The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-10-03
THE PACIFIC
SATURD4 Y, OCTOBER
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

" NOTES OF THE WEEK.
4 "A BAr-A recent visitor at Lahaina informs u.
ihat he saw a genuine bat there flying about in the
daytime. Where did he come from - the Gazette
sanctum2 -
THE EoUINocTIAL last week amounted TO a heavy
rainfall at various points all over the islands. At
Koolau, on this island, 8 freshet carried away the
Kaneohe bridge. -
MAsoSIc.-The regular monthly meeting Of Ha-
waiian Lodge, No. 81. F. & A. NJ, will be held at
their rooms in Makee's block, on Monday evening
next, October 9th, at u O'Clock.
FOREMAN. No. AT 8 recent special meeting of
mechanic =" Engine Company No. ., Mr.. James w.
McGuire was elected as Foreman, in the place Of Mr.
William Love, resigned. Mr.. McGuire is an expert
eneed fireman, and has filed the position Of Foreman
before. - :
a SURPRISE PARTY.-The officers Of the U. s. s.
Bsnicia gave a pleasant surprise to His Excellency
the American Minister Resident, at his home in the
valley on Thursday evening last, at which a brilliant
party Of ladies and gentlemen enjoyed the festive
dance. - -
THE RAINY SEASON BEoINs.-On Thursday night
and yesterday eopious showers of rain fell in the city
and neighborhood. and yesterday morning we had
real thunder and lightning. Kauai letters say that
that island was similarly visited on Sunday last.
Music THIS AFrERxoox.-The Band will play at
Emma Square, commencing at half past four. The
following is the programme:
Beautiful Ursula, March .BraIhsh
Overture, Opera Bronze .Auber
H Flush M RIses yv W. a Grand s:iio.comic F,n;:: .G0 SmISs
Love Among the Roses
2 ouicks,eps admiral Fennoek..---....."-.B Berger
EUCALYPTUS SEED.-Capt. Makee sends us from
Ulupalakua a branch of Eucalyptus in blossom, with
n number also of seed vessels of the same. He in
forms us that several of his trees have borne seed for
three years past, and that in future he intends to
plant more extensively than ever. This popular
Australian is likely to spread all over our islands. as
it is found to succeed best on high lands and mount
aims. -
FIRE AT KoHALA.-We regret to have to record the
destruction by fire on the night of Sept. 2lst, of the
recently erected Sugar Mill ON the Kinds Plantation,
at North Kohala, Hawaii. Nothing of the buildings
was saved, and the loss is estimated at about $4,000.
The sympathies of the entire community are with
Mr.. Hindsf who has thus lost his all, but which it is
hoped may yet be found to be partially covered by in
surance. Investigation may prove the fire to have
been the result of incendiarism, although so far
nothing has t~ranspired to lead to that conclusion.
Z HAWAIIAN BIRDs.-A letter from Hilo says
~ There is in this town a beautiful collection of
Hawaiian birds, finely preserved. 1t would be a
valuable acquisition to the Government Museum, if
Mr.. Mills, the gentlemen TO whom it belongs, and
who has been some years and ut considerable expense
In the work OF conecuon, would part with II. among
the specimens is one called the wingless bird, now
nearly if not quite extinct on these islands. They
are, however, numerous on Wakes and Laysin
Islands, where | have seen them, and supposed they
were q new species. The body is about the size of a
pigeons, they have no feathers on the Aipper-like
wings, and they run with such speed that one would
take them for rats at first sight,
"a VOICE FROM HAwAu.'-Under this heading
the Boston Daily Globe of August IL, devotes a
column to q hattering review of the "Report of the
Secretary of the Hawaiian Immigration Society"
The editor commences by saying that it seems almost
impossible that within a century's time such a leap
could have been made as is represented by the two
facts of the Staying Of Capt. Cook ninety-fve years
ago and the issuance of the pamphlet before him.
{" Add to this, that the islands possess an excellent
system of common schools, support Normal Schools.
have half a dozen colleges and female seminaries, a
score CIR more of churches, aSupreme Court, excellent
hotels, and are governed in very much the same
manner as the citizens of this Commonwealth, by
laws enacted by a regular Senate and House of
Representatives, and the impossibility seems still
more certain -
SCANDAL AND SCANDAL MONGERs, is the heading of
a very sensible article in the Boston Daily Globe of
a late date, commenting on Mr.. Beecher's state
ment. We can find room to-day for only one
sentence, which might well have been penned in
the latitude of Honolulu:
1--WE have seen newspapers exerting themselves
to the utmost, not only to get at facts from anthem
tic sources bearing on a case which naturally
enough excited great interest, but to put in form
coating rumors and give them a semblance of
credibility, to obtain the surmises and opinions of
all manner. of people who had no right to pass
judgment in the premises, and to gather up and
embarrass the case with a huge mass of irrelevant
gossip, merely to feed the morbid appetite for it
which had been Awakened