The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-08-16
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GOmmerfialAObertise
SATURDAY. AUGUST l6.
BRIEF MENTION.
E- Paper Fashions are useful, and those who
desire may find where 10 obtain them ~ reading
our special notice.
81 An interesting letter from our New York
correspondent, wv. n. A." will appear in our
next.
"wE ARE CoMixG."-The bark Euphemia is re-
ported as having left Whampoa on the Slst ultimo
for Honolulu, with $50 male Chinese. The native
papers don't like il.
Nor To BE HUSG John Brown. the French Cana
dian seaman, who on the 2lst OF July was sentenced
to be hanged, for the crime of murder. has had his
sentence committed 10 imprisonment for the term Of
twenty years, by the King in Privy Council.
81 In the supplement issued with to-day's paper
will be found an article on = Hawaiian Reciprocity
and the Chinese, - and also an extract from a Lon
don paper regarding the British High Commissioner
in the Pacifc-besides other interesting matters.
A CORRESPONDENT, whose fondness for statistics is
remarkable, informs us that the ADVERTISER was
mentioned by name in the - Unreliable " no less
than twenty-three times, by actual count, in last
Wednesdays issue. Now what we want to know is
a solution of this little mathematical problem %
into nothing, what is the quotient
/ADELINA PATEL-This celebrated Prima Donna,
whose saprano voice is said to be without a rival in
the world to-day, it is reported will leave San Fran
cisco for Sydney in November next If fortune
fAvors US so that she could stop in Honolulu one
evening, and give us a few of her bewitching notes
in the Kamakapili Church-the best building in
town for musical efects-we could be content
81 In last weeks ADVERTISER we made mention
of the expected arrival of a Chinese Amb assador at
these Islands. We since learn that he has made q
retrograde movement in journey and returned to
Washington, where at last accounts he was inter-
viewing the Hawaiian Minister at that city, with
what result we will probably be able to inform our
readers on the arrival of the next mail from the
East.
An editor a zane from the East,
With brains overlooking like yeast.
He wrote, and spoiled paper,
Filled people with laughter.
But the subscription list did not increase.
Then new type he did import from Frisco
And contained in the cases, by jingoi
Some rascal had fooled him
And slowed in, tins of opium,
But who was the rascal? We don't know.
~ IL pClibtu al u utdNiG uuIiuK
the last week, have been such as to merit the
hearty commentator of all who attended. I'm
Gle Toms Cabin - on Thursday and Saturday
evening, 9th and the 9th inst.) was produced in a
manner that reflected credit upon Mr.. Book the stage
manager, and the rendition of the lines by the
various characters was creditable. Tonight
Wonderful Woman and the farce 'Larkin's
Love Letters, and on Thursday and Saturday
evenings OF next week the Two Orphans" Next
Saturday night will be the last performances but
one of the season.
The LATEST FROM GEN. GRANT.-From time to
time since the ex-President has been in Asia, we
have had reports as to his movements. First, we
were assured on ''gOod authority that he was
going to pay us a visit at the Islands; then that he
wasn't; then again that he was, via the Australian
Colonies. Here is the latest statement, which we
find in the San Francisco Posi-, of August I'd:
Captain Williams, of Williams, Blanchard Il Co., to-
Steamship Company at Yokohama, that General Grant
has taken fak NIP passage San i'm in the the s stfam 0s 5e city &C Of Toxic, and win a
will arrive here somewhere between the 18th and 18th of
September"
SIR ARTHUR GoRDoN.-This parsonage, who is the
Governor of FIJI and the British High Commissioner
of the South Pacific, accompanied by a party off
dozen English gentlemen, passed through Honolulu
last Tuesday, en- route for Samoa, where, at The
port of Page Pago, II. B. NJ. s. Emerald is to meet
the mail steamer City Of Sydney, and receive Sir
Arthur and party. just what this visit to Samoa
may portend, takenein connection with the promi-
hence lately given to German and American inter-
ests there-it is difficult to say. Ii may be merely
a tour of observation, or 1t may be with a view to
annexation. British missionary influence is strong
in Samoa.
SELLING LIQUOR TO MINoRs.-Our attention has
been called to the fact which is said to be proveable,
that some of the retail liquor dealers of this city have
made a practice of selling spirits to young lads un-
der age. Such a practice is not only quite reprehen-
bible, but parties so offending are liable to prosecu-
ton under the law. Chapter 25 of the session laws of
1872, provides that " Every . = parent, guard
ian, = = = who shall be injured in person or
property = = by any intoxicated person, or
in consequence of the intoxication Of any person, sc.
&c, shall have a right of acting . against
any retailer Of spurious liquors, who shall by selling
or giving intoxicating liquors have caused the intox-
ication in whole or in part, of such persons, for all
damages sustained, and for exemplary damages.'
yellow FEvER.-On the last day of July. the
ship Iempiar arrived at San Francisco from New
York via Rio de Janeiro, with the Captain and sew
eral of the crew sick with the dreaded yellow fever,
the Captains wife and several of the crew having
died of the disease since leaving Rio. The vessel
was put into strict quarantine in San Francisco,
but the physician Of the Board of Health of that
is reported to have said that he considered there
was no danger to be apprehended from yellow fever
in that city. cit might, however, (says the CaH), |
precautions were not taken, find it's way into the
especially the Sacramento Valley. To
guard against any possible danger of this kind, the
Doctor quarantined the ship, and will keep her on
the quarantine ground for two or three days. This