The Hawaiian gazette., 1877-11-14

ODEEN DOWAGER EMMA returned 10 lOWu
on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by coll
siderable mounted retinue of both men and
women.
THE Committees having charge of the ar
rangements for the celebration of His Ma
jesty's birthday have almost completed their
labors. The festivities of the occasion will
consist chiefly of the regatta in the morning
and dance in the evening at the Hawaiian
Hotel. In another part of to-day's paper will
be found list of entries for the regatta.
Our readers, particularly the tax paying
portion of them, will not fail to observe the
following notice from the Registrar of Public
Accounts: g Motto. All tax payers whose
returns show liabilities which have not been
deducted from their personal assets, may
80 obtain adjustment thereof at this Office up to
90 the first day of December" OF course this
does not affect the question of membranes on
real estate; that matter is settled by the recent
decision of the Supreme Court.
The effect of the action now proposed to be
taken by the Finance Department will he sim
ply TO put the matter of the offset to be allow
ed against personal assets, on the same ground
it has always occupied previous to this
year. In thus over-ruling the recent ac-
ton Of the Assessor in the premises, the Exc
cutive Department of the government have
done an act of justice to the tax payers, which
no one can be more ready to acknowledge
than ourselves
BY the bark Courier which arrived on Fri
day last we have San Francisco dates to Oct
oath.
The reported Russian victory in Asia is
confirmed. Its exact proportions and import
ance we are unable as yet to determine, our
information being mostly from Russian sources
There was no important change in the con-
dition of things at the seat of war in Europe.
The seige of Plevna still continues.
4 The French elections, on the nth October,
resulted, as was expected, in an overwhelm-
ing triumph for the Republicans. who will
have clear majority of considerably over
hundred in the new Legislative Assembly.
There has been terrible colliery explosion
at Hight Blantyre, near Glasgow, accompanied
/ by great loss of life.
The special session of Congress called by
President Hayes, at Washington, opened Oct.
! 18th. The House of Representatives organic
ed by the election of Randall, Democrat, as
Speaker ever Garfield, Republican, by 10 ma
jority. The Presidents message was brief,
being confined almost entirely 10 the subjects
! the special session was called TO consider, and
not going into any discussion of general mat
tiers.
Thursday, November 29th, is Thanksgiving
Day in the United States
Henry Meigs, the former California default
er and fugitive and more recent South Ameri-
can Railroad magnate and millionaire, is dead.
THE AdeeyfiSsr is in error in stating that
We, in our last number, took up the cudgels''
in behalf of our correspondent who signed
himself =. If our neighbor will take the
GAZETTE, he will discover that there is no
allusion of any kind thereir either editorial
or otherwise, to our correspondent or
to anything contained in his letter. We will
take the liberty furthermore of stating the
fact, that every line of last weeks editorial
matter, except the notice of His Majesty's de
parture for Kauai and the closing paragraph
of the article on the Tax Decision, was not
only written but actually in type before the
communication III question was received. We
would suggest thai paper which is capable
of making Honestly, no doubt,) such gross
mis-statements concerning a matter which
happened here in Honolulu, only last week,
can hardly be considered very reliable au-
thority on events which took place in Connec-
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