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Audience at Iolani Palace.

An audience was granted by His Majesty yester-
day, the 28th inst. to His Excellency Jos. NJ. Comfy
American Minister Resident-who presented Rear
Admiral Murray and Captain John Irwin. of the
Flag Ship Pensacola.
The Admiral addressed His Majesty as follows:
YoUR MAJEsTY:-I am especially directed by the proper
authorities at Washington, to pay this visit IN the Flag snip,
to my officers, to receive such instructions as evincing a dis
position on the part of the authorities of the United States, to
already existing between the two governments task very
agreeable to US, and we hope acceptable to your Majesty.
His Majesty replied as follows:
ADMsAI:-ltg gives me pleasure to welcome you and your
officers to this Kingdom, and the more so that this visit with
your Flag Ship is made in pursuance Of special orders from
ton to continue. and if possible bind more closely the kindly
relations which our countries have always sustained towards
hope you will find your stay here a source of satisfaction
to yourselves, in the enjoyment Of our climate and social
amenities, and that the discharge of your official functions
will prove as agreeable to yourselves, as l am confident that
it will be acceptable to myself and Government.
Captain Irwin then presented the following officers:
w. C. stamm, c. Engineer, U. S. N; H. c. Nelson,
Surgeon U. S. n; G. Cochran, Fleet Paymaster U. S.
N; R. W. Huntington, Capt.U. S. NJ. c. Fleet, Marine
Officer; Isaac J. Yates, Lieutenant U. s.. N; R. P.
Rodgers, Lieutenant u. S. N; W. J. Barnette. Flag
Lieutenant; J. D.. Adams, Lieutenant U. S. N; a.
NJ Guthrie, Rear Admiral's Secretary U. S, N; F.
NJ. Bostwick, Midshipman .. S. N; Selim E. Wood
worth, Cadet Midshipman, U. S. NH. C. Waken-
shaw, Cadet Midshipman, U. S. N; A. w. Grant,
M~idshipman, U. S. N; H. II. Rogers, Mids., o.. S. n.
The Minister of Foreign Relations presented
Judge Cation, of Illinois; Vim. Kenny Watson, Glas-
gov, Scotland; and F. B. Hastings, us. Vice Deputy
Consul.
His Majesty was attended by the members of the
Cabinet, Judges of the Supreme Court, members of
the House of Mobiles and Privy Council, NJ. MS
Chamberlain, and the Staff Officers.
Some time vas agreeably spent in general CONVEX
sation, after which the Minister Resident and the
other gentlemen took leave.
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Ii THE Haraiidn Gazette of the present week
the announcement is made that the Hon. Ii. NJ.
Whitney's lease of the Government printing
establishment expires with the end of the present
month and year. Stress of weather, during the
past ten days, it appears has prevented Mr..
Whitney from coming to the metropolis from his
ranch on Hawaii, and thus the public are de-
prived of what might have proved a very interest
ing Yaledictory from an old journalist. He was
first engaged as foreman Of the old Polynesian,
under the Hon. E. o. Hall, in 1849, and during
subsequent years. He may be said to have been
the father of the Hawaiian Post Office, for previ-
Gus to his time, mail bags " round the Horn ;"
and : across the Isthmus " were dumped in mer-
chants Offices. On the first of July, 1856, Mr..
Whitney issued the first number of the PACIFIC
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. It's first editorial
words were-s' Thank God, at last there is an
independent Journal in Honolulu, He is al
ways energetic and enterprising, and we heartily
and sincerely wish him good success in his agri-
cultural undertaking.
During the past two months and more, the
editorial management of the Gazette has been in
the hands of DIR. &. L. Rodgers, and we can only
say that if the Doctor treats his patients medicin-
ally as smoothly and with the same degree of
polished refinement that he has the readers of the
Ga2eke, he will certainly succeed in the practice
of his legitimate profession.
We understand that I. Crawford Mcdowell,
Esq, a member of the legal profession, recently
from Harrisburg, Pa, has taken the lease of the
Government printing establishment, and will
hereafter edit the Gazette. Mr.. Mcdowell is,
we believe, an old journalist, and with the best Of
feelings we welcome him to the pains and penal
ties and the (limited) pleasures of the life of an
editor in Hawaii mel. o that we were a sugar
~planteri
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WANTED-THE RIGHTFUL HERs.--In an American
