The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-11-22
T OF THE WEEK.

ROhEhE AhL NullHStt i iNiNtt-
Finance Office, Honolulu, Nov. 18th, 1873.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
LIFE Extraordinarily the agent in this city
of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company,
paid $4,000 to the estate of the late F. s. Cleve-
land, who died on Maui.
MAsoNIc.-The regular monthly meeting of Lodge
lie Progress de IOceanie,'' No. 124, A. F. & a. NJ,
will take place on Monday evening next, Nov. "a, at
their Hall on King street. A full attendance is re-
quested. Election of Officers.
y EsQUINAUN ARrIsT.-In the window of Whit
ney's bookstore may be seen a pencil sketch of the
whaling bark James Allen drawn by Cornelius. an
untaught Esquimaux. 1t is remarkably well-drawn
and shows the born artist. 1t is 4 pity that Cor
nelius could not be sent to a proper school of art.
NoTICE.-Don't forget that Mr.. Thos. II. Harrison,
the celebrated Coach and Ornamental Painter, has
removed to the fine rooms over Mr.. Dalton's Harness
Store, and is prepared to do work in a very superior
way, and at prices % per cent. cheaper than work
has been done heretofore. 3t
LATE News FROM SYpNEY.-In our issue of Octo-
Der 4, we published two letters from Henry Parkes,
the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales. addressed
to the governments of Victoria and New Zealand in
regard to the San Francisco mail service. Last
Wednesday, after the lapse of ~forty-six days, the
same letters appear in the Gazette, under the head of
"Later from Sydney There is nething like a good
terrapin express in these days.
CAPTAIN HAssINGER.-We learn, but not by official
announcement, that this gentleman, as senior Cap
tain of the volunteer troops, has been put in charge
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with the military department of the Government.
Beyond the occasional firing of s~alutes, and display
of citizen soldiery on state occasions, we need but
little military, and under Captain Hassinger's man.
agement we shall never fear another war of the
barracks" -
THE INrER-IsLAND MAILs.-Lette received from
Kohala, Hawaii, state that the mail bags conveyed
there by the steamer Kilauea, on two recent occa-
sions, have been in a wretched condition, the letters
barely legible and the newspapers in a state of pulp,
from having been on one occasion saturated with the
brine and oil of a barrel of salmon, and on another
with sperm oil. Such carelessness in the employees
OF the government steamer is simply outrageous, and
were she private property would doubtless be consid-
cred a sufficient ground to take away her coasting
license, or else subject her owners to a fine. The
matter has been brought to the attention of the
Minister of the Interior.
Tine APPROACHING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 18th bids
fair to be observed with more than usual spirit. A
grand dinner in the native style, is to be eaten under
q { lanai, - on the lot next to the Palace, and a con-
siderable sum has been raised for the purpose by
subscriptions among both foreigners and natives.
The arrangements are in the hands Of a committee of
sYoung Hawaii and will no doubt be carried out
creditably. In the evening there viii be fireworks at
the Hotel, and a special concert by the Band. 1t has
been proposed to obtain the assistance, for this occa-
sion, of the Band of the U. s. S. SaranGc. Seats
will be provided in the Hotel yard for spectators of
the fireworks and listeners to the music, for which a
charge of one dollar each will be made for the even
ing, and the tickets will be sold at the Hotel. Sub
scribers to the Thursday evening concerts will under
stand that this is an independent affair, and that
their concert will be duly announced. This enter
tainment for the evening of the 28th promises to be
a good one, and we trust that the Band will be pat
ronized as they deserve.
- We hear that the Honolulu Rifles will also
parade on the 2Sth, and encamp in the Botanical
Gardens-they will amuse themselves at target prac-
tee on the slope of the hill. The salute for the day
from PunchboWl, will be fired by the Rifles.
Mr.. HoLsTEIN's LECTURE, VT regret 10 say, was
but thinly attended, on Saturday evening last, al
though We recognized among the audience some Of
our leading citizens-among others His Excellency
the Minister Resident Of the United States. the Min
lister of Foreign Relations, several of the clergy, and
Foreign Consuls. The lecture was, as we had pre-
missed in our last, a very able and interesting one,
and sketched in truthful terms the commercial and
agricultural condition of the islands during the past
twenty years, and the present undeniable gloomy out
look. Our present dependence was on the sugar in
terest-sugar was king-it was the staff on which
all, government and people have leaned. That staff,
in view of the uncertainty of the California market,
is failing US, and he held that We had made q great
mistake in paying so little attention to other agricul-
tural resources and devoting all our energies to su-
gar. He dwelt at some length upon the evils OF a
lack of suitable labor in the country, and the need
of an intelligent population to adopt and carry out
modes Of properly developing our resources, and re-
commended the introduction by the immigration So
ciety of families of agriculturists from Germany, to
settle on our plantationsa and cultivate crops on shares.
Our continued and increasing droughts, which he
characterized as an alarming evil, were attributed TO
the destruction of the forests, and he advocated the
formation of Associations for extensive tree planting,
which he pointed out could be made a paying invest
ment. while in the end it would be the salvation OF
the islands. The subject of artesian wells was dis
cussed. and the example adduced of Southern Cali
fornia, where large tracts are irrigated by this means.
While it may be doubted whether the same results
would follow from boring in these islands of volcanic
formation, yet the experiment IS well worth trying.