The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-08-05

Layton, as we KNOW by personal experience, nave
some of the finest teas ever imported here, fresh
from China and japan. sedadys<dsement-
MANUFACTURE OF IcE-We learn that a party has
arrived from San Francisco, provided with the
requisite machinery for the manufacture of ice in
this city, and has leased convenient premises on
the esplanade. for the prosecution of the business.
If a sufficient quantity to supply the demand can
less succeed. -
THE FIJIANs.-Several natives of the Fiji Islands
arrived here on the .Neuada and left on the -Ajar,
giving two exhibitions during their stay. The per-
formance consisted of the national spear and club
dances. accompanied with the monotonous chants of
their nation. Mr.. Gardenhire. who has charge of the
party, exhibits also a fine collection of curiosities,
among which is a splendid and valuable lot of New
Zealand Ferns. The natives of tho cannibal islands
will doubtless attract attention in the East.
SUCH Is ~FAME.-Byron somewhere said that Fame
was getting shot through the lungs and then seeing
your name spelled wrong in the papers, the next
morning. Of he didn't say so, it sounds like him.
The Gazette has lived along in blissful ignorance Of
the presence here of one of the first pulpit ora tors of
the day, on whose eloquent and brilliant utterances
crowded audiences of Honoluluans have delighted to
ng-and when he has gone, wakes up sufficiently
to misspell his name in the list of passengers +!
WENT HOME TO DIZZY the Hjar intelligence
was received here that MI. Jacob NJ. Hitler, who has
resided in this city during the past fifteen years, and
who left in May last on a visit to his relatives, died
suddenly at cleveland, Ohio, ON the evening of July
18th ult., of heart disease. aged thirty-fve years nine
months and twenty days. Mr.. Hitler was a nephew
of Capt. John Meek of this city, and was highly es-
toemed by a large circle of acquaintance for his
many good qualities.
THIRTY-FIRsT OF JULY.-This was formerly a noted
holiday in the Islands. On that day, in the year
1843, the British Admiral Thomas, commanding the
ship Dublin, restored to King Kamehameha III. the
Hawaiian flag and sovereignty, which had been taken
from him by Lord George Paulet in the month of
February preceding. The ceremony of restoration
took place on the plains of Waikiki, with considera-
BILE pomp, amid the firing of salutes and the re-
joicings of the populace. On that occasion the King
made use of the words which constitute the Hawaiian
national motto" Ia mau Ike ca o ka alma i ka pono,''
the life of the land is established in righteousness.
Of late years, the days has been dropped from the
list of national holidays, probably for two reasons
that it served to remind a friendly nation of a wrong
COMMITTEES by one of its officials, and that it was con-
sidered in bad taste to celebrate the day on which
wrongs had been righted. The older natives however
cannot forget the day. and continue to celebrate it in
their own way, with feasts and horse riding. They
did SO last Monday.
HAWAIIAN TARIFF AND Digest of the Laws and Reg
u~lations of the Customs, Pilot and Harbor Regula-
tions, position and bearings of light houses, cur
rency tables, Postage rates, List of Diplomatic and
Consular Agents, sc. Prepared by John A. Has
singer, Duputy Collector, port of Honolulu.
This work has at length been issued at the govern
ment press, and the enterprizing compiler has laid a
copy on our table. 1t is a convenient sized pamphlet
of ~ pages, and should be u vGde mecum for every
merchant and business man in the country, and Of
every one abroad connected in any way with the
commerce of the islands. 1t fully supplies a want
which has long existed, will save a vast deal of mis-
apprehension and inconvenience, as well as time and
trouble in asking and answering questions. Once
its usefulness known, it will be a matter of surprise
that business men have got along without it. The
tables of Foreign Money, for reducing sterling,
francs, rix dollars, mares banco, and thalers, to dol
and cents, U. S. currency, will be found of great
to strangers, as also the Custom House
rates of foreign money or currency.
THE CALENDAR.-To-morrow is Transformation
Day. This festival, instituted by the Greek Chris
tians in 700, was introduced into the Roman calen-
dar in 1855 it the TRANSPORTATION of
Christ in the presence of the three disciples on Mount
Monday, 7th, Name Of Jesus. This day."
Wheatly, was formerly dedicated to the mem
Dry of Afra, a c~ourtesan of Crete, who. being con-
Verted to Christianity by Narcisgus, Bishop of Jeru-
allen, suffered martyrdom. How it came afterward
o be dedicated to the name of Jesus, I cannot fnd.''
Thursday 10th, 81. Laurence, suffered martyrdom
n 258. He was a Spaniard, and treasurer to Pope
Sixtus II. After the martyrdom of his master, he
vas called upon to give up the keys of his charge /;
efusiug to do 80, he was grilled over a slow fire |;
he saint appears rather to have liked the process, for
Ifter a while, {" he in triumph, babe his executioners
urn him over, for that the side ownward was
enough His countrymen say that it was
lot so much on account of his religion that he bore
lis sufferings with so much ~fortitude, as from the
innate nobility of his soul he felt that he was a
'paniard The symbol of. the st. Lawrence-a grid
ron is to be found used as a vane on some of the
hurches dedicated to his memory.