The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-04-25

day morning. -
Gs~ The a. & A. Steamship C~yphrenss from
Sydney for San Francisco. will be due here about
the last of next week.
y "woman and her Influence" is the title Of
an able discourse by the Rev. Mr. Frear, which will
be found on the fourth page of taday's paper.
FOREIGN JURY-We are requested by the Clerk of
the Supreme Court to say that hreign jurymen can
obtain their fees by calling at 6e Court Room to-
day, between 9 and y O'Clock
CIRCUIT CoURr, H1Lo-We barn that the May
term of the Circuit Court for HaEaii. to be holden at
HilO, has been postponed by the order of the Chief
Justice, to the oath of June.
/ AT Auction To-DAY.-BartoF offers to-day at
noon, for cash, the land of WAiawa, situated at
Kauai and at the anne time, tie lease for fifteen
years of a desirable residence on the corner of
Judd and Liliha streets.
AMUSEMENT To-NIGHT.-A company of young ANA
tours offer a grand entertainment for this even
ing at Buffum's Hall, for a %veryworthy Object-the
benefit of the "Pioneer Band Of Hope" The lads
have certainly presented a "big BILL and We hope
to see them encouraged by q rouing house.
ERRATA.-In our account of the Leper Asylum of
Molokai last week, we were in error in stating that
the pipe which brings the water to the hospital. one
and q quarter miles, was q lead pipe: it is of galva-
nized iron. By an accident also the name of ]. G..
Dickson, Esq, was omitted from among the visitors
to the hospital. -
a DEBATE.-We learn that on Friday evening
next the students of the Hawaiian Theological
Institute will meet at the vestry room of Kawaia-
hao Church for the discussion of the question
"Can the Hawaiian nation be made to increase ?'
If the answer is in the affirmative, the next ques-
ton will be--"By what means?r
DEATH OF A CALIFoRNIAN.-Mr W. E. Miner, a
resident of Petaluma, Cal, who arrived here some
months since for the benefit of his health, and who
was at one time apparently improving. died in this
city on the 18th inst. Mr.. NJ. was one Of the
mystic tie" and was attended in his last illness by
Brother Masons. We learn that his remains will be
forwarded to California for sepulture.
FOUND DRowNED.-On the 18th inst. o native wo-
man was found lying dead in q small water course
in the Wailuku valley, East Maui. An inquest was
held, at which DIR. Hutchinson attended and examin-
ed the body, ON which there was found no marks Of
violence. 1t was ascertained that the woman was
idiotic, and the verdict was accidental drowning
from falling into the water in a fit, as supposed.
n KAPIoLANI SoUARE.-The government lot ad-
joining Iolani Palace, in which the Band will here
after play on Saturdays, has been very appropriately
named for Her Majesty the Queen. And the new
street that runs through the square from King street
has, we learn, received the name of Likelike street,
a compliment to His Majesty's younger sister, the
wife of the Hon. A. S. Cleghorn. The square is not
cation will produce, and it is to be hoped that those
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member the dust, and go slow.
A PLEASANT SURPRIsE.-A Committee of the late
Artillery Company called yesterday upon Capt. J,
a. Hassinger, their commander, and presented him
with a complimentary letter, signed by the MEM
bers of the organization, and also with a handsome
memento in shape of a Maltese cross of silver, en-
ameled with light blue (the uniform color of the
company, appropriately engraved, as a token of
their aloha. During the two interregnums which
have occurred here, the Artillery Company has
done good service, and no one better deserves the
token than Captain Hassinger, who has had charge
of it-Gdzete. -
KICKED To DEATH.-Mr. J. L.. Lewis lost a yslu-
able horse at his residence (Msrshfeld) on Wednes-
day morning last, under very peculiar circum-
stances. The animal was attached to a wagon and
had just returned from town, and on entering the
gate OF the homestead IOt, q Dauu Oh aOOuI d uOLen
loose horses was met, who at once made an attack on
both the horse and wagon with their heels: In spite
of the efforts of the driver lwho was himself in no
little danger) the mad creatures smashed the wagon
to pieces, and kicked the horse so severely that after
going o few PAGES he fell and died at once. He was
an excellent roadster, and valued by Mr.. Lewis at
$3.50. OF course the owners Of the stray horses can
be made to pay for the damage-if they happen to
own anything besides the worthless horses.
THE New GOVERNMENT BUILDING can be inspected
by the public on Thursday next, when the Legisla-
ture will be formally opened by His Majesty the
King. 1t is certainly q huge affair, as we have
taken occasion to remark quite ~pointedly before, and
one is apt to think that the government officials and
clerks will feel lost in the yastness Of the rooms, as
compared with the offices they have been occupying
for years past. 1t is understood also that the Su-
preme Court, bag and baggage-we don't mean to
speak irreverently-will emoye shortly to the new
building, where indeed there is ample room to ac-
commodate judges, clerks and library. On dit, that
the Police Court will be held at the Station House in
the future. This will be in accordance with the
practice in other countries, and very properly obVi
ates the necessity of %parading through the public
streets every one who is so unfortunate as to commit
a misdemeanor. To conclude, it is said that the
Court House will be rented for storage; though it
seems like proclamation to pile up vulgar sugar and
molasses in those classic shades.
UNNECESSARILY SCARED.-It appears that some Of
the adherents of the Queen Dowager Emma persist
in believing, or pretending to believe, that that lady
is in personal danger from somebody or other in the
community-though it is difficult to understand
upon what grounds such q belief can be based. Il
is nevertheless true that numbers Of men, and some
women, have assembled nightly at the premises
corner of Nuuanu and Reretania streets, where the
Queen Dowager resides, for the ostensible purpose Of
keeping guard over her person. There were some
thirty or forty Of these watchers there on Saturday