The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-03

4 New PAcKEr-we note by San Francisco pa
n pers thai Claus S~preckles, Esq, is building &
schooner of some $50 tons, which we understand j:
intended to ply between that pert and Kahului
Maui.
IA LEI ALII-This is the title OF a new coilec-
ton of hymns in The native language. set to appro-
pirate music, written and compiled by the Rev. l.
Lyons, sweet singer Of Waimea. Hawaii. There
are some l56 hymns At Whitney & Robertson's.
LAccIDEST AT KAUAL-We learn that Capt. Kib-
ling, of the schooner Mary Foster, while d~ischarg-
ing lumber at Koloa last week, met with a serious
accident, whereby his thigh was disiocated. It
was successfully put in place, and the captain was
doing we'll at last accounts.
Y CONCERT To-xIGHr.-There will be q concert Of
vocal music this evening at Kawaiahao Church, IN
der the patronage of H. R, H. the Princess Liliuoka-
lani, the proceeds Of which will be devoted to the
rebuilding Of the congregational church in Manos
valley. There are some very fine voices and credita-
bic musical talent among the native Hawaiian ANA
tours, and We anticipate a full audience.
FAREWELL CONCERT BY MAD. JENNY CLAUs-On
Thursday evening next, at the Lyceum this talented
musician. who with her husband. Mons. Pernct. is
shortly 10 leave for Japan. will give a farewell
concert of vocal and instrumental music, in which
she will be assisted by some of the best amateurs
of our city. The ballads and musical selections
will be of the highest order, and we need hardly
say, cannot fail to attract a full and appreciative
audience.
WHARF AND HARBoR RATs.-We refer to the two
legged sort-native boys who apparently have
nobody to care for them, and are seen mornings
coming out from beneath lumber piles or the
steamer wharf where they have slept. The Refor-
matory School would be a better lodging for them.
We have heard instances also OF these i" harbor
rats I" taking possession of any boat they find and
utttfinn mt for a nlau around tho harhnrs 0affiun
ont TO the entrance unable or too frightened to
get back, and then being towed in. There is room
hrrefor n special Harbor Police.
RMNFALI. FOR APRTL.-During the month last
past, the following is the record of rainfall in Ho-
nolulu and vicinity
A. Dr.; M S BeretSnis street -....-.2 80 inches
At Mr.. ]. II. Wilder's Ice Factory, Nuuanu. ...5.55 &"
The showers have generally been of the slow. per-
meating kind, which do the most good, with one
notable exception on Wednesday last, when some
\ 60 1O0ths of an inch fell in the city in about twenty
minutes. On the windward side of Mani and also
Of Hawaii, the rainfall has been reported as ample.
and we hope to hear that through the influence of
the late s%outherly winds the leeward portions have
been similarly visited.
OUR INHERITANCE in the Great Pyramid" is
the title of an extremely interesting work by the
late Professor Piazzi Smyth. Astronomer Royal for
Scotland. The present is the third and much en-
larged edition. illustrated with plates. Though
some portions of this remarkable book are too alb
struse for the ordinary reader. yet the revelations
which the author extracts from the measurements
of this grand monument of primeval times are
wonderfully startling. He predicts troublous
times on the earth in lSS0-Sl, and refers to Scrip
ture prophesies rs exempli6ed in the measurements
Of the interior of the Great Pyramid. To be had
at Whitney Il Robertson's.
DEATH OF THos. j. DRYER.-The Portland Orego-
49, H. 1o,1L ooIr Ioak ,.o..I i.
Dryer, whom old residents of Honolulu will remem-
Der as U. S. Minister Resident at these Islands in
1861, having been succeeded in that position by
the late David L.. Gregg. Mr.. Dryer went to Ore
gon in 1850, and started the OregoniGn. He was
at one time a member of the Legislature, of the Con-
vention to frame the State Constitution, and a Pres
idential elector. He was over seventy-one years Of
age at the time of his death. The funeral ceremo-
MES were conducted by the Order of Free Masons,
of which he was a member. The OregOnian of
April 9Th, devotes O considerable space to an obitu-
dry notice of the deceased.
ExENPTING MORTGAGES The proposal to exempt
mortgages is popular in the New York Legislature,
says the Shipping List. and it is b believed the bill
will pass. People have ut last brUonr awakened
to q sense of simple justice on the subject of mort
gage taxation. They are not willing to see some
kinds of property taxed twice because 1t happens
to be visible property at the beginning, while i'm
mensely large amounts are allowed to 60 untouch-
ed because they happen to be corporate and in
visible. The same journal says that - the princl-
pal cause of the distress which is at present oppres-
sing all those who are interested in real estate. is 4
in compelling the impecunious mortgagor to pay
the tax on that part of the property which is
pledged to the mortgagee. In order to relieve this
depression it is requisite only to amend the exist
ing law so as to consider the mortgagor and mort
gagee as joint owners, and collect from them in
proportion to their respective interests"
IRON THE CRATER OF KILAUEA Captain G. \
Grober, who recently made a visit to the volcano.
reports that previous to the night of Sunday, April
20, the crater was very active, the great lake run
ming over with lava and filling the pit even with its
banks. On the night mentioned, there were two
distinct shocks of earthquake felt at the volcano
house. In the morning it was found that the whole
surface of the lake, and what may be turned the sub
sidiary crater, had disappeared and sunk sheer
down several hundred feet, leaving perpendicular
walls encircling a vast pit. A very small light was
observable in the farther end of the pit on the follow
ing evening. 1t was thought that this sudden sub
sidence Of lava in the crater was premonitory Of an
outbreak in some other direction, as has happened
on more than one occasion in former years.