The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-07-13
BRIEF M ENTlOM.

THANKs.-Ours are due to Whitney u Robert
son, to Col. Norris, and to Friel x Bush. for late
papers.
FURNITURE To-DAY.-We beg to call attention
to Mr.. Adams sale of choice furniture to-day. See
his column.
The regular meeting of the Hawaiian Mission
Children's Society will be held this evening at the
residence of the Hon. A. +. Judd.
THE alarm of fire yesterday 70 cenoon was caused
by an ~incipient confagration in an clubhouse near
Emma Square. No damage.
SEE fourth page of to-day's paper for an inter
esting letter from our Washin; yton correspondent;
also an article on the Queens Hospital by DR..
Rodgers.
SUPREME CoURT.-The Court has bz IN in session
for the July term since the Ist inst. Chief Justice
Harris presiding. We shall give full details of the
proceedings in our next.
OPIUM SNOKERs.-During the past week, in the
Police Court, seven Cinnamon were fiji led $50 each
for smoking opium one $75 for furI lishiug and
one $500 for keeping an opium den 1925 in all.
STABBING AFFRAY.-Two natives ait Ewa-bro-
thers-in-law, which may possibly acct unt for what
~tollows-having obtained a bottle OF gin last Mon
day, drank, auarreled and fought tog, ether. ending
In one OF them stabbing the other il / the breast.
The one who used the knife is in pris on, awaiting
the recovery of the injured man 81 Efficiently to
appear in Court.
STEAMER DAY.-Lust Monday ti ngs looked
lively about the lower part of th e city-one
steamer arrived from abroad and ty 20 sailed for
home ports. But after they were &c me. all soon
hattened down to the usual level but looking
forward TO the next steamer day on Tuesday,
the 10th, when we may expect the City of Neto
York.
THERE will be no music this afttar Don. but the
band will give a moonlight concert -at the square
at u O'Clock in the evening, with the following
programme:
Misunderstanding to .Liebig
Grand Fantasia~scotch songs new AHsan,s
Selection, Opera The Freisehuetz Weber
B SlialtPf Youi Remembcr B y
Vocal Gaiop-oueen Victoria
OUR TELEPHOSE.-Mau must &c ase braggirg. for
Honolulu has got 'em By tb kindness Of o
friend, we have been presented with the necessary
apparatus whereby the sdnct,trn sanctorttm of the
editorial room may converse fr eely with the publ
cation office without the labor of going down aud
up stairs. Very shortly we ex pect to see numbers
of these useful instruments eur .ployed by business
uIcu III OII Cltg'
A New FRE-PRooF.-In p leasing contrast with
a number of wooden :" mah .h-boxes" on Nuuanu
street recently erected by Chinese, we note the
new two-story brick 6re-p roof building of Mr..
Aswan, near the corner of King street. The
well-known architect and b uilder. Mr.. T. J. Baker.
has had the work in hand, which amounts to say
ing that it is well and substantially done. 1t
has q basement cellar. 8 feet in the clear; the
first story is Is feet. an( the second IL. The
building fronts 80 feet on Nuuanu street and has
a depth of 40 feet, and be sides presenting a hand
some appearance it is OF value as q protection
against the spread of fire
A CORRESPONDENT, who is evidently a dy-an
therefore not to be crit .cised by us-fnds fault
with the account of the picnic at DR.. Whitney's
on the 4th which appe AIRED in our Issue of last
week. il respect of some inaccuracies OF statement.
We stated that there " ere several hundred chill
dren present, when as we are now informed there
were 233 persons all to Id; and in enumerating the
speakers we omitted the name of u lady who grace
fully responded when called upon. We plead
guilty as charged sad aaa only excuse IS, that
other engagements azFllE prevented eH- personal
attendance on the Ets- occasion -~efarTed 10.
were obliged "a -1 H. -r tgeela- rom in
formation given hE -rar- a.Ha HHaea4f