The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-08-31

NAAt1u GN1kCB ~ 4 E IL h-s Will TX AC4k u
Monday evening next, at q O'Clock. A full attend
ance is requested. -
LABOR AND PoPCIATIoS.-We have received n val
liable article-the first of q promised series-on
these vital subjects, from the pen Of 3 gentleman
well qualified to discuss them, and which will APP
pear IN our next. -
CONCERT THIS EvENIN6-The second Concert for
the benefit of the Roman Catholic Church Organ
fund. will be given this evening at the Theatre. A
good programme is announced and we hope that
the performers may be greeted with = full house.
No VIoLENCE.-The case of death under suspi-
cious circumstances at Naialua on this Island,
mentioned on Saturday. turns out to have been one
of appOplexy. to which the woman is reported to
have been subject.
DEATH BY DRowNING.-By a passenger arrived
on the Ia Moi from Kahalui yesterday, We learn
that on Thursday morning last a foreigner named
Grant. was drowned in a gulch in Makawao, by the
overturning of a wagon which he was driving. No
further particulars are received.
The performance for the complimentary benefit to
Mr.. Geo. Pauncefort, the favorite reader and gentle
manly delineator of character, will soon be before the
public, and we fully anticipate q satisfactory result
rendered by our best citizens TO q genuine and
talented artist. -
ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY.-An unsuccessful attempt
was made by some parties to enter a sleeping-room
in the vicinity of the international Hotel premises on
last Tuesday afternoon. Plumber was the object, as
the occupant is always absent IN the day time A
cordial reception, We understand, awaits all future
intruders. -
FROM AUsTRALIA.-The ship Geo. Thompson, 35
days from Newcastle, N. S. w, which arrived on
Sunday, brings the report that the smallpox had
broken out in the principal cities of Australia, and
that great alarm prevailed in consequence. The
bark Duke Of Edin6urg, hence June 18th, had been
Guaranteed at Newcastle.
THE NEBRASKA was telegraphed at 10 O'Clock on
Tuesday forenoon and came to her dock at noon.
Some surprise was expressed al the fact of her not
hn-sn- A hnf tho Port UGI ~
reported her ships company as perfectly healthy,
and she brought q clean bill of health from Auck-
land. See New Zealand news for particulars about
smallpox. -
PRoF. PLUMBER farewell entertainment Monday
evening was attended by a full audience of our
best citizens, who fully appreciated the Intellectual
and humorous treat of varied good things provided.
During the Professors stay in this community,
while he has been a public benefactor in amusing
and instructing his numerous audiences. be has in
private life made " hosts of friends" who will re-
greet to see him take his departure.
HONOLULU Police MAGIsrRAcY-The commission
for the present incumbent. j. Montgomery, Esq,
(who has held the Office continuously for the past
eight years) was renewed on Wednesday last. The
Police Justices are appointed by the respective Gov
errors of the islands. "by and with the advice of
the Justices of the Supreme Court and hold Office
for the term of two years from the date of their APP
pointment subject to removal as prescribed by the
Constitution. -
4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COyTRACTS.-Under the Act
passed at the recent session of the Legislature. pro-
viding for the recording OF acknowledgements of
contracts to labor, the following agents have been
gaZetted
Hawaii L. Severance, Hilo; w. I. Martin, Kau s. X.
Kaai, North and South Kona }. w. Naiho, North Kohala..
Aholo, Lahaina and Kaanapai C. B. wlipple, wailuku; NJ
Kauai~D' Kaukaha, Hanalei and AnahOla S. w. Wilcox,
1ihue and koloa.
MAUNA LoA.-Capt. West of the schooner Prince,
Inf L ono on Wa1naedou Iaet and ronorfS tho liohf
at the volcano on the top of Mauna Loa as continu-
ing very brilliant, but no signs were perceptible on
this side of an eruption flowing down. No one, so
far as tho Captain knew, had gone up the mountain
to ascertain the nature or extent of the outbreak. A
party will leave town by the RiLauea on Monday.
for Kona, with the intention of making the journey
to the top of Mauns Loa, and We shall then have a
of our own " at the seat of war"
PUBLIC DEcENCY.-We do not suppose that any
one will choose to take their evening stroll on the
steamship wharves because they can there study
the human form divine.n but parties may as well
that the amphibious kanaka there does dis
port himself upon the lines led out from various
vessels. Now it happens. that on some of the ships
there are ladies, and on their account. as well
IS on the score OF our caption, we cry, po-o-li-i-ce!
And while We are about If. we will mention that we
nave seen more indecent exposure OF the person by
tGOies bathing at Kalihi. than we have amongst the
natives. -
A DISSATISFIED oNsTIruENcY.-A Waihee. Maui,
IA NhS SbA VI A0ob AAAOy I - NS ASS
ives of the district of Wailuku in the late Assem-
(Messrs. Kuihelani and LonOaea) met the peo-
pie IN a public meeting and gave an account OF their
ioings during the session. The ~assemblage OF free
and enlightened voters" rather freely expressed
heir dissatisfaction with the course pursued by the
ormer gentleman, hooting and grooming whenever
lie attempted TO speak. but listening with approba-
ion to Mr.. Lonoaea, who they considered had tried
% do something for the good of the people.
The VoLcANo-Captaiu Hatfield. of the schooner
UiLama, arrived from Kona and Kau on Sunday
asst. reports that the ere of the volcano on the top
If Mama Loa was very brilliant and was distinctly
at night from both the South and West sides
Hawaii. During the day time, the mountain top
vas covered. and far down on the sides, with dense
clouds of smoke. No one had yet gone up. so FAR
s Capt. Hatfield could learn to ascertain the extent
md nature of the eruption. We await with inter-
.st the receipt of intelligence from Hilo, where re-
ides the Rev. Mr.. Coan, who is an enthusiastic OBJ
Ierver of volcanic phenomena. No one here can
failed to observe the smoky appearance of the
for several days past, resembling in
his respect what was seen during the progress OF
he great eruption OF 1859.
The OLYNPIA.-In the San Francisco Chronicle
If the 10th inst. this steamer is styled Another
Satan's death trip" and the really trivial but I'M
ortunate accident which caused her return to port
before the heads were passed, is magni6ed into a
-ery serious and disgraceful affair. The fact is
hat the Olympia is as safe and stauncE a steamer
IS can be found in this ocean. She is only two
ears old, and was, until recently. run as an Oppo-
ition boat, since which she was hired to lay up at
o much per month. A card from the passengers
Who came down in her, beaded by Judge Hartwell,
ppears elsewhere in onr columns, and will IN
have more weight with the travelling
'ubllc than the blatant. indicative utterances OF
o VIGOROUSLY unreliable a sheet as the San Fran
Chronicle. -
A NOTEWORTHY ADvERTIsEMEST.-It is not infre-
uent that we see notices published in the native
~ewspapers that are both interesting and amusing
exhibiting peculiar phases of the Hawaiian char
cter. In last Saturdays Ruofod appears an adj
of a deserted wife of her husband, pre-
xed with the suggestive cut of a colored individual !
making tracks with a stick and bundle on his
boulder. We translate
sKnow all men, that 1, the undersigned. a woman