The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-10-10

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+ MosQUITo FLEET-On Monday forenoon last, there
were no less than thirteen schoOners in port, mostly
loading and unloading in the coasting business
1 The popular Nettis Merrill made two trips to and
I from Lahaina inside of one week.
l[Z8~ From two and a half to three columns OF
e" dead-head" advertisements appear each week in
the Gasettel which is one ay,-bu certainly not a
profitable one,-of " slowly but surely occupying
the front place as the leading advertising medium
of the city" --
Music THIS AFTERNooH.-The Band will play at
Emma Square, commepcing at half four. The
following is the programme:
Deflier March. .Zikof
Selection, Opera Don Pasquale ........ .Doniletli
NBlue NLoets-Na .Ioote
rzeriina-COncert Polka, Cornet solo Elliot
On the ~Parade-Grand Quickstep Medley ..Michaelis
No vERDIcr.-In the case of VIM. Morrow, the
sailor of the Benecia, tried yesterday for an assault
with a knife upon Messrs. Gertz and Speckmann in
August last, the jury, after an absence of three hours,
came into Court unable to agree, and they were dis
charged. A new jury will be impanneed this morn
ing to try the case.
OUR SUPPLEMENT, which we furnish to island
subscribers with to-day's paper, win be found to con-
tain much interesting reading, besides the official
programme of the Great international Exhibition of
1876. One article, particularly, entitled "Tongue-
Sins,' from the Chicago .fdvance. will well repay
perusal by some persons We wot of.
ARE THEY SHEEP-TlCKs We alluded some time
ago to a new species of vermin, a late importation,
and found on dogs, that was by some said to be the
real s~heep-tick of other countries. Now we hear
from the natives of these enterprising strangers at
taching themselves to human beings, they having
been found EMBEDDED in children's eyebrows. and in
one instance two were extracted from a persons ear,
in the interior of which they had made themselves a
home. -
JACK AsHoRE.-Last Thursday the " liberty men"
of the British ship Scout and the American ship
Beaicia, appeared to have made up to have a good
time together. They chartered a number of express
wagons, in which, after riding about town for awhile,
they proceeded to Waikiki, where they had a
picnic. This is certainly an Improvement upon
Jacks ordinary way Of spending his leave on
shore, wherein be gets outside a horse and rushes
through the streets to the imminent danger of
everybody, himself included, or else hangs about
a grog shop until he becomes oblivious. And it
was rather pleasant, as differing from the usual
custom, to see the sailors Of these different but
kindred nationalities thus fraternizing in their
reereations. -
THE LAU OLIVIA, or The Olive Branch, is the
name of a monthly journal in the Hawaiian language,
edited by the Rev. H. II. Parker. 1t is furnished to
Subscribers at the very moderate price of fifty cents
per annum, and c~irculates some two thousand copies.
The tone of the paper is decidedly religious, but room
is afforded for all the news of the day, And topics Of
general interest are discussed wifB ability and
sprightliness, while the native mind is attracted and
amused by an occasional anecdote or bit of g light
reading;'' with nothing, however, of the absurd and
sometimes mischievous nature of the Ruokoa's "Lo-
Diana Lo." The Lau Oiiua is very deservedly pop
ular, and bids fair to be a useful instrument in edu-
eating and elevating the native people. We hear it
is proposed to make it a weekly after the first Of
January. -
The MILITARY vs.. THE PoLICE.-The other day
IA couple Of soldiers belonging to the barracks,
undertook to rescue a comrade from a policeman,
who had arrested him for drunkenness. 1t hap
pened however that the policeman, though rather
a small-sized man was a wiry fellow and full Of
pluck, and he struck from the shoulder. He
foored his antagonists, and got off with his man,
and afterwards getting a warrant, brought the two
rescuers to the Station House. Before Judge
Jones on Monday, they were first instructed as to
the provision in the Constitution to the effect that
Tue MILITARY II always S1DOIuIudLC IL u CIVIL
power, and then they were sentenced to pay a
fine of $40 each, and be imprisoned at hard labor
for twenty days. -
AN OLD NEwsPAPER.-Quite frequently in these
days, we meet with facsimiles Of newspapers printed
many years ago. We have one such before us now,
received by the last mail, being a copy of the London
Times, Of November 7th, 1805-nearly seventy years
ago. 1t has four columns to the page, which is ten
inches by seven. 1t was a notable issue, containing
as it did the official account Of the battle Of Trafalgar
and the death Of Nelson. after his memorable victory
over the combined French and Spanish fleets. On
this occasion the British feet consisted of twenty
seven ships and that of their antagonists of thirty
three. At the close of the action-the British had
captured nineteen ships of the line. All London
was illuminated on the night Of November 18th, in
honor Of the victory, which occurring October 21st,
the news was received in London, November 9th.
CONVICTED AND SENTENCED.-Ou Monday last, in
the Supreme Court, the jury disagreed in the case
of Charles Kahalehili, indicted for the forgery last
August of a check on the bank of Bishop d Co.,
for some s460. On Tuesday. a new jury was i'm
panneled for the trial of the same case, who brought
in a verdict of guilty. two dissenting. a sad fea-
ture in this case was that the principal witness for
the prosecution was the father of the prisoner, an
old native of much responsibility. He had taken
pains to educate his son to the best OF his ability,
and now he was compelled to give testimony that
sent his boy to prison. On being called up for
sentence, Charles acknowledged his guilt, aud the
Court after admonishing him to reform bis ways,
sentenced him to Imprisonment at hard labor for a
term OF two years and to pay a fine of $500. On
Tuesday also. the jury brought in a verdict of
guilty in the case of Wahineaea, charged with
perjury, committed in the Police Court, in a beer
case. He was sentenced to fifteen months impris-
onment at hard labor.