The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-12

They have found a skeleton CITY feet under
ground between Fort Yuma and the Pot Holes.
Arizoaa. \ massive gold ring, OF curious design
and i gold chain were ioaad with the skeleton.
E2IGRASTs FOB CrDA-A dispatch from Havana
dated sept 10. states shat the Preach mail steamer
arrived on the 7th. bringing four hundred emigrants
from the CansTy Islands. These Islands lie about
midway between M.ieira aai the Cape dc Verde
Islands. and the inhabitants are descendants Of the
original Portuguese eo,onists. TIE dispatch says.
e they are al fac field Iaborers-"
An ExCREsCEScE.-The old wooden building %
Merchan, street. next to J. 7. WAREHOUSES brick
store, stands Ousseveral fee; beyond all its ~neighbOrs
and has 4 useless verandah that projects out several
feet more, It Is an u~nsigbty object. and it would
be a public benefit if the owner could be induced to
tear the cd shanty down and esect a substantial
stone CT brick store in its place.
MECHANICS BENEFIT UxIcS.--At the regular
monthly meeting Of the above named association
held last evening. the following officers were elected
for the ensuing term
President. .......- Robert GRAY.
Vice President. Thos. soronson.
4 Lucas,
Executive c5mmittee-wm. Aud, Jss. v, NoGulre. J.
Board Of Trustees-Rober Gray, Thos. soreason. J. II
Black.
4 LARGE PUNP-The largest and most powerful
iron pump ever imported here was received by the
barkentine Grace Roberts, from San Francisco. Ii
is for the new plantation Of Mr.. Knudsen, at Wahi-
ava, Kausi. and is TO be used in raising water for
irrigation in dry seasons. The delivery pipe is 10
inches in diameter, and it will throw $500 gallons
in q minute-would FL the Nuuanu reservoir in
three hours, or eight times in twenty-four hours.
It is from the establishment Of the Geo. F. Blake
Manufacturing Company. New York. 1t will be
operated by steam.
81 In no respect is the want Of a municipal
government for Honolulu more apparent than in
the condition of the sidewalks in some parts Of the
city. Places can be pointed out where the pedes-
trian is obliged to go into the street, at the risk
Of getting run over by some passing vehicle,
owing to the sidewalk being blocked up and rem
dered impossible by bulky merchandise left there
for q length of time by its owner. People are also
liable to get a fall in the dark, at the risk of break
ing a limb. We hope that directing the notice
of the proper parties to this Objectionable practice
viii be sufficient to abate the nuisance-for such
it is, and a dangerous one, too.
BADLY WoUNDED-The few words of plain, I'M
vanished truth from a correspondent anent the
editorial conduct of the Gazette, seem TO have cut
TO the quick, judging from the angry and charac-
teristically vulgar reply. One is forcibly remind
ed of the description in Pickwick, of Mr.. Pott. the
editor of the " Eatanswill Gazette" whose habit
it was to apply choice epithets to the opposition
paper, such as" Our worthless contemporary -
4" That disgraceful and distardly journal. the indie
pendent - That false and scurrilous print -
- That vile and slanderous calumniator - these
and other spirit-stirring denunciations were strewn
plentifully over his columns, and excited feelings
of the most intense delight and indignation in the
bosoms of the townspeople. We prefer to leave
the practice of such a degrading style Of jOurn-
alism to the editor of the Gazette.