The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-01-22

BREvIrY'S THE Soul or VII" DIR. Eli Corwir
accepts Jacksonville, H." That's all there is Of
telegram in an Eastern paper. How very Kind Of
the Reverend Doctor TO accept. and how happy
Jacksonville, Ill, must be to know that she is not
rejected!
Coon TINE.-The p. NJ. S. Granadd. Capt. CAVIAR.
ley, which arrived on Monday last, reports sever
days and sixteen hours from San Francisco. The
quickest passage ever made between the two port.
was by the NEBRASKA, Of Webb's line-seyen days
and six hours, in 1873.
SoUTHERLY STORM.-The wind commenced 10 blow
q storm from the Southeast during Monday night, and
continued almost q gale with a heavy sea on the reef,
until Wednesday, with occasional showers; when il
veered back to the regular trades, allowing outward
bound vessels to put TO sea.
A CHANGE OF PROGRAMNE.-A slight change has
been made in the published time table of the
steamer KIdued, whereby she will leave for the
circuit of Kauai on Wednesday. March LIST, instead
of Thursday, the I'd. On Thursday next, the 9th
inst, she goes to Nawiliwili.
Music THIS AFTERNooN.-The band will play at
Emma Square this afternoon, commencing at half
past four o'clock. Following is the programme
Coronation March, Opera, The Prophet. .Meyerbeer
Introduction Opera Tarquato Tasso. Donizc I'll
Beautiful Italy, Where the Lemons Bloom, Waltz. Strauss
Tot El1AiCs oPNAe al uniiioStt hNN
Fantasia, Opera lie Comte .Rossini
The Bats Quadrille. Strauss
REFoRMAToRY SCHooI.-Mr. Walter Hill has been
appointed by the Board of Education Principal OF
the Industrial and R%eformatory School at Keone-
ula, near Honolulu, vice Mr.. q. II. Dole, resigned.
Mr.. Hill is q teacher Of experience and ability,
having sustained with much acceptance the charge
of a boys school at Lahaina for over a year past.
HORSE DRowNED.-Last Wednesday night, Mr..
Thomas Cummings was taking a drive about the
wharves, when somehow the buggy with the horse
went over the wharf into the harbor. Mr.. Cum
mings got on shore safely, but the horse was
drowned, and with the buggy was fsbed out of the
harbor on Thursday morning. The herse was val
ed at Sl75.
& SLooP DOLPHIN L~osT.-Some Of our readers will
remember the little sloop Dolphin, which arrived
here from San Diego in the spring of 1873, on the
way to Japan. She arrived there safely, and was
employed in the business of procuring Sea otter.
We learn that she was found in July last, bottom
up. about l75 miles South OF Hakodadi. Her
crew OF three men were lost.
MEN-oF-WAR ExPECTED.-We learn that His jap
ancse Majesty's ship Tsukuba, was shortly to leave
San Francisco en- route for home, and would call
at Honolulu.
Also that there are letters here for the italian
corvette VitOr Pisdno. now in japanese waters
and bound for Central America.
Z Cooks MoSUMENT.-The London Globe has q
paragraph to the effect that it has been proposed by
Admiral the Hon. A. A. COchrane, C.B, Comman-
der-in-Chief in the Pacific, to utilise a number Of
obsolete guns remaining in store at Esquimalt, for
the purpose of forming an enclosure around the
memorial to the circumnavigstor Captain Cook at
KaawalOa, Hawaii.
DEATH FROM DRINK.-Last Sunday, Ohe l6ih)
one David Hubble, a halfcaste, and others went on
an okolehao spree at Kula, near Makawao, Maui.
That night Hubble was missed, and was not seen
again till Tuesday, when his dead body was found
at the foot of a precipice, some 100 feet high. a
coroner's jury returned a verdict to the effect that
he came to his death by falling over the p%recipice.
There are however suspicious of foul play. OkO-
lehao ii is said can be had in Makawao in quaint
ties at 50cts. q bottle.
The New NErTIE,-Left the wharf at Honolulu on
the 18th at 420 P. NJ. and arrived at Lahaina at 10
A. NJ. the next day, making the passage in II hours
and 40 minutes. The wind in the channel was all
she wanted, but afterwards became light. The Cap
tain says she is stiff in q breeze, has an easy motion,
and sails like q witch. He believes that with a
whole sail breeze there is no schooner here that can
catch her. She brought 1850 kegs of sugar from
Lahaina. We remember the Baltimore built schooner
KdmehamehG III, Capt. Newell, (now, or lately at
Tahiti) making the passage from Honolulu to La
haina in the year 1876. in nine hours, on q race with
the Kings yatch the Hooikaikd.
RECKLESS ExrRAvAGANCE.-The story goes that
one day this week a native was passing the
premises of a foreigner, when he was loudly and
called to help put out a fire. which was
fast getting under way in tue kitchen. The man
rendered the needed assistance and the
Ere was extinguished when the lady Of the house,
to show a proper appreciation of the service done,
bestowed upon the man who had saved the property
the magnificent sum of two bits. The native would
have been content with a simple Aloha. but the
amount Of money given set him TO bordering On
the subject of valuations. 1t reminds one Of the
story of the IrisbmLn who received twenty-five
cents from a man whom be had saved from drown
ing. whereupon Pat remarked, " Faith, 1t would
have been cheap at half the price,"
SURVEY OF THE NORTH PACIFIc.-The annual re-
port of Commodore Ammen. Chief Of the Bureau Of
Navigation, says: lowing 10 no appropriations,
the survey Of the North Pacific Ocean has been aban-
doned. The work is go extensive that it would be
mere preten.e if attempted without an appropriation
sufficient to purchase or build by contract a suitable
steamer and two t~hree-masted schooners to serve as
The probable cost of the steamer and two
would be SLY, 900, for which an estimate
has been submitted. Such vessels once fitted out and
employed upon this work would entail little expense
that Of cruisers, and in fact would serve that
purpose most usefully among the islands visited by
cur own and other vessels for csrgoes of beche-de-mer
aud sandal wood. 4 survey Of the North Pacific
Ocean is necessary. Without it, the loss Of life and
property 49,. yearly increase; and as the ocean
bounds our coast, it should be our pride, as it is our
interest, to lessen the dangers Of its navigation as
much az possible. 1t is respectfully recommended
that where a vessel can be spared for the purpose
from those employed on the North Pacific station, a