The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-03-08

Ht 'AN fCStEN AStNuAN % II "a ~ NHuiNuf va
or about the 81 Of April.
LIBRARY AssocIATIoS-There will be an adjour-
ned meeting of the above at the Hall Of the knights
Of Pythias, Hotel street, at I O'Clock this evening.
All are inSited-Business of Importance.
CRowDED-owing to the crowded state OF our
columns, much interesting matter prepared for this
issue Is unayoidably deferred; among which is the
Supreme Court decision in the Taxation case of II.
Hackfeld 4 &C., VS.. q. III. Luce.
DEATH RATE.-J. II. Brown, Esq. Agent of the
Board of Health, informs us that the interments in
the Honolulu district were IS for December. "A tor
January, and 20 for February-a large increase
on those for the corresponding period last year.
This is accounted for by the prevalence OF whoop-
ing cough and low fevers. A matter for serious
reflection is the fact, as reported, that more than
one half the natives who died were unattended by
a physician.
MUsIo.-The Band will play this afternoon at
Emma Square. commencing at 4.30 O'Clock. The
following is the programme
March, Greetings. .Lebig
Overture, BaTanda. .Hertei
Cavatina Beisario. .Donfzetti
Waltz lool Nights Strauss
Polka, For Friendship.
FArAL AccIpENT-Lest Saturday evening a ma
tive man, while in a state of intoxieation, fell from
the verandah of the Harbor Masters Office to the
ground, a distant of fifteen feet. He was picked
up by q policeman (who did not see the fal) and
taken to the station house, where he was locked
up as drunk. On Sunday morning, examination
showed that the man was insensible from concus-
sion of the brain, and be was removed to the
Queens Hospital, where he died on Monday. hav-
ing never recovered consciousness since the fall.
NAvAL-H. |. Russian Majesty's clipper Djiguiii,
Z guns, and ia men, arrived yesterday morning.
AZ days from Valparaiso, and saluted the flag, which
was returned from the battery on Punchbowl. The
foli0UinO iS n LIST nf har nfhaerS.
captain-de LiyrOn
Pitehuguin, Reitzenstein
Prince Droutskoy Soko-
linsky, Baron Nolken, Litsiroh
idshipmen-Meshkoh, shein, Duchene. Voevodsky
D~octor-Gesehouss
Nav. O~ficer-Lieut. Zakharoh
Artillery ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chief Engineer-Lieut. Emelianof
Second
Third Engineer-Boishako
HOMICIDE AT WAIUKU.-The steamer from wind
ward on Sunday brought the intelligence that on
the preceding morning a Chinaman named Akela,
who Tor a number OF years past had kept a small
restaurant al Wailuku, Maui, had been found dead
in his shop. with wounds upon the head and neck
which indicated that he had been murdered. AT
the hour when the steamer left, a Coroner's in
quest had been ordered for 2 O'Clock, p. m Sus-
picion had rested upon n young halfcaste named
Davis. but report says that nothing was ascertain
ed that could i~mplicate him with the murder.
Akela was a quiet, inoffensive man, generally liked
by the residents of Waiiuku. He had q native
wife and children who were absent at Makawao at
the time. Marshal Parke went up to Maui in the
steamer on Tuesday. to investigate the affair.
Nothing has been learned as to the result, as there
have been no arrivals from Maui.
SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION AROUND THE WORLD
The iron steamship Gen. Werder is fitting out in
New York for an expedition around the world, to
carry 200 tourists and students. She is q vessel Of
1920 tons, 500 horsepower, and is to be command
ed by an officer of the U. S. Navy, Captain A. P.
Cooke. She is to leave in May next, and it will be
sixteen months from the time of leaving until the
tourists arrive back in New York via San Francisco
overland. The expense for each student, including
state-rooms, meals and tuition, will be 81, 500. If
200 students and tourists are booked at this rate on
or before May 1, 1879, the General Werder will
leave New York. May 8. and begin her circumnavi-
CATION of the globe. The route of the expedition, as
laid out by Captain Cooke, embraces more points of
interest and is more comprehensive than any here
tOfore proposed for any similar expedition. 1t is
from New York to the Azores, Queenstown, Dublin,
Southampton. Isle of Wight, London, Edinburgh,
Copenhagen, ST, Petersburg, Stockholm, Hamburg,
Antwerp, Havre, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Tangier,
Malaga, Cartagena, Barcelona, Marseilles, Genoa,
Naples, Messina, Trieste, Venice, Athens, CONSTANT
nople, Smyrna, Joppa, Alexandria, Suez. Alden,
Bombay, Laccadive Islands, Ceylon, Pulo Penang.
Singapore, Banca, Batavia, Borneo, Sooloo Islands,
Philippine Islands, Manila, Hong Kong, Wampoa,
Macao, Canton, Formosa, Shangnai, NanKIng, Pe1no
River, Pekipg, Nagasaki, Osaka, Yokohama, Toxic,
Sandwich Islands. San Francisco, and from thence
return overland to New York in a special train pro-
vided for the expedition.