The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-09-08

THE THERMOMETERS has been up to 9OS and over
during the past week.
THANKs.-Ours are due and hereby rendered to
Capt. Tripp of the schooner General Harvey for
late California papers.
THE QUEEN Dowager started on her tour of
Oahu on Wednesday morning. attended by a large
cortege of male and female equestrians. Her
Majesty appeared to be in excellent health.
LONG PAssAGE-The clipper barkentine Dis
eovery. Capt. p. P. Shepherd, was no less than
hirty-sic days in making the passage from Homo
lulu to San Francisco. This we believe is the
champion passage for calms and light airs.
"GLENN's SULPHUR Soar advertised in our
columns by McInerny, is highly spoken of by
those who have used it here. and comes highly re-
commended by the medical men of the United
States.
STEAMER DAY.-The day on which our inter-
island boat leaves for windward ports, be it Mon
day or Tuesday, is a busy day in Honolulu, and
the whole lower part of the city is in a whirl OF
business. But the following day, every thing is
fiat, stale and Improbable.
FIVE CENTS APIEcE.-That is what we have to
pay for hens eggs in Honolulu just now. Five
for a quarter, and run the risk of rotten ones. w
think 1t would pay Tor some one to start a chicken
ranch" and sell eggs at so cts, a dozen, for we
remember that a man made money at the business
a few years ago. Here's an opening.
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The CIRCUIT OF THE GLoBE.-The British bark
Madura, Capt. Thos. Stanton, which arrived here
from San Francisco last Thursday, is on her way
around the world. Starting from Cardiff, Wales,
she went to China via the Cape OF Good Hope
thence to San Francisco; to Honolulu; and is now
bound to Bakers Island for a cargo of guano for
England via Cape Horn. She is nine months from
the home port, has always had full lreights, and
has never met with an accident.
THE well-known shipwright, L. s. Allen, is build.
ing a fine little vessel for a Mr.. Robertson, of the
Sandwich Islands. She is on Mission Greek, at the
foot of Sixth street, and will be q fine, fast and well
finished schooner. She is 20 feet long, 183 feet
beam and Cd feet depth of hold, and will be about &c
tons register. She is all sealed, and Will be ready IN
about a month. Her planking and ceiling will be
q inches, clamps 4 inches, bilge streaks 4 inches,
and from present appearances will be q very good
vessel-.aHa California, Aug. l6.
CoNFIsCATED.-Last Wednesday morning in
the Police Court, Mr.. Markham, Customs Guard
succeeded with very slight difficulty in securing
the confscation of $50 chests OF tea, including
800 boxes of opium, imported from China pei
Chinese Doctor to the Celestial immigrants by that
vessel. All Sin like his namesake in Bret Hartes
poem, had ways that were child-like and bland
but his Honor fined him $500 nevertheless, which
he paid, instanter. NeXtT
HARBoRs on MoLoKAI.-The neighboring island
of Molokai-" Molokai nui a HIM. as the ancient
native legend has it,-has indeed been neglected
in the past, but is now coming to the foreground
as possessing large tracts of 6ne cane land to be
improved, and moreover some excellent harbors
which very few people appear to have known
anything about heretofore. There is evidently O
Geld on Molokai to be investigated by the Com
missioners to aid in the development OF the Re
| sources,u &c. The harbor of Pawelo, opposite
Kaanapali, we are told has a safe anchorage, with
a depth of water of from five to nine iathoms.