The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-12-23
THE PACIFIC
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CAPT. DANIEL SMITH
SATURDAY. DECEMBER %.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
G- The regular monthly meeting of the Ha-
waiian Mission Children Society WILDE held this
evening at Mr.. J. G.. Dickson's at "a O'Clock.
THANKS are due and hereby rendered to
Capt. Shepherd of the ID. C. Murray and Purser II.
Craig of the Nebraska, for files of late papers.
EVENING SALE-We beg to call attention to the
sale of goods adapted for Christmas presents, at
Bartow's, this evening.
CHRISTMAS EvE.-At 81. Andrews Cathedral. the
Carols will be sung, after the usual evening SER
vice. A the Roman Catholic Church. there will be
as usual, midnight services and Examinations.
A RARE ATrRACrIoN.-Mr. Geo. Pauncefort. will
present readings from Dickens tonight at the The
atre-Christmas Carol and Boots at the Holly Tree
Inn. We anticipate a full house.
QUEENS HosPITAL--We beg to call attention to
the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
Queens Hospital, which will be held at the Court
House on Thursday the 18th inst, at IL O'Clock.
See advertisement. -
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.-The next regular conven-
ton of Oahu Lodge No. 1, K. p, will take place at
the Lodge Room on Thursday evening, Dec. 2Sth.
Business of Importance.
ST. Adams CoLLEGE.-On Tuesday evening next
there will be a reunion of parents and scholars
and others interested, at the College. Kaalaa, when
there will be a distribution of prizes. and speeches
and Rotations by the scholars.
81 We would like to inquire of our neighbOr the
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helm " coming into port this week, she found it in
the Captains cabin, or under the t'gallant fo'cas'lei
or whether the carpenter had forgotten to put 1T on
board before leaving New Castler The probabilities
are that with the Gazetfe itemizer on board, she was
so " down by the head > that she couldn't get by
the bar, without stopping awhile.
THE DARIEN CANAL.-Commander Selfridge has
made his report to the United States Government,
showing that q good ship canal can be constructed
across the Isthmus of Darien at a cost of 1926, OOO,-
600. There will be one tunnel on the entire route,
which would be ITO feet in height to permit the pas
sage of ships, 20 feet wide, and five miles long.-Ha-
ioaiiGn Gazette.
So much for the reliable.
POLICE CoURr.-On Thursday and Friday, a good
portion of the time of the Court was occupied in
hearing a civil suit, in which John McKeague is
plaintiff, and ]. r. Helen defendant, for the sum of
$3.50, received by defendant as part payment on a
policy of insurance for $4,000, in the New York
Mutual, of which Mr.. Helen is the special agent.
The plaintiff AYERS that he misunderstood the bargain,
as made with the agent, and wishes to annul it and
get back the amount already paid by him. This the
agent declines to do. but claims that plaintiff is in
debted in an amount of balance of premium. Deci-
sion reserved. -
Foul WEATHER.-The souther which let mp for a
day or two last week. came on again with recruited
energies. The wind, with varying power, has blown
quite constantly from the southwest, accompanied at
times with heavy showers of rain, and occasional
flashes of distant lightning. On Tuesday night,
some observers declare there was a shower of hail,
but We hear of no one who was out in it to verify
the statement. The sea on the reef has all the week
been a fine sight, t~umbling in with huge white
rollers, and at times breaking clear across the mouth
Of the harbor. The Nsttie Merrill, Captain Crane,
which left Lahaina on Monday, reported the sea as
very heavy at that place. The captains boat was
capsized in coming off and he badly injured by get
ting beneath her, and narrowly escaping being
drowned. The storm has quite interrupted our usual
coasting trade, and delayed the arrival of the United
States mails per steamer from California.
MORE MURDERS IN THE PACIFIC by the way of
Sydney we have accounts from the Fits under date
of November 9Th, giving an account of the murder
of MIR. James Meldrum, master and owner of the
schooner Cambria, whom our readers will remember
to have sailed hence for the Fits last summer. The
unfortunate man was killed by the natives of one of
the Solomon group, whittier the schooner had gone
on an expedition after "labor.'' She returned to
Livuka in charge of a Captain Sinclair. t another
island of the same group, a white man named Col
Inns and a Sandwich Island native, had been left by
a brig for the purpose of collecting trade, Collins
was killed by the natives, but the Sandwich Island
man was protected by a chief. AT the Fits, in the
early part of November, FIVE planters, En~glishmen,
going from one island to another, with some forty
Solomon Island laborers on board, whom they had
bought and were taking to their plantation, were
all murdered. the "labor'' rising upon them in the
night. -
FoREFArHER's DAY-Yesterday December I'D
was the Anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers on Plymouth Rock, and some of their de-
scendants in Hawaii nei remembered the day by
placing on their tables a suggestive bowl of Sue
cotash." Two hundred and fifty years have
elapsed since
"The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock bound coast
And 4 me woods s;a.. as saaneh = stormy 2 sky
And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters DER,
"ne On I he Ss1 WIND d Se v EnSisnd . ! PARK
And a remarkable coincidence 1t was that in that
same year, 1920, the FIRST Importation of African
slaves was landed on the shores of Virginia. Thus
the two antagonistic principles were planted and
grew side by side, with what momentous results.
we have seen in the recent war of rebellion. The
descendants of the Pilgrims are to-day happy In
the knowledge that the principles that animated
that determined band of exiies on the wild New
England shore" have triumphed, and with the Egg
l linh nnofnun non nro,dIu ainn--