The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-09-05
TIE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
S~ATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 8
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MoNDEEruL, ~ TRUr.'-'. The million ia search
II information ia the Ga-sHs ii last Wednesday,
(SGnteNbsT p tile newspaper that does up every
thing correct. from its leader To its shortest advertise
Iuent, - and constitutes itself corrector II its ~neighbor
will be glad 10 know that the steamer Hah0 U,I
islVs her wharf for San Francisco, on Saturday.
August 18th, at 4 =. u "Our numerous readers
throughout the Pacific will please note the fact, and
get their trunks packed at once"
The squib in the last Gasons, which we quote with
inteiineauon. j. "a fair specimen II the htte-mindei
management u the - ofhcial organ of the Hawaiian
Government" The above error l. undoubtedly Ow-
ing 10 tile fact that the IlIho Was hot reported ia the
marine list a. having sailed, and was supposed 10 be-
sull Ia port. la two places, We noted correctly the
proper day and hour Of the sailing 81 the L1h0, and
the error in the advertisement was attributable to the
latenes- II the hour at which We received notice that
it Was to be inserted. and WAS simply a tyPograPh-
zeal error, not one arising from lack Of information,
To which most Of the errors ia the " official " mas De
traced. The hlGnders in the Gd=ofts are usually 80
numerous that We take no notice Of them whatever,
always expecting to find them, and make due allow
ance for them. A correspondent hands ia the follow
ing: -
-nr. Editor A the Gd-sns Is Il hunting up errors
Of the press. 1. though not IA particularly careful
observer, send you "a lew, fDr which | shall make
No charge
AUCTION sale of Mr.. Hahn's fnrnifurs-adyertisei
for September 9TH aud llth. The latter il supposed
to he "a continuation sale Tor the bened, Of the editor
Of the Gd=sls.
COmme,cidi Hem-John Curry bought the shooner
Rad INT James Currle was the purchaser.
Buaiaess Card.-A. >. Gleghorn. Who Is lac,
lu..r.ge IyVJ .F f.1fgu Ham What Kind ~ a
merchant j. a Commission Merchant
HaraiiaH Race twice Con
tliri page and fourth Good Tor the lucky man
whose il IL.
Passengers by Steamer R,iaHsI, S~ep,fM5er L.
The steamer sailed on Monday, August 81.
EIpoIfs.-An error of only 80. 600 pounds in the
pulu exported by the HahO.
Murine R1ort-But one days arrivals or de-
partures correct in the entire weeks report.
- SrrfL Prs.
dEAIn or CArrAIy ". ". CLsBK.-From the fol
loving notice received by the last mail, we learn that
Capt. Clark, formerly master of the whaleships -NogUI
and Occaa, died recently, in New Haven. lie viii
be remembered by most of our residents and many
-ea-faring men, as nn eccentric man, IL kind-heartel
sailor, and a good whaleman
"Capt. william wiltshire Clark died at h- reeI icn,. ia New
Haven, july 10th. lie was probably one Of the mos; enterrri--
ing anal successful OF cur American whalenicn, and his voy ag-s
"'I' Aiioal NeElAiA Z" N"4S sGE arg inns t' Hi Ni-h"A
Se,nsst in ts World. lie first ,tHef as raprain Tor Wini,n-
Qrd Barnes. % Ncw London, milking several voyages fr them. :
IN 1868, lie fitted out and took command Of the whller OCEAN,
81 New Haven. in which snip h" was II part owner. Taking
his vile with him, he sailed on a voyage which lasted six wears,
lie mad Liz headquarters at H9nolg,a' and from that point
North ss our new territory of ALASKA, with the coast 81 which
hh- return Ia 1866, he retired from the business, aud lost h-
wife The next var. Capt Clark received his Christian name
Arabia, who rescued Capt. CArk's father and several other
subject q a narrative that was onS d The most popular books OF
trsyS with our grandfather"
IT At a general meeting Of the members of the
Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society, held at the
on Friday last, the following officers
were elected President, Thomas Brown; Nice-PTes-
ident, Judge Montgomery; Treasurer, \. +. Judd;
Secretary, j. II. Kinney; Corresponding
En-. Fenard Members of the Board OF
f. Hoffman,, l.. McCuily, {. Derby,
:. Barlow and j. ). Lemon.-H. e..
By the above item it appears that the Society have
agreed to let the venerable ex-president down from
elevated position rs quietly as possible, but still
that his valuable services are indispensable TO
is existence. Until the policy of the Agricultural
Society is entirely changed from what it has been for
the past ten years until other members, equally
neritorious, are allowed to share some of the benefits
IF the institution besides Judge Montgomery, DR.. ,
Hutchinson and Charles Derby, the public can take
very little interest in it or its prosperity.
TOR THE EAsI.-lnc foreign III bl lc btfh .
will close at the post-ofice Mt s o'clock, to- :
The postage by sailing vessels is hut ten cents.
% Hawaiian and 8 American. The Postmaster ,
has issued the following notice I'm order TO ,
Expedite business in making up the foreign Mails AT
his Office, on the departure of the steamers and I
ailing packets from this port, the undersigned re- !
quests that all mail matter he stamped To those |
Who know the labor and care required TO make up .
ne mails properly. this order, which corresponds r
the law in America. England, and France, will d
lot appear unreasonable. Frequently from one to I
thousand letters are taken in on steamer day. and V
would he next to impossible. with the present force y
mployed, TO afix stamps to all, without closing the c
several hours earlier than now. g
GIVES II UP.-The persistency with which the Ga
cite has chung to the idea that the Hawaiian Pleni- Is
o~tentiary at Washington could push the Reciprocity n
realty through the Senate while the Ministers here
throwing stumbling blocks in his way. appears l
' the following to have undergone a change '
e. The slow progress Of the treaty, together with tLe uuecr-
der IL an element in the calculations Tor tL- wear. except Il
deed, - a possible contingency. and the planters must depend n
oGtabi- sale Of their coming crop" il
When all the facts relating TO the treaty and its 9
'cret history become known, it will he found that =
defeat has been brought about more by the acts of >,
.s Maiesty's Ministers than by any direct opposition W
the measure ut Washington.
CoSCERr-A very crelitahle as well as successful r.
,ncert of vocal music was given last Saturday night, n
the church in Ralihi. in aid Of a fund for the pu- p
Of n scruphinc for the church. The whole affair -
as gotten up and conducted by Hawaiians, some Ii
yenty children taking part, and their Efforts were