exchange, We noticed recently q statement that
a large sum of money had been offered to a Rev. Mr..
Trimble and his sisters in the United States, for
their alleged claim to a valuable property now
the subject of a chancery suit in ireland. 1t may
be useful to the parties interested in this matter
to know that there is now residing in Honolulu
an freshman named "Trimble," who has an elder
brother living in the United States. and these two
Irishmen may possibly have q claim to the pro-
perty in question. The Ulster King at Arms.
Sir Bernard Burk, with that heraldic acumen
and lore for which he is so celebrated, will have
no difficulty in obtaining any information to assist
him to trace out the genealogy of these two bro
theirs Trimble, if hereafter required. They were
both born in county Longford. The following
paragraph referring to this disputed claim, is
taken from the Republican Standard of New Bed
ford of November last -
1t is stated that Rev. James TrimbIe, Metho-
dist minister at Princeton, Me, has been offered
100000 sterling to withdraw a case, which he
has in chancery in an Irish court, TO recover pro-
perty to which he and his two sisters are the law
full heirs, bat which has been held for some years
by other parties. His sisters have also been
offered ele,O00 sterling to withdraw their Claims"
GONE Our "A London telegram of December
18th, reports q rumor of the resignation of Lords
Derby and Salisbury, as probably a Stock Exchange
cGndrd. Nevertheless there may be good grounds
for the report. Indeed, we may hear soon of the
resignation of the Bescons6eld ministry. as Glad
stones policy to give Bulgaria its autonomy and q
Christian ruler, is now obviously triumphant ; and
we do not think that the Beaconsfeld ministry can
consistently hold the reins of government any
longer. unless they at once 60 to war against Russia.
They seem to have no alternative but war or resig-
nation, and the latter is the more likely eventually,
but on the other hand, that old brute, the British
Lion, may suddenly make one of those terrible
springs which e~lectrify the whole world. The g situa-
tom in England, is now intensely exciting. Parlia-
ment is before time summoned to meet early il
January.
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On THURSDAY evening last, a happy meeting
took place at the Bethel Church, preluded by hymn
nody, and in the building adjoining the little folks
and indeed their elders as well, subsequently en-
joyed the pleasant time-honored spectacle of a
heavily loaded " Christmas Tree" the distribution
of whose multifarious fruits afforded an evidently
genuine qualification TO the recipients. None
seemed happier than the worthy pastor himself
(the Rev. DR.. Damon) in the midst of his flock, on
the festive occasion. On the previous Monday
evening, a similar Christmas fete occurred at the
Lyceum, for the children of the Sunday school
connected With Fort Street Church. The little
folks of Honolulu may well sing: Christmas
comes but once a year, and when it come, it
brings good cheer =;
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NORTHEAST PASSAGE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE
PACIFIC.-An experiment fraught with the highest
Importance for the people CT the North Pacific
Coasts and Islands-ourselves included-is about to
be made in the summer of 1873, by q Swede, Profess
sor Nordenskjold. This remarkable Arctic explorer,
is to direct an expedition, got up at the cost mainly
of o Gothenburg merchant, Mr.. Oscar Dickson. to-
wards the expenses of which His Majesty, the King
of Sweden, will also contribute q certain sum-. The
object of Professor Nordenskjold's expedition is to
open up a steam route, if possible, between the At
lantic and Pacific, via the north coast of Europe
and Asia, and through Behring's Strait. In July,
1878, the Professor will leave Europe on q steamer
for this object, and he hopes to be able to reach
Behring's Strait without meeting any insurmountable
obstacles. Even a summer steam route between the
Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, via Behring's Strait,
will be a positive gain for our Pacific Ocean. We
wish the adventurous Professor success, and hope
to see his steamer in our port, en- route for home, af-
ter accomplishing his glorious purpose.
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Keep the Lords Day Holy.

