The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-11-07

THE LAsT.-Jinks remarked the other day that
" people will now give up running for Office"
:: Why ?" asked some one. Because" replied
the incorrigible Jinks, it only requires a good
tDdlker to get in /" -
N3- The I" Hibernian Gems I" Company gave a
benefit to the Queens Hospital Fund on Thursday
evening last, His Majesty the King honoring the
performance with his presence. The house was a
fair one. -
The appointment of VIM. c. Parke, Esq, as
IA member of His ajesty's Privy Council of State,
lis an act of justice and a deserved compliment to
an officer who has served the Government faith
fully for nearly a quarter of a century, and under
Eve successive Sovereigns.
IA KEROSENE ACcDENT.-Yesterday afternoon,
near the Queens Hospital, a little native boy who
was pouring kerosene oil into a patent sadiron in
brder to ignite the charcoal, was badly burned
and injured by the explosion which followed. DR..
R. McKibbin, Jr., was called to attend upon the
sufferer. -
"A New FIRM-we beg to call attention to the
business card in our advertising columns of Wm.
G. Irwin & Co., General Commission Merchants.
Mr.. Irwin has grown up from youth to manhood in
this community, and has earned for himself a rep
utation for probity and business habits that will
commend him to the patronage of those in need of
his services. -
ACCIDENT AT THE PALI.-Last Saturday morning,
a native named Nahoe, while coming up from KOo-
lau on horseback, was killed by a landslide. A rock
struck him On the head, killing him instantly. The
horse was also killed. Parties coming over the Pail
after the accident noted the dangerous appearance Of
several lodges of overhanging rocks, that had become
Ioosened by the rains. 1t is to be hoped that those
whose duty it is to keep the roads in repair will see
TO it that no more such accidents are likely to happen.
CLEANING SHIP.-The fayorite Lahaina packet, the
.Ntttie Merrill, is laid up for a few days, to take her
periodical cleaning, inside and out; after which she
will resume her regular trips. and be greeted each
week by the Lahaina boat-boys in the song, one verse
of which may be translated thus
"Tot thee, dear Nettie, aloha we give,
The bird that gIides over the seas; e ;s.j,r
She laughs as she bends to the breeze"
WHERE Is THE ROAD SUpERvIsoR This is the
question we have heard frequently propounded dur
ing the past week, in varied tones, from that of mere
curiosity up to angry impatience-graduated in har-
mony with the depth of mud in each persons neigh
borbood. However, the deputy of the official in
question has been around tn spots, distributing a few
carloads Of black sand. But the supply of this use
full article, like kissing. appears to 60 by favor,
Judging from the fact that on one street the aforesaid
GDu uuAA4EA us EALA N4-N'J -
inent citizens gate, leaving all beyond that charmed
spot, overshOes Of mud.
OLD CoURr HoUsE-This building, the pro-
posed sale of which at the beginning of the late ses-
sion Of the Legislature created such an outburst Of
mistaken patriotism, and caused whole days TO be
wasted in debate, is now, in the hands Of Messrs.
Hackfeld & Co., its new prOprie,ors, undergoing
feuite a metamOrpbOsis All the partitions Of stone
both below and up stairs have been removed, new
floors laid, and various other alterations made to Mt
the building for its destined purpose-the place OF
business of a prosperous and active hrst-class mer-
camille firm. The house is to be provided with iron
doors and window shutters, the present wooden cor
nice and water spouts are to be replaced by concrete
and the house in short is to be made ~hre-proot. On
the seward side of the lot q new stone warehouse Is
to be erected, about 200 feet in depth, by fifty broad.
-. h.e.o, .6is d;~positiop of the nropprty