The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-12-07

MUsIC.-Tbe band will play this afternoon AZ
Emma Square, at 4 O'Clock, with the following
programme
M~arch-Queen Kapiolani. ....".-........ Berger
Cayatine, Verdi
Waltz-Artlst strauss
Austrian Tattoo~soidier's ...............Ke ia Beis
The second moonlight concert will take place
on Monday next, Dec. Q. at the usual place and
hour.
I LABoRERs' WAGEs-A writer in this weeks
Gazette, after promising that the rate Of wages
paid to day laborers here is too high-a proposition
to which we readily assent-goes on 10 compare
the wages paid here with the rates in ireland. This
is n very absurd comparison, when we remember
the great difference in the cost Of living and all the
necessaries Of life in the two countries. In the
matter of clothing for instance, n shilling will 20
as far in Dublin as a dollar in Honolulu.
NAvAL-We learn from the Victoria British
CoLonisi, that four Russian war vessels may be
looked for shortly, at this port. The CoioHist
received the information from the Russian Consul
for Honolulu, who was then Nov. 49, at Victoria.
II. b. NJ. s. Triumph, flag ship Of the Pacific
Squadron, has arrived at Valparaiso, and the Shah
has sailed for home. 1t is reported that in conee-
ouence of the unsettled state of affairs in the East,
the British war ships now in the Pacific will rem
devious at Esquimault in January.
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DEREL1cT BRASDY.-one day last week Just
before independence Day. a cask Of brandy drited
ashore at KaneOhe. OF the windward size Of this
Island, whittier the current had carried it from the
wreck Of the EskJGnk. The natives secured and
concealed it away somewhere in the bush, where
they proceeded to bottle it off and divide. It is
said to have been a good article Of French brandy,
and probably made amends TO the people Of that
side Of the Island for the deprivation which they
suffered in the confscati0n Of the horseload Of gin,
mentioned in our last. I
CHILDLIKE AND BLAND.-The story comes from
Hilo that a foreigner there had succeeded in snug
Cling on shore q hundred tins Of opium. which he
concealed by burying in q canefeld. He went to
a Chinese storekeeper in the town and asked john
if he would like to buy five tins Of opium. o yes,
John would ~''likee." SO in due time the five tins
we're delivered and paid for. A few days later
the dealer proposed to sell ten more tins to the
Chinaman, and the bargain was concluded, the
opium merchant going of to get the tins. John
Chinaman slyly followed and saw where the plant
was. That night he unearthed the entire balance
IS ;ins-and removed it to his store. When next
he was asked to buy some more opium, he stolidly
replied, shaking his head, go no me no wantee
no more -
IRRIGATION WORKS on MAUL-Mr. Claus Spreck-
les, through his agent Mr.. schussler, tsee notice
in to-day's paper) is evidently determined to push
the great irrigation ditch for the Waikiki Commons
to a speedy completion. The plan proposed Of let
ting out sections Of the work 10 private parties by
the Job, is a novel one, but we doubt not will
prove a good one, and we expect to hear that ma.
tives and others have gone into the business en-
tensively. Messrs. w. G.. Irwin & Co. are the
Honolulu agents in this grand enterprise, and will
give any desired information. In this work Of
bringing water down on TO the rich but heretofore
barren plains Of East Maui, whereby our products
Of sugar will be vastly increased, Mr.. S~preckles
(while Of course beneftting bimselD will be doing
n grand work towards the development Of the
resou rces Of Hawaii Dei.
BoEN N TIE CLoUDs.-A correspondent Of a
German paper relates a remarkable Circumstance
that occurred at Paris on the 4th Of October.
There was a balloon ascension-tbe balloon being
however secured TO The earth by ropes. An Eng
lish lady among other persons. went up In The