The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-04-19
BRIEF MENTION.

BRIEF MENTION.
- Our thanks are due 10 Mr.. T. C.. Thrum
staiioner, for late San Francisco papers.
- We beg to call attention to May s Co.'S col
umn. with its tempting array of nice groceries.
% A very pleasant social reunion and surpris
party came Of last evening at the residence of Mrs
Capt. Whitney. Bere;ania street.
Rrou CA~r-An analysis of sugar frOm Mr.. Nc
Keaeue's plantation at Koolau. made by Mr..
G.. Irwin, showed 81 40 OF saccharine matter.
DEPARTED III. i. Ms ships Triumph and Opa
sailed for Victoria, V l at 6 O'Clock on Wednesday
morning.
No Music To-DAY-We regret 10 learn that Mr.
Berger, the B~andmaster, is confined TO his house
by illness, and that there will therefore be no con
cert at the Square this afternoon.
THE "SroRNB1RD."-A letter in the AuStrala
sian, dated at Noumea. New Caledonia, March s.
says that " the Stormbird is on the way TO Homo.
lulu with ninety immigrants
10 Accounts from all the Islands report
eopions trade-wind showers during the first half Of
this month. But the leeward side of Hawaii is
much in need of rain.
A HEAVY CAsrING.-At The Iron Works, on last
Thursday, was cast one of a set Of rollers for Mr..
Along. which weighs about 5000 pounds,-being by
1000 lbs the largest ever made here.
PORTRAIT OF JUDGE ALLEN.-On Monday next
the 2lst instant, the Supreme Court will sit in
Banco. On the coming in of the Justices. the
portrait OF Ex-Chief Justice f. II. Alien will be
hung in position in the Hall.
HIsToRY LECrUREs.-We learn thnt Mr.. Akin
son viii commence q new series of History Lee
lures on Monday, April 2s. Any one desiring to
join can obtain all information with regard to the
dues by applying either to Mrs. H.. a. p. Carter or
to Mr.. Atkinson.
THE FIRST OF THE FIRST CRoP.-On Wednesday
the first lot of sugar from the new plantation at
Kappa, Kauai, was received in town, consisting Of
500 packages. The planters on Kauai are having
an abundance Of rain-rather more than is agree
able to those who are grinding, as 1t keeps the
trash wet.
KIAUEA IN ACrIoN.--A letter from Mr.. Geo.
Jones, at keauhou, Puma, reports the volcano as
quite active OF late, a stream of lava running
across the bottom OF The great crater in the direc-
ton OF the sea. So far, however. the flow had not
made its appearance outside the crater.
OBsTRUCTING TRAvEL.-A correspondent com.
plains that the occupants Of the Chinese tea. shop,
corner Of Nuuanu and Merchant streets. obstruct
and endanger travel by their piles of drewood,
which cucumber the sidewalk and which they
split in the middle of the street. 1t is intimated
that The Road Supervisor, &c, &c, &c.
NAvAL.-In the San Francisco Call of March
29th, it is stated that the German frigate Prins
.Adaibert sailed from Panama, March Doth. for
Acapulco and the Sandwich Islands and Japan.
Attached to the Prin= .HduDert-which is one of
the largest sized war ships-is a son of the Crown
Prince of Prussia.
ACCIDENT AT MALIKo.-Just as the steamer
Ailduedhon was leaving Kahului on Wednesday
last, intelligence was received that Mr.. Schussler's
fine span of horses, attached to a wagon going
down to the Maliko landing, had taken fright at a
bullock cart and fallen off the precipice. dashinp the
wagon to pieces and killing both horses, the
driver, it is said, escaping by leaping from the
wagon just in time.
MORE THEATRTCAIs COMNG.--By a letter dated
at Sydney. March &c, we learn that the popular
American artists, Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Bates, having
just finished q very successful tour of about six
years through the Australian Colonies, will return
home by the next steamer. and may. if arrange
ments can be made. stop in Honolulu over one
steamer. John +. Owens and Company are ex-
pected from San Francisco by The steamer on Mon
day next.
+ COMMUNICATIVE p. NJ. s. Alaska arrived here
on the LIST instant, in need of somewhat extensive
re pairs. These were completed in q satisfactory
and workmanlike manner in nine working days.
and the ship resumed her voyage on the 18th.
The contractors. Messrs. TibbIts O. Sorcnson. de-
serve credit for the dispatch with which they per-
formed their work. and in a manner which met
with the entire appreciation of Capt. Seabnry.
Good mechanics give our port a good name.
CORONER s INQUEST.-From Hilo we learn that
DR.. james S. Smith. formerly of Ohio, but who had
resided at IIilo for some months past, died quite
suddenly at that place on the Sth instant. An in
quest was held on the body, and the following is
the verdict returned by the jury
An inquisition taken at Hilo, Island of Hawaii, on the
sth day of April, 1873, before L. Severance, one of the
Coroners of said island, upon the body Of Jas. s. Smith,
there lying dead, by the oaths of the Jurors whose names
are hereto subscribed, who being sworn TO enquire when,
now and Dy what means the said JAS 8. Smith came fO
his death, upon their oaths do say We find that he came
TO his death from an overdose of Choral Hydrate, adj
by himself. In testimony whereof the said
Coroner and the jurors of this inquest have hereunto set
their hands the day and year aforesaid.
L. SEVERANCE, Coroner. G. +. RICHARDSON.
w. ii. REED. J.. Z. SWAIN.
w. L.. ROSE. JAS. MILLS.
JOHN j. PORTER.