The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-04-11

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Which 1 have noticed.
shocks have been of the character known Is horizontal vhra-
continuance presented the idea OF attempt being made to lit
the house from underneath IL happened during the hour for
knee.
SLasted about % seconds.
SUPREME CouRT.-The April term of the Supreme
Court opened on Monday, and the sessions have con-
tinued through the week with the exception of yes
terday, it being Good Friday. There has been an
unusual number of criminal cases brought in guilty
by the jury. The following may perhaps be OF. inter-
est to the public. The Crown Us. Ahfoo, assault on
]. I'll. Wood with a deadly weapon verdict guilty.
The Crown IS. Lohiau, arson, the case being the
burning of a cooper's shop, at Kaalaea, guilty. The
King rs. keakui, forgery of a tax receipt to the
amount of five dollars, guilty. The Crown rs Kali
kals, perjury as witness in u case tried before police
court of selling liquor to natives, verdict guilty. A
case of embezzlement comes up to-day ola Chinaman,
Aclew, entrusted with funds TO convey from Kauai
to a firm in Honolulu. On Monday there will be
several interesting civil cases, viz, Hall & Son,
Bolles & Co, I. C. Heuck and J. NJ. Smith, each Us.
McCandless, Patty and II. Mcintyre, as of the firm of
McCandless s Co., the question being whether MIR.
Mcintyre was u member of the firm. Also the case of
Makulu Us. Pctero, to recover damages for Grim. con-;
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fact almost the only case among Hawaians yet brought
up in this court. -
The PAST WEEK has been Holy Week on the calen-
dar of the Ritualistic Churches. The bells of the
Cathedral were ringing vigorously on the morning of
Thursday, and on the succeeding day, Good Friday,
the Government Offices and many of the stores in town
were. closed in remembrance of the passion of our
Lord, an observance which though rather strange to
a large portion of our people, is perhaps less uncaled
for because many of our foreign residents were always
at home accustomed to notice the day. Tomorrow is
Easter Sunday, which is sometimes even in Protestant
Churches made occasion of appropriate exercises.
With it closes the season of Lent.
Business the past week has been most remarkably
dull. Save for the session of the Supreme Court, and
the news from Hawaii, there has been no excitement
whatever. -
TIE WARwIcK.-The new schooner just completed
by d. Foster s. Co., for Capt. Jacob Brown as a coast
err, is a fine specimen of work, being more thorough
ly built than vessels of our fleet generally are. She
will soon be placed upon the route vacated by the
loss of the pioneer Wartcick, and we trust will
prove n good investment.
u From Hanalei we learn that a scow load OF
sugar, belonging to the Princeyile Plantation, and
which was moored at the landing on the river, had
been carried out to sea by n freshet which occurred
suddenly during the night. Some three hundred
kegs of sugar were in the scow at the time.
FoUNTaIN.-A neat circular basin has recently been
constructed in front of the school house at Punahou
with a fine Jet from the fountain in the centre. 1t is
quite a relief to the exposed front of the house and an
addition to the appearance of the grounds. These
are steadily improving from year to year, and present
still n largo scope for the exercise of taste in landscape
gardening, which we presume only awaits the bestowal
Of more extended means by some public spirited
wealthy individual, to show itself to the satisfaction of
the friends of the school.
THE Town CLocK.-The clock of the Stone Church
was observed the other day to have stopped-which
We are happy to say has been a very rare occurrence
for a year or two past. 1t seems that the earth
quakes of last week so bent various parts of the ma
chinery, unbalancing the hands, and loosening screws,
that the whole finally came to a stand-stil. and con-
siderable difficulty was experienced in setting the
time piece in working order again. This however
was soon accomplished by Mr.. Rawson, it being first
necessary, in order to fix the hands on the north side,
to hold a boy suspended by a rope at rather a ticklish
height above the stone steps below.
PIcNIc.-On Tuesday evening a moonlight picnic
was given at Waikiki by Mr.. ii. Waterhouse to q
large company of the young people of the town. The
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of previous evenings, but just cool enough to enable
the company to enjoy the entertainment and the out
door games of the evening to the highest degree.
Every thing went of well, save that the moon was
very slow in coming out from behind the heavy clouds.
The usual gay riding parties formed the fitting sequel
to the evenings socialities.
FIRE.-On Thursday evening an alarm of fire was
raised in Nuuanu Valley, upon which the members
Of the Olympic Club left their Hall, and discovered
that the cook-house of the Hon. G. Rhodes had caught
fire, and flames were just issuing from the roof. The
Assistant Foreman of the Hose Co. No. l, entered the
building, and seeing u boiler OF hot water on the stove,
dashed it OH the flames. The application of a few
more buckets of water soon stopped what might have
been a serious fire. There was no one on the prem
ises at the time. -
OLYMpIcs.-The third entertainment in behalf of
the Building Fund of the Honolulu Olympic Club,
will take place next Friday evening, April 18th, at
the Hall on Nuuanu Avenue, when Rev. Geo. Mason
will read selections from Shakespeare's sublime drama
Of Hamlet" Tickets may be had next week.
~ By the arrival of the Tahitian whaling bark
Norman, from Tahiti, w learn that the American
whaling bark Gent Pike, before reported leaking
and bound for tins port, had arrived at that port,
and had been condemned and sold for about 81, 900.
NEW WAREHoUsE-James Robinson & Co., are Just
now completing a fine warehouse, for storage purposes,
of a capacity of about twelve hundred tons. The
building is of wood, which, if earthquakes are to be
of frequent occurrence, is preferable to stone.
BEES must be getting plenty some where, as a
neighbor up in Nuuanu informed US the other day
that a swarm had just settled in his chimney.
Whether boiled honey was the result he did not say.
HIS MAJESTY returned to this city in the yacht