The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-07-04

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of papers and memorandum Of cargo and passengers.
THOMAS ADAMsoN, JR-We notice by telegram
from Washington, that this gentleman, formerly U.
Us. Consul at Honolulu, has been nominated by Pres
ident Grant as Consul General for Victoria, at Mel
bourne. -
THE KING AT KooLAU.-His Majesty the King
and suite rode over to Koolau on Tuesday evening
last, and have been the guests of Major, the Hon. E.
H. Boyd. The party will probably return to town
tonight. -
| FRESH PEACHEs.-We were favored by Captain
Thomas Long, the other day, with one of the p%retti-
est clusters of red-cheeked peaches we ever saw, this
side of the State of New Jersey. They were grown
in Pauoa valley. -
Es- There will be a e Missionary meeting" at
Ythe Fort Street Church tomorrow evening, in
place of the usual lecture, when the Rev. J. F
Pogue will give some account of his recent
voyage to the Marquesas Islands, as Delegate of
the Hawaiian Board, after which Mr.. II. J. TAYLOR
will be ordained. -
STEAMER DAYS Monday and Tuesday of this
week saw the arrival and departure of both steam
ers-from and TO San Francisco. The consequence
was that on those two days, the town put on a lively
and business-like appearance, only to iatten how
The ADVERTISER " ARRoAD.-A friend sends US
a Connecticut paper containing a long and interest
ing account of the ceremonies at the laying of the
corner stone of the New Lodge building of st. Johns
Lodge, No. 8, A. F. & A. NJ, Stratford, Conn.
Among the newspapers deposited beneath the corner
stone were copies of the PACIFIC COMMERCIAL AD-
I Y~ERTIsER, of Honolulu.
FLusH.--The actions of some Of the passengers by
the CypArenss. bound South on Tuesday evening
last, brought to recollection the " flush times of
50 the ffties,' - when Californians overburdened with
gold were quite common. The returning Colonists
appeared to take a great deal of pleasure in scatter
ing half sovereigns and sovereigns for the crowd of
native boys and men on the wharf to scramble for.
We saw one fve-year old Hawaiian with several gold
pieces and one shilling in silver, and he seemed to
think the most Of the latter.
THE POSTAL CONVENTION between the Colonial
Government of New South Wales and the Hawaiian
Kingdom, is published in full in the Gazette Of this
week. The terms of the Treaty resemble much that
now in force with the United States. The rate for
letter postage is fixed at sixpenee in New South
Wales and 121 cents (Why not either ten or fifteen
cents y in this Kingdom, for letters weighing a half
an ounce or less, and an additional charge of q like
sum for anything over half an ounce; and two cents
on newspapers. The Convention went into operation
on the first of the present month.
- The many friends of the Rev. Mr.. Mason, for
some time Venerable ArchdeacOn of the Episcopal
Church in these islands, will be pleased to read the
following, which is clipped from the Mainland
Guardian, of New Westminster, B. C. The Rever
end gentleman has gone to take charge of a church
at Victoria, V.
DEPARTURE OF REv. MR. Mason AND Family
1t is with some regret that We announce the depart
ure Of the Rev. Mr.. Mason, for some time the Pastor
of Holy Trinity Church. By his kindness and a
happy faculty of making himself agreeable to every
one without reference to creed or nationality, he had
endeared himself TO every member Of this commu-
nifty. But his chief value as a pastor was mis- deli
cate sense Of what seemed the varied ideas Of his
congregation, avoiding the expression of any doc
trine that would be likely to give offense. He SEEM
ed by some means to have struck the happy medium,
and by this means had gathered the entire of the
flock into the fold. The attendance at the church
was far in excess of the average with his predeces-
sor, in recent years. His estimable family had at
traeted to themselves the warmest regard of all our
citizens.