The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-09

18th or 18th, then due per City Of Melbourne.
81 By notice from the Road Supervisor the pub
lie are informed that traffic on the bridge foot of
King Street is closed, until the new bridge is COM
pleted. -
NAvAL.-H. 1. R. Ms corvette Isomr46<Cap
COumany, arrived on Tuesday Evening lat SO days
from Callao, en- route for Japan.
A CoMET.-The nebulous star which has been no
ticed by observers recently in the western sky, is a
comet, discovered by Herr Winnecke, of Carlsruhe.
1t reached its maximum grandeur in the end of last
month, and is rapidly approaching the sun.
FUNERAL SERMoN.-We learn that a funeral SER
mon on the late VIM. Bennett viii be preached by the
Rev. c. G. Williamson, at st. Andrews Cathedral to-
morrow evening. The Honolulu Rifles and the Order
of Good Templars. both of which bodies the deceased
was a member, will be present by invitation.
ACCIDENT FROM MAToHEs-Last Sunday afternoon
a little daughter of Mr.. C. W. Hart, got hold of some
card matches unobserved and plnying with them by
some means they ignited, and set fire to her clothing,
enveloping the child in flames. AS soon as discover
ed, the fire was smothered with a blanket, but not
without burning the child quite seriously.
BED BUGS. These horrid pests are it seems, be-
SoninS HumcIOuS III IL ClI1s especially III natlVe
houses. Recently a native stated to a physician
that he feared he had the first symptoms of leprosy,
as he was troubled at night with a crawling and
itching sensation of his skin. On examination, it
appeared that he had been overrun and badly bitten
by bed-bugs! -
HAWAIIAN BILL OF ~FARE.-Ther was a " bill of
fare,' - provided at the recent marriage feast on Maui,
among the items of which were 80 hogs 16 tur-
Z kavs 1Q5 chictaus % duaGS savaroI oaaea 0n0O
eggs % barrels poi 500 fish of different kinds
200 sea-eggs 200 cocoanuts 100 breadfrults ; 100
watermelons 10 barrels sweet potatoes bananas,
oranges, and other fruits in prOfusion besides the
cake, &C., provided particularly for foreign guests.
HANDSOME SUGAR.-We have seen some very hand
some samples of light crystal sugar, manufactured
on the Kohala Plantation at Hawaii, by Mr.. McDade.
Mr.. Med. has but recently arrived in the country,
seeking employment at his profession, that of a SUI
gar boiler. We believe he has some speciality about
his mode of making sugar, but can only say that the
crystals in the sample shown us excelled any thing
we have yet seen. in perfection and beauty.
The GALAxY.-The number for September of this
rich store of reading matter is at hand. 1t still con-
tinues to maintain its high reputation as a standard
monthly among the numerous tribe of modern litera-
ture. All its articles are excellent-though we may
be allowed to abate a little of enthusiasm over (" Pearl
hunting in the Pomotovs where did he get that
spelling by our old acquaintance, Charles Warren
Stoddard. Surely there is pure romance enough
among the coral isles of our Pacific without Stoddard
letting loose his impractible imagination upon us.
CoAsTING MEMoRANDA.-A friend on the passage
to Maui, sends us the following memoranda -
$3.50 A. NJ. Fine weather, good trade breeze down
the Pailolo channel, and smooth sea. We are off
Kamalo. and hugging the Molokai coast in beating
up. The Nettie is about a mile to leward of US,
rather hugging the Lanai coast. A schooner of
Kaunakakai is beating up with all sail spread, up to
triantic ~stay-sail and h~ying,jib. All that you can
afford to pay for these dispatches, please hand over
to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to =" Mex
lean Bean bugs" -
MALICIOUS MIscH1EF.-Some time during Wednes-
day afternoon last, between the hours of two and four,
the hose of the Post Office building, used for wetting
down the streets, was cut by ONE maliciously dis
posed person. Suspicion points pretty strongly to
some youths who have been in the habit of frequent
ing the Post Office veranda, and a reward is of
fered for information that shall lead to detection of
the perpetrator of the outrage. Boy or man, the
person who could w%illfully destroy property in that
way should be looked after, as a measure of public
protection. -
NATIVE CASTOR OIL We have often expressed
our surprise that, among the many articles of value
that might be easily produced here, no one has yet,
30 far as is known, attempted the manufacture OF
castor oil. The bean, as we all know. grows abund-
antly, wild, all over the country, in different varie-
ties. Besides being an indispensable article of family
use as a medicine, the oil as q lubricator and to use
on leather, is superior to ~neatsfoot. Why viii it not
pay to manufacture here, instead Of importing the
commonly adulterated article from abroad? At Mr..
G. C. McLean's s~tore,@6n Nuuanu street, we have ex-
amined some very pure looking samples of Castor
Oil, manufactured by him from the native bean.
which looks like, and is guaranteed to be, the real
sim6n-pure. -
NTHE SKATING RINK IN CoURf.-Last Monday a
very inartisticaUy worded complaint, signed by some
twenty persons, was presented in the Police Court.
addressed "To the City Marshal and the judges of
Court setting forth that the Skating Rink O.
Messrs. Williams & Wallace, on Hosa street, vas =
common nuisance, keeping people awake OF nights,
and annoying them by the noise of the skaters falling
heavily on the floor, and by the 8 rolling thunder
Gus " sound of the skates ; the complaint concluding
with a petition that the same be stopped in order
that " we the undersigners, might live like a civilized
nation" A number Of witnesses were examined,
who lived in the immediate neighborhood Of the
Hall, and who declared that the noise of the skating.
(sometimes two or three evenings in the week, and
lasting till 81 or 10 o'clock) was very annoying and
destructive of sleep. especially to one person who was
an invalid. 1t was admitted however, that the pro-
prietors had closed the Rink on some evenings when
a woman was reported i'll in the neighborhood. To
rebut the petition several witnesses testified that,
living in the near neighborhood of the Rink, they
were not at all annoyed by the noise. Mr.. Alworth, a
police officer, stated that he had nearly gone to sleep
in the Hall while the skating was in full operation,
such was the soothing effect Of the monotonous
sounds Whereupon counsel for COMPLIMENTS OBJ
served Sc that was probably the consequence of hav-
ing on a full head of steam" (Mr. Alsworth con-
sidered this as an insult, and representing it as such
to the counsel, the following morning an apology
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