The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-09-15

WD
Ihave appointed Colonel William F. Allen TO act as Cover
nor OF Oahu during my absence from this Kingdom.
Honolulu, Sept. 11th, 1877. JSo. o. DoMISIs,
Governor of Oahu.
BRIEF MENTION.
The CoURT.-His Majesty the King sailed for
Kauai by the schooner Marion on Thursday last;
the Queen is in Kona, Hawaii. having recently made
the circuit of that island on horseback. The Queen
DoWager Emma is at present engaged in making the
tour of Oahu. Her Royal Highness the Heir
Apparent returned to town on Monday by the
steamer from Lahaina.
THE DROP GAME."-The latest operation in
opium is thus spoken of.
LEATHER HosE.-We are requested to say that
the Honolulu Fire Department has leather hose
for sale.
THE barkentine Discovery. from San Francisco,
is reported as arrived as we go to press, with proba-
bly, late and important news.
Mr.. ARMsTRoNG's LECTURE.--We commend to
the careful attention of our readers the lecture by
Mr. Armstrong, which we print in a supplement
with to-day's paper.
MORALITY.-Now that morality is on the tapis of
public discussion, our incorrigible printers devil
wants to know if it is immoral to smuggle-either
opium, lace goods, etc.-in other words to cheat the
government?
For A PIcNIC.-When you 60 into the country
for a quiet days rest, we know Of no more tooth
some and economic preparation for q lunch than
Wilson, hurry s. CO.. cooked corned beef, TO be had
at Bolles & Co.'S.
WANT TO BE DENUDED.-Was it Charles Lamb who
said once on a hot August day that he would like to
take of his flesh and sit in his bonesi 1t sounds
like him; and we have heard people in Honolulu
express themselves similarly of late.
A LITTLE Miss of seven years was asked, during
the late hustle about unlawful lidiSonS. where she
was going in such a mighty hurry2 To which
Missy gravely replied "I'm going for a palapa-
la Ge mare Ma has got hers, and 1 want one,
too %
' MUsIc.-Our friend Berger notifies the public that
the hour for beginning Saturday afternoon concerts
is changed to half past 4 instead of 5 O'Clock; and
that the moonlight concerts for the current month
will take place on Tuesday the 18th and Thursday
the Goth, commencing at u O'Clock.
KNOTS TO BE UNTIED.-In investigating the first
of the cases under the onslaught at the Police Court,
i'm re morality,-counsel for defense raised the tech
meal point that there was really no existing statute
applicable. The magistrate overruled the point,
pro forma, and the result is going to be, some verbal
sparring in the Supreme Court.
Music THIS AFTERNooN.-The band will play at
Emma Square, commencing at ID O'Clock. Follow
ing is the programmes:
Overture Opera, Romilda and Constance. ......... Meyerbeer
conce1t Polka 6Ga e The A t%o Positions, new: wies 1ndI
Chorus and Cavatina, Opera, The Pirate. .............B ellini
Grand Selection, Opera, Gerusalemme, new.........Verd
WANTED-A LICENSE We hear that on Thursday
last-the news having got circulated of the proposed
raid on unmarried couples, the Office Of the Chief
Clerk Of the Minister of the Interior was besieged
from the early morning hour with eager applicants
for sc ~palapala ae mare.'' permits to get married.
Under the circumstances, it is to be hoped that the
permits were granted without a too punctilious scru-
tiny. ALPS well that ends well.
A SHARK SroRY.-The Gazette undertakes to get
of a fish story about " a monster shark but it is
only pretended that the specimen was sixteen feet in
length, and was killed with a harpoon-being, says
the Gazette, ga wonder of the deep - How little
some people know about the productions of the coun-
try in which they live. Why. at Lahaina, and on
the Kona and Kohala coasts, sharks 30 feet in length
are frequently seen-in fact they are kamaaiaas.
Nor LosT.-The schooner Lnka was not lost at
Wailua, Kauai, as reported by the G0zeHe of this
week. AS we are informed, one of those sudden
series of rollers that sometimes occur ON these islands
ou;fa rponoounfohIv conin0 m G hnoa4aI > > tIo
schooner up on to the sands on Saturday last, from
which she was got of u~ninjured on Monday by q
gang of natives under the able direction of Governor
j. e. Bush. the popular executive of that island.