The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-08-19

~ We IT luuculcu u 1ufSer NJ. ". h0OlQS0Q oil
the City of adelaide for memoranda of freight and
passengers. -
THE STEAMSHIP ALBION, from Sydney via Fiji is
due. She will leave for San Francisco within Sc
hours of arrival, taking a mail.
q The steamer for Sydney via Fiji, which ar
rived Wednesday noon, having completed coaling and
discharge and loading Of freight, sailed on Thursday
at $50 p. NJ. -
FIRE ON MoLoKAI.-We learn that a fire occurred
at Kaunakakai on Monday last, which destroyed the
seaside residence of His Majesty. No particulars
have come to hand. -
The STEAMSHIP MOSES TAYLOR will be due from
San Francisco with one week later dates, on Friday
or Saturday next ; and the Nebraska from Sydney
and New Zealand, about the same date.
"HoNEsr KANAKAs.'-A newly arrived stranger,
walking along Fort street the other evening, stumbled
over q pile of grind-stones in front of a hardware
store. "See here,'' exclaimed he to his companion,
" what honest people these kanakas must be, when
grind-stones can be left on the sidewalk all night,
with nobody to watch them 20
SAD ACCIDENT AT HILo.-We are panied to hear
from Hilo of the death by drowning of an infant son
of R. A. Lyman. Esq. ON the 9Th mist. The child it
appears was leJ alone LOT q snort time, W0en II
strayed into the bath-house. where it was found in
the tub quite dead. 1t is supposed that the child in
playing about the tub, lost its balance, and fell in.
1t was about two years old.
A NATURALIST CoMNG.-According to ".Nature,'
Mr.. G. R. Crotch proceeds in the autumn to the
United States, on his way to the Sandwich Islands,
New Zealand, Australia, and New Guinea, with the
intention of making collections of specimens in nat
ural history. This research is to be prosecuted I'M
der the auspices Of the University of Cambridge,
which has granted 200 pounds sterling from the
Worts' Fund for that purpose.
DEPUTY CLERK SUPREME CoURT.-We note that
Mr.. ]. E. Barnard has been appointed by the Justices
to the office of Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Barnard, it will be remembered, held the Office
of Chief Clerk for a long period. previous to his go
ing to the Colonies to reside several years ago. He
was deservedly popular in that position, with the
bench, the bar and the public, and his business quail
ifcations, knowledge of routine, and we may add.
his gentlemanly manners, make him a valuable &C
QUESTION to the staff of the Court House.
ERUPTION ON HAwAI1.-From Mr.. W. T. Martin,
who arrived from Kau, Hawaii, on the 18th inst.
we learn that on the night of Monday the 7th. resi-
dents of Keaiwa, "a place inland) heard a dull, heavy
report from Mauns Loa, something similar to that
accompanying the eruption of 1868. On the following
night. a bright light was seen on the mountain. on
the side toward Kona, apparently in the %neighoor-
hood of the great flow of 1859. which ran down to
KiholO. The light was quite plainly visible from
Waiohinu in Kau. By return of the steamer this
morning we may hear further particulars
-
SSTURBUcK IsLAND.-Tbe English Company which
has held possession of this Island for some ten years
past, is at length making movements towards ship
ping the stores of superior guano which are there de-
posted. The British schooner Mary Cummings,
which arrived here on the 9th instant from the is
land, in search of laborers, sailed yesterday on her
return, having shipped about 80 Hawaiians for one
year. The supply of gnano is said to be very large
and of superior quality. The island lies a little to
the south of the line, and being in nearly the same
parallel of longitude with these islands, the passage
between it and Honolulu can generally be made with
a i leading wind both ways. This, together with the
fact that we are but ten days sail from San Francisco,
whence telegraphic communication can be had with
the Company in London, will doubtless ensure the
making of Honolulu a place of call for ships bound
to Stlrbuck's. and for procuring supplies
The Republican Standard of New Bedford, pub
fishes entire our leading article of July LIST, I'M
der the heading of Z" Withdrawal of the Whaling
Fleet, - to which it adds the following comment
sour Island friends need not be worried, as
the whal ers will probably continue to visit them.
Our mert :hants have made no such arrangements
as indicated above"
Our sta tements as to the arrangements for max
ing San F. ancisco the rendezvous of the whalers
xuere f,un6ed unon daclarations made by parties
here of lett ers received from New Bedford to that
effect; and further, upon a statement apparently
corrobOrative In the Sacramento papers, that the
first of a number of tank cars, for transporting
whale oil over the Pacific Railroad, had arrived.
The Standard, however, being published in the
city of blubber" itself, should know whereof it
!