The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-09-18
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

illness. On Wednesday last, died Mr.. JOHN GRAVES
MUM, n native of Springfield, Mass, aged seventy
one years and eleven months. With but one excep-
ton, he was the Oldest living foreigner resident on
these islands, having arrived here on the 18th Of
April, 1920, a few days after the pioneer missiOna-
ries landed at Kailua, nearly fifty years ago. His
first employment was in the family of the late Rev
Asa Thurston, with whose family he ever maintained
relations of friendly intercourse. He was also an in,
innate friend of Gov. John Adams Kuakini of Hawaii.
He leaves several children and grandchildren here,
has 4 sister living in Springfield, Mass. and a
nephew in Dakota Territory. He was thoroughly
and enthusiastically an American, and during the
late rebellion always stood up for the Union and for
his country, in q manner which put her enemies to
blush. Courteous, generous and open-handed to a
fault, many a stranger, sick and destitute, can attest
to his kindly and sympathizing nature
{" BE To his virtues very Kind
Be 10 his faults a little blind"
SHoNoLULU DIRECTORY AND HIsToRICAL SKETCH
aor THE HAWAIIAN OR SANDwIcH ISLANDS by C. C.
Bennett lis the title of a new publication issued
from the press of Mr.. c.. c. Bennett, of this city, for
a copy of which we are indebted to the publisher. 1t
is in octave form, and comprises lightweight pages
of text, devoted mainly to a historical sketch of the
islands, and a directory of the principal foreign resi-
ututS " lIiS City, W MHACh ~ pfShAS4 IA lux
twenty-eight pages of advertisements. The price of the
book, (three and a half dolars) may prevent its gen.
eral circulation, though it is just such a work as
is needed but the cost of publishing it, and the
very limited sale it can obtain, unless the pub
Usher succeeds in disposing of a good number abroad,
must render its publication rather hazardous in a
business point of view. All who can afford it, how
ever, should assist in its circulation. as it will be
fnund n valuable aid IN husiness mon We have not
had time to examine its merits for correctness, but
shall review it at as early a day as possible.
IMPORTANT TO wHAIENEs-capt Hickman, of the brig
his last two voyages to the Guano Islands, that he has seen in
Hprii ahex M sperm repeatedly @na,ss s e irom u MeK Se ms and P Reer \
Islands, and the Captain has fallen in with them on both voy-
cruise in these waters requires a clipper vessel, as the winds
TO the westward.-N. b. Standard.
We find the above item going the rounds of our
American exchanges, credited as above. 1t appeared
first in our own paper, and when the Standard
copied it, proper credit should have been given to
this paper. The information impaired is valuable,
and may be worth millions Of dollars to those en-
gagged in the whaling business, and the journal
which goes to the trouble and expense Of discovering
and first publishing it, should st least have the
credit, and not the one which first clips it out from
another paper. -
STARTLING TO I" OLD SALTs."-From an exchange
paper we learn that n London firm have just OBJ
tanned a patent for u method, startling to 90 old
salts " for its originality, for catching whales by
means of electricity. BY their plan every whale
boat is provided with a galvanic battery. Wires
from opposite poles run down TO the points of each
set of h~arpoons. When the whale is sufficiently
near two harpoons are thrown as nearly simulta-
neonsly as possible, and when imbedded the flesh
of the monster completes the circuit. The charge
is expected to be sufficiently powerful to paralyze
the animal, so that the small boat may advance
and dispatch him at leisure. Now. 1t strikes us that
an electric battery in Jacks hands would be found
TO kick both Gays, the result of which might be that
both he and the whale became paralyzed.
CoRREsPoNDENTs.-The Gazette is terribly worried
about the Honolulu correspondents of the San Fran
cisco papers, and Notwithstanding its rebuke to Mr..
Dixie, the author of " Greater Britain for calling
US cannibals, without ~deigning to visit us, seems
wrathy enough to take and eat the aforesaid CORES
alive, without the savory process of roast
ing. But, seriously, if public report is reliable, the
writer for the Bulletin, who is SO angrily reprimand-
ID for speaking his mind, is a gentleman in the SER
vice of the government, or very closely allied thereto.
People living in glass houses should not throw
stones" -
% We received last week for publication the
of the Makawao Female Seminary, which is
Inserted in this issue, but noticing an apparent error
n the omission of section two, we delayed inserting
he document, till we could ascertain whether it was a
clerical omission or not. The Gazette, however,
having published the charter without the second Sec
ion, we infer that the original copy is the same. If
10, it affords another instance of the shiftless way in
which public documents are drawn up here, and
business is done.
STEAMER ADvERTIsEMENT.-After a temporary in
eruption, we reinsert the schedule table of the
teamer Idaho, and would call the attention of the
public to the same. We trust that the day
will come when the NORTH PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION
may have an agency here which can so far
itself alOof from local politics that the business
nd the interests of the steamship company may not
compromised by the political differences between
aid agency and one of the leading journals of the
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PARDoNED.-We are happy to notice that q full and
omplete pardon has been given by the KING to Mr..
iEoRGE Brooks of East Maui. We happen to know
Ir. b and can certify that the royal clemency has,
A this instance, been worthily bestowed. The ofense
f which he was convicted was committed under pal
ating circumstances, and nothing could be gained
y allowing the stain to remain on him, while much
~ mby ECSuit " II luli dlu COIupletc rcStOfa- |
on to his former rights, which has been made.
BANANAS FOR CHICAGo.-A shipment of a few
inches of bananas was made by the Idaho, which
re to 60 through to Chicago via the railroad. We
ave our doubts about its paying, as bananas are
btained in New York from the West Indies, at
bout the same cost as when laid down in San Fran
eco from this port or Acapulco. The freight from
ew York to Chicago is less than one cent. a pound,
lille from San Francisco it is from four to ten cents
pound. -
80 Mr.. Adderly has presented us with an apple
Used in his garden in Nuuanu street, of the Rhode
land Greening variety, which possesses all the quail
es Of that choice fruit raised in America. By care
lily planting the seeds of such fine apples grown
trees may be raised which will flourish and pro-
nee as heavily as in foreign countries. The main
ing Is to cause the tree to be acclimated.
SUDDEN DEArH.-We are NAMED tn annonnca tho