The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-05-31

1914. EDWIN ". HAIL.
Minister Of the Interior.
Honolulu. May 20, 1873.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
MAsoNlc-The Regular Monthly Meeting of
Hawaiian Lodge No. 81, +. Il \. NJ, will be held at
their Hall on Monday evening next. at u O'Clock.
AZ The annual meeting of the Hawaiian Evan
gelical Association will commence on Tuesday, June
Sd. at 10 O'Clock 4. NJ, in the Lecture Room under
the Kswaiahao Church.
OUR PARIS LETrER.-On the fourth page of to-
days paper will be fonud an interesting letter from
Paris, being the first of a series by a regular cor
respondent, with whom we have made arrange
ments for periodical letters.
PARDoNED.-On Wednesday last. a convict named
Keawe, who was pardoned by the King in Privy
Council. was discharged from the Oahu Prison.
Keawe was convicted In 1866 of the crime of arson
in the first degree, in setting fire to a dwelling
house at Waimea, Hawaii, and was sentenced 10
Imprisonment for life.
ORPHAS's HoNE--This establishment, maintained
by the Good Templar Lodges of California. has
introduced a new feature in the education Of the
children. Telegraph wires, connecting with the
Overland and State Offices. centre at the Home, and
the boys and girls are instructed in the act of send
ing and receiving messages, so that when they leave
the institution they are fitted to get employment as
o%perstOrs. -
QUEENS HosPIrAL--Among the donations in aid
of the Queens Hospital We note fifty dollars by
Major W. L. Moehonua, and two kegs of excellent
sugar by Messrs. Campbell & Turton, of the Pioneer
Mills. Lahaina. We may add, that this is the regu-
lar annual donation by Messrs. c.. g. t, and is n
good example for other plantations to follow-which
perhaps they do. -
Music THIS AFTERNooN.--The Band will plav at
Emma Square, commencing at 5 P. NJ. The follow
ing is the programme, to conclude with Il march
around the square:
Ia Moi Lunallo March. Berger
overtare-Opera Nabucodonosor ew]...".....".yef
God IN Mercy Hear My White
a Tale CT Happy Times-Waltz Faust
LYNN OF Kamehafhtha Berger
There is But One Vienna, }PolSS...".'"...'.strauss
OPIUM LICENSES BY posters it is announced that
two opium licenses will be offered at auction to-day,
instead of one as previously advertised, at an upset
price of two thousand dollars each. The single
license granted last year sold for $21 900, which
may afford some basis on which to estimate the
amount of the traffic here in this drug. The reason
for offering two licenses this year instead of one, is
based on sound considerations 1t will be
remembered that the licensee is permitted to sell to
Cinnamon only, a fact that is not universally remcm-
bered. We heard of an instance where a planter
intrusted by his coolies with a commission to buy
some opium for them when he came to town, but
who was considerably taken aback when the dealer
him that he could not sell him the article.
He had to procure the services of a Celestial to effect
the purchase. That is how the natives get it.
THE PUSAHoU JoURNAL--In our issue of the 18th
inst, we copied an article from the Journal enti-
"Internal Affairs" which gave a rather sim
gular and not altogether creditsble account of the
in which the boys and girls at Punahou
passed their leisure time. We thought at the time,
the picture was somewhat overdrawn, and
take pleasure in copying the following
Is Card " from the Journal of the goth inst:
1.-The author of the piece in our last issue, enti-
tied " Internal Affairs" desires us to offer n word
Of explanation. The article was written some time
since and was far more applicable then than now.
some parts of it were Overdrawn, especially that
relating to the actions of the pupils in school hours.
In justice to the teachers we would say that they
ire careful that p%ropriety shall be observed in this
Is in other things while the scholars are under their
,haTge and beyond this they are not responsible"
A "REMINISCENCES OF KoTzEBUE.-The other day in
he Supreme Court, a very old native was giving
testimony as to something that occurred here over
fifty years ago, and in the course of his evidence he
stated that he was one Of n party attendants upon
me Pipi, q noted priest or sorcerer of the olden
lines, who was sent for from Hawaii previous to
$50. to use his nominations for the purpose of de-
troying q Russian man-of-war then in these waters,
md which the chiefs wished to get rid of in q sum-
nary way. Pipi came from Hawaii, as requested,
at Kawaihse in a single canoe with
everal others, and n~ayigated safe to Oahu. Here
lie went to work to pray to death " the strangers,
nd, said the old man, on his oath, "I saw them
ink into the ocean in consequence of Pipi's pray
rs" The celebrated navigator Otto Won Kotzebue,
command of the Russian frigate Rurfck, made a
oyage to the South Seas. 1S15-18, and was at Ho-
lolulu during the year 1916. 1t must have been his
hip that by sailing away in the night appeared to
be Hawaiians to sink into the ocean.
"ALNosT A FIRE I'VE are so favored of Provi-
ence in our exemption from serious confagrations
the words which head this item have become .
tereotyped expression in the community. Some
ears have elapsed since we had a fire in this city
7orthy of the name, although alarms and narrow
scapes have been frequent. One of these occurred
lst Tuesday night. About midnight, a native
named Kanohoksi. was passing along
street, when near the corner of Nuuanu
G discovered q light in the cook-house of the Chi
ese restaurant on the makai side of the street.
to the corner he gave the alarm, which was
asponded TO by the watch near the Station-house,
nd the bell was promptly rung. Returning to the
of the fire, Kanohoksi was Joined by another
oiceman named Kasiniu, and Mr.. Robert New
who lives near by, when the three efecting an
soon extinguished the flames with a few
of water. 1t appears that the fire, (Which
as burning briskly when discovered and in a few
more would have ensured the destruction of
lie building and imminently endangered the adjoin-