The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-08-09

sengers in this city. and the wonder is bow they all
make a living. The living Is probably q very
poor one for some of the horses.
VERY RELAnLE-The Gazette informs rs that
the cane on the d" Pauhala Plantation, district OF
Kona, Hawaii is in dne condition, SC. But 1t
happens that there is no such plantation in konai
nor in fact any sugar plantation whatever in that
district. This business of correcting the Gdrete'S
blpnders is getting to be monotonous. Give us a
rest,
DAILY ExPEcrED-TLe ship Rarenscraig, which
sailed from Madeira April %, with 40 Portuguese
immigrants on board for Honolulu, is now due.
4 large proportion of these are women and chill
dren, and we understand that the Board OF lmml-
grafton have made arrangements for their tempo
rary recommendation: on arrival at the new a"s"-
antine premises at Fisherman's Point.
The HAWAIIAN NIGHTINGALE.-A telegram from
New York. dated July 10. says it is announced
tha Max. MeretZek's company includes Annie
Montague. Julia Polk, Rachel Samuels, Florence
Rice Knox, Vernona Jarbeau, Charles tritzch,
Charles Turner, and possibly Henry and James
Peakes. 1t opens ut the Academy OF Music in De-
cember. producing four or five new operas.
The WoULD-BE LEGAL FRATERNITY.-We are in
formed that there were no less than sixteen native
applicants at the Supreme Court the last term for
licenses to practice law, out of whom but two were
successful in obtaining the coveted parchment.
Some of the questions propounded at the examination
of the candidates had a touch of humor in them. As
for instances: elf a drunken man falls against q
closed door and bursts it open, is it burglary 2"
"Oh, yes,'' was the chorus of replies; " the most
aggravated sort of burglary"
MACHINE CREAM-In a late number OF the Bos-
ton Herald, Dune 29) we read that Mr.. Weston,
a former resident of Honolulu and the patentee
of the well-known sugar centrifugal, has applied
the same principle to the separation OF cream from
milk. The machine is in successful use at the
90 Deerloot Farm in Southboro. Mass, and a full
dissertation nf ifS mode of OnpratiOn ia given in the
Herald. From 500 to 400 quarts of milk are dealt
with in an hour, and in three hours after the milk
was drawn from the cows, butter was made there
from.
OPIUM.-Last Monday, a Chinaman convicted of
smuggling two or three dozen tins Of opium in a
chest with a false bottom, was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment at hard labor. On Saturday
last, a discovery was made By the Customs authori-
ties of some one hundred tins of the drug, hidden in
the forehold of the same vessel, the RdLakdua, for
which, so far, no owner has been found or is likely
to be, so that the poor ship may have to take the
responsibility. But this would not be a novelty in
her case, seeing that once before, as the M. b. Ro-
bertS, she was libeled for q similar offense and paid
fine. In this instance, unlike the one to which we
refer. there is absolutely at present nothing apparent
to connect the master with the transaction in opium.
INJURIOUS FAIsEHooD-The Gazette Of Wednesday
announced the report of the death of Mr.. VIM.
Weight. of Koolau. on this Island, by being thrown
from a horse. Mr.. Weight was in town on Thursday
and called at the Office of this paper, with q re-
quest that we would give expression to bis feeling
of indignation at the careless manner in which the
Gazette gave publicity to the entirely nniounded
report. 1t was more especially Injurious from the
fact that the paper in question is issued on Tues
day evening to go by the steamer to the windward
Islands, where Mr.. Weight has relatives, who will
be unnecessarily afflicted and perhaps pecuniarly
Injured by the falsehood This is not the 6rst in
stance in which we have heard denounced the
careless and unreliable manner in which the Ga
zette gives Notes of the Week Indeed. that pa
per has become prOverbial in the community as
quite 1.-THE Unreliable"
WAYS THAT ARE DAnK-The sexton of a church
in this city, attempted a piece of sharp pratice
lately upon one of the sojourning heather, which
to say the least. could not be called other than
attempting to obtain money under false pretences.
The story is, that The gravedigger applied to a
Chinaman for the sum of sixty dollars, alleging
that it was the amount due as his (the celestial's)
portion of the expense for putting up q fence.
Inquiry by the dunned heather revealed the fact
that the ground did not belong to the sexton. nor
did the expense in any way accrue 10 him and he
naturally felt indignant over the request and
brought the matter to the notice of a few 80 Nell
can" men, who gave him the necessary advice TO
thwart the attempted extortion. As the disturber
of ghosts has been concerned in other questionable
transactions OF q like nature it Is reasonable to
suppose that ere long he will make a success, and
with that success, receive the rest and retirement
(from one of our CouTts) fitting TO the continued
labor of so . good and faithful a servant" dc Ia
didble.
NoTEs FROM KAU, HAwAn.-From Hon. A.. $.
Cleghorn and others who have recently visited the
crater of Kilauea and the district of Kau, we gather
some facts of general interest. Mr.. Cleghorn and
party left the steamer at Hilo, and rode through to
the volcano without meeting a drop of rain, and
found Kilauea very active, as it has been for several
weeks past. The eruption is not confined to the old
south lake, but there have been frequent streams
flowing from it to the central part of the crater.
Visitors can never have finer views or better weather
than nowadays The ride from the volcano house
to KapapaIa was hot and dry as usual, but the party
was surprised to find the only rain they had met
since leaving Hilo, commenced between Kapapala
and Pahala, which was supposed would be the
driest. Here on the 28th about noon a heavy rain
set in and continued till night fall. These hard
rains have been frequent during July, and we learn
that the rainfall for that month at Pahala amounted
to about three inches, on fourteen days Of the
month, and since January the amount of rain has
been about 20 inches. The cane fields are reported
in good condition, except those on the lower lands.
The young cane especially, planted during the past
ten months, is coming forward as rank and thrifty
as any to be found in other districts. We learn that
there are now some 100 or 1900 acres Of cane grow /
ing on the Pahala Plantation, about 600 acres of
which will mature in 1880, promising a yield of
1900 to 1000 tons of-sugar for the first CROP The
cane fields in Waiohinu also, which have been set
back by the long drought, are much improved by
the July rains, and large crops are looked for. The
drought in kau is thought to be at an end now, and
the prospects for the plantations in that district are
very much improved.
+ CHINAMAS KILLED.-Last Saturday afternoon an
express wagon containing three natives coming down
Nuaanu avenue, when near the first bridge ran over
q Chinaman, who never spoke after being knocked
over, and died on Sunday evening. 1t appears that
the horse became FESTIVE, and in endeavoring to hold
him in the rens broke. Deputy Marshal Dayton
convened d coroner's jury to enquire into the facts.
who rendered the verdict as given below. We I'M
derstand that the driver of the wagon has been ar
rested and will be tried on a charge of man.
slaughter. We would advise all who have occasion
to employ an express wagon to give a look at the
harness before trusting themselves behind the some
times halfbroken horse.
"An inquisition taken at Honolulu, Island Of
Oahu, on the 4th aud 9th days of August, in the
year 1879, before David Dayton, one of the coroners
of said island, upon the body of Lam Yong, a
Chinamau, then lying dead, by the oaths of the
Jurors whose names are hereuuto subscribed, who