The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-12-22

PRAISE-SERVICE.-N learn that tDefe VIII DE q
Christmas Praise-service at the Fort street Church
tomorrow Sunday evening.
FIRE WARDENs, saws a correspondent, should be
reminded OF the fact that they have not done their
duty under the law. See Civil Code, sections 1897
-339.
ST. ALBAN's CoLLEGE.-We are requested to say
that the speeches at this educational establishment
will be delivered this evening, Dec. 22d, at 7 p. m,
and that the public are respectfully invited to at
tend.
FoREFATHERs' DAY-New Englanders will
scarcely need TO be reminded that to-day is the
anniversary of the landing, two hundred and fifty
seven years ago. of the Pilgrim Fathers 4" on a
stern and rock-bOund coast"
Nor HANGED.-Four persons, two men and two
women, who were condemned to be hanged in
England, have been respited by Her Majesty
Queen Victoria. This is encouraging for the So
ciety for the abolition of capital punishment in
England.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALs.-It looks very much like
it to see four or five yoke OF diminutive bullocks
evidently under two years old, dragging carts
loaded with ballast stone through the streets. But
perhaps it is a new breed of Liliputian oxen. Can
the heads of the police inform us!
IOLANI CoLLEGE--Since our announcement in
last weeks issue of the annual distribution of
prizes at Iolani College, which was to have taken
place last Friday, the death of one of the pupils of
the College has occurred. in consequence of which
the ceremony in question has been postponed till
after Christmas.
MONSIEUR Jules Grevy's letter to the Electors of
the Ninth yArrondissement is regarded as an express
sion of the opinion of the majority of Frenchmen
with reference to the dissolution of the last chamber
of Deputies by MacMahon. We regret that we
have rot space to publish q verbatim translation Of
this remarkable letter. We intend next week TO
notice some of its salient points.
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THE CATTLE PLAGUE.-A recent visiter to Molo-
kai informs us that the upper plateau of that island
containing an area of say 100, 900 acres, and for
merly well-wooded. constituting a natural reser-
vOir for the springs and STEAMSHIPS become a
barren waste through the herds of cattle that have
been allowed to run at large there. The situation
on that naturally fertile island is a sad one to con-
template. and furnishes a suggestion as to the fu-
ture OF the entire group, if some legal enactment
is not provided against the cattle plague.
CoMMuNIsTs.-Situated as we are as halfway
house between two great centres of population
California and Australia-it is quite probable that
some undesirable waits of humanity will occasion
ally find a Judgment on our shores. 1t is ru-
mored that some forty of so-called " communists, -
by which We understand is meant agrarians or
evellers-arrived here on the last steamer from
San Francisco. We fancy that they would find
their " occupation gone in a community like
this.
Music THIS AFTERNoOn.-The band will play at
Emma Square, this p. m, (~weather permitting)
commencing at O'Clock. Following is the pro-
gramme
Overture Opera, The Bronze Horse .Auber
Ballad, The Storm is wildly raging Schubert
WaIL, La fnerl: kfVfere
Selection Opera, The Court Of .Rossini
Quardrille, French Hawkes.
Selection Opera, Girohe-Giroha. ....... .......... .Leeocq
There will be a Christmas Concert at Emma
Square on Tuesday afternoon Dec. Is, commence
ing at 3 O'Clock, the ,cedther permitting.