To the Editor Of the Pacific Commercial advertiser i:
Mr.. EDITOR Il sincerely trust that no good
christian in this community has been so silly as to
allow himself or herself to be Influenced by the
discussion about the Sabbath in the days of Moses.
which. of course, journalists cannot refuse to pub
lish, as expressions of opinions prevalent in the
society in which We live. 1t is well for our legis-
lators to know that SOM people here want some
alteration in the law for the observance of the
Lords Day but, as 4 matter of course, we sup
pose that any such alterations, if decided upon,
will never lose sight of the heading to these re-
marks. =
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NJ

FoR San FRANcIsco-Per ID C Murray, Dec 26-E May, F
Barker, Col Norris, Mr. Bryant, Mrs Murray.
FRoN San FRAHcIsco-Per w II Meyer, Dec &C Ro-
binson, ID W G Smith,, ii PIERCE, E e Mayhem, z Marshall, W
} Garrick, ID A Finn, J Fleming, c Hattie, l. Atwater.
FRoA WIsDwARD PoRTs-Per LkeIike, Dec 27-HonS G
Wilder, Hon A 3 Cleghorn, Capt James Mskee, Capt A Trip
and wife, Miss Dougherty, r Rycroft, wife and 2 children, 8
AcKssgue, } ID Brewer. J X Brewer, c Y Aiona, T. x Peter
son, L Chamberlain, Capt T c Mcpherson, c Motley, wife
and daughter, III Armitage, Geo Coffin, A T Everett, Mrs Jno
sIupplebeen, ) W Pogue, Col z s Spalding. J ID spreckles and
wife, l l. Jones, Rev Geo Morris, Judge A Fornander, b W Ka-
Weinui, A z Jones and 81 deck.
FRoN San FRAKcIsco-Per St Paul, Dec CSC o Berger,
c II Titcomb. b c Kurtz, Thos COtter, ii ] Braker, Miss L E
Pogue, Mrs Jno Ladd, w Hunter and wife, J II Dean, wife
and infant, and 20 steerage.
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PORT OF HONOLULU, n. !
ARRIVALS.

C. 22-Schr Lsahi, Kaains, from Hilo, Hawaii.
23-U q Flagship Pensacola, Rear-Admiral A Murray,
81 days from San Francisco.
24-schr NeItie Merrill. Hatfield. from Lahaina, Maui.
25-Am bk Jennie Pitts, Manter, % dys from San Fran.
25-Schr Warwick. John Bull, from Lanai.
26-schr Jenny, Pake, from NaEiiwiI, Kauai.
2T-SchT Keksuluohi. Malaihi, from Hanalei, Kauai.
27-Am brig W II Meyer, Brown, % days fm San Fran.
27-Stmr Likelike, Shepherd, from Hawaii & Maui
2s-Schr Kulamsnu, Mans, from KOhala. Hawaii.
2s-Am bktne Monitor, Emeson, so dys firm Port Town
send.
2s-P " : 81 Paul, Erskine. 9 dogs from San Francisco.
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DocToR TIsDALE gives special attention to the
treatment of the Eye and Ear.
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NOTICE.

WNROM THIS DATE 1 Will be responsible
- for no debts contracted in my name without my writer
order. JAS. IA. lies.
Dec. 29th, 1877. 1929 ct
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TENHE ANNUAL SALE OF SLIPS AND SIT
Ii TINGS will take place at the Fort Street Church OIL
MONDAY EVENING, Dec. 31st, 1877; at Il O'Clock.
d22 ct P. C.. JONES, sec'y.
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NOTICE.

Turing MY ABSENCE FROM THESI
1p Islands, Mr.. JOHN C. WOOD, will act for me undo
power Of attorney. (d29 2) THOMAS C. MARTIN.
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OAHU CULLEGE.
TNNHE NEXT TERM OF THIS lNSTITC-
Il ton will begin on MONDAY January 9TH, 1878. Per-
sons wishing to enter existing classes can do so at that time.
Information can be obtained from the Principal.
de8 At AMASA RAT
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THE PACIFIC
SATURDAY. DECEMBER %.

Our LEGISLATORS will doubtless be called upon
to introduce some changes into the present law
relating to the assessment Of taxes, and 1t is very
desirable that any opinions calculated to throw
light upon the emendation of which the law IN
question is susceptible, should be fully ventila-
ted. But, We are really at a loss to comprehend
the drift Of a writer Of a communication filling a
whole column of the last Gazette, under the
heading of the &" Tax Middle" The heading
is very apropos, for the writer certainly has sue
ceeded in leading his readers into a regular quag-
mire, without enlightening them one whit on the
taxation question. The recent action of govern
ment has laid at rest the difficulties raised about
double taxation in the case of mortgages on per-
sonal property. The assessment of taxes is APP
parently a matter with which the writer has had
something to do. This may account for the
communication. That remark about the SO Hotel
Bonds " being in the hands of members of the
government is a good joke, as the writer hopes
that such is not the case. He has a poor opinion
of the present Board of Appeal. Let those gen.
tlemen bow to the compliment.
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Turing MY TEMPORARY ABSENCE
~ from this Kingdom, my son. Thos. J. HayseldeD, will
act for me under general power Of attorney.
THOMAS HAYSELDEN.
Kohala, Nov. 2lst, 1877. de6 I'm
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DR.. RODGERS,
F. HORN,

