The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-10-31

&NNAA~- v" - ~ A-Aa@hNA ~ N~SoA
ad interim. His ExceIleDcy ]. o. Dominis, Governor
of Oahu. and Major W. I. MOehOnua, His Majesty's
Chamberlain. Z
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
Z e The RIlGuea, due this morning, is probably
detained to bring Prince Leleiohoku and suite from
Hawaii. -
= We are indebted to Captains Kinds Of the bark
DsIGoare, and Mckay, of the schooner FapOrits,
for files of Victoria, (B. CO papers.
= The Rev. DR.. O'Coanor will preach at the
Catholic Cathedral tomorrow Sunday afternoon at
a quarter past 4 O'Clock.
MAsoSIc.-The regular monthly meeting of Ha-
waiian Lodge, No. 81. F. s. A. NJ, viii be held at
their rooms in Makee's block, on Monday evening
next, November ID, at II O'Clock.
OUR Poor NIGHTINGALE Am American paper
says of Miss Bella Miller: "Krunkapkapy Kappa
kakukirukariky, the name of the young Hawaiian
soprano, means The Solitary Sparrow"
Music THIS AFTERNooN.-The Band will play at
Emma Square, commencing at ~half-past four. The
following is the programme:
Chorus and can1onc.opeia Tfoabadoar.
Cavauna-opera FailstaG.
Sounds from The Thuringian Forest ........... Kiesler
The Rage in America-Grand serio-COmic Fantasia Ringleben
THE CHRISTIAN UNION. "-Thi standard relig-
ious weekly, has twenty pages of diversified reading
matter, from some of the best religious and literary
minds of the day in America. Just at the present
time the attention directed to its editor, Henry Ward
Beecher, must add no little to the demand for the
paper. See advertisement.
MosoUIroEs.-If anybody is short Of these pleas
ing insects at The present time, We can direct them to
the Government House, where can be had an abund-
ant supply and of a superior, long-billed, active
breed. Their notes and bills are plentiful enough INF
and about the government offices, whatever may be
the state of the Treasury.
DEATH OF THE Hon. JOHN KAHAI.-This WELL
known native gentleman, who was one of the Repre-
sentatives for Honolulu in the last Legislature, died
at his residence in Maunakea street on Thursday
evening last. He had been confined to his house dur
ing the most of the Session, his disease being an
affection of the heart. eliminating in dropsy, Of
which he died. He was A years of age, and a naf
tive of Hama, Maui. ,
A Foolish ADvENTURE.-By the schooner c. NJ.
Ward, which arrived last Tuesday from the GuanoI
Islands, we learn that on the night of August 3D.
some ten of the Hawaiian laborers employed on En-
~derbury's Island absconded in q lighter, taking with
them fresh water and provisions. No trace of the
boat or the men was found at neighboring Islands,
and it is doubtful if they are ever heard of again.
RUNAwAY.-Last Thursday afternoon the horses
attached to the Punahou Omnibus began to " cutl
up" when near the Fort Street Church, and some
one disengaging them from the vehicle, the animals
went furiously up Nuuanu avenue. Nobody was
hurt, but the circumstance gave occasion for severe
criticism in our hearing on the careless manner in
which that team has frequently been driven about
town. -
CABLE LAYING.-The steamer Great Eastern has
just been laying another Cable from Ireland to New
foundland. This is the sixth AT Gable,
being the fourth line in the possession Of the Anglo
American Company. The new opposition line, from
Ireland to Nova Scotia is also about complete. Thus
there will be three lines between Ireland and New
foundland, one between Ireland, Nova Scotia and the
United States, one between France, st. Pierre and the
United States, and one between Brazil and Portugal
in all six. -
E We copy the following from the Brooklyn,
New York Daily Eagle of September 20:
CANDIDATES FOR THE BAR.-CoUnselors P. 9.
Crooke. S. D. Lewis and J. o. Dykeman we're ap-
pointed by the General Term of the Supreme Court
to examine candidates for admission to the bar. The
examination was held yesterday, and the following
| gentlemen were admitted: William II. OaSue, henry
]. Morris, Henry Low, John Vance Cheney, Thos. F.
Bisgood, George w. Pinckney, Eugene c. Mapledo-
ram and Louis S. Sterritt.
James B. Castle, of Oberlin College, has been ad-
yised by his Physician to seek a warmer climate, and
will probably be here on the Murray or CyPhTenes.
The FALLS OF KuAUEA.-Tbe following, clipped
from a " DOwn-East > paper, though slightly mixed
is amusing:
A LONG LEAP FOR A BIsuoP.-The Cincinnati
papers think it wonderful thai a man in that city, for
a wager Of $50, jumped from 3 height Of 1O3 feet into
the river, and seem surprised that the conclusion
didn't kill him. In the Island of Hawaii, at the
lower falls of the Kilauea, near the port OF Hilo. ma
tive boys can be got to leap from a cliff ITO feet high
into the river for the small pay Of 20 cents, and we
have never heard Of TIE dealh or injury OF any OF
them by such leaps. The Protestant Episcopal
Bishop Of the Hawaiian Kingdom once made the
same leap simply for amusement.
THE result of the test Of woman's beauty in the
Fair at San Francisco was as follows: Miss Helen
Dodge, 67; Mrs. Alexander, 55; Miss Leila Cotton,
So; Miss Addie Dixon, %; Mrs Francis, 23i Mrs Z.
Harrington, 81; Miss Laura Stateler, Sci Miss Matte
Wheeler, 20; Miss Annie Duncan, 20; Miss Camilla
Brice, 2l-whole number Of votes, 673. Miss Dodge
having received the highest number OF votes, was de-
clared entitled to the prize, q valuable set Of fuIs'
We find the foregoing in a late number Of the Sac
ramento Union. We fail to comprehend how any
man can choose that his wife, or daughter, or sister,
should be thus put up TO public competition on the
score of personal beauty; nor indeed how any woman
Of delicacy or true refinement would consent to being
thus 8 voted for" -
WOMAN IN SACRED HIsToRY.-This is the title of 3
beautiful book published by J. B. Ford s Co. of New
York, and magnifcently illustrated with chrome
Autographs, and sold only by subscription. The let
ter-press comprises q series of sketches drawn from
Scriptural, Historical and Legendary sources, and is
illustrated with twenty-five oil color plates, being
fac-similes of celebrated oil paintings, illustrative of
all the prominent female characters in Sacred His
tory. on the delivery Of the last number Consist.
ing of twenty-five s~emi-monthly parts) each sub