The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-04-05

II 81 AeNSS VI G1A W IL AZ OF hlDs street.
NEw ADvERTIsENESTs.-we beg to call atten-
ton to the large number Of new advertisements
OF desirable goods, etc, in to-day's paper.
MAsoNtc-The regular monthly meeting of Ha-
waiian Lodge No. 81. F. & 4. NJ, will take place
on Monday evening next at u o'clock. at their
rooms in Makees Block, corner of Queen and
Kaahumanu Streets Visiting brethren invited.
y Noticing that the rooms in Makee block lately
in the occupancy of Bishop s. Co.. we're being re6t-
ted, We learn that A. J. Cartwright, Esq, Commits
sion Merchant and General Shipping Agent, win
shortly remOve his Office to those premises.
kGooD FRIDAY.-Friday Of next week, the 11th
inst, is the Church Festival universally observed in
Europe as Good Friday. Our Catholic and Episco-
pal Churches will have the usual services. And We
observe that Horn. the well-known baker Of Hotel
street advertises the old-time 81 hot cross buns " for
that day, which he knows 50 well how to make.
FIRE AT Naturalization Hawaii we learn
that the trash houses at the Kaupakuea plantation
were burned on the night Of the 2Ist ult. The
damage. including loss by detention of work in
getting in the crop. is estimated at about SIS, 600.
The fire is thought TO have been the work of an
incendiary.
BRITISH BENEVOLENT SocIETY.-There will be q
business meeting of the above on the 23d instant.
We learn that there has been an unusually heavy
drain on the funds of the Society, and subscribers
are appealed to on its behalf, while those who
have not subscribed could not choose n better
time than the present in which to do so.
THE BLACKsMITH's DREAM-Oneo of the most pleas
ing exhibitious-nO only for children but grown folks
as well-that has ever been here is " The Black
smiths Dream on Fort street, opposite the Odd
Fellows building. We understand that the affair
will close after next week, the proprietor intending
to leave on the next steamer for California.
MORE LABoRERs CoMING.-Mr. C. Along has re-
ceived a letter from Messrs. Williams, Blanchard &
Co., of the Pacific Mail agency in San Francisco, in
forming that they had q telegram from Hong Kong
to the effect that the next steamer would take 200
Chinese laborers for Mr.. Along. 1t is not stated that
the steamer would touch here to land the men, but
Mr.. Along thinks that she will.
The EoUINocrIAL~-The usual equinoctial storm,
which was due about the 2lst of March, did not
come until the 30th. During that and the follow
ing two days. Rude Boreas, clustering railer,''
held high carnival, uproOting trees and shrubs,
filling the streets with clouds OF dust. and pre-
venting vessels from leaving port. As we said
last week, the seasons are decidedly unsettled.
And now the cry is. all over the Islands-we need
rain.
THE " ALASKA The P. NJ. s. S. ALASKA, from
San Francisco for Hong Kong, March 6, arrived at
this port on Tuesday morning last, having experience
ed a heavy gale to the Northward of these Islands, in
which she lost bulwarks, guard beams, boats, SC.
Che NM -, Iara fr oaoI o~l onn;. C,--o,,
the ship have been held, and the work of repairs has
been undertaken by Messrs. Tibbetts s. SOrenson,
shipwrights, and will be completed in about q fort
night, at an estimated cost of $4,000.
.MUsIC.-The Band will play this afternoon (wea-
Their permitting) at Emma Square. commencing at
h~alf-past four o'clock. The following is the pro-
gramme
Liebig
BailadNIn the Universe is the Earth .weissenborn
9Gadrille-Flower Faust
GailopNThe Hermit Bells. Maiiiart
The second moonlight concert will take place on
Monday, April 7. at the usual time and place.
LADIES BENEVOLENT SoCIETY.-An entertainment
was given by this Society in the yestry rooms of the
Fort street Church on Thursday evening last, which
was we'll attended. Something over $3.50 were real
lied for the Society's fund. These funds are used
for benevolent objects in the community and were
realized from the sale of fancy articles and refresh
ments furnished by friends of the Society. These
entertainments while serving a charitable purpose
are also instrumental in bringing into social inter-
course all classes of society.
II We copy the following from a recent Boston
paper. Our older residents will recollect Mr.. Avis
as connected with the firm of c. Brewer Il Co., some
twenty-five or thirty years ago.
Mr.. William Parsons Avis, who died in this city on
Saturday, at an advanced age, was in early life en-
gagged in business in this city, and subsequently, in
New Orleans, Alton, Ill, Honolulu, Sandwich Is
lands, and in California, at which last named place
he was financially unsuccessful. He then returned
to this city, where he remained until his death. He
was of that genial loyable temperament which en-
deared him to young and old, especially the former.
In business life he was a man of the strictest integri-
ty, commanding the respect and esteem of all.
DIED ON THE sTREEr-Early on Tuesday morning
last, a policeman found a man, a foreigner, lying on
the front veranda of the Pantheon saloon, apparently
in q dying condition. He was at once removed to the
Station House, where be almost Immediately expired.
His name was William Atkins, q native of Ireland,
aged about 35 years, aud had arrived from San
Francisco about three months ago. He was employ
ed as a @ helper in the blacksmith shop of Mr.. G.
West. and his employer gives him the reputation of
being a sober and industrious man. He had been
complaining latterly Of internal pains, and it is sup
posed that be died of heart disease. or perhaps of the
liver. Coroners' inquests are not held here unless
there are " suspicious circumstances - attending q
sudden death but in most countries q post morlem
examination would have been held in a case like this.
Nor so.-The Ga1etts of this week in speaking Of
q deceased Chinaman says He landed on these