The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-06-07
BRIEF MENTION.
10 rs nice to be m ice man this weather.

BRIEF MENTION.
;GS- KS nice to be an ice man this weather.
~ Tic Annual Examination Of Oahu College
will take place at Punahou on the 18th, 18th and
10th of June. All interested are invited to attend.
On C~HAsaE-The arrival by the Lehaa. Q $4,000
has not yet affected The fashions, it being noticeable
that there is not much change in geutleman's pants
this month.
~ We are requested to call attention to The
semi-annuaI meeting of the Board OF Trustees OF
the Queens Hospital, at IL O'Clock to-day. at the
rooms Of the Chamber OF Commerce.
KY The performances OF the Band, on Monday
and Wednesday evenings, were enjoyed by a large
number OF people, and the beautiful moon beamed
brightly on both occasions.
NOTABLE ELEcT1oN.-Mr Jos. Kawainui, a native
Hawaiian, lately elected to the position Of 2nd
Assistant Engineer in the Honolulu Fire Depart
ment, is the first of his race ever elected to a seat in
the Board of Engineers.
The adjourned annual meeting of the Mission Chill
dren Society will be held this Saturday evening a;
80 O'Clock. The public generally are invited TO at
tend and listen to the annual reports and the address
of the retiring president.
~ Although We have been favored with fire.
quent showers during the past month. yet old Sol
has by no means forgotten that summer has
come. The thermometer registered So in the
shade at , p. NJ. last Tuesday.
81 The Missionary Packet Morning Star, Capt.
Bray, will sail for Micronesia on Tuesday next
the 10Th. Religious services will be held on board
at half past one O'Clock, in connection with her
sailing and the departure of the Rev. Z. c.. Doane
for the far distant isles of the Caroline group.
CHINESE CHRIsrIANs.-There are quite n number
of processing Christians among the Chinese Of this
city, who have for some time past been regularly
holding services in their own language in the
Lyeeum. We learn from the Friend that II Church
organization will take place on tomorrow (Sun-
day. at 2 p. NJ, at the Lyceum.
NATIVE SUNDAY S~CHooLs.-There will be a pro-
cession of the native Hawaiian Sunday Schools this
forenoon. the procession marching from Kauma-
kapili to Kawaiahao, and after the exercises in the
latter church there will be a children's picnic un-
der the shade of the spreading algeroba trees of
Kawaiahao.
GS- Wilder s. Co.'S steamer the Lehua, sailed at
$3.50 z. NJ. on the evening Of the 4h inst. for a trip
to Honokaa, Hawaii. She carried a heavy cargo,
consisting of machinery and lumber, the greater
portion of which is intended for the Sugar Plan
tation at Honakaa. Owing to the illness OF Cap
tain Bates, the Lehua VIII he commanded by Cap
tain Reynolds this trip.
THE COMING DAY.-If those interested intend to
have a trial of speed among the fast yachts on the
11th inst, it would be advisable to form a committee
of arrangements. and have the hours arranged for
the performance, SO as not to interfere with the
Park celebration. By the projectors using a little
judgment, our visitors and island residents could
enjoy the races ashore and aaoat.
A BAD CELEsTIAL.-A Chinaman, connected with
laundry, was fined $40 and costs, in the Police
Court, last Tuesday, the 3rd inst, for an indecent
assault upon the person of n young native girl, in
the employ Of Capt. Jackson. This little affair will
not injure the business or reputation of the Offend
heather, for not one in twenty foreigners could
recognise him, even if they knew his name.
THE RoADs.-Numerous complaints come to US Of
The bad condition of the roads on this Island, outside
Of Honolulu. some of our correspondents declaring
that they never before were in so poor a state of re-
pair. We heard of a lady who was actually made sick
the jolting experienced in riding over the road
10 ana beyond Telegraph NIL. Ieople VINO nave LOT
years paid the road tax feel that they have good rea-
son to ~grumble at such a state Of things.
p There gre at present thirty-ouc foreigners
patients in the Queens Hospital and the accom-
1dations recently provided for this class, which at
he time were thought to be ample, willhavc to be
During former years the numbers OF
ofeign patients never exceeded nine or ten. The
increase shows two things-the considerable adj
litions which have been made to our foreign pop
l%lation and the growing favorin which the Queens
Hospital is held. [
JUDGE NoT.-When a man is to be put ON trial
or his life, no journalist who understands his BUSH
will PREJUDICE the case, and publicly declare the
nan ga fendish murderer before a competent
court has heard the accused. Yet that is what the
Ga=ette (edited by a member of the legal fraternityD
las done this week, in the case of a man TO be tried
by a jury of the country next month. The editor
night with profit study the piece of poetry on his
page, two lines of which we quote: