The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-06-22

brilliant affair.
a CORRECTIONAL our notice last week of
the dinner of the Azores Association" we were
in error in respect to the day. 1t was on Sunday
June 9, the Feast of Pentecost.
ANOTHER New BUILDING.-Within the past few
days, Mr.. T.. j. Baker has laid the foundations of a
two-story brick building, to be so feet front by 80
feet in depth, on Fort street near the corner of Mer-
chant, for I. Cummins, Esq.
MUsIc.-The band will play this afternoon at
Emma Square, at 3 O'Clock. The following is the
programme
March-oueen KaPiolani:
Selection, Opera-The Freischuetz, new Weber
selection, Opera-The Garden Of St Gervais..."....LecOc
THE Prince of Wales was a few days ago
reelected Grand Master of the English Free
MasOns at a Grand Lodge, and in returning
thanks regretted that causes over which he had
no control had prevented his attendance at the
Grand Lodge for ONE years, and said the
brethren might be sure he did his best to uphold
their interests, which lay near his heart.
STEAMER LIKELIKE.-This steamer will be laid
up during the first week in July, to afford oppor-
tunity to put in a new composition propeller.
This has become necessary from the fact that the
iron one, which replaced the broken propeller last
October. has become so soft from galvanic action
that its further use is not considered advisable.
Attention is directed to the steamers Time
Table.
TELEPHoNEs.-They are shipping telephones
from San Francisco to China, and the " Central.
Flowery Kingdom is about sending a full dip
lomatic corps and consuls to America. 1t seems
as if China is awaking from her Rip Van Wrinkle
sleep of ages, and becoming alive to the in
fuences which sway the destinies of nations in
the present day.
RACES AT WAILUKU.-We learn that to-day q
meeting will be held at Waikiki to arrange the pro-
gramme for races to take place at Kahului on the
4th of July. Five horses are in training, among
which are d" Katie Lee who did so well on the
11th at the Falkland a horse belonging to Mr..
John Wagner. The latter is said to be the favorite.
THE Exercises of the Graduating Class, 1873, of
Oahu College, came off on Thursday evening at
Fort Street Church, and the students acquitted them
selves in a manner to reflect the highest credit upon
themselves as we'll as the Faculty. The church was
crowded with the friends of the scholars and the
public generally and the deepest interest was mani
tested by all present.
NARROW EsoAPE-The ceiling of a cottage on
the Hotel premises caught fire on Sunday evening
last from the fame of a kerosene lamp, in the absence
of the occupants. and there was a narrow escape
from a serious confagration. The King, who was
unattended taking a walk in the neighborhood, was
the first to discover the fire and put it out with a
garden hose. His Majesty, it will be remembered,
is an old fireman. There was no general alarm
given.
LANDING AT KoHoLALELE.-One of the best of the
few good boat landings in Hamakua, Hawaii, is that
at Koholalele. We have recently seen a plan Of a
landing stage designed for this place by Mr.. 7.
Hughes, which strikes us as peculiarly simple, econ
omical and practicable. As its adoption at the point
indicated should prove a great benefit to a large sec
ton of country, we hope to see the enterprise receive
government aid.
JAMES J. AYERS. whom some of our readers
will remember as the editor of the Honolulu
Daily Herald in 1866, and who is now publishing
the Los Angeles Express, is spoken Of as a can
didate for Delegate to the California Constitu-
tional Convention. The San Jose Mercury,
speaking of Mr.. Ayers says = be is one of the
best journalists on this coast and no better
or ADLER man could be selected"
AMONG the passengers by the Wilmington We no.
tice the name of Rev. w. Frear, pastor of the Fort
Street Church. Mr.. Frear will be absent six months
to recruit his health, somewhat impaired by seven
years of faithful labor. a purse of $500 was
raised by the ladies, which was presented to the
reverend gentleman, as a token of their regard.
We participate with his congregation in the hope
that Mr.. Frear will return with health entirely re-
stored.
THE LoBBY.-Anywhere from one hundred to
two hundred able-bodied Hawaiian men are to
be seen every day, interested spectators of the
doings of the Legislative Assembly. They have
the appearance generally of being well fed, al
though poi is undoubtedly high. One cannot
help specializing, what a valuable work this
body of men might accomplish on a sugar or
rice plantation. if so minded, instead of loaang
away the time in witnessing the equally unpro-
ftable frittering away of time by the Repre-
sentatives.