The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-04-26
BRIEF MENTION.


sAILEp-H. L C. MS ship Pria= .sdaisert
sailed for Yokohama. Japan, on Thursday evening.
JrxE IITH--Six weeks only intervene between
now and Kamehameha Day. Are there to be no
races this year?
81 What ship has two mates and no captain Z,
Ans. Courtship-Erchangs 60. But after courtship,
one mate goes to the galley and the other takes
command.
YAcar COMING Alto announces that the
yacht CgSeo. owned by DR.. Merritt. would sail from
San Francisco about the 18th of April foI q trip to
Tahiti, TO return by the way of Honolulu.
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boo TAGs.-Those who have dogs are hereby
warned to see that they are provided with tags. as
We are informed that the Police are about to make
their annual raid for the purpose eff corraling and
destroying unregistered dogs,
OPP FELLOWS B~NLI-.To-day is the Sixtieih
Anniversary of the Institution of Odd Fellowship
in the United States. and by proclamation of John
B. Harmon. Grand Sire. is TO be observed as a fes-
tival By the Lodges. Members of the Order in
Honolulu celebrated the occasion by a ball last
evening at the Hawaiian Hotel.
HALF-MAsT.-On Wednesday last, the aass Of the
shipping in port and that of the German Consulate,
were displayed at half mast in respect to the memory
Of the young Prince Waldemar. third son Of the
Grown Prince of Germany, who died at Berlin
March q, Of ~diptheria. In consequence of the
receipt of the affecting intelligence by Prince Henry,
the proposed native hookupW in his honor was
abandoned.
Two BANDs.-On Tuesday afternoon the band at
tached TO the German war ship Prin= .Adaiberi.
and our Hawaiian band, gave a concert at Emma
Square, playing alternately. Quite a large con-
course of ladies and gentlemen gathered 10 listen to
the music, which il is needless TO say was very 6ne.
Perhaps as a matter of politeness to strangers, the
performances of the ships band were highly praised.
bat Berger's Hawaiians lost none Of their laurels.
THE SAN FRANCISCO MERcHAxr.-We have re-
ceived some of the first numbers Of a commercial
paper recently started with the above title. Its
Editor, Mr.. A. d. Bell, is said to be an able journal
list, and the numbers before US appear TO be well
edited. We trust however that hereafter he will be a
little more careful when copying from US to give the
proper credit, and not attribute our " thunder - to
the Rdacafian Ga-etfe. as was done in the JMer-
chant of March %.
MUsIc.-The Band will play this afternoon at
Emma Square. commencing at 4.30 P. NJ. The
following is the programme:
March-Black Peter new) .suppe
Oyerture-Emma of Antioch Mercadente
Ballad-Then You'll Remember e.......-......Ba lfe
Poika-Myrtle Wreath. new .....:.. ........ .stasny
Selection-The Bells of Corneville, new -. .Planquette
The moonlight concerts in next month at Emma
Square, on Thursday May LIST, and on Monday May
9Th, at the usual time.
A STARTLING INvESTIoN.-The Boston Post states
that a new invention has been discovered in tele-
graphing, the property of the American Cable Co..
of New York, whereby it guarantees to send ten
messages, of twenty words each per minute through
the conducting wire between Paris or London or
New York. This is the minimum speed stated in O
contract just signed in London but it is said that
at the maximum speed what could be sent in thirty
minutes would be equal 10 the number of words
contained in one number of the London Times or
New York Herald. And it is also asserted that by
this process an entire number Of either of those
journals could be dispatched through the cable from
New York to London or Paris, or from London to
New York, and be reproduced at those points in
fac-simile on a stereotyped block or plate, complete
and ready TO be printed from, in thirty minutes.
and at q trifing expense. This would make an
average of about 1000 words per minute. What
next?
New STEAMERS FOR THE INTER-IsLAND Trade
The S. +. Alta of March 80, says that the new
steamer now being built at Port Ludlow flor T. r.
Foster & Coz is rapidly approaching completion.
She will be about 800 tons register. She will go
to San Francisco for her boiler and engines, and
will be commanded by Capt. Godfrey, formerly OF
the schooner Margaret CTockdrd.
The 5. F. Chronicle speaks Of a handsome little
steamer of about 250 tons burden, now in course
OF construction at that place for Messrs. Wilder &
Co. of Honolulu, to cost in the neigbborhood of
$50. 900. Her length is 100 feet. with "a feet beam;
her engines are 80 horse power, of the compound
pattern, and will propcl her 0 knots an hour. She
is to be commanded by Capt. Geo. G. Beckley.
NV titHt VI lLES DOutt AZ pOhtch q
been made the subject of Il riddle at the Islands.
Any one fortunate enough to discover it before it
rs announced, will BIO rewarded by the owners
with free passage on the vessel TO any point on
her route for one year. She will be ready TO leave
for Honolulu the 18th to the 18th OF May.
/ ACCfDENTs.--On Wednesday afternoon, the son
10! Hon. W. C. Parke, aged ten years, was acciden-
tally shot with Il parlor rifle in the hands OF an
other lad. The wound was happily not q serious
one and the patient is doing well.
h;Ia tho caluin for tho German prinna was
being fred on Punchbowl last Monday, one Of the
guns was discharged prematurely. whereby n ma
tive gunner got his eyebrows singed, his eyes in
jured. and his toes crushed by the wheel OF the gun
in recoil.
On Thursday. while Chief Justice Harris was
riding ON the Kalihi road in company with a lady,
the horse took fright at a passing OK cart and
bOlted of the road, upsetting the occupants of the
carriage. Though somewhat bruised, neither the
Chief Justice nor the lady were seriously injured.
On the 18th inst. at Judge Harris mill in North
Kohala. Hawaii, a native employed on a centrifu-
gal, being careless, got his hand pretty badly in
jured in the machine. On the same day, near
Kinds mill. a young man named Henry Hook, fell
with his horse and broke his collar bone.
Yesterday forenoon a seamen on board the
American bark Jas. Cheston, lying at the esplan-
ade, fell from the main topsail yard to the deck,
a distance Of about 60 feet, and strange to say,
without breaking any bones. He was taken to the
Queens Hospital, and was comfortable at last &C
counts.
CAUTI0N To THE PUBLIC.