The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-27

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will be due on her return tomorrow morning.
~ While this side Of the island is dry and
parched. Koolau has been luxuriating in copious
showers, much to the satisfaction Of agriculturists
and graziers. -
~ The schedule day for the Costa RIGA to leave
San Francisco was the cath INST. She will therefore
be due on Friday next, Oct. Sd.
FURNITURE ~SALF.-Bartow will sell Household
Furniture at the residence of Mr.. VIM. Duncan. on
Friday next. -
No DRII--The Chief Engineer of the Fire De-
partment gives notice in another column, that
there will be no drill to-day. on account Of the
scarcity of water. -
Observation-Disclosures Street has decid-
eddy improved in appearance, since the old nm
slightly wooden building next to the corner has
been metamorphosed and given a handsome front.
And n~eighbors are catching the infection and doing
likewise. -
IA HoNUA MI. or First Book in Descriptive
Geography. is the title of n very well gotten ND
Hawaiian School Book, for n copy of which we are
indebted to the Inspector General of Schools. We
shall take an early opportunity to notice it further.
SUPREME CoURT.-The October term commences
on Monday, the 9Th. The Calendar consists so far.
of three criminal cases for the native Jury three
civil causes for a mixed jury three criminal cases
and tour civil causes for the foreign jury one Jury
waived case and one civil cause in Banco.
Music THIS AFTERNooN.-The Band will play at
Emma Square, commencing at 5 O'Clock. Following
is the programme. to conclude with a march around
the square
Radetzky March Strauss
Overture-Opera Balianda. HerteI
Bluebeard Quadrille. Oaenbach
Seection-opera Huguenols. .Meyerbeer
DRY TMEs.-We have heard that some of the ma
tives living in Nuuanu Valley irrigate their taro-
patches in these dry times with water carried in
buckets for some distance. The cool hours of the
night are thus devoted to the necessary task Of pre-
serving their years supply of food. Foreigners
living above the reservoir are compelled to carry
water from .the town for drinking and culinary
purposes. -
LEPRosY IN JAPAN-Late intelligence says that
in Yedo a doctor named Goto Shobun, of Aichi
Ken, has opened a Leper Hospital in Naruko-machi.
He is said to have discovered a specific method of
treating this hateful disease, and that DR.. Bauduin
was so satisfied of its value that he introduced it
into Holland. The hospital expenses are very
small, and most of those who enter leave in 4 few
months perfectly cured. The patients are very
numerous. -
An EXCEPTIONAL. SHowER.-Last Tuesday night,
at about u O'Clock, jewellers in the neighborhood
of Kawaiahao were aroused by the loud pattering
on the roof of a seemingly copious shower of rain.
But ii only lasted a few minutes, and rather singu-
larly no other part Of the city was similarly fav-
ored.
At about the same hour on Wednesday night,
there was a small shower in the valley. but not
enough in town TO lay the dust.
STEALING MEDICNE.-One day this week a China
man was charged in the Police Court with the lar
ceny of several queer looking packages of medi-
cine-it was said to be--irom a Chinese doctor.
The thief was the doctors cook, and had probably
learned some of his masters art and desired to
practice medicine on his own hook. He got six
months imprisonment at hard labor, which will
prove a serious interruption to his researches into
the Materia Medica.
H.. /. Ms CORVETTE AsKoLD, sails tomorrow
morning for Nagasaki, Japan, taking any letters
which it may be desired to forward, if left at the
counting room of Messrs. II Hackfeld q Co. Dur
ing the stay of the ASkOLd in our waters, which has
extended since the 10th of August, her Commander
and officers have gained the esteem of our citizens
as courteous gentlemen, and her stalwart crew have
enioyed their liberty on shore in a quiet and orderly
way that is exceptional with men-of-wars men.
Bon royGge 10 the AskcOd.
A REVOLUTION N SUGAR MAkGNG.-The New Or
leans papers are talking quite hopefully of a new
process of sugar making, which it is asserted will
be greatly to the advantage of the planter. 1t is
claimed that by FIRST evaporating the eighty per
cent. of vegetable matter by heated steam, and
then by submitting the dried pieces to a wash of
heated water. almost its entire saccharine contents
are successfully extracted that the bagasse, here
tofore a useless encumbrance. is changed into most
nutritious food for animals, and that the sugar crop
is multiplied to a wonderful extent. Is there any
thing valuable in this?
A PLACE FOR PUBLIC REsoRT.-Emma Square is
not really a suitable place for a public resort and for
open air concerts by the band-which last have
become almost a public necessity. The Square is too
small to admit Of promenades, and its situation is
such that the sound Of the music is deadened and
lost. The proper place would be the Botanical
Garden on School street, near the head of Emma.
That belongs to the Government, is amply large
enough for walks, which have been already laid out
though latterly neglected, and is planted with rare
trees and shrubs. A small expense would be neces-
sary in building a platform for the band with per-
haps room enough for dancing on an occasion. Have
we public enterprise among US sufficient to push this
matter:
Paraguay is again a scene of conflict Since the
overthrow of Lopez the country has been virtually
a dependency of Brazil, and the discomfort arising
from this state of affairs has at length eliminated
in an outbreak. The latest intelligence is that the
rebel forces under CaballerO have completely
defeated those of the Government, and the Impe-