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

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Es- The regular meeting of Hook & Ladder
| Company, No. l, will take place on Monday even
ing next, July 18th.
= In the interesting letter from Europe over the
signature Of "Farani,'' readers viii recognize the
facile pen Of an old acquaintance
ES- In the present state of affairs in business
matters. it is expected that, lin the words Of a
Down-East fishing skipper everybody viii either
dsh, cat bait, or go ashore"
PLANTATION SoLD.-We note the sale this week of
the plantation and mill of the West Maui Sugar
Association, at Lahaina, for sSS,00e. The pur-
chasers are Messrs. Campbell i Turton, proprietors
Of the Pioneer Mill Plantation, of that place.
A LIST TO W1XDwARD.-The flagstaff recently
erected in the yard Of the Government House, has
the decided appearance Of leaning mGuka, as though
bracing itself against the trade-winds. Squibb sug-
gests that in preparing the mortar in which the pole
was set, they "mixed the liquors hence the de-
parture from the perpendicular.
SUMNER WEATHER.-The weather has been pretty
warm during the past week-as it has an undoubted
right to be at this season of the year-the thermom-
eter marking 800 in the shade, in our street. The
astronomer of Kaahumanu street says there are sew
eral spots to be seen on the sun at present: has that
anything to do with the heat? or is the Comet to
blame in the matter? Which, or neither: n
ORDINATIoN.-On Sunday evening last, at the
Fort Street Church, Mr.. H. J. Taylor, who is about
to proceed to the Gilbert Islands as a missionary
o.. the A. B. {. F. NJ, was set apart for the Christian
ministry. The charge was delivered by the Rev.
B. W. Parker, the ordination prayer by the Rev.
n n-- - A. III. bo,1 - ollouyshf Hiyan
by the Rev. W. Logan, missionary to the Caroline
Islands. - .
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF CHuE.--C. ). Bar
tow, Esq, Consul for Chile at these islands, handed
us copies of programme of the second International
Exhibition of Chile, to open at Santiago, September
10th. 1875. Our space to-day will only permit
this brief notice. Mr.. Barlow informs us that he
has printed tables for the purpose of registering
names of persons DESTROYS of exhibiting, and also
printed blanks for applications for space.
INSTRUMENTATION attention was called, one day
this week, to the fact that a large quantity of i'm
ported hay is stored in a wooden building, fronting on
the street, in one of the most thickly settled and COM
bustibie localities in this city. We do not know
whose particular business it may be to regulate the
forage of combustibles, but the case we have men,
toned seems properly characterized as dangerous,
anu Is 50 ItRaTuSu py property AOAuSIS Al II hOiSA
borhood. -
THE CoMET-Capt Daniel Smith, who is our local
astronomer and principal authority on matters celes-
tial, is of the opinion that the stranger observed last
week, but which has since disappeared from our
horizon, was that known as Enckes Comet. 1t is of
n short period, and revolves around the sun in an
eccentric ellipse in a little more than three years. In
1922. '25, '28, '32, and at regular periods up tothe
present time, this little flmy object has returned to
its perihelion, or nearest distance to the sun.
A SERIOUS CHARGE.-In the Chicago Daily Inter
Ocean, of June -, we find an extract from a letter
by the Captains Clerk Of the U. S. S. TuScarorG,
giving an account of the cruel desertion at the BONN
Islands, Of one Of the crew Of the Europa, of New
Bedford, by Capt. Mckenzie. If the story is true, it
shows great inhumanity;-but we are willing to
believe that there is another side to it. We shall
preserve the paper, and if the Europa visits Homo
lulu in the fall, may possibly learn something more
about the {" whaler's cruelty"
Ms> A large company of ladies and gentlemen
assembled at the residence OF James Robinson,
Esq, in Nuuanu valley, on Tuesday evening last,
on the occasion of the marriage OF the fourth
daughter of that pioneer resident. to Mr.. Albert
Jaeger, of the firm of B. F.. Ehlers & Co. The GER
emonies were conducted by Rev. II. II. Parker.
After the usual congratulations were gone through,
the company sat down to q most bountiful supper,
prepared by Mr.. A. Herbert, of the Hawaiian
Hotel, under q large lanai, erected for the purpose
Among the guests were His Majesty the King and
Prince LeleiOhoku, the Chancellor of the Kingdom,
and members of the Diplomatic and Consular corps.
> a DIscovERY.-In the yard in front of the Gov
eminent House, several excavations have been made,
for the double purpose of planting trees and obtain
ing black sand to grade the walks. At q depth OF
some five feet, a well-defned wall of adobies was
found, which reached some four or FIVE feet farther.
As this wall was below the layers of volcanic sand,
spectators were puzzled to know how it came there,
and some, with antiquarian prOclivities, surmised
that q Hawaiian Herculaneum had been struck. But
an old resident happening along, remembered that
something over thirty years ago an adobe house stood
on that spot. which had q cellar whose walls were
also of adobe, and so the mystery was solved.
The EFFECT-The effect of the hysteTical utter
ances of the Kuokoa (%native newspaper against
the Loan Bill now pending before the Assembly,
was seen on Thursday last. in the shape of a docu-
ment presented by the Hon. Mr.. Kauai, and pur-
porting to be signed by some three hundred natives,
residents of Honolulu. 1t was not a petition, and
hardly a remonstrauce, but partook more of the
nature of a threat. 1t was disrespectful to the
King. and commanded the Assembly to discard the
measure proposed by Him., and in the conclud-
ing words, limited at more " hatndele, or disturb
ance. 1t is a significant fact that among the sig
natures are many of persons who were prominent
in the riot of February last, but who escaped con-
viction. The paper was laid on the table to be
considered with the bill.
The MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT.-This law,
commonly so-called, is included in the ten or twelve
Sections of the Civil Code, which follow the 1414th.
In previous sessions of the Legislature there have
always been attempts made to alter some one or more
Of these Sections. in the supposed interest of the
servant, and the present session, it appears, is to be