The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-11-08
THE PACIFIC
Commercial AOOtrtiser

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER :.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
Our NEW IoEs LErTEE-On the fourth page
viii be found a very readable letter from oUr New
FORK correspondent.
STEAMER KnAUEA.-The steamer sails for wind
ward ports on Tuesday morning next ut 5 O'Clock, on
account Of His Majesty leaving for Hawaii. See
timetable. -
THE CALIFoRNLA STEANER.-The last theory in re-
gard to the expected steamer Is, that her repairs
were not completed in time to sail until the lst inst
and that therefore she will be due tomorrow.
SUPPLENESr.-See the extra sheet accompanying
tO-dsy's paper for an interesting and amusing letter
from George PauncefOrt, the popular reader and elo-
cutionist, and other miscellaneous matter.
HALEAKALA Boys ScHooL-At Makawao on the
18th inst, a Magic Lantern Exhibition was given for
the benefit Of the above school. The attendance was
fair, and the Exhibition was pronounced a decided
success. -
The MAORI Observation-Disclosures Balieu, French
Consul, requests US to say that he viii be glad to pro-
cure q Dictionary OF the English and New zealand Ian
guages. Any person having such a book will confer
a favor by communicating with NJ. Ballieu or by
leaving information at this Office.
SUICIDE AT Hmo.-By a letter from IIilo per
Pduahi, we learn that a foreigner named Godfrey
Ferreau, a cooper by occupation, was found dead in
his shop on the 25th of October, having hung himself
to a cross-beam. He was reported to be of very dis
sipated habits. A coroner's inquest was held, the
result of which has not transpired.
The : GLENsANNox :" CAsE.-Th case of the Chi
IL W. c. IL
corpus last year before Mr.. Justice Hartwell and
from whose decision discharging the man from Gus
tody an appeal was taken to the full bench, was fin
ally decided during the past week, by a majority of
the Court (Justices Hartwell and Widemann) dis
missing the appeal. -
LARCENY BY CHILDREN.-Two little native girls
were before the Police Court one day this week, for
stealing small articles from an auction room. One of
the children was held to be under legal age of respon-
sibiity, and was discharged, and the other sent to
the Reformatory School during minority. This re-
minds us that the next Legislature should be urged
to provide for the correctional care of young female
offenders. The school at Palama is for boys only.
{ CIRCUIT Court, HAwAII.-Associate Justice Wide
mann of the Supreme Court, Lawrence McCully,
Esq, Deputy Attorney General, and other members
of the Bar, sailed for Hawaii per steamer RiIGueG
on Monday last, to hold the November Term Of the
Circuit Court for the Sd Judicial District, at Waimea.
The calendar we understand comprises quite a number
of cases, among which is the Puma murder of Ekikiela
by Laemakani. -
MORE Answers
M. Edtor-How is this e399 19s. I'd?
ACTIVE.
The ans,cer: 5000 19s. ID. 1-96OE PAUAHI.
1899 19s. . Lied. HoyoLULU.
$3.50 los. 1-3, 1888 100. PoT.
$500 los. Cd. 1-3S40. il.
e399 los. 24d. II. &
FROM LAHAINA.-Our correspondent writes under
date of the 9th instant:-fTh eclipse of the moon
was plainly visible here on Tuesday morning, at half
past 4. = = = Yesterday we had fine showers of
rain, causing the hill-sides and cane-felds of Lahaina
to rejoice. = 3 = There have been several cases
of a lingering fever in the school at Lahainaluna,
but we hope it will soon pass away with a change of
atmosphere -
Music THIS AFTERNoON-The Band will play at
Emma Square. commencing at41 O'Clock. Follow
ing is the programme. to conclude with a march
around the square:
Overture, Opera s. Balanda
Cavatina, Opera "Linda" .Donnizetti
Selection, Opera " Hugenots y. ..Mayerbeer
Eglatine Polka Mazurka- .Likoh
BORING FOR WATER.-A party of prisoners has
been engaged for the past two weeks in blasting
and digging into the hill at Puunui, on the left
hand going up the valley, it having been firmly
believed by some theorists that a considerable
body of running water would be found there,
which only required to be tapped and conducted
TO the reservoir. in order to give all the water
supply needed. The digging and blasting has re-
suited in making a big hole in the ground, and that
is all. The Minister of the Interior should how
ever be credited with having made the attempt to
find water. -
EARTHQUAKES SHoCKs.-People who happened to
be awake between 10 and IL O'Clock last Monday
night, experienced quite a sensible shock of an earth
quake, and we have heard of another and stronger
one after midnight. Our correspondents on Maui
report the shake to have been more perceptible there.
From Lahainaluna-"Th There was q decided shock of
earthquake felt here about midnight of Monday, the
Sd inst" Makawao writes Last (Monday) night
about half-past ten or eleven, we heard a Fremont
tory rumble, and then five or six distinct jolts that
made unstable things rattle and shake; and then,-
it rained." We expect to hear further accounts
from Hawaii, to which island these terrestrial phe-
nomena more properly pertain.
THE FALL RANs.-These are beginning to come
slowly, and occasional smart trade-wind showers
have fallen in and about Honolulu, a premonition of
the coming rule of st. Swithin. A correspondent at
Makawao, East Maui, writing on the 4th inst, says
60 Everybody is busted in repairing leaky spouts,
improvising eave-trouths, setting out tubs, barrels,
ETC., to catch some of the rain that commenced to
fall this morning. After the heightened drought, no
one was wild enough to predict rain However, it
came, but it took a good smart earthquake shock to
bring it. There is every prospect of its continuance
until we get through the winter, for in this district
it never rains but it pours.',
DECLINE OF THE WHALING BUsINEss--Last week
we copied a paragraph from the " B. Shipping List,
which spoke despondingly of the whaling business.
The Mercury, of the same city. in the following,
takes a somewhat different view:
Z The sale of another whaler may furnish an oppor-
tunity for a whine over the decadence of the whaling
enterprise, or, possibly, a grumbling at persons with
drawing from a business in which fortunes, and per-
haps their own. have been made. As to the decline
of the whalefshery, its lease of life is very far from
being exhausted. 1t VIII be prosecuted, and vigor-
ously, though by fewer parties, for a good many years
yet. New Bedford moneyed men are, like those of