The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-05-24

DS lit OIduu Duhe <AleAlS cit SiiLd y "u-
pan April II. lie may come this way during the
summer. -
nS- The Band will not play this afternoon al
the Square-their services have been engaged else
where. -
4 LET The spicy, saucy, readable little Nahou of
yesterday announces that it will discontinue for a
time. -
POsT-MAsTER AT KAHULUI-Mr. Colt Hebron, the
Postmaster at this place, has resigned, and Mr.. E.
II. Bailey is appointed in his place.
Orr NEXT MAm.-We look for the steamer from
San Francisco on any day from the 26th to 2Sth-
say about Tuesday next.
KAwAIAHAo CHURCH.-We are requested to state
that, the building being in the hands of painters,
there will be no service held at this Church to-
morrow. -
LIFE INsURANCE.-We beg to direct the attention
of our readers to the 30th annual exhibit of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, in
our advertising columns to-day. 1t will we'll re-
pay examination. S. G.. Wilder is the agent in
this city. -
No SALE, BUT A SELI.-One day last week, the
auctioneer's man went out on the Palama road and
proceed to pnt mp red flags and to advertise the
sale of a certain homestead, much to the astonish-
ment of the owner. The mistake was discovered
in time to prevent inconvenient consequences.
New EyTERPRIsEs.-We hear from Hawaii that
: a new sugar plantation is TO be started in Kobala,
by Messrs. Vida, Hart and others, of which some
three hundred acres will be put in at once. Mr..
Hines of Maui having agreed to put up the mill.
Also that Mr.. George Hardy and others are pro-
jecting a plantation in Hamakua. Success to the
new enterprises. -
We ARE requested to state that this being the
birthday of the Queen of Great Britain. Her Maj
esty's Acting Commissioner and Mrs. Davies will
have much pleasure in receiving, from two until
seven O'Clock, the visits of all friends of their own
and other nationalties. who may desire to join them
in celebrating the day.
Mr.. BARLOW holds a sale of household furniture.
on Monday next, at the Sailors Home. This will
be a good chance for those who are DESTROYS of
getting an outfit in the shape of crockery, glass
ware. &C., &c. There are a number Of fine hair
mattresses to be disposed of, also a small lot of
nice parlor furniture, and a very fine cottage piano
(square), in perfect order. Now is your time to
invest. -
a STRASGER.-Last Tuesday morning, an albatross
was seen for several hours swimming about in our
harbor. This the second instance to our knowledge
when this bird, whose habitat is the wide ocean, has
paid a visit to Honolulu harbor.l What does he seek
among the haunts of men, and what tale of ship
wreck and suffering may he bring from the wide
waste Of waters over which he has Gomez
\ CREDrTABLE ACr.-We like to give everybody
his due, even if it be a policeman. In this instance
it was a native policeman, 1--WE regret we don't
know his nancy who the other day stopped a horse
and carriage that was in the act of running away,
and thus undoubtedly prevented a smash. The
carriage bad nobody ia it, and belonged TO our
brother of the Gazette. Had it been ours. (Which
by the way il couldn't well have been. seeing that
our rolling stock !" Is limited to a wheel barrow,
which isn't in the habit of running away we should
have given the man an item, and clothed his name
q in the majesty of type"
THE KMAUEA, having: gone through the hands of
the carpenters, painters, and the engineers gang
with quick dispatch, sailed promptly yesterday after
noon on the trip to N~awiliwil, Kauai, whence she
will be due tomorrow morning. While all credit is
due to Mr.. Emmes the well-known shipwright who
hove the vessel out and replaced the false keel in a
workmanlike manner, the device of lashing empty
casks to the side so as TO lift the keel out of water,
is not as represented by the Gazette, o new one, but
extremely old, and is precisely the plan adopted by
the Messrs. Foster on the last occasion when the
Kilauea was hove out. The steamer, there Is reason
TO believe, will now make much better time, with q
clean bottom, and everything in good order, than
she has done Of late. Under the management of
Mr.. Wilder for the past two years, she has been, if