The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-08-22


anu Avenue, this evening, at "a O'Clock.
COOP TEMPLARs.-A new Lodge of the Order is
soon to be instituted at Kona, Hawaii, a charter hav-
ing been received from the Grand Lodge of California.
D1scHARdED.-The case of the Crown vs.. William
Hughes. charged with selling s~pirituOus liquor to
natives, was tried on Monday last before the Police
Magistrate, and the complaint discharged.
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New BoILER.-We noticed the shipment per .4etiVe
ON Thursday, of a new boiler for the Kohala Planta-
ton, built at the Iron Works. 1t weighed about six
tons, and is cost is about $500.
REWARD oFFERED.-We notice posters on the
street, wherein the Marshal offers $50 reward for in
formation that will lead to the discovery of the parties
who attempted to set FIRE to Mr.. William B. Wright's
house on the 14th instant
T CARBoLIc PowDER.-An excellent disinfecIant with
the above name, can be had at DR.. Hoffmann's drug
store. 1t will be found efectual. in this warm
weather, for preventing foul odors from water-closets,
drains, etc. We have tried it.
full OF PAssENaERs-The Kilauea on her last
"trip to Hawaii, august 1Oth) had no less than &c
cabin passengers, and 175 on deck-251 all told.
Those are the trips that pay. The continued and in
nreasing popularity of the steamer with the travelling
public shows that there is room for another boat.
IA DULL.-Since the adjournment of the legislature,
Honolulu has been the dullest of dull cities. Bush
/ ness is fat. being confined to the ordinary supplying
of plantation needs. Auctions of (" all sorts : how
ever continue to attract seekers of { great bargains
in a small way, and that is about all the business done
apparently. -
\ Valuable PROPERTY TO BE SoLD.-By reference
TO Mr.. Adams column of auction sales, it will be OBJ
served that the old Court House premises will be
offered at public sale, on the 10Th of September, at
the upset price of $780, 900. Situated at the corner
of Fort and Queen streets, the property is likely to
prove very valuable in the future.
A LETTER from "Farani" will be found on our
fourth page, which gives an interesting insight into
the workings of French politics. In the concluding
portion of the letter we see ~exemplifed the truth of
the old saying, that " one must go abroad for news
of home,'' in the fact that European kilograms have
announced that His Hawaiian Majesty is about to
visit foreign countries.
The HoKULELE.-This vessel, formerly well
known as the favorite packet bark Comet, arrived
at Auckland, N. T., on the 18th of July, with q
cargo of lumber from Puget Sound. She was sub
sequently sold to Auckland merchants, on terms
held private there, but since reported at $4,000.
Capt. Shepherd, late in command of the HokuIele,
arrived on the MiEado, en- route for San francisco.
: FIsH-MARKET Wharf.-The pile-driver has been
at work the past week, putting down the outposts for
an extension of the wharf at the fsh-market. The
front will be $50 feet in length. with some u feet of
water. That ought surely to satisfy the Hon. Mr..
Mikalemi's aspirations for landing room for canoes
and boats. We learn that it is contemplated to make
q considerable number of alterations in the market
stalls, among which, it is said that the fine young
monkey-pods that have been cultivated with so much
care and which are beginning to cast q grateful shade,
are to be sacrificed for {" Improvements" It is to be
hoped not. =
The HAWAII MURDER.-We have seen a lengthy
account from Sheriff Severance of Hilo, Of all the
circumstances that have come to light in regard to
the murder, during last month, of an old man and
woman near that place. The Sheriff concludes his
statement with the remark that the whole affair is at
present "badly mixed. Three men, Kepio, Kehi
and Kaaukai, and one woman, are in prison, care
fully watched and guarded, and it is expected that
the confinement will have the effect before long Of
eliciting the truth. So far, the statements of Wit
nesses have been contradictory. and the same persons
have told different stories. The steamer leaves on
Monday for the circuit of Hawaii, and on her return
We may have q definite statement of the truth con-
uected with the shocking tragedy.
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL-At the preliminary exam
nation on Saturday last Of the five men arrested on
the night Of the It'll inst. on a charge of Treason, four
we're discharged from custody on the motion Of the
Attorney General, and the fifth, named Zephyrin, or
Kahoalii, was committed for trial. In his case, the
grauamen of the offense charged was in writing and
causing to be circulated for signatures, 8 memorial,
addressed to a Foreign Representative residing here,
in which document, among other reasonable and
seditious matters, it vas declared that His Majesty
was not the rightful Sovereign. but that the Queen
Dowager Emma was, and asking the aid of said For
eign Representative, by furnishing q war vessel of
his nation, to place the Queen DOwager on the Throne.
The memorial did not reach its destination, having
been seized by the Police while in process of having
names affixed. 1t appeared in evidence that nearly
all the names (seyeral hundredl which we're appended,
were written by two men, and not by those purport-
ing TO be siguers, who in fact had never seen the doc
ument. While the absurdity of the attempt to enlist
foreign sympathy and aid for a few silly partsans Is
sufficiently palpable, yet to allow such seditious and
treasonable proceedings to go UNCHECKED and qn-
punished, would be mistaken clemency, and could
only lead to mischievous and dangerous results.