The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-12-04

applanding the services of Mons. tarlgny, wa
wholly unnecessary, and a rather roundabout way o.
telling a short story, amounting to this and nothing
more-that owing to differences between MIR. Harris
and Mons. ", the former has succeeded in oustlpa
the latter to his own satisfaction and that Of the
whole community.
While on this subject we may also refer to the
remark made by some ~simpletOn in the same paper, in
commenting on our statement that the decoration Of
the Legion of Honor was bestowed only on those who
have shown great devotion to the French Empire,
the writer attempting to disprove our position by
instancing the Chickering's, and saying From this
we learn that MIR. Chickering, the piano forte maker
of Boston, is in the service of the French Emperor
and has shown peculiar (most peculiarly devotion to
the French Empire" The facts about this decora-
ton are these Prior to the opening of the French
Exposition, one of the brothers Chickering went to
Paris and opened a branch ware-room for the sale
of their pianos, and presented a splendid instrument
to the French Emperor, doubtless to attract his
special notice. As a mark of esteem and devotion to
the interests of Paris and the French Empire, in
thus establishing a branch of their house in Paris,
the Partisan Chiekering received the decoration,
and not the Boston house, properly speaking. 1t
was 3 shrewd and most successful Yankee advertising
dodge, if nothing more. The facts only add to the
force of our statement made last week, that the
decoration is only bestowed on those who show
extraordinary devotion to French interests, as the
Chickering's have in this instance.
pHE PUNCH BOWL FOR DECEMBER. - This little
mdAthly made its appearance yesterday. 1t ~sustains
its usual tone of youthful gossip, its editors, literary
~hedglings as they evidently are, hot as yet venturing
on any very elevated or extensive flights. But in
truth, this playing at newspapers Is undoubtedly a
pleasant recreation, and indulgence in the cacoeihes
scribendi must be quite a luxury,-when one is not
compelled to earn his bread and butter by scribbling.
In the latter case, as the story says, it is on the
contrary, quite the reverse" The opening article,
"Verandah Parties, > is a good subject, but not, 80
to say, treated with life enough and perhaps rather
affected g Inter- Island, % well describes the miseries
sometimes endured in a schooner trip to Lahaina ;
and Pilgrims call at the Interpreter's' is in
tended, without however any startling success, to be
satirical ON newspaper men, "Home Gossip
"A department that We fancy might be made in the
right hands extremely piquant and amusing-is in
this number rather labored, and one has to read o
paragraph twice to find out where the laugh comes
in. But let us inquire here, whether the Punch
Bopi is in favor of " beer,'' as might be gathered
from the fact that it intimates that the Harvards lost
the boat race because they abstained from anything
sS IVA 4 1H(S OO0tS
while most decidedly non-commi.tal on all questions
it undertakes to discuss, and inclined to sneer at
everybody and everything, is readable ; and as ma
terials for literary gossip are not abundant in Homo
lulu, we give our young c~onfrere this notice on
which to exercise its steel pens, while we wish it
all the success it merits.
BALLS, &C-The festive winter holidays are ap-
preaching, and the presence of two war vessels,-
representatives of the two most powerful and friendly
allies of the Hawaiian Kingdom, together with the
annual return of the royal birthday. have combined
to create more than customary entertainments andh
social gatherings. The ball ON board the .Nohicana
on Tuesday evening was a pleasant affair, largely at
tended, His Majesty the King being among the
guests. The festivities kept up till a late hour, and
Admiral Turner and his officers won the praises of
all present on the occasion.
We failed, Internationally to notice the very
pleasant party given the preceding week by DR.. and
Mrs. McGrew, and insert our contemporary lively
report of it:
son Tuesday evening of last week, DIR. and Mrs. McGrew.
gave an elegant party to Admiral Turner and the officers Of
men, for whose entertainment, admirable arrangements had
heen made, so as to secure a pleasant and enjoyable evening.
outside near the open windows, the side rooms to card tables,
other cover Coverings. The i I aa iMp %aa spread eas'n wiah e q spIenaid
repast, being lighted in the centre by chandelier of bayonets,
adorned the table and rooms. The evening passed of pleasantly
to all present, and the guests departed at a late hour"
Or Thursday evening, Mr.. and Mrs. Wodehouse
gave a ball, at their residence in Nuuanu which,
though not so largely attended as those already re-
ferred to, was a pleasant gathering.
? LELEKowALI.-This is the native word for a swing,
derived from Leie, to fly as o bird, and Koraii, the
long creepers of the cOnvolvulus plant, which was ,
nsed in lieu of q rope on which to swing from the
.ough of q tree. But the Hawaiian swing of to-day
IS not so simple an affair as the leiekorali of olden
times. One can be seen any day in an enclosure on
The river side, mauka of King street. A spar of
about 80 feet in length has been guyed at an angle,
md a single stout rope, with a wooden seat, is the
wing. Seated on this, astraddle of the rope, women
Is well as men seem to enjoy themselves immensely,
IS they fly back and forth through the air, on an t
rc of some hundred feet or more. The swing is
If course a money speculation, and there is q regular
ariff of charges-so many swings for q rial. Acct
Tents not subsequently occur, by falls through dizzi-
less and weak nerves, and the indiscriminate COM
Of the sexes, more especially in the shipping {
eason, is not calculated to be conducive to morality.
A Commemorative are always quite ready to
orrect q misstatement Of fact, whenever. by acct r
ent or otherwise, it may occur in these columns.
We were misinformed to the effect that the Minister a
f Finance was the author of the Kerosene Storage
Act of 1868, (not of 1869, as the Gazette .
as it, as that official appears to have been absent .
the country at the time, though we hardly con-
EIDE that such fact was one of 30 grave Importance c
5 to be known to everybody in the Kingdom I
he law in question undoubtedly emanated from the o
.linistry, and the peculiar sensitiveness of the j,
;azefte in fastening to deny that the Minister of !
nance was its author, goes so far to prove that our q
n % N m tho ar1rda utu1a IS la IL ~
vogue here, were correct. o
BENEFIT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENr.-Messrs. Lee r
Ryland having signifed to the Fire Department 7
lat it would please them to give a performance, the q
roceeds of which should be devoted to the DEPART
ent, and it having been accepted. Monday evening a
IS been named for the performance. Tickets can be !.