The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-24


Minister of Interior.
Interior Office. April II. 1875.
SATURDAY, APRIL "a.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
The BAND will play this afternoon at the new
park on Punch bowl, aud not at Emma Square as
usual.
MAsoNJC.-The regular mnnihly meeting of Lodge
lie Progress de rOceanie. No. I24. A. F. & A. NJ. will
take place at their Hall on King street, on Monday
evening next, April 2slh.
IA CURE FOR DYsPEPsrA-A correspondent who
signs himself A whilom Dyspeptic," says he has
discovered i cure for that dreadful disorder. II
consists in getting up every morning at 5 O'Clock
and walking to the top Of Puneh-boHl hill! He
gives a glowing description of the scenery that the
eye roams over from that elevated position speaks
in rapturous terms Of The health-giving air of early
morn Of the beauties Of the sunrise OF the appe-
tite for breakfast when you get back ETC., etc
An EXCELLENT lDEA-we learn that by His Maj
esty's direction the mouth of the ravine that de-
bouches from Punch bowl is being walled up, and
will be cemented, with a view to forming a sort Of
| natural cistern in which will be collected and re-
tanned the Iain water that tails in rainy seasons, to.
be used in dry times for ~irrigating the trees and
shrubs in the summit park. This is a plan which.
is extensively followed in India, and with much.
advantage.
KAoSAITEs.-The story comes from Hawaii that a
body Of natives, men and women-who were adher-
ents Of Kaona in 1868 when Richard Neville. the
Sheriff Of Kona, was killed by that party-have
recently demanded that the possession Of the Congre-
gational Church building at Lanihau, in KOna, be
90 d;v;dad - With tham II 10 hardly noqlihlp that
the " Kaonaites.' in view of the fact that their
leader spent some years in prison, will again become
troublesome. =
NATIVE wHIsKr.-A letter to the native paper
Lahui Hatraii says "Spirituous drinks are openly
sold on the road on this island. AT Makawao, in
the shops okolshGo can be bought for from % cts. to
half a dollar a bottle, and it is carried about for
sale from house to house, On the other hand, q
letter which we have seen from one of The deputy
Sherifs of Maui declares that there is no known
distillation in Haua, KaupO. or Kipahulu, and that
drunkenness is uncommon in those districts. He
had not however visited Makawao.
THAT the late John Mitchell was tried for being a
Fenian agitator and sentenced to Norfolk Island;
and that he was a friend of the oppressed; ARE items
of news Cleaned from the late Gazette. We had been
unucE Nnc iInpIcsciOu ina Woc q ShoAb To- oHN
that he was transported years before Fenianism was
heard of. A specimen'of his friendship for the OPP
pressed was afforded when, after escaping to Amer
lea from Australia, he patronized African slavery
and boosted of the pleasure he fel, in owning a
plantation and a gang of negroes in Alabama.
Coon TEMpLARs' ANNIvERsARY.-A pleasant re-
union of the members of the order and large gath
ering of ladies and gentlemen who take an inter-
est in its objects. was had on Saturday evening last,
at the Hall of /" Ultima Thule - Lodge No. i, the
occasion being the celebration of the 9th anniversary
of the establishment of Good Templarism in these
Islands. Two of the original charter members we're
present-Judge W. Claude Jones and Mr.. Jones
of Maui. There was some excellent singing, peril
nent speeches from prominent citizens. ice-cream,
cake and lemonade. and dancing till eleven O'Clock.
ES- The following respecting the habitat, etc,
OF several members of the family of Eucalyptus
which are becoming common here, is furnished by
Mr.. Charles Derby, the bOtanist
Eucalyptus AmygdalIua; smooth stem broad
leaves; springy, forest glens height 400 feet.
Eucalyptus Obliqua ; stringy bark Every large
tree y will grow in very poor soil.
Eucalyptus Marginata Jarrah, or Australian
Mahogany grows mostly in iron-stone ranges.
Eucalyptus ROstrata; (river fats) Red gum
100 feet.
Eucalyptus Goniocalyx a large tree common
soil.
Eucalyptus COrnuta a large tree of quick
growth, thriving best in moist loan.
Eucalyptus FissiIis will grow in poor soil.
Eucalyptus Crebra (-narrow-leaved iron-bark)
one of the best for this latitude common soil.
Eucalyptus Calophylla outrageous: grows
either in alluvial soil or on stony ranges.
A CASE OF DEsERTIoN.-Quite a sensation was Gre
ated about the region of Queen street on Wednesday
growing out of the departure for San
Francisco per brig J. B. Ford, of Captain A. A
Powers, who has been for some time past master of
the Kahului packet RamOi. Captain Powers has a
native (half-caste) wife and two small children.
While the brig was sailing out of the harbor, the wife
was seen to run to the end Of the Esplanade and
jump overheard. Ga being taken out of the water
by a boatman, she raised an outcry that her husband
was deserving his family and leaving the country
without providing for their support. After some de-
lay a warrant was issued on the complaint of Mrs.
Powers. and an officer dispatched in a boat to serve
it, but the brig was well out of the harbor by that
time, and with a good breeze wa. beyond pursuit by
the boat. which soon returned from its f~ruitless
errand. It soon transpired that during the morning
Captain Powers had sold his house and lot near the
OONcEuu4cuh AAOuSS va ~4BvOOB VIC WIZ DcAuS III
duced to join in the deed on the superstition that the
family were to remove to Maui. As it is, she and her
two very small children are said to be left penDiless.
There are stories rife of domestic trouble and scandal
which has caused this sudden breaking up of q family
until recently SO apparently happy, and the self-exile
in a discreputable way, of a ~well-to-do resident. 1t
10 pretty evident that somebody has sinned grievously.
S;.oo A. 1;acorary ~ tba 1raa. a. honanza :;
stock gambling has spread among industrial classes
of San Francisco like a contagion. and they are