The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-12-05

receipts Tor the same.
II. r. HrcHcock, Inspector GenI Schools.
Education Office. Honolulu, Dec. /, 1874
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
y We leg to refer to the notice in another column
Of the meeting to-day of the Trustees Of the Queens
Hospital. -
MAsoNIc.-The regular mOathly meeting Of Ha-
saiian Lodge No. q, F. s. A. NJ, viii take place on
Monday evening next, Dec 4. Election Of officers
/ TIE LADIES BENEVOLENT soc1ErY, hold 3 fair on
Thursday evening next, in the Lecture Room Of the
Fort Street Church, See advertisement
SPEAKISG FIGUREs-A novel attraction Ia offered
tonight At the Theatre, being the Royal Mario
nettes," or speaking figures. A full programme
will be given of minstrel songs, dances, sc, together
with an aerial suspension tableaux and 9 +" spiritual
sensation" -
ANovELrT.-Mr. Thrum gives notice in another
column that previous to New Years. he will issue .
" Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1875" Il
viii be q pamphlet Of some so pages, and win I'M
ouestionably be Il valuable book of reference. twill
be the first of its kind ever issued here.
TEMPERANCE LEcruRE.-Professor Joseph Moore, Q
member of the Society of Friends. lie to leisure on
Temperance at che Bethel Chapel on Friday evening
next. Dec. IL. at u o'clock. Friend Moore is q good
speaker. and holds the position Of Grand Lecturer
and President Of Oldham College, Richmond. Indi-
ana. We hope he win meet with q fall audience.
THE TRANSIT comes of on Tuesday afternoon next,
positively no postponement on account Of the
weather, which, however, it is to be hoped for the
credit of Hawaii mel win be suspicious. The contact
of Venus with the sun will commence at Eve minutes
past 8 o'clock P. NJ, and the sun win set before the
transit is ended. AT Yokohama, Japan, and New
Zealand, the transit takes place on the morning Of
the 9th, and observers there win consequently see the
whole-if the weather allows. 0
LuMLEY's IxvoIcE-Mr. E P. Adams sold at
auction last Monday evening the fourth invoice that
in as many years has been received here from London
of secondhand books. The sale was very well
attended. and some of the books, which were really
valuable, brought high prices-and some that
perhaps were quite az valuable, sold for 9 song. Old
and rare books, appreciated by but few. are COCA
sionally found in these invoices. A black-letter
Latin Bible. for instance. some 800 years old. was
among the prizes at the late sale. aat HaiE bHa
No Music THIS AFTERSooS.-The Band viii not
play at Emma Square to-day, having been ordered
elsewhere. Last Saturday we announced that there
would be music in the square, and the public ex-
pected it, but during the afternoon the arrangement
Bald I'VE Went PPe 70 play for q ) psrsyIas they do to-day.
The Saturday afternoon concerts in the square were
very pleasant affairs, and the public enjoyed them
q fact however of very slight consequences apparently
to :" the powers that be,'
I The LAST WHALER.-The whaling bark Joseph
-Ma=iceH, which arrived on Wednesday, is the last
whaler expected at this port the present fall season.
The catch in the Arctic during the past season by
the ten ships arrived here from that ground, is re-
ported at IL $50 barrels in the aggregate, and
126 1000 pounds of bone, or at the rate of 1885
barrels of oil and 1900 pounds Of bone per ship.
Last year, twenty Whslers reported here an agere-
gate of 1850 barrels oil and 10, 800 pounds of bone,
Ian average of only about 1862 barrels oil and $3.50
pounds of bone to each yessel-so that the ships
have done twice as well this season. / Three vessels
have crnised In the Ochotsk this year, and one on
the Kodiack ground. These were favorite cruising
grounds for whales twenty years ago, but this season
the four vessels which tried their lex there only
report 1850 barrels of oil and IL 800 pounds OF
bone altogether. - T..
A STRANGE SCENE IN CoURT.-We read in a late
Chicago paper that a very strange scene occurred
in a court of that city. A lawyer made application
for a change of venue in a case which was about
to be tried, on the ground that a prejudice existed
against his client among the Inhabitants of the
county. In reply the Judge made some excited
denying the application. and asserting
that the affidavit which supported it was perjury,
that any counsel who advised it or assisted at
was a party to the crime. The lawyer replied
he did not feel able to go on with the case,
burst into tears and fell senseless on the aoor. He
nd ri, Ilu racovared conseio lsneaa Iafar in the dov
but could only utter the word perjury over
and over. At last accounts he lay in q half insez-
sible condition, and threatened with brain fever.
The Judge, after the scene in court, expressed great
regret than his words had been so barsh, and bore
testimony to the spotless reputation of the uniortu-
nate counsel, and his high standing at the bar. Tt
appears further that he had the best of reasons for
asking for a change of venue, as the jury who we're
10 try the case had just heard the whole Of another
case against his client. The affair is q most un-
happy one. and ought to be a warning to judges
to use their great powers arbitrarily or with
put just cause. -
PREVENTION OF FIRE II SAN FRAEcisco.-In form
years, San Francisco suffered greatly from ores,
to-day its sre department is regarded an the
most complete and efficient In the Union. At
taahed to it there are 2o7 paid officers and men,
ZEN steam ere-engines, with each of which there is
4 bose-reel, Eve hose-carriages, and two hook and
adder trucks. Each steamer and hook and
adder truck is drawn by two horses, and the
1orse-carriages by one each. Number of horses
employed, IS amount of hose in use, 26,oo0ft, all
If which is carbolised number Of hydrants. ss1;
,isteras, SO; total capacity, 2~,5o3.6s7 gallons.
The telegraph apparatus consists Of about 100
niles of wire, divided into Il eireuits, OF which
are signal circles, or circuits Running to the
ignal boxes. Alarm gongs are located in the diff
erent engine, hook and ladder, and hose houses,
connected with the central Office by the I've
Harm circles, and seven alarm bells for striking
he number of the alarm box. The bells and gongs
IRE each struck at the same time by electrical ma
,hinery. Keys of the signal boxes are deposited
n the vicinity of each box, st such places as are
Indicated by the cards placed thereon. By simply
a crank at one of the boxes pIaced all over