The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-02-20

PRESENTAFDN-Af a regular meetnR OF Homo
lulu Royal Arch Chapter No. l. held on Thursday
eEening. Feb. Is, a very handsome and massive
jewel was presented TO High Phest & P. Adams.
by King KalakauA. on behalf Of the Chapter.
HookuFr.-Last Wednesday forenoon, there was
for several hours 8 constant stream of natives men.
women aud children. passing through the Palace
yard. bringing gifts OF fowls. pigs. vegetables. aud
fruits for His Majesty, who bad a kind word and
an extended hand for each. This ia al ancipnl
custom, called hoOkapu, which amounts t. al ex
PRESTON Of fralty.
PHILIP PHLIIPs-This world renowned singer
Of sacred song, arrived by the Gsphrenes on Wed
desday from San Francisco. en- route fer the Colo
mics Of Australia BE gsre one concert the same
evening at the Fort street Church, The unusual
hour at which the concert commercials O'Clock
Together with the short notice given. prevented a
fuller attendance as il was. the house was COM
f0rtably full. Everybody was delighted with the
singing. which though in~srtistic and simple, was
peculiarly sweet, and to the religiously inclined,
eleyating and enliyening. The receipts of the
concert, less expenses. were sl97, which sum was
divided between Mr.. Phillips and the Honolulu
Sailors Home Society. We learn that Mr.. p.
donated his share of the proceeds to a destitute
church in New York. be sailed the same evening
for Australia, where we expect to hear that his
concerts of sacred song have met with the same
popular approval IS in England and America
z~ Several weeks since we alluded to a state
meut made to the Harbor Master by some native
Hawaiian seamen discharged from an American
whaleship in San Francisco, to the effect that they
had never been shown the accounts OF settlement
Of their voyage by the Hawaiian Consul at San
Francisco, and that moreover abe Captain had,
with the consent OF the Consul, deducted from the
amount due each man, the cost OF passage to this
port. These statements were made by the men
With every appearance of truth, and were besides
backed up by one of the officers of the ship who
arrived here at the same time, Under these cir
circumstances, Capt Smith the Harbor Master, as
was his duty, wrote promptly to Consul Severance,
to inquire into the matter, and by the last mail he
received from that officer all the papers connected
with the discharge OF the men in question. These
papers we have seen in the Office of the Harbor
Master, whereby it appears that the stories of the
men were mere fabrications, and that they were
settled with before the Consul, and their passages
home paid by the Captain, as by law required, and
not deducted from their pay. H
SUFFERING ~ KASsAs-The grasshopper plague,
Of last summer and the intense cold of the presept
winter have, combined, made hard times Tor the
farmers OF Kansas. Among these is E C. Webster,
formerly a resident of Honolulu, whom old resi-
dents will well remember The following are ex-
tracts from a letter recently received here from
him: You cannot realize the intense suffering
that surrounds me here some even barefoot with
the thermometer 8 degrees below zero, and 1 am
not able to assist them, because l lost all as we'll
as they. 1t is hard to witness the suffering and to
realize that my dear family would have been in The
same condition but for the assistance OF kind
friends. One man, who has a wife and 8 children
tells me that they have not tasted meat, excepting
rabbit, or prairie ehicken) since last July. But
enough of this. Why should / make you feel bad
by relating sufferings that you cannot relievef
The locusts did my harvesting in such q manner
that I had nothing left. " If can get through
the next six months and get money enough to buy
seed next spring. / have no doubt l shall be able
to leave my children a good comfortable home.'Al
We are authorized to say that if any of the writer's
old friends and acquaintance, or Others, desire 10
assist him in this piikid, contributions will be re-
ceived and forwarded by Mr.. J. s. Smithies, OF
Cleghorn Il Co. s13 . TtEeae -f 1922