The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-03-04
THE PACIFIC

honolulu teD- 24th, 1911 a- 10
THE PACIFIC ''
Commercial aobertiser.
SATURDAY. MARCH 4.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
THE KiIarKA lays up the coming week, sailing
again for Hilo on the 18th.
EARTHoUAKE There was a slight shock of earth
quake last night at about a quarter to II O'Clock
THE VoLcANo.-By the Rufe Lee we learn that
the light of the volcano was plainly visible at Hilo
on Monday night. -
S The NExR NEws.-Wes have no adviees of any
vessel coming this way from San Frascisco preri-
Gus to-the steamer. A transient clipper may call.
TO The regular monthly meeting of the Mis-
sion Children's Society will be held at the house
OF Z. T. Jones, Jr, this evening. at u O'Clock.
THE STEAMER Moses TAYLOR sailed on Thursday for
San Francisco with 81 passengers from this city, be-
sides 70 in ~transitu, the mails and q full cargo of
island produce. -
ExUENT ONSEs.-By the departure of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bandmann, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mathews,
Mr.. Rayner. Frank Jones and Miss Maggie Knight,
we are once more left without a theatrical company.
STEAMER EDITIoS.-We issued an extra. steamer
edition for California and the East, containing our
Annual Review OF Agriculture and Commerce, a
full account of the late earthquake, Australian
news, local items, etc., etc., to go by the steamer.
A Jolly TR1o.-The only case before the Police
Court this week was the ~arraignment for drunken
ness of three sailors who rejoiced in the jolly names
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enness was of the mild type, a sensation could not be
got up when they were fined 81 each.
XEAL ESTATE SoLD.-Yesterday Mr.. Barlow sold at
auction a desirable parcel of land on the Eva road,
about a mile and a half from the city, belonging to
the estate of the late Z. Burgess, and containing ten
acres. 1t brought $3.50, J. W. Austin, Esq, being the
purchaser. - 4
BUTTER FROM AUsTRALIA.-We notice the importa-
ton per Wonga H1onga, of 40 kegs and II casks of
butter. Here we have something less than 1OO, 900
head of beef cattle on these islands, butter readily
brings fifty cents a pound all the time, and yet we
have to import the article from abroad.
DEATH ON SH1pBoARD.-On board the Moses Tay-
Tor, on the last passage to this port, Feb. 18th. a
fireman named Jerry Vaughn, while engaged in oil
ing the machinery, getting in the wake of the walk
ing beam, was knocked down and 50, badly injured
that he survived but a short time. The corpse was
buried at sea on the following day.
AHAwAIIAN IN TRouBLE.-In late San Francisco
papers we notice the trial, on the 18th of February, Of
Henry Drill, a kanaka,' on a charge of setting fire
to the American whaling bark Massachusetts, Capt.
Cooty, about one year ago. after leaving the port of
Lahaina, bound for the Arctic. The jury broughtin
a verdict of guilty. but the sentence was not pro-
nounced. -
Tur WrATurp -Duripn tho moot xuoak MO hava
had a recurrence of the warm days, cool nights and
balmy airs to which we have been strangers since
October last. Light showers at night, and southerly
and easterly breezes by day, with pleasant moon
lights. But on Thursday morning rainy weather set
in again, lasting till yesterday evening.
WHERE DO THEY ALI KEEP THEMSELVES l-Yester-
day at about 2 P. NJ. scarcely a person could be seen
on Merchant street. Suddenly a horse, running
away with the two four wheels of q dray, came rushing
madly along, and in less than the shake of an earth
quake the street was alive with enquiring and
admiring bipeds. The horse. by the way, did no
harm. -
A REGATTA IN PROsPECT-The Honolulu Yacht
Club is making preparations for a regatta to come
of on the first of May next. The boats entered are
the Cara Bel, .Dauntess, Fearless, Mark PdEdEd,
King Phillip, A. p. Jordan, jr., and EtG.-seven
in all. The last named is a new boat. built at
Plymouth, Mass, for the owners. Messrs. Peterson,
Rose and Everett, and is on board the ship Syren,
from Boston. due here this month. The prize to
be sailed for is q silver cup.
STEAMSHIP BUILDING ON THE CLYDE.-In a late
number of the North British yMaii, published at
Glasgow, we find a two-column article giving an
account of the names, number and tonnage of the
different steamers built in the Clyde by one firm of
shipbuilders alone, since the year 1924. The firm is
- n - l. No., n..-. 81 H.
have built lat steamers, of $4,000 tons, The
Clyde built ships are famed for their fast sailing
qualities. "
FROM TAHITI.-The British brig Byzantium, ar
rived on Sunday last, % days from Tahiti. She
brings 65 Chinese, who having completed their term
of service as agricultural laborers, come here for fur
Their employment. We understand that the most of
them have contracted with our planters. The brig
brings a report that the residence of the North
German Consul at Papeeti had been entered by a
mob of rowdies, and the premises perfectly Quilted,
the Consul being obliged to conceal himself from the
Frenchmen, who were Infatuated over bad news from
Paris. -
LARcENY.-On Saturday morning last, about "a
O'Clock, some person stole from the showcase Of Mr..
pTennatt's shop, seven watches, valued at about 800.
The shop had been but just opened, when the watches
were missed, but they were stolen the previous even
ing. The police succeeded on Thursday in discover
ing and a~rresting the thief, a native boy named He
wahewa, about IA years old, who confessed his guilt.
Five of the watches were recovered up to yesterday,
and the boy says he threw the other two away, one
into a privy vault, and the other into a taro patch on
Nuuanu Avenue. -
DEATH FROM HEMoRRHAGE.-Last Saturday fore
noon, a man employed as a carriage trinmsr in Mr.
Whitman's harness shop on King street, named
Henry Schraber, died very suddenly in an clubhouse
in the rear of the shop. When found, half an hour
after being missed, he was quite dead, having dis
charged large. quantities of blood from the mouth.
A post mortem examination was made by DIR. Hille-
brand, which showed that deceased had broken a
blood vessel. he having a severe cough for some time.
He was recently from California, and was about Is
years old. -
The NEW MORNING STAR The new brig which