high ritual which Rev. Mr..
Eagan hail adopted, but went further. and
roDed himself IN the proper eucharistic vestment,'
which be- has always worn during his ministry in
Honolulu We learn. however. that the yestry
OF - james congregation requested Mr.. Post to
adopt the wearing OF the chasubIe II IL did not con-
hict with his own views Mr. Post says in reply to
the vt-try that ne nescr celebrated the holy COM
munioa IN any other robe, and also that Bishop
Nip assured him that b. would not interfere with
MN IN any Of the pecularites Of st. James Parish.
10 will be remembered that the Rev. Mr.. Eagan
wore this vestrnent on one occasion about a year
ago, and was severely censured for doing so was
even pronounced Jesuit by some persons whose /
ignorance OF what J. proper led them To act with
The greatest irreverence and disrespect towards the
sacred mysteries OF the altar
This "ritualistic" movement has prevailed for
some years in England, by degrees assuming the
Phase of Puseyi=nI. and eventually that OF Roman /
Catholicism, which is undoubtedly better than any
OF these wOuld-be halfway-isIn between Protest
ants and the believers in the Pope
An Island
j. said 90 have been lately discovered. some /
twenty degrees 20 the nOrthward Of the Sandwich /
Islands, and 100 miles due vest from this port |
Spectators. Of whom there are thousands here /
ready for any cL.Hcc Immediately started the idea I
on the street that this island having been discov-
cred and (of course) talcE possession of by an /
rrtean skipper. was American property, and
'nder the American Flag joint stock com
was Immediately formed here to find and /
'Se possession Of the new Island. and the news |
papers set forth in glowing terms that, If harbor
can be found, coalng station will be established
mere for the Pacific Mail Steamship COmpany's /
Line The joint stock concern aforesaid dispatched
me schooner L@1E; (ominous name). Capt Wood /
s'Hes' an old seaman. and Teputed careful navi- /
E''or. 10 Is further said that the Steamship Com /
p'hy VIII shortly send the schooner Milton BGdJer,
y. 20 the same place, with the view of Sc !
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