The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-09-08

NOTES OF THE WEEK.
~ q. B. Ms steamer Peterel left for Hilo o
Friday last and will be absent ten days or tv
weeks.
tF The next aud last dancing reception o
board of the U. S. Sup Pensacola win be given O
Thursday, September 10th, from 8 P. NJ, till sunset
~ The funeral OF the late E. II. Boyd, will tai,
place on Sunday afternoon, Sept 18th, at O'Clock
from the residence ofthe late Captain Adams, HotC
street, opposite Dr. McGrew's.
~ At recent sale of horses in Auckland
draught horses ranged from GO to COS each; back
and ponies, from e los to &C. According 10 tb
bidding, there was little demand.
] ES The regular meeting of the Hawaiian Mis-
sion Childrens Society will be held on next Satur
day evening the llth instant at 7:S0 O'Clock at tb
residence Of TbOs- Hebron, Esq, Nuuanu Avenue
r. The alarm Of fire on Sunday evening last wa
caused by the burning of pile of rubbish on th
Haalelea premises, Richards street The fremer
were promptly on hand and soon made short worl
Of the fire.
~ The new organ recently imported from Bos
ton for the Bethel, has been placed in position, ant
will be used for the first time, on Sunday the l2tl
inst, All who have heard its tones speak Of it IL
the highest terms
PUSAHoU.-The autumn term-the first Of the
new scholastic year, begins to-day, and with an en-
tire change Of teachers, with the exception of Mr.
Damon. The following are the teachers engaged
A Pratt, President; F. W Damon, Professor Of
Languages; Miss NJ. Trowbridge, Teacher; Miss t.
Eekley, Teacher; Mrs Pratt, Matron.
A HAWAIIAN VocALIsT.-In one Of Lucy Hooper's
late letters from Paris to AppletOns Journal, we
read: "AIiss Montague, who is reported TO be the
most promisingof the young embyro Driraa dome Of
the present day, is said to be engaged to sing in
English opera with Miss Kellogg next season in
New York" Miss NJ, as our readers well know,
was born in this city.
~ Tilton's lawyers have served notice on Mr..
Beecher for a new trial The New York Herald de-
npunces the proposition for trial. snd severely
censures Ttous counsel for advising such a course
II condemns Tilton also very severely. But If bis
lawyers' fees depended winning the suit as It is
said they did Il is quite natural that they should
advise their client.
~ A Letter from Hno, received BY the steamer
Kilsuea, states that His Excelency Gov. Kipi was
NAANN AAAs A. AfhNhH AuaA Ut win OtueTb were
making the ascent Of Mauna Loa, by the old Judd
road, via Kalaieha The party left Hio during the
latter part Of August and was lost on the road be-
tween Hilo and Kalaiehs, two days, during which
lime the Governor contracted very severe cold
from which he Is suffering.
FROM DEATH TO LrFE.-An operation, known to
the medical profession as Tracleotony, was per-
formed on Wednesday, LIST inst, by Dr. Trousseau,
q boy OF about ten years of age, who was within
a hairs-breadth OF death from acute laryngtis-
commonly known Group. The operation consists
in cutting into the throat and relieving the wind
pipe ofthe accumulation fmucus that straugliug
the patient It was all over in ten minutes and the
little fellow. rescued from the jaws of DEATH is do
ing well.-P C. A.
FROM MAuL-A report from Lahaina says that
the fever has commenced on that island.
On the morning of Sept Sd, half blinded ma
tive feIl down dead on Lahainaluna Street in La.
halna.
- The circuit which His Ex. the Minister Of H.
terror has made of that island created good feeling
and great deal Of satisfaction among the kusainas
and the people IN general, and IL has gone far 10
eradicate the notions which some held that they
were utterly neglected by those in authority.
ARTIsrrc.-we would call the attention of our
readers, the ladies in particular to the advertise
meut OF Mrs. c. J. Murphy, 10 to-day's GAZETTE.
This lady has recently arrived from California bring
ing with her very high testimonials in regard TO her
excellence as a superior worker ia hair and wax
Mrs. NJ. intends opening class shortly to a limi-
ted number OF pupils, for instructing them in all
branches OF fancy and ornamental work. We have
seen several specimens Of her wax and bair work
aud pronounce them with justice, the most per
feet we have ever seen.
PoNTISs-The front OF G. C. McLean's new
brick building on Nuuanu street has gone through
the process Of what builders call "pointng,m giving
It such az attractive appearance that psssers-by
=" point" at its near neighbor nlakai, and remark
that 1t deserves the same kind Of adornment Mr.
Mclean has not only greatly enhanced the value Of
his own property by the two handsome, substantial
buildings be has placed upon it, but he has also
thereby advanced the interests of property holders in
his neighborhood, and earned the commentator of
the community at large.-P Q. A.
~ Among the late arrivals in our city is On
Artist Of considerable ability Mr. Filler Jurgensen,
who comes here unheralded, and has concluded TO
remain with Us forsome little time Mr. J1sspeciality
is portrait painting but be had intention Of re-
manning at the Islands, be is out of materials which
we learn viii be supplied by the incoming steamer
from San Francisco. he smuses himself at present
b. making sketches Gin oiD of the scenery in and
about Honolulu, which is remarkably correct, and
sfford q specimen Of bis talent in this direction
specimen view Of Waikiki may be in our
window.