The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-03-01


GENERAL GRANT IN ISDlA.-A telegram dated at
bombay, February Is. announces the arrival of
General Grant and party on that day.
QUEEN's HosPIrI-We are requested to call at
tcn;ion to the notice in our advertising columns of
a meeting to-day of the Trustees of the Queens
Hospital.
A Nav ENTERFR1v-.-Laine s Co on the Espla-
made, have inaugurated a new enterprise, which it
strikes Us must prove popular and remuneratiye.
See advertisement
The TEA PARTY at the Lyceum on Saturday ev-
ening last. was 4 success. being well attended by
ladies and gentlemen. We understand that the re-
ceipts amounted to the sum of SPILLS.
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MASONIC The regular monthly meeting of Ha-
waiian Lodge No. 81, F. s A. NJ, viii take place at
their Lodge room in Make block on Queen street, on
Monday evening next. at u O'Clock. Visiting
brethren are invited.
RAINFALL FOR FEBRuARY-We have the follow
ing returns for the Honolulu district for the past
! month
At DE-: 3; MSKibbin'S; 400 inches
At Mr.. J. +. wiider's, Nuuanu valiey.-....29O "
COPYING PHoToGRAPHs-In a window on Hotel
street. near the south corner of Fort, may be seen
some specimens of enlarged photographs, done by
the =" Universal Copying CO.. of San Francisco.
which are really very handsome. Those who
wish to preserve family pictures will do we'll TO
avail themselves of the presence in town of Mr..
Friedlander, the agent of the company. See ad-
vertisement.
CHEAP ORANGEs.-The S. f. Post says The
culture of the orange in California has reached
the limit of profit. Good ripe oranges selling in
the streets at 10 cents per dozen-a price that
cannot leave more than 25 cents a hundred TO the
grower" That is cheaper than they can be
bought for in Honolulu, with the orange groves of
Waialua and Kona right here. But are-not some
of those cheap oranges from Tahiti?
DIED AT SEA.-Captain jerks, of the bark Rala-
kaua, which vessel arrived here from San Francisco
on the 21st ult., reports that on Feb. 11th, in lat.
27.06 n, long. 141 "a W.. a passenger named Geo.
G.. Wayne died of consumption, and was buried at
sea. AR. W. was q native of Philadelphia, and aged
about thirty years. He had but recently arrived in
San Francisco, via Cape Horn, by the ship ". r.
Grace, having taken the voyage for the benefit of
his health. His effects were delivered to the U. s.
Consul at this port.
VANpALISM.-A number of complaints have
reached us in regard to the wretchedly barbarous
y III WHICH ltd tiCSS SiOh6AhS P"~
lie. have been recently-not trimmed, bnt-hacked
and slashed. The group of trees referred to are
algerobas on the continuation of King street,
about midway of the plain. lit was necessary to
trim the branches, it was certainly worth while to
have had it done well and neatly, and not to have
committed the work to native ignoramuses. Such
fellows ruin in an hour a thing OF beauty which
Nature takes years to produce.
n o. Uu.- -aa
opened On Thursday evening last to a full audience,
among whom were the King and members of the
Royal Family. A circus always takes here as well
as everywhere else, and from the specimen of the
performances on the first evening, we think Mr.. Lu-
proil's company will prove to be popular. The rid
ing was good; the feats were excellent ; and that
sine qua non of a circus-the clown-was,a as we
heard a young gentleman remark, "Way up"
There was an accident in the early part of the even
ing, in the giving away of the supports of the pit
benches, which caused o momentary alarm. but no
one was seriously injured, and proper precautions
will prevent a similar occurrence. Another perform
ance is advertised for this evening.
The TRAMP QUEsTIoN.-Thore seems to have
spread somewhat of q scare in the community about
tramps but except in one or two instances IN which
seedy looking strangers have been seen prowling
about private premises, the most of the stories in re-
gard to the doings and sayings of so-called tramps
have proved to be pure fabrications. A well-authen-
ticated case occurred last week, where the same
strange man called twice at q private residence on
Nuuanu avenue and acted in a manner that would
lead to the suspicion that he was partially insane.
But by the agility he displayed in getting away
when the police were called, it would indicate that
there was o 6 method in his Madness 1t must not
be forgotten in this connection that we have a few
!" hoodlums , in the city, and it may prove conve-
nient to them to place their mischievous doings to
the credit of tramps. A communication on the sub
ject is nnavoidably crowded out.