The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-03-23

preceding the words {" shall ever be a member of the Legis-
lative Assembly, " so that the Article as amended shall read as
follows:
ARTICLE 20. The Supreme Power Of the Kingdom, in its
cial, these shall always be preserved distinct, and no judge
shall ever be a member of the Legislative Assembly.
Approved this 49,. day Of ........ A. ID. 1876.
BRIEF MENTION.
Bolles & Co.'s.
KAMEHAMEHA DAY.-A correspondent asks the
Directors Of Kapiolani Park whether we are to
have any races on the 18th OF June?
THANKs.-Ours are due to Mr.. Macdonald,
Purser of the ZedIandia, and to Mr.. E. S. Baker,
for files of Australian papers.
THE wealth of the late Pope is said to amount
to the enormous sum of 1900 900 lire (about
$34, 900, OO0) which is mostly in the hands of
Rothschilds, at Paris.
THE TELEPHoNE.-A duplex telephone" is the
latest novelty. By this discovery two persons can
converse along the same wire from opposite ends, at
the same time, without disturbing the current of
conversation.
DEATH OF A PIONEER MIssIoNARY.-By late Auck-
land papers we learn Of the death on Feb. 10th, of
Bishop Williams, of the English Church Mission to
the Maoris. He arrived in New Zealand in 1926.
and spent the most Of his life there. He was 70
years Oh age ~ INC tlnO VI uo OOotu'
EMPEROR Enthusiastically, March 22d be-
ing the SIst anniversary of the birth of the EN-
peror of Germany, was observed by a general
display of bunting on government buildings, foreign
consulates and the shipping in port, and by a
salute from the U. s. ship Pensacola.
MUs1c.-The band will play this afternoon at
Emma Square, at Al P. M. The following is the
programme:
Overture, Opera-Peter SchmoIl ........ Weber
Waltz-Stories Of the Vienna Forest Strauss
Selection. Opera-The Barber of Seville .Rossini
Trio and Quartet, .verd
Polker-The spsngtes
For THE ARcT1c.-Mr. Edward MacDonnell, who
was for some months employed in the editorial de-
partment of the ADVERTISER, writes us from Sydney
that he intends to leave Melbourne for England on
the 10th of April. He expects to be in time to join
Professor Nordenskjold's Arctic Expedition, which
sails from Sweden in June next.
THE DROUGHT Down SoUTH.-Newsf from Fiji to
January 26th, says the drought is severely felt there.
Good water is said to have been sold by one trader
at Is per bottle, and by another at Is a small cask.
We Fiji .drgus) are informed that at Tonga, in con-
sequence of a succession of severe hurricanes, follow
ed by q long drought, no vegetable food can be OBJ
tanned on any of the islands. The natives have.
however, plenty of money, and buy quantities of
beef and biscuit, and other papalangi Injuries.
OUR READERS viii notice a communication in
another column suggesting the ~propriety of a
day being set apart for public humiliation and
prayer for rain. Such a step is eminently proper.
aud common enough in all Christian countries
in times of great drought. We notice that at
Bathurst, New South Wales, the 3Oth Of January
was observed in this manner, services being held
in the Presbyterian, Congregational and EpiscO-
palian churches, at which large congregations
assembled. We presume that similar services
were held in other parts OF the Colony.
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SUGAR Imports IN THE UNITED STATES. - The
Chicago Journals Washington correspondent says:
Secretary Sherman, in a letter to Representative
Wood, of the Ways and Means Committee, urges i'm
mediate action on the sugar tax question. and sug-
gests preliminary legislation which will authorize
him to determine the grade of all sugars as a test of
saccharine strength for each standard. He urges
this on account of the incoming new crop, and TO
relieve the Department from present embarrassment,
growing out of the seizure Of all sugars imported
and entered according to the Dutch standard of
color.
ATRAvELING EXTRAORDINARY the ZeaIandia
we were pleased to welcome back to Honolulu Mr..
Edward s. Baker, special corresl ondent of the Saa
Francisco Journal Of Commerce. Mr.. Baker has
spent several mouths past in visiting places of note
in the Australian Colonies, including parts of Tas-
mania, the cities Of Melbourne, Sydney and Ade-
laide, the gold and coal mining regions, and Auck-
land, New Zealand, and he speaks in enthusiastic
terms of the immense resources of the country and
the grand future in store for it. We expect TO see
erelong in the columns of that sterling paper the
Journal Of Commerce, some interesting accounts OF
the travels of its Especial and trust he will not
forget, in passing, little Hawaii mel.
The WEArHER.-That venerable and heretofore
highly respected individual, 1.-THE oldest inhabi-
tant," has sadly fallen in public estimation as an
oracle. His repeated predictions about such and
such q stage of the moon-or the period of the equi-
nox-this or that sign ''-have all turned out de-
lusions, and the now melancholy fossil has ceased to
prophecy. Weather glasses. too, are generally voted
to be ~humbugs, and in short, all signs fail in a dry
time. Meantime, the public await with impatieDce
and intense curiosity an explanation of the mystic
rious hints in the last Gazette anent "supplying
Honolulu with an abundance Of water at all times"
Does it mean the erection of q gigantic affair to dis