The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-01-18
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.
TIE KILAuEA lays up this week for a general and
thorough clean up. and will resume her regular trips
on Monday next. leaving at the usual hour for HilO,
via intermediate ports. p
ARRIVAL OF THE D.. C. MURRAY.-As we 90 to
press, this fayorite packet is off the port, bringing
probably one days later Geographic news and add
tional mail matter. -
CROWDED OUT.-The arrival of the mail yesterday
P. w., has so crowded our columns that we are COM
PEELED to defer until Saturday, an account of Midway
snd Ocean Islands, and the residence of the SagiR-,
aD's ships company on the latter island.
- The SHIPwREoKED CREw.-The KIIauea arrived
on Saturday P. NJ. from Ocean Island, with the
officers and crew of the wrecked SaginarD, all well
and hearty. They speak IN the highest terms of the
kind and considerate treatment received at the hands
of Captains Long and Harrison and all others con-
nected with the steamer. See card in another column.
The Ritaueu made a very successful trip and showed
herself q good sea-boat. sf st. taaae r,
GETTING READY TO FALL.-On Nuuanu street,
west side, nearly opposite Chaplain street. stands the
outer wall of an old stone building, apparently built
o good many years ago. Some of the stones near the
middle of the wall have been dislodged and the Gen.
tire bulges out over the sidewalk in q manner that
indicates a fall sooner or later. and should operate as
q caution to pedestrians to 50 pass over on the other
side" -
SCHOONER AsHoRE.-By the Fairy Queen from
Hanalei, on Sunday, we learn that the schooner
Kitty Cartwright dragged her anchors on Thursday
last in a heavy swell. while lying at Moloaa. and
went on shore high and dry where she lay beyond
the reach of ordinary breakers. She belongs to
Messrs. J. /. Dowsett g. Co., who have dispatched a
carpenter with materials to repair and get her ahoat.
ALMOST A FIRE-Last Monday evening at q little
after z o'clock, fire was discovered in the roof of q
small native house at Leleo. Some members Of the
Government Band were in the neighborhood, prac-
ticing, and the fire was promptly extinguished by
them before any material damage was done. and
without giving the alarm in town. One of the
bandsmen. however, sustained some severe bruises,
and a bad cut over the eye by falling into a well that
was uncovered. -
RAINS ON THE OTHER IsLANDs.-By recent arriv-
ais from East Maui, we learn that the winter rains
have been copious and continuous, and as a conse-
quence agricultural affairs are promising. On Kauai
however, since the last heavy rains and freshets, but
moderate showers have fallen. Hawaii has also had
her share of moisture, and the driest parts of the
island have been pretty well soaked. Good crops
may be looked for all over the group, after the fer
tilizing d~roppings from the richly laden clouds of the
winter. And by present appearances, there's a few
more left of the same sort.
How ABOUT THAT CoMET?-Is q question that has
been asked of us SO often and so seriously of late,
that we have begun to wish that we had never heard
of the suppositiously long-tailed vagrant of the
skies. We really had no idea, when we inserted the
ingeniously concocted and p~lausibly worded story of
a correspondent &c all about q comet that one per-
son in a hundred would be found who would not at
once set it down as a clever attempt at a hoax. But
it seems that very many took it in earnest, in spite
of our having introduced the article by speaking of
comets as Z" airy nothings." We hope that no one
was seriously alarmed.
THE SAGINAw's G.-Th schooner Fairy Queen,
which arrived from Hanalei on Sunday morning,
brought up the Saginav's boat. which under the
of the lamented Talbot and his four
comrades, performed the perilous voyage of eleven
hundred miles from Ocean Island. They reached
land after enduring the privations and hardships of
over a month at sea at a stormy season, only to per-
ish in the breakers, one only surviving. The bat
tered craft, as she lay on the wharf, was an object Of
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crowds. She was a staunch boat originally, and
had been raised upon, decked over and strengthened
at the island before starting on her venturesome
voyage. There were four hatchways in the deck,
for the accommodation of the crew. An old salt,
after examining her carefully, observed that he would
feel safe in that boat at sea in any weather.
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IssECTIvERoUs BIRDs.-From time to time, many
species of birds have been imported and set free in
these islands, with q view to the destruction of in
sects that in;ure crops. These importations have
not always proved to have been advantageous, as in
the case of the China crow for instance. who has
turned out to be q most incorrigible thief and re-
morseless destroyer of the young of other birds, so
that he is now shot on sight. And from Waimea,
comes to US q report that the California
which have multiplied very rapidly since
their introduction q few years ago, are making great
havoc in the rice fields. Coming in focks and
alighting ON the stalks of the grain, they break
down and destroy vastly more than they eat. The
penalty for killing imported insectiverous birds"
is quite heavy-$10 for each ofense-but the law
be more honored in the breach than the OBJ
servance, if our Kauai informant is to- be believed.
Letter froE4 Nvailuku.
the Editor of the Pacific Commercial Aduertiser:
Can you, or some Of your correspondents solve a
two.
Our fourishing village of Wailuku needs side
walks. Applications of sand, molasses, &C., have
been made to the roads. and in ordinary weather
they do very well. Bot, this winter, Notwithstanding
that has been done, the streets are we'll nigh i'm
passable to pedestrians. There is no avoiding deep,
adhesive mud.
Now, to better our condition 1 have no doubt we
would build sidewalks, but for two reasons. LAT.