The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-10-27

Francisco. She is intended for the coastlng trade
on the Hilo and Kaupakuea route. and has the ap.
pearance Of being a good carrier-she has proved
herself a fast sailer.
FATAL AccIDENT-Yesterday afternoon on Hotel
street. between Nuuanu and Fort. two express
wagons collided, whereby one native woman was
so badly injured that she lived only a few minutes,
and three others were more or less seriously cut
and bruised. Green horses aud unskillful drivers
lit is a wonder that accidents are not more fire.
quent.
Who VAS Ir!-we clip the following from a San
Francisco paper:
SAN JOSE, October 5.-Yesterday q man was ar
rested as drunk, his actions leading to that belief
When taken he said he had poisoned himself, but
no attention was paid to him. He was locked up,
and this morning was found in q dying condition.
Aid was called, but too late, as he died at ii A. n.
from the effects of laudanum. His name was James
Brown, and he lately worked at a hop ranch near
here. He is supposed to have q amily in the Sand
witch Islands. An inquest will be held. The de-
ceased had no effects.
SUNDAY SCHooLs.-A correspondent informs US
that the of the London Sunday School
Union, and of other English Sunday School Socie-
ties, have agreed TO Sunday, October
18th, and Monday, October 29tb, 1877. to be OBJ
served as days of Universal Prayer for Sunday
Schools. In accordance with the recommendation
the exercises at Fort st. Sunday School tomorrow,
Sabbath morning, will be largely devotional. A
praise service with addresses to parents, teachers
and children will take the place OF the regular SER
vice at IL o'clock. On Monday a prayer meeting
will be held in the vestry at 1880 p. m. and all
teachers and friends Of the Sunday School are re-
quested to be present.
THE w. II. ALLEN-This Honolulu whaler and
trader returned from the Arctic on Thursday
last, have done very fairly. She brings two
survivors of the wrecked crews OF last season, the
only ones, SO far as at present known, remaining
out of the sixty men who elected to stay by the
ships. One of these is a Hawaiian and the other
a Tahitian. They report that one of the ships
the Acors Barnes.-could have been got out last
fall, but that the Tahitians on board found some
rum, got drunk, and run her ashore. The two
survivors lived among the Indians during the
winter. At East Cape, the crew OF the ". H.
Allen had a fight with the Indians, who boarded
her and demanded rum. This being refused the
Indians began an assault upon the crew, which
ended in the killing Of some fifteen OF the former.
The Indians of that locality have long been re-
puted to be a bad lot. In the attack, one Hawa
iian seaman lost his life, and two were wounded.
A HAUNTED SHIP.-The American bark Sierra
Nevada, which recently arrived here with Goals
from Newcastle, N. S. W., is declared by her crew
to be haunted by some uneasy spirit. After the
most of her lading had been discharged-some
800 tons being retained on board as ballast for the
voyage to O~regon-noises began to be heard IN
the hold at night, as OF a large body OF coal slid
ing down in a heap. But always on examination
of the hold with a lantern after hearing the noises
the pile of coal would be found intact. The crew
got SO alarmed and excited about the mysterious
noises, that the drst officer appealed to the police
to investigate the affair. Accordingly, officer DOdC
and two native police were detailed to watch or
board the ship, during Wednesday night, but
although they heard the noises, as Of the falling o
masses of coal in the hold, they failed to discover
any clue to the cause. Deputy Marshal Dayton
was also on board during the evening. and heard
one of the periodical coal slides, Immediately OF
-hs L. - 4hA aAAIa nAI Ea-a1 to-, ~
before. Old sea captains express the opinion tina
the noise is produced by some of the crew, whC
want to get clear of the ship. IL SO, II would
appear that they are qnite skinfnl. 1
IMPROVEMENTS IN HONoLULU.-Under the inhu
ence OF better times and still better prospects, 4
good deal OF house building Of a permanent char
acter has been going on in the city Of late. TIT
finest looking and perhaps most substantially bull
structure in Honolulu (aside from the Government
Housed is the new two-story brick store belonging
to G. Brewer, Esq, Of Boston, Mass, erected by T
4 J. Baker, architect and builder, on the corner Of
Fort and Hotel streets. The walls are l6 inches
thick up to the second story. and IL inches above
with fire walls all around the roof, and an orna.
mented ballustrade OF concrete. On the ground
floor are two large rooms, suitable for stores, IL
feet in the clear on the second hoor-reached by
a wide stairway on Hotel street,-are three spa.
cious rooms and a hall, all of which are III feet G
inches in the clear. All the rooms are lathed and
p~lastered and hard-1nished. There are 80 open.
ings in the building, which is thoroughly ~hre-proof
with iron doors and shutters. The windows on the
ground floor are to be Of plate glass. Altogether,
it is a fine specimen of architecture, an honor to
Honolulu and a credit TO the builder, Mr.. Baker.
On Fort street also, Mr.. McIntyre's new brick
building, corner of King, has been completed and
occupied. 1t is of one story, G%re-proof, and in the
form of an L, 62.8 feet on King street and liz
feet on Fort. The King street portion is occupied
by H. E. Mcintyre IL Bro, the well known grocery
firm, and on Fort street there are three commodi-
Gus, airy rooms. All the rooms are IA feet in the
clear, and rs feet deep. Under each room there is
a roomy cellar. That under the King streets store
is 60 by rs feet, and 10 feet in the clear. Fort
street between King and Hotel street it may be
observed, bids fair TO be erelong built up entirely
with ~6reproof structures.
Besides the new bank building OF Bishop
& Co., now rapidly going up in the hands Of Mr..
Baker, at the corner of K~aahumanu and Merchant
streets, we hear that Mr.. Henry May will shortly
erect q two story brick mansion on Beretania
street, and that it is in contemplation TO place
another large brick store on the Brewer lot on
Fort street.
On Nuuanu street, Mr.. G.. G. Mclean has re-
Gently added a third to his handsome block OF
brick buildings.