The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-11-25

AMERICAN TH-ANKsGvING.-We copy elsewhere
the proclamation of President Grant. setting apar
Thursday next. the goth inst. as a day of public
Thanksgiving. We are requested by the American
Minister Resident to state that the Rev. w. FreaI
has consented to deliver a sermon at Fort stree
Church on the occasion. and that all American cit
liens and the public generally are cordially invi
ted to, attend at III O'Clock, A. NJ.
AN OcTEGoNARIAN-Captain John Meek. the
well-knOwn and much respected Harbor Master OF
the port of Honolulu. celebrated his ~eightieth
birthday yesterday. The Captains numerous
friends and acquaintances abroad will be- pleased
to hear that he is still hale. hearty and active.
Some of his old friends remembered the occasion
by presenting him with a handsome and valuable
silver goblet. We join in wishing him many more
years OF health and happiness.
THE SroRM.-0ne of the old-time Kona storms is
now on a visit to the Islands, having commenced TO
blow decidedly from south by east on Wednesday.
ported a very heavy swell setting N. E and an cas-
terly current. He saw the steamer. which sailed on
Wednesday,, as she was squaring away on her course
to the eastward, making sail before the fresh gale,
while the spray was flying over her fore and aft,
quite lively. The prospects are that she will make an
extra quick passage. -
EXTRA READING.-We furnish our readers with
several extra columns of reading matter this week.
In the supplement will be found a suggestive ac-
count of the great Ere. so often prophesied, and
which may yet come in earnest and full kilograms
of late foreign news. On the fourth page of the
regular issue we give the particulars of the massa-
ere of missionaries in the South Seas incidents
from Chicago. etc. and on the first page. a very
fine " In memoriam " Of the late Walter Montgom-
cry. -
The suit reported last week be-
tween a consignor of goods and an auctioneer in re-
gard to charges for advertising, notice Of appeal in
which to the Supreme Court had been given, has, we
learn, been compromised. The auctioneers. it will
be observed, have informed the public by advertise
ment, that they shall continue the practice in ques-
ton, that of charging consignors pro rata for adver-
Using, whether or not their goods are received prior
to the issuance of an advertisement. 1t appears to be
a matter between the merchants and the auctioneers
principally if not entirely, and one in which the pub
lie interest is not particularly appreciable.
BLUNDERs.-The Gazette is exercised about the
plumbers made by San Francisco journals in copy
ing from it the account of the Arctic disaster. The
greatest blunder made, in our opinion, was in Civ
ing the Gazette the credit for what was original
with us, in our extra published on the morning
the news arrived. Perhaps we should not be sur
prsed at this, however. seeing that the Gazette it.
self omitted to credit us with our editorial remarks
which it used and considering moreover that it
has a special agent to foist it into notoriety in the
person of the Hawaiian Consul at San Francisco,
probably acting under orders from the Foreign
Office. -
A HIGH BUT TARDY TEsTIMoNIAL.-In apprecia-
ton of his valuable labors and useful scientific
studies in botany and conchology. the late Mr..
William Harper Pease. OF this city, was a few
months since constituted a member of the Imperial
Royal Geological and Botanical Society of Vienna.
The diploma was received here by the Moses
Taylor, some months having elapsed since the
death of the gentleman for whom it was issu0d,-
and is in the hands of Mr.. F. A. Schaefer. 1t is
however, a source of qualification to the many
friends of the deceased to learn that bis services
rendered to science have not been in vain, but,
known and valued abroad. will bear fruit.
A RAFT AT EA.-Th ketch Lunallo which ar
rived on the goth from a two months cruise among
Hhn IN fhnrn Iolnndo rAnnp that m SRnf III IN
lat. l0o som. S., long. l59 > Sem. W., fell in with
an apparently ew-mad raft, composed of planks
about Is feet, with five feet pieces of spar for the
end, securely fastened with spikes. Upon the raft
was a sort of raised platform. the whole evidently
made with considerable skill and care. There
were no signs of humanity on the raft. the ketch
passing quite close to it. We may yet hear OF
some vessel lost or missing, or let ms hope, the
crew saved, which will throw light upon this story
of a raft at sea. -
NOVEMBER 28rH.-Next Tuesday is a National
Hawaiian Holiday, being the anniversary of the
recognition, in 1843, of the independence Of this
Government, by France and Great Britain, through
their representatives, st. Aulaire and Lord Aberdeen.
The joint convention signed that day in Paris, recog-
nized the existence on these Islands of ga Govern
ment capable of managing its own internal AFFAIRS"
and pledged the faith of both powers that neither
would ever, on any pretense, take possession of any
portion of the territory Of the Islands, promise
which was broken by one of the high contracting
powers in less than six years afterwards. We hear
that the Rifle Company, under command of Captain
Chas. T. Gulick, will parade ON the 18th, and will
have target practice at Kulaokahua, the prizes being
a gold and silver medal. There will also be a iuGu,
on Punchbowl street, the proceeds of which will be
for the benefit of the " Singing Society of Maunakie-
kie." The young Hawaiians composing this society
are certainly very sweet singers, and should be
encouraged. -
THE CALENDAR--Saturday Nov. 18th, st Gather
inc, the patron saint of all the Katys. She was
born at Alexandria, and early in life displayed a
passion for polite literature. On her conversion she
e.oraI NJ noina in nuhliahinn tho fruthG of ChriQ-
tianity, and openly rebuked the pagans for their
idolatry. Naturally this gave much Offense, and she
was condemned to suffer death by being torn TO
pieces by wheels having hooked spikes. Tradition
saws that her would-be ~torturers were disturbed by q
direct interposition from heaven and, being foiled
in this. they we're content to behead her outside the
city. Thursday, Nov. Both, st. Andrews, apostle,
patron saint of Scotland, was first a disciple of Saint
John the Baptist, but appears to have been the first
to follow Christ for this reason it is supposed that
the place of honor has been given to him in the An
glican Prayer Book, where he comes first of those
commemorated. But little is known of him, although
he is believed to have suffered martyrdom at Patra,
in Greece, A. d. 70, by beng crucifed on a cross in
the form of an x. -
DIRECT INTERROGATION OF PRovIDENCE.-The Ma
nahikis. as the inhabitants of Humphreys ana
Ryersen's Islands are called, claim that Divine
Providence directly inteTposed to prevent their
destruction as a people. some ten or fifteen years
ago. Two vessels from the South American coast,
engaged IN the Kidnapping business. came TO
Humphreys Island. and landing an armed party,
surrounded the defeEseless inhabitants, whom they
were about to carry on entirely, men. women ana
children, into hopeless slavery. Suddenly a strong
westerly gale sprung up, and both vessels were
dashed in pieces on the coral reef. At the end of
a fortnight, another SLAYER came along and took on
the sbipwrecked crews. Since then the Islands
have been visited only by honest traders, and oc-
casionally a whaler touches there. The people are
devoutly religious and strictly moral.
JAMES w. BoRDEN.-Our readers will doubtless
remember the gentleman whose name heads this
item. He succeeded the late Hon. ID. l.. Gregg as
United States Commissioner to these Islands, leav-
ing here for home via China in lS6l-the first year
of the American Rebellion. Among our exchanges
we find a telegram which we copy below. by which
it will be seen that Mr.. Borden still continues 10
show the same chiUGlric disposition that animated
him on one occasion while here. when he drew a
bowie knife on the gentleman who then conducted
this journal. Some others of our readers. who
suffered pecuniarily from the financial transactions
of " the judge" may feel interested in hearing Of
his present whereabouts, and learning that he is
atilI livalv