The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-07-17
TIE PACIFIC
COWmercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY Y. JULY Il.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.
IcE AND Ice CREAM AT ALL HoURs-If anyone
doubts that ice can be manufactured here, he has
simply TO step into Mr.. Bartow's auction room,
where will be found an apparatus so simple that n
child can make from one TO two quarts Of ice Tor
from two to four pounds) in about half an hour.
Yesterday. on the first trial. with the thermometer
Mt about so solid ice was formed, which served to
make for the spectators some refreshing drink. This
apparatus is a new invention, for which Mr.. B.. is
agent, and the machines are supplied at one hum
dred dollars each. They are so simple and handy
that they recommend themselves, and are always
ready to serve the wants Of those using them. From
eleven to twelve o'clock to-day, Mr.. b. will again
demonstrate to the ~skeptical how easy it is to make
ice when you know how. In New Orleans, ice is
now regularly manufactured, by the aid of a steam
engine, and supplied to customers ut less than one
cent a pound. while the imported article costs four
cents. II its manufacture is so successful there,
why may it not be introduced here on u smaller
scale. -
NAvA--H. ID. NJ. ship Cameleon left Panama on
the sth Of June for Vancouver's Island, direct, so
says the Panama Star. She has been expected at this
port. She had had about twenty cases of small pox
on board, but ut the date Of her sailing was free
from disease.
iuc IrcuCu IIiHfitc VIII uulir
on board, sailed from San Francisco on the 18th Of
June for Victoria. where she was expected to remain
q week or so. Allowing twenty days passage to this
port, she ought to arrive here between the 9th and
18th Of August
We find no reference to the Gaiatea in any Of our
papers received by this mail. nor anything to cor
roborate the report that His Highness the Duke was
i'll at New Zealand, which We trust is incorrect. If
il be true, however, il may account for the delay in
his arrival here.
The u. s. ship Pensacola had been ordered to
Mare Island to be fitted for a cruise, but how soon
she would visit this port was not certain.
SATIsFAcToRY.-0ur neighbor is quite clear and
explicit in the most of his answer to our item regard
ing the Makawao Female Seminary. The proposed
Board Of Trustees I. ii. Hebron, James Makee,
Warren Goodale, N. F. Sayre, Judge Kahale, W.
Alexander, Edward Bailey, DIR. c. S. Kittredge and
C. d. Andrews. is a sufficient guarantee that the
new Seminary will be well cared for. AS to the
plan of the building, we trust that due regard will
be shown for the welfare of the pupils. Whether
the sum raised be large or small, is no excuse for an
planned building. The last paragraph
penned by our neighbor is not so clear. "Polem-
ical - is n good word when properly used, but to our
mind t" polemical opinions " is a use not warranted
by photographers. "
q The Yachts Dauniless and Cara Bell had
another trial on Thursday. The rig of the Daunhess
has been altered since the race on the 9th inst, the
mast being stepped farther forward and now carrying
but a mainsail. The Darntless took the lead this
time, and both boats rounded the spar buoy within
ten seconds of one another, with the wind blowing
fresh. The Cara Bell shot to windward and passed
the Dauntiess, leading her a hundred yards on the
first tack, which she held until the wind left her near
the King Philip. The Dauntess being a long dis
lance astern, took q light breeze from the eastward
and brought it up to the Cara Bell, being to wind
ward, an advantage which she held to the wharf,
leading about thirty seconds
A SrnKE-The natives who earn a livelihood
along shore struck for two dollars a day, upon the
arrival of the Kuiusof, Vernon and By=antium,
lumber vessels. They stood out for two days and
then came to terms at the old rate of one dollar a
day. Finding that their accustomed food costs them
double what it did three months since, they doubtless
thought it right to make things equal by demand
ing double wages. This strike gives evidence of two
things ; that the natives are alive to the practices in
other countries, and that in n struggle between them
and the foreigner capital will tell.
uOoD.-a 10 AOOh PNPN N
" half right" at times, published the following this
week:
"a prize Of $40 was offered by the Connecticut
Teachers Institute to any one who could spell the
following lines without q mistake. Iihrty-eight
teachers competed, but not one gained the prize
% 1t is an agreeable sight to witness the unparalleled
embarrassment Of n harassed peddler attempting to
gauge the symmetry of a peeled onion; which a sibyl
has stabbed with a poinard, regardless of the innu-
endoes Of the lilies of corneiian hue"
One thing is very evident, and that is that the so
offered would not have fallen to our ~neighbor.
- By an advertisement in our columns, it will
be seen that the agent of the Hamburg-B Bremen Fire
Company has been authorized to take
risks ut reduced rates. We have before suggested
that the rates for Honolulu be fixed as low as is Gus
tomary in any other place of its size, inasmuch rs
the experience of twenty years has shown that casu-
alties from fire have been less frequent here than in
other cities. The rates are now so low that no store
or dwelling should be left uninsured.
QUICK TRIP.-During May. the schooner Kate
Lee made a fine run from Hilo to this port-27 hours
which was then thought to be the best ever
made between the two ports. On Wednesday, the
Pauohi arrived, "a hours from wharf to wharf
6" Competition is the life of trade,' and we expect to
see her rival beat even this handsome passage.
PERSONALITY the Rival from San Francisco
His Elk. HENRY A PIERCE, United States Minister
Resident at this court, came as passenger. On reach
ing the wharf he was met by his old. and now vener-
able friend, Captain John Meek. and by him taken to
his present residence at Mrs. Dominis'.
q Rev. Mr.. Damon and his family left Minneap-
oils, on the 18th of June, and after visiting Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and New York,
to arrive at Worcester, Mass, on the Sd of
July. -
MORE EARTHoUAKEs.-A letter from Hawaii nd
vises us that shocks are becoming quite frequent
again. One on the LIST inst. was so severe as to
drive some of the residents of Kona out of their
houses. -
A Coon AppoINTNENT.-We learn that Mr.. ChaA
Gulick has been appointed Clerk of the Interior
Department. We congratulate the Minister Of the
Interior for the happy selection he has made
W- On the outside Of tO-day's paper viii be found