The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-06-23

SANKEY'S hymns, translated into Chinese, are
sung at Tieu-tsin, in the London Mission Church.
= The REGULAR meeting of the Hawaiian Mission
Children s Society will be held this evening, at the
residence of Mrs. Gilman.
TEMPERANCE-We understand that the services
at the Fort Street church tomorrow evening will
consist of addresses, sc, on the subject of Tenn
perance.
EARTHoUAKE-Shortly after 10 o'clock on
Monday night last, a smart shock of earthquake
was felt in this city-suficient to cause the windows
to rattle.
SENTENCED.-The native John Kapaoa, convicted
at the Maui Circuit of the murder of Akaka. China
man, was on the 10Th inst. sentenced to be hung
on Sept. 28th.
AMATEUR PRINTERs.-We have received from Mr..
Walter Hill, Principal of the Reformatory School, a
neat programme of the exercises of their Sabbath
School, tomorrow, very handsomely printed by the
pupils of that institution.
MORE NAMEs.-The Hauoaiian penchant for
long names may have been inherited from their
Aryan forefathers. Here is an Indian name
His Highness Prince of Jyepore Seramudiraiahyeh-
singbahadoor.
MIxED.-The Gazette says things are rather
mixed in Nova Scotia owing to a ruling Of the
Supreme Court but what must the Nova Scotians
think when they read that here a jury brought
in a verdict of not guilty in a murder case and
thereafter the Court proceeded to sentence the man
to be hanged
FAMINE PRICEs.-Recently the price of the
Hawaiian staff of life-poi-has been advanced
something like two hundred per cent, over former
rates in this city. Many native families have in
consequence been compelled to subsist on rice. The
/ cause of this scarcity Of taro is probably to be
| fOund in the fact that much land forparly Javoto1
to the growth of taro is now planted in rice.
THE DERBY.-Lord Falmoutb's racer, Silvio, has
won the great Derby race, although the betting
was 100 to 8 against SilVio. This proves how fool
ish it is to risk money upon horse-fesh. 1t is not
Objectionable to race horses, for a prize but we
think that a law should be made in all civilized
countries, making it a misdemeanor punishable
with fine and imprisonment to bet money upon
races.
A SUBJECT FOR CoNJEcTURE.-When we see a
person at one of the large auction sales,-such as
has been going on the past week-purchasing con-
siderable quantities of spirits in cask and bottle,
and also, ales and wines, we naturally begin to specu-
late as to what will he do with it ," No one person
could in years consume the amount Of spirits, etc.
that we heard knocked down to individual China
men this week. They are not licensed to deal in
the article and although it is perhaps none Of our
business. yet we can't help specializing as to what
they will do with it?
Mr.. II. HOLSTEIN, our whilom historian of the
Police Court, has vacated the cool shades Of the
forum. and the life and adventures of g Isabella .
and the history of many a bottle of " bad gin p
will remain by him unrecorded-" affinity has
lost its historian. Mr.. H. holds forth on Fert
street, opposite Messrs. Fischer and Roth. where
be Will be found most happy to attend TO the
wants of his friends in the line of cigars and tObae-
co of the best and favorite brands. " Isabella y?
Aye, Isabella too, if she brings the dimes!
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THE BRITISH governor of the Fills recently re-
ceived a deputation of Chiefs from the Samoan
Islands, whose object seemed to be to obtain from
the British government the same measure for the
Samoan Islands as was extended to the Fijis-an-
nexation to the British Empire. But as this was
not quite clear from the tenor of the address to
the governor OF the Fills, read on the occasion by
the Secretary Of the Taimuan government, His Ex-
cellency very properly advised them TO consult
upon the exact nature Of the assistance which the
Chiefs sought from him. Our information on this
transaction ends here, but we shall not be sur
prised to hear of the Samoan group being annexed
to the British Empire ere long. Such a measure
could be OF no harm 10 HAWAII nel, and might do
US some good, by making our neighborhood to the
great Empire of the Britons so much the closer
aud they are very good neighbors.
MORTALITY AT THE GUANo IsLANDs.-As intima
ted in our last. a careful investigation was made
during the week by Gov. Dominis and Harbor
Master Capt. Daniel Smith, into the report Of the
mortality among Hawaiian laborers at the guano
islands. 1t was ascertained that the following were
the facts. From March, 1876 to April 1877, al
Bakers island there d~ied-Nauoli. Naiole, and
Huakini, of scurVy, and Kueki Of consumption.
There were landed here sick with seurvy from
Bakers Island,-Keawe, Josua, and Poipoi, all
very bad. but now getting better: Waihoikaia aud
Kalawaia. slightly affected. From Enaerbury's
Island Levi, Kaanaana, and Daniela, slightly
affected with scurvy and now getting better.
From Jarvis Island,-Kapu, bad with seurvy
and Holokahiki, slightly affected. 1t Ii stated that
at one of the islands, where the disease was most
the men had been deprived Of their for I
mer diet of fresh fish; to this it was thought, might !
be attributed the prevalence Of seurvy. c