The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-10-18
THE PACIFIC
Commercial !.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER Is.
BRIEF MENTION.


SATURDAY, OCTOBER Is.
BRIEF MENTION.
- The LIelike lays up for repairs during the
coming week. The Lshum yesterday took the
mails for Maui and the windward side of Hawaii.
We improved the opportunity to furnish our pa
irons there with the ADVERTISER, issued on Friday
evening.
SWIMMING MkTCH-We hear that there will be a
swimming match after fur O'Clock TO day, between
two of the employees of the foundry-a Scotchman
and a Hawaiian. the course from the end of the
Espianade TO the lighthouse and back. Native
women are, generally. better swimmers than the
men.
ACCIDENTAL SHOorING.-A report comes from
Waialua, on this island, to the effect that two
young natives went up the valley on Monday last
for the purpose of shooting turkeys. and that the
gun in the hands of one of them. named Kakimila
went off accidentally, the charge entering his body
aud causing death almost instantly.
Doc vs.. sHARK-on the last trip of the steamer
Jas. Make to Kauai, on approaching to within a
half "a mile OF the shore, a native owner of a large
dog. who had been boosting OF the animals
accomplishments threw him overheard to swim
ashore. On the way, however. poor Ponto was
attacked by sharks. He fought them bravely for
a while, but the treacherous sea-wolves came on
him from the rear. and at length his lifeless body
foated to the beach with the hinder parts bitten
off.
INsANE.-We regret to learn that the Rev. J. Ke-
kela. a Hawaiian missionary stationed at the Mar
quesas Islands. arrived here by the Lady Lamp
son on Sunday in a condition of mental ALTERATION.
He went to San Francisco from the Marquesas in a
trading vessel, and from the former port embarked
for his home in these Islands. from which he had
been absent some fifteen years. The sudden tran
sition from a life of utter seclusion and quietude
for years at Nuuhiva 10 the hustle and turmoil of
San Francisco. may prove to have been the predis-
posing cause of bis trouble. He was quite violent
two days after leaving San francisco, so much so
that he had to be confined we learn that he is
now improving.
TIE Next LEGIsLATURE.-The natives are begin
ming to talk about candidates for the election of
Representatives, which takes place next February.
Honolulu, the seat of the wealth and a good deal
OF the intelligence of the country, will probably
continue to send the poorest delegation to the AS
sembly of any district. This is because the wealth
and intelligence OF Honolulu cannot be aroused to
take any interest in the elections. We hear Mr.. Al
bert Kunuiakea spoken of as likely to be a candi-
from this city. He is a relative of the Queen
Dowager Emma. Mr.. Jno. L. Rees, the book-binder
and caricaturist. has also been mentioned as a
probable candidate. We certainly should vote for
him, with the hope that the satire of his pencil
would be effective in licking the Assembly into
HIGH PRIcEs.-A correspondent inquiries why it
is that the Department of Education charges such
-
tends, they can be imported here for a very small
figure compared with the prices put upon them.
Seventy five cents, says cur correspondent, is de-
manded for an elementary book that could not
have cost (by the quantity more than twenty
cents. We give the thoughts of the writer. merely
adding that we do not believe that any one con-
nected with the Board of Education expects to see
any profit made on the sale of school books. The
Department of Public Instruction OF the Hawaiian
Government is by no means short of funds, but on
he contrary is better provided in that respect
han perhaps any other department. of the Govern
hent.
PANToMIME.-We were privileged on Saturday
evening last, by witnessing a series of pantomime
representations of scenes in history. performed by
Hawaiians under the direction Of IL. r. H.. the
Princess Likelike. The exhibition took place at a
private residence, and, considering the obstacles
hat had to be overcome. of scant room. brief
ehearsals and lack of appropriate costumes, the
whole was decidedly creditable to those concerned.
scenes were represented from the history of
ocahontas-the rescue of Captain John Smith
the club of the Indian warrior, and the mar
iage of the heroine at London to Mr.. Rolfe. The
ady who represented Pocahontas looked the char
.cter to perfection, and the same may be said Of
Ter personi6cation of Cleopatra. Queen OF Egypt, in
scene which followed the two foregoing. The
custom which is lately being revived Of represent
ng history by pantomime in the domestic circle is
5ertainly a praiseworthy one, and should be en-
outraged.
s. BUY A BRooM.'-The latest discovered ingen-
ity in the way of opium smuggling occurred this
eek. By a vessel which arrived on Sunday from
AN Francisco was received some six dozen American
aade house-brooms, of the latest style, the handles
ting into a socket. These innocent looking broom
sndles were found, on examination by an inquisi-
i've Custom House officer, to have been bored out,
nd the hollow thus formed, neatly filed with a tin
( opium formed and adjusted for the purpose.
For ways that are dark
ARe t tfiSks 1h o5i aTe y Ia neculiar"
The Police Magistrate seemed to think that the
alent displayed in this buy a broom " business
hight prove advantageous if applied to the carrying
n of government works, and so Mr.. All Sam was
to prison with hard labor for one year. A like
entence was passed upon Mr.. K6ong Chong, who
imported opium last week under the guise Of bean
auce.
TIT PoR TAT.-The San Francisco Bulletin re
emily amused its readers at our expense about a
Of of 8 stogy brogans - that some Chinaman had
imported here, the heels of which being unscrewed
evealed a cavity supposed to have contained opium.
he brogans were re-exported to San Francisco,
nd the Custom House officers, in appraising their
alue, discovered the fraud that had been put upon
ur folks. Of course there was a good deal Of chuck
ing over the greenness Of Hawaiian Custom House
on the part of our Frisco friends. But by
Lady Lampson. which arrived the other da1
rom the last named port, was received several bales