The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-06-28
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BRIEF MERTON.
- See new timetable Steamer Likelikc.
~ The regular monthly meeting q the Mission
Children's Society, viii be held this Saturday even
ing, at The house Of Capt I. II Hebron.
STEAMER TIxE-The new schooner ctaus Sprees-
cts arrived at Kahului. E Mau yesterday. vepOrt-
ing herself as Q days and 20 hours from sNu
Francisco.
NINE MoxrHs.-The Chinese steward Of the
American schooner -4msrieaa Girl, conv ietsd Of
smuggling opium, was sentenced in the PolIse Court
to nine months Imprisonment az hard labor.
EeYPr1Ax CoRx.-we have received a package Of
this substitute for cracked wheat OF Indian meal,
from Lame S Co, and find it makes a delicious
mush for breakfast, and an unsurpassed material
for q pudding.
Boring ron wArER.-Mr. james Campbell has
imported the necessary machinery and piping and a
man to operate, and has commenced boISag for water
on his estate at HONOLULU, Eva, on this ISLAND, We
hope soon 10 report that he has !" struck it,"
DEATH OF a FORMER CoSsuL-From a Columbus.
Ohio, paper of May 20. We learn that Mr.. II.
Houghton. the oldest editor in Illinois, died at
Galena quite recently. He was appointed Ameri-
can Consul to Honolulu, in 1869, by General Grant.
MORE FINE Srock-Tbe End, which arrived yes
terday from San Francisco. brought twelve milch
cows. four calves and ten mules to Mr.. Herbert. of
the Hotel and three noble looking Durham bulls
and a earrings horse FOR Col. c. ii. Judd.
AMATEUR MUSICAL SoCIETY.-The concert BY this
| Society on Thursday evening was a success, and
drew n crowded bnusp All did EXTREMELY we'll but
we have heard the closing piece Come where
Flowers spoken of IS the gem of the evening.
NAvAL-By q telegram from Washington dated
May %. we learn that Rear-Admiral Rodgers in
forms the Navy Department from Callao. April 30th,
that the ship LackGvaaaG sailed that day for
Samoa and Gilbert Group of Islands. After visiting
the same she will probably 60 to San Francisco via
the Sandwich Islands.
~ Rev. E. G. Beckwith, D. D. of Waterbury,
Conn. (says the S, F. B%ulietinl. is expected shortly.
to supply the pulpit of the First Congregational
Church, Oakland, for three months, during the
absence of DR.. Mclean. Mr.. b. was at one time
President of Oahu College, and subsequently,
preached for a time in Fort Street Church in this
A MUN1F1cESr BEoUEsT.-Mr. Asa Otis, who
died at New Haven, Conn, March 10, aged SO
years, left the bulk of his property, amounting in
value to nearly q million of dollars, to the Ameri-
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
ms Is consluereu as prOVluentlaiiy OppOrtunes as
the demands upon the funds Of the Board have been
iHSHaaaing year by year, and contributions have
fallen of somewhat.
FINE MULEs.-About the best looking lot of
mules that we have yet seen together was some
seventeen in Lane & Co.'s stockyard. Esplanude,
imported by the Eureka. from San Francisco last
week. and intended for the Koloa plantation, on
Kauai. We learn that mules are fast taking the
place of oxen on most OF the plantations, and are
found to be far the best draught animals on every
account. Even for blowing, they are superceding
the clumsy bullocks, on East Maui.
MUsIc.-The band will play this afternoon at
Emma Square, at ~halE-past 4 O'Clock. The follow
ing is the programme
o oS6rRwePfiiEna Of ResbaieG. ..Mc1erbeer
Clarinet soIoNAir Varie' meyyi Carl
Comet Polka love and Truth NTH new WeicEer
selection-The Little Duke, mew) .Lecocq
The next Moonlight Concerts will take place on
Tuesday July LIST, and on Thursday July 81, at
the usual place and time.
INAUGURATION BALL.-Last evening the officers
and members of Hawaiian Lodge No. 81, F. & A. NJ.
entertained o large ~party-some 300-of ladies and
gentlemen at a ball, inaugurating their new and
beautiful hall, recently erected on the corner of
Queen and Fort streets. The affair was conducted
throughout to the satisfaction and pleasure of all the
including the brilliant lights, the fine
music by Berger's band, ard The recherche supper
by mine host Herbert, leaving nothing that could be
desired. Dancing was kept up until two O'Clock this
morning.
LIBRARY AND READING ROOM AssccIATIoN.-We
are glad to learn that at a meeting of the Privy
Council on Saturday last a liberal and comprehen-
charter was granted to the above organization.
The association being now complete in its organiza-
ton and possessed of full corporate powers, includ-
the right to acquire and hold property both real
and personal is prepared to prosecute its benef-
cent work as fast and as far as the means and faeil-
itipS nre nrOyided. We are requested to ackQORl-
edge contributions of books for the library from DIR.
Hon. Walter NJ Gibson and Mrs. II. A..
P. Carter. There are now nearly eight hundred
volumes on the shelves and the reading room is
regularly supplied with about fifty different papers
and periodicals.
john b. GoUGH IN LoNDoN.-The Christian at
Work says that John d. Cough is meeting, as of
old, with great success in London, and that he
opposes the theory of Mr.. Moody and others, that
the grace of God always takes away the love of
liquor, and nothing else will. He says he once
spoke in the pulpit of a fashionable church in New
York, and that night the pastor was very much in
lie was afterward deposed for drunken
ness; and he Cough had known a Doctor Of Divi-
nifty who had preached the Gospel to thousands for
twenty eight years, to stand in a low grog shop with
his face blackened and a number of degraded and
dissolute men jeering him as he stood there and
some Of his old sermons for whisky to
stave off the deliriun tremeps. Another talented
was now q drunken hostler in Boston.
Mr.. Cough thought it would not do to say these were
not pious, good men. and yet they fell through
drink.
re- The Rev. Titus Coan, Of Hilo, Hawaii,
writes a Characteristic letter to the " Missionary
the organ of the A. b. G. f.. NJ. from
the editors notice of which we make the follow
extract
The Rev. Titus Coan, who is now pastor Of the
native church at Hilo, in the Sandwich Islands,
born in 1901. lie commenced his missionary
work ~forty-Gve years ago, and during this period
over u 600 persons have been baptized by him.
record of benevolent contributions made by
this church at Hilo during Mr.. Coanis pastorate.
is also remarkable. AtNthe first their gifts
to not more than Eve dollars a year,
and were made in kappa. FISH, etc. But the in