EONFECTIONER. No. 40 HOTEL ST.,
= next door to c. Z. Williams. Honolulu.
Bread delivered to any part of the city. All fancy and
foreign breads made to order. de22
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TO LET OR FOR SALE.

ENHE PREMISES NEAR NCUANC AVE-
nue. below the Royal Mausoleum, lately occupied by G.
II. Dole, Esq. Area of lot q acres.
Mo Enquire Of s. B. DOLE.
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We would call the special attention OF our friend,
and the public generally, to our new
UNCLE SAM RANGES

II Which, in point Of general arrangement, nnenes. a.
casting and beauty OF design. cannot be excened. They A.
splend.d bakers. Also. the Medallion, Opera and May Ranps,
These together with the well known
, 1877-11-17

EATING PHILOrENA.-In Germany they
manage this little pastime in a very pleas
ant way. When couple meet after eat
Ing philopena no advantage Is taken OF the
other until one Of them pronOunces the
word "philopena- This is the warming
that now the sport is to begin. Let us
suppose that a gentleman calls upon a
lady. She invites him to walk in and at
the same time speaks the talismanic word.
If he accepts the offer to walk in he is
lost, until she removes the ban by telling
him to 90 away If she asks him to take
off his hat, he must resolutely keep on
if to be seated, he must stand, or, if at the
table she should hand him any article
which he accepts, she wins the forfeit.
During all this time he endeavors to take
her by surprise, for the acceptance of any
offer from the other wins the game. Botl
are constantly exercising their wits t.
prevent being caught, and the sport ofteI
goes on all the evening. Perhaps the gen
tleman brings a little present and says
Knowing that l shall lose my philopena
l have brought it along-here 1T is. |
she is caught off her guard by the smootl
speech she loses, for he Immediately claim
forfeit. If neither wins at the first meet
ing, the sport is continued to the second
and it may happen that half dozen par
| ties meet at the same time, all anxious +
win of their philopena partners, SO tina
the scene often becomes ludicrously anus
| in, II 70 Ild;.u,on6 cJIt llamoudn i
very truth.
, 1877-11-17
9sstitat Sstsetipns.
>oNNoNooNNNN NNo.N.N-oN.NNNNoN.
AWAKENING.

think | could do without You
Perhaps, while the sky is fair,
And the infinite smile of Summer
CLOVIS in the golden air;
When Earth with its myriad whispers
Breathes in the ear of Day
The secret of that great glory
That waits her-far away.
For, indeed, there are fairer faces
That shine more bright in the sun.
And voices whose tones, it may be,
More smoothly and sweetly run;
And when over vale and meadow
Peace, Ike mantle flows,
Who dreams of the distant battle,
Who doubts the heart of the rose?
But when to night of sorrow
Rises day of scorn;
When out Of the smile comes treason,
And out Of the rose .horn;
When the soul is sick with thinking
OF the plots and the lies Of men,
OF life and life's long travail
Gould do without You them
o heart, more true and tender
Than ever was heart before
Oh hand, whose faithful clasplns
Holds fast for evermore.
o sweet, pure soul, unchanging,
Though doubt and loss and pain,
Shall |, so slow to know you,
Know now ut last in VAIN:
Behold, l come and whisper;
Weary and bruised and hnrt,
plead for grace, not honor
For mercy, not desert. :"
VIII you stretch your hand and lift me
Out OF my own unworth!
For know that can do without you
Never again on earth
, 1877-11-17

CHARITY.

