The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-04-27

scientist, now in san Francisco. In the Usskiy
Bulletin Of the 18th inst, VI. Pavy answers the ar
ticle of Capt. Long, rather sharply.
The CONCERT on THURSDAY evening last at the
Fort street Church, owing to the showery weather,
WAS not 50 numerously attended as il would have
been but for that untOward circumstance. As II was,
the two hundred persons who composed the audience
were delighted with the entertainment as a whole,
and particular praise was awarded to the perform
ers on the piano and violin.
One THoUsAND DOLLARS REwARD-Mr. McInerny.
whose store an incrndiary a~ttempie TO burn on
Monday night last. offered = reward of one hundred
dollars for information which would lead To the
arrest and conviction Of the offender. and the
amount was subsequently, increased by subscription
among our merchants. 10 one thousand dollars.
This Is the third attempt Of The kind within 4 year,
in this city. -
WHOA JANCARYi A amusing scene occurred
the other morning OF Beretania street. \ mule,
too heavily loaded for the creatures ideas OF com
fort with bundles of hard poi, deliberately stopped
and laying down. rolled over from side TO side,
bursting the bundles and squeezing out the putty
like contents on to the ground. The owner. a ven
cradle looking kanaka, looked pbilosopically on,
and simply calculated, Whoa, january
POLICE CouRr.-Judge Montgomery has taken n
week over in KoOlau for his health. and +. III.
Harris, Esq. is acting as Police Magistrate during
his absence. BeyoRd the ordinary quantum of
DRINKS. there has been no notable cases before this
tribunal for some time. until yesterday there came
up one of those disgusting matters that are be-
coming too frequent of late. and that attract a
crowd of prurIently curious listeners. One Enoch
KalauaO. a young native, a SchOolmaster, was ac-
Gused of having connection with a young girl under
fourteen. Without pleading TO the charge, the de-
fendant obtained a poStponement until this morning.
The ofense is a grave one, IN the punishment OF
which the community is interested, and we trust
that if this case should be proven against the de-
PENDANT, be will be dealt with as severely as the
law allows. -
4 DECIDEDLY new sensation is promised US on the
18th of next August. The famous NJ. Plantamour,
professor of astronomy at Geneva, Switzerland, has
discovered a new comet which, it is declared, exceeds
in size any similar meteor hitherto known of. By
the elaborate calculations of this learned observer, the
new comet is darling directly toward our globe with
prodigious velocity, and will come into collision with
it on the 18th of August, as aforesaid. The approach
of this terrific object will be heralded by an extraor-
binary degree of heat and the catastrophe cannot
possibly be avoided unless by q detection, not now to
be prognOsticated, produced by the comet impinging
on the attractive scope of some other heavenly body.
Let US hope and pray for the detection and at
the same time cultivate our faith in the theory that
comets are merely bodies of luminous gas, which,
even if coming in collision with the earth, could do
no very extensive damage. :
FROM HILO.-Our attentive correspondent at Hilo
informs us that there was a smart shock of Garth
quake felt there, on the afternoon of the 22d inst.
Captain Gator of the Scout, who arrived in port on
that morning remarked to a resident that he was
curious to feel an earthquake. The elements were
in his case very accommodating, for at ~half-past 4
that afternoon there was a decided shake, that
caused the gallant captain and many others to jump
and look about them. A party of the younger
officers from the Scout had gone to visit the volcano,
travelling on foot. Captain Gator and his party were
TO start on Wednesday. Captain c.. was greatly
pleased with Hilo, but thought that Captain Spen-
GERS frank hospitality might spoil him if he lin
gered. The Hilo Band gave him a welcome on Mon
day evening in Sir Thomas garden, and sundry
little speeches were got off, one of which is worth
rnaOr1inns 81 We wplPOma uNn Ia a naval pffiaar of
Queen Victoria, and as the guest of Captain Spen-
Ger. Captain S. we all know, and he makes you
welcome TO his large house. We also welcome you to
our little cottages and shall be very proud to see you
there -
A CHEAP SUGAR MmL.-We clip the following
from a recent number of the Sydney Mail: 4
cheap sugar mill, which will crush the cane, boil
the juice, and Gf we may be permitted to coin a
word) centrifugalate the sugar, is a desideratum
amongst our sugar-groweTs. Self-unloading centri-
fugal machines are expensive, and cannot always
be reached by the suger-growers whereas ma
chimes like those used at the st. Helena sugar
house. in Queensland, can be made for about ESQ,
and the sugar made by their aid is quite as good as
that produced by the more expensive apparatus.
We are glad to end that colonial engineering talent
is turning its attention to this matter a Queens
land contemporary informs us that Mr.. Joseph
Collect has invented a new sugar mill. which is con-
partly of wood, contains four horizontal
rollers. and is driven by four horses. a mill Of
kind has been erected by the inventor for Mr..
K. Muir, OF Nerang Greek, has been tested. and is
now at work manufacturing a clear, dry sugar,
inely crystalline, and OF a good color. Mr. Collect
affirms that a mill of this kind can be erected for
ESQ. while for ESQ the whole apparatus required
for crushing and boiling, including mill pans, shed,
in fact. everything, may be set up. Our small
sugar-groweTs, who may live at a distance from a
large mill, ought, therefore, to combine their re-
sources. and set up mills of their own. and by this
means avoid the numerous Inconvenience to which
they are now subject. The whole progress Of dis
covery with respect to the sugar industry warrants
he iufaroncp that practipal EDOWlpdpa and pupi-
neering talent, rather than extensive capital. are all
are necessary to enable the farmer TO produce
crops OF sugar.
ASAVAGE ATTEMPT To MURDER.-Last Wednesday +
evening, at a quarter before eight O'Clock, a native
boy came running in to the Station House with the
that Mr.. G.. G. Bennett, who keeps a
variety store on the KalIhi road, about a mile and
half from town, had been almost killed by a ma
named Makanui. Both the Marshal and Depu-
" were near at hand and proceeded with all posi-
Bile dispatch TO the place, accompanied by DIR.
Mr.. Bennett was found to have received
TWO cuts with a large Pinch butcher knife. one
across the back of the neck. at the base of the skull.
which was six inches long and one and a half deep,
and the other on the check, which was but slight.
Although the FIRST cut made a horrible cash, and
profusely, the Doctor, who promptly dressed
he wound, apprehends no immediate danger to
life. The wounded man was removed to the
Seameu's Hospital last night on a litter.
The circumstances of this murderous assault, as
by Mr.. Bennett, are these. During the al
,ernoon, the assailant, a native shoemaker, had been
IN the shop once or twice, and IN the evening at
ibout halEpast seven came in to purchase a bottle
Of oil. This Mr.. IL. had measured for him, wbens
he man requested Il mdHudhi-a little more thrown !
N. As Mr.. b. stopped to comply with his request, {
he man struck him with the knife, square over s
he back Of the neck. Then as Bennett arose, 3
shouting murder, the assassin struck him again I
with the knife on the cheek, infictiug but a slight !
wound, when be dropped the knife and ran away.
No one was in the shop at the time OF the
assault besides. Bennett and the native. The
police were promptly despatched in search Of
he man described by Mr.. Bennett, and at 10
o'clock Makanui was arrested, in bed in his house
IN Smith Street and locked up in the Station
House. He denied all knowledge of the affair.
When Mr.. Bennett was brought in, Makanui was
with him, but he declared that was not
he man, and he was accordingly liberated. As Mr.;
3. insisted that his assailant was n person who had
ormerly worked for the late W. Bennett, shoemaker,
hree men were in succession brought, named Kipi,
2alau and Kalama, who had at one time worked in the