The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-19

HoEscblaeger s Co.. Thursday and Friday next
The trade vii be able 20 repleaish their stock a.
this sale On their own figures.
RExovED-By reference 10 cur advertising
columns il will be seen thai DR.. Rodgers has re-
moved his office to the Odd Fellows baildlng On
Fort street We learn also that the DOeior intends
to be his Own aPPO;hecary-L e, viii himself put
up 81 prescriptions. "Throw physic to the dogs"
says Shakespeare bat poor humanity is sometimes
compelled to take a dose.
GLASDERs-PArties importing horses from Cali
forniA should take all reasonable precautions against
the introduction Of that terrible equine scourge, the
g~landers. The disease IS very dangerous, and men
having the charge Of borsez run more or less risk Of
contracting the disease, and il is incurahle. A man
died of it the other day at San jose. 10 horrible
agony.
USFoUxDED During the pas, week a rumOr pre-
vailed in town that an agent Of Mr.. Spreekles on
Maui was employing natives TO work as common
labOrers and paying them from one dollar to one and
a-half per diem. of course such prices would be
quite unreasOnably high, and thoroughly denOralizs
the labor market. In fact the offer Of any such pay
would in the end be a serious injury to the native
Hawaiisns. We have the best Of authority for say
] ing tnaL l1e report ALluue1 u Is enlrely utlOuDueus
- The attention Of consumers OF kerosene oil is
called to the notice Of Marshal Parke. The great
danger Of using oils that fall below the Gre ties, is
undisputed, and The Marshal feels il bis duty, not
only as the proper Ofi,er appointed by law to look
after the public safety, but for the sake Of humanity,
to see that the statute is strictly and impartislly
enforced. In view Of the many frightful accidents
fairly attributable to the use of oils falling below the
standard, consumers and importers should be readily
willing to submit TO every precaution necessary for
the protection of the public.
ABscoSDED.-Some thirteen "a bakers dozen) Of
NChinamen who arrived here by the last steamer
from San Francisco, and who had signed contracts
and received advances to work on plantations, in ac-
/ cordance with their advanced education in Califor-
MIA have quietly " stepped OUT and are supposed
to be somewhere in the Koolau mountains 1t seems
that no one can identify them, or cares to do so, al
though one or more attempts have been made by the
Police to capture them. A prominent Chinese mer-
chant is said to be implicated in the affair, and is
indicted for perjury. Heretofore our experience has
led US to entertain a very high opinion of the pro-
bity and fair dealing Of the better class of Chinese
among US, some of whom are good citizens.
GLASS IN ~RpE.-Some wise-acre having affect
ed to doubt our assertion that ground glass was
used in many instances here in polishing rice, the
following, from q perfectly reliable correspondent.
is given as con6rmatory of our position
CT have noticed your statement made the other
day with respect to glass being used in cleaning
rice, and also that some doubt was expressed by
some as to whether pieces were left in the rice.
Within the past year 1 was obliged to purchase a
supply of rice on the island Of Hawaii. The dealer
was honest enough to inform me that there was
glass in what he had but there being no other, |
we were obliged to use that lot or none. Careful
examination was made of each mess before cooking, |
and probably an average of half a dozen grains
Of glass to each cupfnl were found. True, they
were mostly polished of, but not a healthy article
Of diet any way
LEASES oLD.-Pursuan TO advertisement in our
last. the leases of sundry government lands in the
district of North Kohala were sold at auction on
Monday last, the 14th inst. These are mostly graz
ing lands. The following is a correct statement of
the result of the sale. whereby the government,
instead Of the proposed pitiful sum of say two or
three hundred dollars a year, will be in the receipt
of no less than $2,S75. The Interior Department
and the government surveyors are bringing to
light new sources of revenue.
Lot No. l. Hualua Mauka-I64 Clio acres,
upset price, $3.50 per acre per annum, was leased
to r. Hind for 10 years at 1925 per acre.
Lot No. 2, Hualua Makai-137 clio acres, upset
price $3.50 per acre per annum, was leased to d.
R. Vida at 5000 per acre for 10 years.
Lot No. 3. Opihipau-479 acres. upset price
$3.50 per acre per annum, was leased to ;. Stains
at $I.75 per acre.
Lot Nc. 4, Hukiaa-24I acres. upset price $l.0O
per acre. was leased to ,. Stains at Sl.l23 per
acre.
Lot No. 5, Puuepa-69 acres, upset price $500
per acre per annum, was leased to Dr.J Wight at
SIPS per acre. |
Lot No. G. Kokoiki-272 acres. upset price 25
cents per acre per annum, was withdrawn.
SCRIMMAGE.''-Som of the recently arrived
California Cinnamon, who profess to know all about
"'Melican man" and 'lyuchee,'' got a lesson
last Thursday week at Hamakua-poko on Maui that
will probably satisfy them-until they get another
good chance. 1t seems there was a dozen or go who
made a practice of coming late to work in the field.
The overseer, after repeated warnings. proceeded TO
enforce the rule of making up lost time by working
later than the regulation time in the afternoon.
This seemingly equitable arrangement did not suit
these advanced Mongolians, and they resented it by
a personal attack upon the overseer, who, after floor
ing two or three with his only weapons-fsts-was
compelled to run before a combined attack with hoes.
The foreigners (white men) employed on the plsnta-
ton, to the number of four or FIVE, were at supper
in a house a half q mile away, and towards this the
overseer ran, followed by the blood-thirsty China
men with hoes upIifted. The shout for help Of the
overseer was promptly responded to by q number OF
'''Melican men," who hurriedly came out with their
mouths half full of hash, and at once compromising
the situation, proceeded to strike from the shoulder.
The scene is said TO have been highly am~using-not
however to the Chinese, who after being well drub-
bed consented to go to work. Some, it is reported.
got so badly thumped about the eyes that they had
to lay up for 4 day. Anyhow, fsticufs are better
than pistols and knives.
Leprosy in San Francisco.
Ona Dr O-Donnell mas been proyinR to the !