The pilgrim and stranger who through the
day
Holds over the desert his trackless way,
Where the terrible sand no shade have
known,
No sound of life save the camers moan
Hears at last, through the mercy of al to all,
From his tent door at evening, the Bedouin S
call
"Whoever thou art whose need is great.
In the name of God. the Compassionate
And Mcrciful One, for Thee wait.
For gifts in His name of food and rest
The tents of Islam of God arc blest,
Thou who hast faith in the Christ above,
Shall the Koran teach thee the laws of love
o Christian open thy heart and door,
Cry east and west to the wandering poor:
"Whoever thon art wh..se need Is great.
In the name of God the Compassionate
And Merciful One, for Thee wait. J."
, 1877-11-17
Discovery IN NTIME--Engfish iustica

A DISCOVERY IN IME-Engfish justice
against crime is famous for being prompt,
severe and impartial, but England has .
sensation now to prove that delay and le-
niency are sometimes virtues. -Four per
sons we're arrested under the charge Of
killing Harriet Staunton by starvation.
They were tried, convicted and sentenced
to be hanged. Pending the day OF exc
cution, facts came to light which rendered
it highly probable that the woman had
not been starved at all, but died frape
disease. This opinion is strongly support
ed by respectable scientific testimony,
which has thrown the English people into
a high state of excitement, 70 think the
condemned were about to suffer death toy
a supposed crime which they had not
committed. At the first reTelstion OF their
suspicion Of innocenee, there was com
bined appeal to the Crown Tor ciemency,
and repriere to the alleged guilty par
ties was the consequence. Even tins has
not allayed the ferment, as nearly all the
English journals daily contain from one
to three columns OF letters and editorials
ou the subject. Nothing could be more
horrible than the hanging OF persons who
are auiltlass Of OtfeAca-
, 1877-11-17

A female Justice of the peace, in Wyom.
ing territory, was obliged to hear case OF
sesndaIous character, In which her husband
filled the unenviable position of defendant.
She sentenced him to be hanged by the neck
until dead, and was anxious to have the
sentence carried into effect at once until the
attorneys explained to her that she was SIT
ting simply as an examining court. She then
held him in bonds of $4,000, 600 to await
the action of the grand jury, and said she
would shoot the first man full Of holes that
attempted to raise the surety.
, 1877-11-17

MI.TAKgS KINDNESS father who
for a great portion of his life has struggled
with poverty is unwilling that his children
should have similar experience. So he
denies himself indulgence in even neces-
sary things that he may save and make
for his family. The mother, remember
inc how irksome household tasks were to
her in her girlhood, permits her daughters
to lead lives of ease and Incidence, think.
ing that in SO doing she makes the best
| manifestation in her power of maternal
love. As a natural consequence of this
| view on the part of the parents, We see
| growing up all around us Young men and
women perfectly useless for al the prse-
teal purposes of hfe-unable to cope with
misfortune. The sooner a boy can bt
made TO wait upon himself, to think fol
himself, to act for himself. the soonel
will the germs of true manhood begin t.
develope within him II is not kindness
remarks contemporary, to surround hin
with such attention and care that he viii
not be compelled to learn the lessons o
self-reliance, of patient industry, of per
sistent hope. The real crowns of 'thi
world are crowns of labor.
, 1877-11-17

A CORRESPONDENTS Of the New YORK
Traa,une says that grave fears are entertained
by many republican members OF congress
that Hayes actually cOnsuits democrats =
to his policy, and takes them into his ooun-
sells. A very sure sign that his fraudulency
is trying to conciliate enough people to have
a party Of his own. His cabinet Ia compos-
ed of radicals and ex-rebefs two ex:
treme parties OF the nation-so, now he y
making bold move to catch the respectable
conservative clement of the country. Radt-
Gals ,neean't worry over the matter. The
semocrats are the only ones whose reputa7
tion viii suffer from such feternl compi,
cation. -
, 1877-11-17

KITCHEN CRITICISM. French lady
announces her intention of visiting cir
Gus. Her maid, with deep solicitude says,
eff l were madame ] you'd not go. "
"And why not, Iosephine z" because
they say there is TO be horse there which
will stop in front Of the biggest fool in the
audience, and yam know he might happen
to stop before madame"
, 1877-11-17

CONSUMPTION OF MEArs.-San Francis
co consumes meat to the value Of Sl4, 100
daily, or over s., ,00O, 900 a year. The de
scription of stock slaughtered every day,
average 400 head Of cattle, 1000 hogs and
100 calves Wholesale prices for. beef and
mutton, cents, and for pork centA-