The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-31

for the year are to be considered and noted upon.
BUsINEss--There were no less than twenty-four
cases of all sorts, before the Police Court on
Thursday last. In this connection we may state,
that since the abolition of the opium licenses,
drunkenness and consequent crime has increased
,ortY per cent.
FIRE DEPARTMENr.-The annual election of Engi-
neers for the Honolulu Fire Department takes place
at the engine house of Mechanic No. 2 on Monday
evening next, June 81. There is not much excite
ment among the ''laddies'' as the Offices are no
sinecure.
- The hot season is coming on, and we trust
that the Agent of the Board Of Health will be prompt
to take measures 10 abate nuisances and eradicate
bad and deleterious smells. We know of q place not
q thousand miles NV. from the post-ofice, where
from o cellar proceed doors that are anything else
but " the sweet south, soft breathing Ger a bank of
violets."
Go- Some holes are dangerous, and others are
not. A hole in the water don't stay long, and
one would have to try very hard to fall into it
without making another one. But a hole in the
sidewalk, like the one near Mrs. Drew's on Nuuanu
street, reminds one very forcibly, that earth and
water are two different kinds of matter. oh, how
we hurt our shins.
MARCH ON-"A true word is Outlines spoken in
Jest" and a recent occurrence proves the truth of
the saying. A Chinaman on one of our side streets,
by the name of c. Hing On, had a sign painted by
one of our foreign artists, and displayed the same
before his door. A wag happening that way.
noticed the sign, and being well acquainted with
the present attitude of the Chinese placed the let
ters NJ a r before the c, and the sign OF that celes-
tal now chronicles the movements of his country
men-they are marching on"
MUsIC.-The Band will play at Emma Square To-
day, commencing at 480 in the afternoon. Follow
ing is the programme:
Misunderstanding .Liebig
observation-disclosures NerQt
Waltz-O Beautiful May. Strauss
Polka Mazurka-In Beauteous Blot .......... stssny
Cayatina-The Martyrs, .Donizeti
The next moonlight concerts will take place on
Monday, June I'd, and on full moon Wednesday, the
4th, at the usual time and place.
"a CHECK To Proud AMBrTIoN.'-We are quite
apt to plume ourselves upon the importance of
our central position, and to assume that all the
world has its ewes on Honolulu. Sandwich Tor
Hawaiian) Islands, in the Pacific Ocean. But not
~infrequently, as we hear from returned Islanders,
the questions are asked in Europe and America
q where is Honolulu 2" "Are the people very
savage, and is it quite safe to live among them ?"
And occasionally q letter, intended for some one
here goes wandering about the world looking for
Honolulu. The last mail from the East brought
one such, mailed in England and directed to " DR..
ii. Hutchison, Honolulu, China" 1t had gone to
Hongkong marked 'tmis-sent,' and travelled
back to England via the Indian mail, thence to its
anal destination at Honolulu at last, having made
the circuit of the globe once and a half times. A
similar case occurred here several years ago, when
a letter directed to Honolulu, Melbourne, n. S.
w" reached here after having been on its travels
doubt, when not to know where Honolulu is will
be to argue ones self unknown but at present
we are a terra ~incOgaita 10 two-thirds of the rest
of mankind.