The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-06-12

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q The adjourned annual meeting of the Hawai-
ian Mission Children's Society will be held this Sat
urday evening, June 18th, at the session room OF
Fort Street Church. All friends of this Society and
its objects are cordially invited to attend.
Music To-SIGHr-We beg to call attention to the
concert this evening at Kawaiahao Church, at which
the lovers Of good singing will have an opportunity
of hearing some of the finest and best trained voices
of Hawaii nei, including those Of two members of the
Royal Family.
THE ANNUAL SERMON on Home Missions will be
preached at the Fort-street Church tomorrow
Sunday evening. at u O'Clock, by the Rev. A.
o.. Forbes and on the following Sunday evening
at the same place, the annual sermon on Foreign
Missions will be preached by the Rev. DR.. Damon.
THE FOURTH OF JULY.-Is it not time that We
heard a note of preparation for the celebration of
Americas greatest holiday, now only three weeks
Distant Or are we to suppose that on the 99th an
niversary everybody is to hold his breath in readi-
ness for the grand outburst of the 100thH
FIRE DEPARTMENT ELEcrroS-The annual election
for officers of the Honolulu Fire Department came of
very quietly on MOndsy evening last. The following
were reelected without opposition:
First Assistant Engineer. ......... George Lucas.
Second Assistant Engineer ........John Mott.
PUNAHoU.-The term ends next week, at this in
stitution of learning, and Tuesday afternoon and
Wednesday forenoon will be devoted to the examins-
tons. On Wednesday afternoon the rhetorical ex-l
ercises will take place, at which ONE good speaking
and defamation may be expected. The total num-
Der of pupils at Punahou is sixty.
DECREAsED-The Gazette inquires-where do the
natives get rum so freely? We beg to inform our
contemPorary-who has aPparSntly just awakened
out of sleep-that during two months last past.
drunkenness among natives in this city has very
sensibly decreased owing, without doubt, to the
breaking up by the police of certain haunts.
A UNION MEETING of the Kawaiahao and Kau-
makapili Churches is to take place tomorrow, at
1O4 O'Clock, at the Stone Church, at which the sub
ject of Home Missions will be brought up, and a
collection made in aid of the same. In the
evening, at Il O'Clock, the Rev. Mr.. Waiamau will
preach the Forign Mission sermon, in the Kau-
makapili Church, and a collection will be taken.
PLEADED GUILTY.-Last Thursday, Tun Cum Sin
was s~rraigned in the Police Court and charged with
the burglary of the store of Dillingham; and Co. on the
night Of the 2Sth of April last, and the larceny
therefrom of sundry articles; also of the larceny of
q W0tCl ana trlnketS from o QWelIl0g-nOQee on the
night of the Sd of May last to both of which
charges he pleaded guilty and was committed for the
July term of the Supreme Court.
The ANNUAL TEAPARrY of the Women's Board of
Missions, will be held on Tuesday evening next at the
Fort Street Church, when all interested in the sue
cess of Hawaiian missions and schools will be welcome.
This is a social gathering of native Hawaiian pastors,
school-teachers and others, and foreign ladies aud
gentlemen, for the purpose of cultivating acquaint-
auce and for social intercourse. and is designed to
bring together the native and foreign elements of the
community.
SCHOONER LosT.-The schooner Odd FtilOw, of the
coasting feet, belonging to the Messrs Foster, went
ashore on the reef at Waimea, Kauai, on the evening
of May %. The wind was light at the time, and the
vessel was drifted by the swell on the rocks, and
went to pieces in the surf. The cargo, consisting Of
6,500lbs of wool, II tierces of tallow, and ia bags
of paddy, together with the vessel, became a total
loss. The latter was, we understand, partially in
sured. The wreck was sold at auction, as it lies, by
Mr.. Adams, and brought, including a boat, $l25.
KAMEHAMEHA I. DAY.-Yesterday was observed as
a national holiday, by the firing of a salute and the
display of flags, in commemoraton of the first of the
K-amehamehas, whose history proves him to have
been a remarkable man, with perhaps as good a claim
to the title Of I" great in his sphere, as an Alex
ander or a Napoleon. Though possessed Of physical
strength, mental energy, and q majestic carriage, his
department was mild, and he was frank, cheerful, and
generous. To quote from Dibble's History-"In
self-defence, more than from q warlike spirit, he was
drawn into a series of battles, first with the chiefs of
his own island, and then with the chiefs of the other
islands; oil of which we're victorious, and eventuated
in subjecting the whole group of islands to his SOW
ereign control"
SPELLING MATcHEs-A writer in the Boston Id
veriiser remarks that spelling matches must be pro-
ductive Of much profit TO the makers and sellers of
dictionaries, but not to these alone. The whole En-
glish-speakiog world will have reason to be grateful
If a few new and elegant words should have been
added to the language. With this view be ventures
to offer q short sentence containing a selection of
words some Of which cannot be found in any diction-
airy, but which are so m~anifestly ornamented, as well
as expressive Of the ideas to be conveyed, that he
cannot doubt that they will be eagerly adopted by
the promoters Of matches as well as by the rakers
and scrapers Of lexicons
Looking up into his g~oloptious eyes. she said,
And is it indeed true, Alfred, that our soul, in the
process Of transmogrihcation, explunctihes itself
through the whole caboodle Of eternity -"
"'Nay, dearest replied Alfred, and his counte-
nance betrayed an expression Of irascIhcation, not to
say disgruntlement, which cavorted over his features
for an instant.
"'Our souls cannot become sufficiently matterated
10 admit of the necessary specification which"
1.-The sentence was never finished; for as he spoke
he seated himself upon q chair whose legs had been
exserrated two inches, and he came down unexpect-
edly kerchunk."