The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-07-27

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THANKs.-Ours are due to Mr.. E. J. Plat, Pur-
ser of the Wilmington, for files of the San Fran
cisco papers. Also, to Messrs. Whitney & Robert
son and Mr.. T. G.. Thrum, for similar favors. -
TELEPHoNEs.-Mr Dickey, the telegraph man, is
in town, and has on hand several jobs of putting up
telephones-one between the office of Wilder & Co.,
on Fort Street, and the Government House, and
several others between private residences.
The PROPOSED POSTAL LAw.-We are informed
that the bill as drawn did not increase the rates of
postage on newspapers, but on the contrary reduced
them, and that the error was in printing the bill.
However. the subject is in the hands of a good com
mittee, and we trust it will be properly dealt with.
Dust CART.-The agent of the Board of Health
has recently started a very useful institutional horse
cart, of goodly size, drawn by a healthy looking
horse, to be constantly employed in going about the
streets of the city picking up the piles of dust and
rubbish, and conveying the SAM to the vacant lots
on the Esplanade.
MUs1C.-The band will play this afternoon at
Emma Square, at 3 o'clock. The following is the
programme
March, Greetings to .Licbig
Overture, King stephen new beethoven
Selection Opera, The Black omino......... .Auber
Sacred Melody Virgo Maria new) ............. .Oberthur
Fantasia The Adventure Of the Paaiadine new ..oesten
No PR1vILEGEs.--In the Assembly on Thursday
last, a resolution granting to the steamer Kilauea-
hou free wharfage and water from the government
taps, was negatived. We understand that Capt
Hebron, the owner of the Kilauea-hou, claims that
the privileges in question were promised him, in
writing, by the then Ministry, before he commenced
the building of the steamer. If this is so, is it not
of the nature of q contract, binding upon successive
Ministries
THE TAGLEss DoGs.-During this week the police
have performed a flank movement on the numerous
dogs about town, whose friends, if they have any,
have neglected to furnish them with tags. On
Thursday some 40 or so of those unfortunate
CANNES, after a night in the lookup and uncalled
for, were summarily shot and their bodies carted
to the esplanade for burial. A sympathizing indi-
vidual remarked in this connection that it was " q
dog-goned shame"
GRAND Vocal CoNCERT.-A Grand Vocal Concert
will be given by their Royal Highnesses Mrs. Dom
inis, the Heir-Apparent, and Mrs. Cleghorn this
evening, at Kaumakapili Church, in aid of
the Building Fund. The superior excellence of
these ladies as amateur vocal performers is a guar
antee that the public will not be disappointed in
their expectations. Mr.. Berger and a number Of
other amateurs will assist. Tickets have been placed
at the reasonable figure of 81 for the front rows
and fifty cents for back seats Children, half price:
Doors open at half past seven O'Clock. Concert
to commence at eight.
A WATER CART.-The dreadful dust that has
pervaded the atmosphere of our streets during the
past week, penetrating every nook and Granny.
and making everybody feel dirty and uncomfort-
able indoors and out, suggests the inquiry, why
can't we have a water cart to lay the dust? Some
twenty years ago an enterprising individual eX-
temporised a water cart with a big cask on wheels
and a tin sprinkler behind. with which the streets
were wet twice a day during windy times. Occu,
pants of stores and shops contributed a stipulated
sum per week, and the business paid.
JAPANESE SrUDENTs.-The intellectual abilities OF
the japanese race have been evidenced in a striking
manner by a quartette of students from that country
now studying in Berlin. One of these, DIR. Dirokltao'
has lately invented an ingenious optical instrument
termed the Horoscope, which measures the variations
in the perception of light and colour by the human
eye, in accordance with the strictest mathematical
laws. Another who has attained the rank 81 lieu
tenant in the Prussian army, has introduced a re-
markable simpliication into the mechanism OF the
Mauser rifle, which has succeeded the historic
needle-gun. Two more, who are prosecuting ,uNH
chemical studies under Professor Hofmann' pave
published for two years past several interesting
synthetical researches on the aromatic series
Nature.
BOARD OF HEALTH.-A bill has passed the As
sembly on its second reading, and comes up to-day
on its final passage, to reconstruct the Board OF
Health. At present the Board consists OF the MINIS
ter of Interior as President, two physicians and TWO
laymen or non-professionals. The object OF the new
act is to exclude physicians from membership on the
Board, why, we are not at all clear. By their edu-
cation, one would suppose that physicians should be
better qualified than the general run of men to Judge
of sanitary matters. In San Francisco, as we read
in the papers, their Board of Health is composed,
with the exception of the Mayor, entirely of physl-
clans. Our Board serves without pay but under
the new act we presume that when the opinion or
advice of q physician is required, the Board will be