The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-07-16
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

STEAMERS AND MAILs.-Three steamers may b.
looked for next week The .Gjar on the morning
of the Goth, with dates from San Francisco to July
10 the City of .Mel6ourne, from Sydney and Auck.
land, ON the 22d or 23d and the U. s. Steamer
Sagina,o, from Brooks Island, between the 10th
and 23d.
The mail steamer .Ajar will leave soon after the
arrival of the Australian steamer, probably on the
morning of the 23d, Saturday next. Notice will be
given at the ~postoffice of the hour of closing the
mails for San Francisco and Australia.
Regarding hostages, as the new regulations,
under the treaty with the United States, are now in
force, the postage will hereafter be sir cents HaDai-
ian on each single letter. As no American stamps
are required here on letters, there will be no further
use for them except on letters sent to countries beyond
the United States. AS we have no 6-cent. Hawaiian
stamps, three 2-cent. stamps will serve for the present.
We suppose that official notice will soon be given of the
change in the rates. Postage on transient newspa-
pers remains as formerly (two cents Hawaiian and
two cents American on each paper.)
e The schooner Annie, Capt. VIM. Babcock,
sailed on Tuesday morning for Micronesia, with sup
plies for the mission stations there. By her the
Hawaiian Government returned twenty-five of the
unfortunate Bukabuka men and women, who were
brought here some months since in the r. W. Wood.
They are natives of Danger Island, located some two
thousand miles due south Of this group. OF the
whole company Of forty-nine introduced, nearly one
half have died since arrival and all Of the remain
ing who desired to return home, were offered a free
passage This was the least that could be done for
them. The experience attending the introduction of
the two companies of emigrants from the South Seas
has clearly demonstrated the fact that they are not
adapted for laborers on plantations. And it is not
probable that any further efforts will be made to
secure laborers in that direction, for O more feeble
and worthless people for colonizing purposes were
never seen in this or any other land.
e Advertisers should remember that the best
time of the year to spread their notices before the
public is when times are dull, and people are idle,
with plenty of leisure to read. This is invariably the
case during the summer season here. A profound
philosopher has said 6" The farmer plants his seed,
and while he is sleeping the corn is growing. So
advertising. While you are sleeping or eating,
your advertisement is being read by thousands of
persons who never saw or heard of your business.
and never would had it not been for advertising.',
The newspaper bears your notices to every house and
store in the group, and they are read by all
more now than during the busy season, when every
'ne is occupied. A man who does not advertise, may
possibly keep out of the sherifes hands, but the
chances are nine out of ten that the latter will adyer-
Use for him. -
% DR.. K. M'Kibbin lost his fine gray saddle
lorse o few days since, his death having been caused
'olely from eating California oat hay. The long
harp beard of the hay, by penetrating the horses
hroat and nose, produced inflammation, resulting in
lis death. We have frequently heard Of sore months
aused by the burrs in oats and hay, but have not