The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-12

THE SrEAMERs.-The Nebraska has been absent
forty-three days to-day, and is consequently not
yet due from Auckland The idaho is as yet only
seventeen days absent on the San Francisco route.
aud the usual time for the round trip is not less than
twenty-SiX days. -
THE "OUEEN EMMA " sailed for San Francisco
between one and two O'Clock on Saturday last,
having been IN port less than five days. and in that
time discharged one full cargo and taken in
another. Good dispatch.
ERRATA FOR THE GAzETTE.-The Waikiki Ball did
not occur on Sept. 18th, but on Oct. 2d; Andreas.
the murderer, was arrested at Halemano, not at Eva;
II. Cornwell is the proprietor of Waikapu Plantation,
not Wailuku, etc, etc.
FIRE AT WAIMEA.-Last Saturday a native house
at Waimea was destroyed by fre-cause, friction
matches in the hands of q child while the parents
were absent. In connection with the subject of
matches, it may be mentioned that the natives ex-
tensively use them as counters in gambling, which
may account for the frequent occurrence of these fires.
A RUNAwAY.-On Tuesday afternoon, q half an
hour before the sailing of the RIiaued, a horse at
tached to a half-loaded lumber dray, took fright at
something and rushed frantically through the crowd
and around the coal shed, fetching up at last by
coming in contact with only q handcart. And sin
gularly enough no one was hurt, though a good
many were scared. -
yASMAsH-UP- Wednesdaye evening, about Z o'clock,
Dir. j. II. Wood was standing in the English Church
yard, engaged in conversation when the slamming of
q door startled the horses attached to his wagon,
who bolted. Mr.. Wood held on to the reins and was
dragged nearly to the entrance, when he was obliged
TO let go to save being crushed by contact with the
gate post. He escaped with some bruises, but the
wagon was smashed into frewood.
DROWNED PERHAPs.-By the schooner Fairy
Queen, which arrived on Wednesday from Kauai, we
learn that an hour after leaving the port of Hama
lei, one of the passengers, The Hon. d.. Kaukaha, q
member of the late Assembly, was missing and is
supposed to have either jumped overheard to swim
! ashore or fallen over and UOt drowned His shoes
and hat were found on the deck. 1t is added that
he was under the influence of drink at the time of
coming On board. -
The HuLA-On Monday, eight persons. Eve
women and three men, were a%rraigned in the Police
I Court, on "a charge of I" promoting and =" aiding
and assisting " at a Hawaiian Hula, held on the
9th nit. The plea of not guilty was entered on
behalf of the defendants, and the ground taken
that it was a private and not a public exhibit
ton, and therefore not within the purview of the
law. -
AccIDENT-On Sunday morning last, as the ice
Cart was coming down Nuuanu Avenue, above the
6rst bridge. owing to unskillful driving by a ma
tive. the horse bolted, and ran into the stone para
pet of the bridge. Mr.. w NJ. Wallace, the agent of
the Ice Factory, was thrown violently out and the
driver almost Immediately after was thrown on top
Of him. Mr.. Wallace was rendered insensible for
al few minutes, but fortunately no bones were
broken, although he is bruised and famed enough
to keep him laid up for a week or ten days.
MAUNA KILIKA.-This was the name given by the
natives TO q building tnaB uSeO 10 SIdnu near inc
old Honolulu Fort, close by the site of the present.
court house. The name, which signifies s. mount
ain of silk was suggested by the large assemblaget
of native chiefesses there on one occasion, all
clothed in rich silks. Last Monday the name and
the circumstance were brought to recollection by
seeing the Doctress or Sorceress. Waahia, who has
a case before the Supreme Court, filing into the
yard with a long string of her retainers, mostly fe-f
males all attired in the richest OF silks.
FROM Hno.-By the ActiUe. by way of Kawaihae,
- L--o - 70 AhA 0ntb ,If ArC ~ vuffn
of the Rev. Titus Coan, died on Sunday morning,
Sept. 30. of an aneurism from which she had suf-
fered for several years. Mr.. G. S. Kenway, an old
resident of the islands was Frustrated with an at
tack of epilepsy, on the goth ult, and was lying in
a very precarious condition when the mail left.
The Chinaman who was injured in the affray at
Kaupakuea plantation on September 4th, died at
Hilo on the 10Th. A post norton examination
showed injuries to the brain which caused death.
The man who committed the assault is under arrest.
MUsIc-We are pleased to learn that the Hawaiian
Military Band has been directed by His Excellency
the Governor of Oahu, to play in Emma Square
every Saturday afternoon at 5 O'Clock, to afford all
an opportunity of enjoying the fine music for which
they, under the instruction of Mr.. Berger. have
become noted. We publish the programme for this
afternoon
Choir and auartette (new). OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Fantasia. ~Opera-OIpheus. .Ofenbach
How Beautiful 1nou Ait-songt meldt
Libussa-POlka Mazurka. Kickoff
10 COQCluuS Will u dTC 0EtuuO LLuiud STUART.
FROM WALuKU.-A correspondent, writing on
Friday the 4h inst. says " We are having quite
a shower of rain, the first in a long time. The ball
ut the opening of the New Hall was a decided sue
cess. although there was great disappointment that
next to ne visitors came from Honolulu. The resi-
dents here had expected and made preparations to
as many as fifty. But 1t is their own
fault. They were told beforehand, and might have
we'll known, that Honolulu people cannot go on
pleasuring excursions so near quarter day. Messrs.
Lucas and Friel who came to attend the festival,
met with an unpleasant adventure. While they
were absent at the ball. their room at Capt Will
fong's was entered and everything in the shape of
clothes was stolen. Their carpet bags were burst
open and everything gone but what they stood IN
Mr.. Friel also lost some valuable papers. Mr.
Everett. the Sheriff, also lost a new saddle. others
lost brides, and a good many small articles disap-
peared on the night of the ball. Altogether. it
would seem that the thieves of this neighborhood
Improved the occasion"
GONE TO JAIL-Several months age, q noted
native woman doctresss named Waahia, was fined
one hundred dollars in the Police Court OF this city,
for the offense of practicing medicine without a
license. The patient in that particular case had
died under the hands of the doctress, and it was
believed that death had been FASTENED by her treat
ment. She appealed to the Circuit Judge, ". P.
Kamakau, aud the decision of the Police Magistrate
was confirmed. She appealed to q jury, and at the
July term of the Supreme Court a verdict was
rendered against her. Through counsel, she then
took exceptions to the rulings of the presiding judge,
with a view to obtaining a new trial. On Monday
last, the exceptions were argued before the full bench,
and were overruled. Now Mrs. Waahia is a bit of a
prophecies and seer as well as a doctress-in fact she
is what the American Indian would call, ga big
medicine woman in the belief of her numerous
followers. She prophesied that if she were sent to
prison, the walls thereof would fall apart. And she
went there on Tuesday last. in confident expectation
of the coming catastrophe, which for some unac-
countable reason has been so far delayed. But she
has MANY dunes among the natives W h0 are seriously