The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-04-13


AUCTIONS To-DAY-Bartow sells cattle belonging
10 estate Of o J. H0lt aud At noon the hulk OF the
British ship DrrOaxkirs.
THE CANE CRor-Our mills commenced 10 grind
yesterday, shortly after the arrival Of the -NciIis
Merrill. from whose attentive commander this office
received a liberal bunch Of Lahaina's chief product,
together with an acceptable present Of breadiruit-
NAsoNIC.-We are requested TO state that a spe-
ciaI couyocarjOn OF Honolulu K. A. chapter No. /,
Will be led on Monday evening next At : 80
O'Clock. in the l.. a. Degree. at the Hall Of Lodge
l. Progress de TOceanie. Visiting companions are
cordially invited.
The New NATIONAL HoLIDAY.-It viii lie remem-
bsred that on the 18th Of December last, q Royal
Proclamation was issued, directing that hereafter the
eleventh day Of June Of each year be observed as a
public holiday, IN memory Of kamehameha l.,
founder Of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and grandfather
Of His Majesty the King. We learn that a meeting
has been called for Monday evening next, st the
Hawaiian Hotel, Of those DESTROYS Of participating in
the celebration Of the new national holiday. See
advertisement. -
4 HANDSOME DRAwING.-At the Honolulu Iron
Works there is TO be seen a drawing of a Vacuum
Pan, Air Pumps and steam Engine made at the
Works for Waikiki Mauai. The drawing shows q
side elevation of one of FIVE machines made for Wal
luku. and great taste and skill is shown in the finish
of the work. Mr.. Terril. toe artist. is, we believe n
graduate from the we'll known firm of Randolph
Elder y Co. Iron 5. ;. builder Glasgow. He is
employed at the works aud deserves much praise
for the execution of this and other work of the
anne kind. in which he has been materially assis-
ted by the finish given to the work turned out as
his model from the Works.
THE CURLEw-The sportsman par excellence of
Honolulu. 5. X. Rawson, was out one day this
week on his raids against the birds. and besides
numerous ducks and plover, bagged a dozen cur
lew. This is a SPLENDID game bird. rather hard to
get, and is much esteemed by epicures. Ii is de-
scribed by ornitholOgists as of the genus Numenius,
and the grallic order, has q long crooked bill. wide
wings, rapid flight, and n color of ash and black.
1t belongs to the same family with the woodcock
and sand piper. They are as We said. not easily
bagged. and the bringing to town of one dozen from
one excursion is noteworthy. and worth Dragging
about. We feel a gastric melancholy in parting
with the deliciously fat ployer that will be all gone
in a week or two hence.
FIREMEN's BALL.-The members of :" Mechanic
Engine Company No. 2, are making every prepara-
ton to ensure that their ball, to come of on Thurs
day evening next, at the Hawaiian Hotel, shall be a
perfect success, and as our gallant fremen are noted
for their energy and thoroughness in everything
they undertake, we have every reason 10 anticipate
that they will on this occasion display their usual
esprit de corps, and that the ball will be the grand
affair of the season. The splendid dining hall of the
Hotel is admirably fitted both by its size and good
ventilation for dancing, and mine host Herbert
knows how TO provide an appetiEiug supper. We
happen to know that the arrangements for the due
observance of order and decorum will be well carried
out. -
LIGHTNING STRUcK.-During Friday night, the 5th, !
the electric fluid struck n thatch house at Laie, on /
the windward side of this island. and splitting the !
posts pretty thoroughly left the house q wreck.
Strange to say, although there was quite n number
of people in the building at the time, no one was
hurt. One man however declares that he felt the
lightning hit him alongside his head! The freshet
carried away the bridge at Laie, swept out the bar
at the mouth of the stream. and rendered the roads
- y ranv hnnur Tho XT.cnI, -
was in the neighborhood of Coco Head during the
thunder storm, was struck on the mainmast by the ]
No serious damage was done, but a chip
was taken off the mast on the forward and aftward
sides, below the head. Damage from the electric
fluid has been rare on these islands. During over
years we remember but two or three
deaths-One of a Chinaman in 40 in this city and
two on Maui, and several cases where cattle have
been killed. The late electric storm was in our re-
excelled but once before in Honolulu, and
that was in April, 1916.
THE KoA.-Looking into Fishers cabinet shop the
other day, we were struck with the beauty of a large
counter in process of finishing, made from broad
slabs of the koa. This wood that is so valuable for
all purposes where a lasting and beautiful material
is required for furniture or interior fittings, resembles
in its close grain. ~toughness and weight, the English
oak, but is far more beautiful. The surface, after
being polished has n peculiar satiny sheen, and a
depth of color that rivals that of mahogany and satin
wood. The name koG, is singularly enough oak
We would call attention to the fact
that tens of thousands of young trees are being de-
every year by the wild cattle roaming at will
over the mountains. Near Kilauea is a magnificent
grove of these trees, that is growing smaller all the
time through waste, and in a few years the supply Of
our Hawaiian oak will have been used up, unless
some means are taken to preserve the young growth.
THE PUNAHoU J~oURNAL-One of the "signs of
the times is doubtless found in the tendency of youth
in these days towards the making of newspapers.
read the other day of a " Convention - held re-
gently in the States somewhere of juvenile editors.
We have before US q copy of a little quartO with the
above title, edited and printed by the boys in the
College. All things considered, it is very
got up and edited, though of course pro-
vOcative of a smile at some Of its features. "a re-
lected suitOr " contributes in rhyme his g last fare
well - to the object of his affections, one verse of
which We will quote, as showing that the young bard
that he may live to be older
But though thy love has grown 80 cold,
And though no more you smile on me,
If should live till very old,
always shall remember thee"
In observing these evidences of newspaporial pre-
,ocity, there is consolation in the thought that by
thus early the boys will have time to get
heartily sick of the business before it becomes badly
chronic. -
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF DR.. BERAz.-By the ar
rival yesterday of the Nellie Merrill from Lahaina,
intelligence was received of the finding on Tuesday
morning last, of the dead body of DR.. II. Beraz, a
much esteemed German physician residing on East
Maui, under circumstances that indicate that he was
either drowned in crossing the gulch of KAPPA, or
that he had met with foul play. A letter from an
native, Mr.. L.. AhOlo, relates the following
circumstances "On Thursday, April 4th, DR..
Beraz left Mr.. Unna's house and went to the Catholic
Mission, reaching there at 1C p. NJ , and stating that
ne was going to visit a sick woman further on. The
priest urged him to stop for the night, as it was very
and rainy. The Doctor. however, insisting upon
going, the priest loaned him a cloak. This was the
asst heard of him until Friday morning, when the
cloak and the saddle cloth of the horse ridden by the
Doctor were found on the beach by a policeman, who
the cloak as belonging TO the priest,
BY whom it was also identified as the enc loaned to