The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-01-31
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

IS The Hawaiian Mission Childrens' Society will
meet this evening at d O'Clock, at the residence of
AGr. J. G. Dickson. -
MAsoNIC.-The regular monthly meeting of lia-
waiian Lodge, No. 81, F. a. NJ, will be held on
Monday evening next. February %, at u O'Clock,
in Makce's Block. --
His MAJEsTY's BIRTHDAY.-To-day January 3lst
is.the birthday of King LUNALILo, and a united peo-
pie, who would otherwise celebrate the day with pub
lie rejoicings, are Borrowing for a King stretched
upon n bed of sickness. His Majesty was born in
1886, and is therefore 80 years old.
FREMEN's BALL.-The ball Of g Mechanic En-
CINE Co. No. 2, celebrating their Dist anniversary,
will take place on Tuesday evening next at the IIa-
waiian Hotel. Tickets at DR.. Hoflmann's Drug Store
and at Whitney's. -
ANOTHER SALOON FINED Last Thursday, before
Judge Kapena, the case of Mr.. W. L. Green, pro-
prietor of the Royal Hotel. charged with selling
spirits to a native, resulted in q conviction. The de-
PENDANT was ordered to pay a fine of $50, with
$3.50 costs. -
KILLED BY \ FALL.-Last Saturday, q little native
girl, between three and four years old, was playing
on the bank of the Nuuanu stream, while its mother
was below engaged in washing clothes, when it fell
from the plank bridge. n distance nf some twelve foot,
on to the rock below. The skull was found to be
fractured, and the child died in a few hours.
A LONG Cause.-The schooner Pauahi left this.
port for Hilo on the 9th of December and arrived
here on Thursday last, Goth of January, having been
absent fifty days-quite long enough to have made
the trip to California and back. But she has expert
enced almost continuous bad weather on the coast of
Hawaii, and lost two anchors before getting a load
of sugar. --
In THE foreign news column of Wednesdays Ga
eefe we have some of the lucubrations of a CORES
pendent of a New Zealand paper, writing from Ho-
nolulu, and describing the 81 gentle savages " of the
Navigator Islands; but his account of them is SO
"mixed" that people abroad will quite naturally
think that he is talking about the HaWaiians. lie
says they will do anything for money! but that
"any one coming this way will do better far with old
clothes in the way of barter than can be done with
money. An old shirt will get fruit, shells, clubs, or
fancy grass-made counterpanes. We stopped at Ho-
nolulu seven days. sc. 1t is to be hoped that tour
lists by the new steamship line will not take the advice
of this writer and attempt to flood US with " old clo."
SpoRIING.-It would be well for the Government
TO take the pains to inform strangers arriving here
from abroad, whether travellers or persons attached
to national vessels, that we have a law forbidding
the carrying OF guns IOr sporting purposes IN the
neighborhood of this city without special license.
Quite recently, as We are informed, two strangers
were seen cunning at Waikiki, and one of the results
of their sport > was the shooting of a valued white
cockatoo, belonging to a resident of the city, and
which had a nest and was breeding in a tree at
Waikiki. The law reads as follows
"Section ,. Any person in said District (Hono-
lulu) who shall use or carry for sporting purposes,
any gun, carbine, rife, pistol, or other firearms,
without having first obtained a license as herein
before provided, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
fined in a sum not to exceed fifty dollars for every
such ofieuse, and in default of payment of such sum,
shall be imprisoned at hard labor until such fine and
costs are paid, according TO law"
RAINFALL At KOoLAU.-Mr. }. X. Wilder, at
Kaalaea, on the windward side Of this island, (whom
Capt. Daniel Smith characterizes as a competent and
careful obscrver) gives the following as his record