The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-07-08

LARGE MA1L--The -aJar brought $50 bags English
mail matter for the Colonies.
Hor WEATHER--The thermometer, during several
days the past week, has stood at $40 inside a stone
building. -
= The Rev. DR.. Stone. of San Francisco, will
preach in the Fort street Church, tomorrow, morn
ing and evening. -
HIS MAJESTY THE KING arrived from Molokai yes
terday morning, in his yacht the Pauahi, and was
received with the usual salute from the battery on
Punchbowl. -
The CALESDAR.-Next Saturday, July Is, is st.
Swithin's Day. elf on st. Swithin's day it prove
fair, a temperate winter will follow but if rainy,
then the contrary So says the author of "the
Shepherds's Kalandar."
The EVENING STAR. The magnificent planet
Jupiter, twelve hundred times the size of our globe,
aud which takes twelve Of our years to perform its
journey round the sun, shows splendidly these
clear nights. -
The P~ASoRAMA.-By advertisement it will be seen
that this really entertaining and instructing exhibit
ton will be open but two nights more-to-night and
Monday. We advise all lovers of the arts to pay the
Panorama a visit, and take their little ones.
ISsTALLATIoN.-At the regular meeting of Excelsior
Lodge No. 1, l. o. o. F., held at their Lodge Room,
on Tuesday evening, the 4th inst. the following duly
elected officers were installed for the ensuing term
NJ. T. DOnnell, N. G.; J. T. Chayter, v. G.; ]. S.
Smithies, Secretary R. Levers. Treasurer.
DRoUGHr IN CALIFoRNIA.-The Conf. Herald, of
June 23d, says " the steamer WILLIAM Ta6er, on
her last trip from San Diego, brought up 2 ,776 sheep.
Other hOcks are in motion, hither and yon, seeking
pasture, and it is probable that many thousands will
be slaughtered to save them from starvation"
REPORT FROM ENDERBuRY's IsLAND.-A valuable
report will be found in our commercial column from
Capt. E. Hampstead, superintendent at Enderbury's
Island, giving sailing directions for the Phoenix
group, together with the names of ships and quantity
of guano loaded during the past year.
LECTURE LAST EvENING.-A large audience flor
Honolulu) was interested. instructed and amused
at the lecture by the Rev. DR.. Al Stone. on The
Nile and the Desert" By turns grand, numerous
or pathetic. but always eloquent-we have only
space to say, that it made one feel like "asking for
more"
FIREMEN's ELEcTIoN.-At a regular meeting of
g Honolulu )" Engine Co. No. 1, held on Wednesday
evening last, the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
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Assistant ForemGn-George Lucas.
SecretGry-A. w. Carter.
Treasurer and DeIegate-C. T. Gulick.
Capt. Leading HoSe-W. Lyall.
THE New MORNING STAR--Thisv vessel arrived on
the Sd, 126 days from Boston, all well. The list of
passengers will be found in our commercial column.
This. the third vessel of the same name, and built for
the anne purpose, i.e, a missionary packet-looks in
all respects a counterpart of her immediate ~predeces-
sor, which was lost at the Micronesian Islands. She
leaves here on her first voyage to the westward, about
the 18th inst, taking a band of missionaries. to their
appointed stations. -
DEATH OF DANIEL c. WATERMAN,
was a general feeling of regret to hear by the arrival
of the .Hjar, on Monday, the death of Capt. d. C.
Waterman, which occurred on board the Moses Tdy-
Tor, on the passage to San Francisco, June 18th.
The deceased gentleman had been a resident of Ho-
nolulu, with occasional interests of absence, since
1852, and by his uniform urbanity of demeanor, and
sterling worth had gained many friends and a uni
versal popularity with all classes. He was sixty
eight years of age, and was a native of New Bedford.
MORE LEPERs.-On Thursday morning, nineteen
more unfortunates were dispatched to Molokai by the
schooner WaTloick. The scene on the wharf at the
parting of relatives and friends, was affecting in the
extreme. The settlement on Molokai is rapidly grow
ing in population, and under the superintendency of
Captain Kahoohuli and Deacon Pualewa formerly of
the Kaumakapili church,, affairs appear to 60 on
more smoothly than formerly. There are some four
hundred lepers at the settlement, and there is ample
room for more, the tract of land being about Is, 1000
acres in extent. -
PRETURNED GUANo DIGGERs.-The c. M. Ward,
arrived yesterday, had 76 native laborers whose
times have expired on the different guano islands of
the American Guano Co. Among them, however,
were several Chinese, three of whom were sick with
scurvy apparently, and were taken to the hospital.
On the passage up, one Chinaman and three natives
died, one being a case of consumption, and the
others reported as venereal. There is said TO be a
great deal of sickness among the laborers from the
latter disease, they concealng it when they ship here,
and becoming unable to work on the island.
A NARROW EscAPE.-Mr. A. W. Carter of this
city had a narrow escape from drowning on the last
trip of the schooner Prince to Hawaii. When off
Lanai, he was jerked overheard to leeward by the
boom-guy, but was not perceived by anyone on board
until he shouted for help. By the time the schooner
was brought around, and a boat lowered, Mr.. Carter
had become pretty thoroughly exhausted, and was
about on the point of giving up for lost. when the
boat reached him. The sensation of being overheard
at sea, where there is no bottom, and the minutes
are as long as hours while the slow process OF getting
out a boat goes on, is a peculiar sensation, and must
be experienced once, in order to be appreciated.
Luckily, the accident occurred In the Gay time.
IRoAD LocoMoTIvE.-Last Wednesday. considera-
BILE excitement was caused among the natives by the
appearance on the streets of Honolulu, for the first
time, of a road engine on trial. The queer looking
affair was an object of curiosity indeed, as it rapidly
pulled along. 1t was imported for Messrs. Campbell
and Turton, of the Pioneer Sugar Mills, Lahaina,
whittier it was dispatched by the .Nsttie, on Thursday.
1t will be used, we understand, in drawing cane to
the mill from Kaanapali, and is capable of walking
of with forty loaded bullock carts at a time. The
trial was entirely satisfactory. and aside from the
usual stiffness of new machinery. everything worked
well. The wagon was built at the Grant Locomotive
Works, Paterson, N. j., and was put up and tested