The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-10-04

| any Qfmlnution IN the quantity OF water dischargeds con
until planting can be accomplished is allowed to run into
the sea.
AUCTION SALE OF STOCK, &c--Mr. L. p. Adams Will sell
at public auction. next Monday. the 9Th inst. at IL
O'Clock noon, = lot of horses, mules. buggtes and harness.
The sale will be held at the Corner of Punehbowl and
Bsretania streets, instead of at the saiesroom as pre-
yously advertised.
FAST IvISG--Complain have reached us about the
manner in which the two Punahou omnibusses are driv-
en- to and from the city. Young and inexperienced driy-
ers with apparently hAlf-broken horses go tearing and
young people should be talked to.
81 Kearney. the Sand lot orator of San Francisco. has
threatened in q public speech that when Gen. Grant ar
rive he will be hung in efhgy at the Sand lots. The peo-
pie of San Francisco of all parties, even to Exon
tinSuished General. and it is very doubtful If Kearney
will be allowed to offer the proposed insult with impun-
ity[
/nT Tibbetts & sorenson are building 1t their ship
yard, of heavy timbers and plank, a large box to put un-
ider the steamer Likeiike, to ascertain whether she was
damaged when recently touching the ground. Mr.. t. re-
marked, when explaining the object of the box, " It may
perhaps kill somebody It is a fact that these operations
of s' boxing" q ship are more or less attended with dan
ger. What we need at this port, and will some day have,
is a marine railway.
MUSIC TIL band will play this afternoon at Emma
Square, commencing at 40 P. n. The following is the
programme.
Overture-Fra DiavoIo .Arber
Cavatina-1 Brigandi Mareadante
seiection-n Sonna1abuia .Beiini
Observation-Disclosures .suppe
CAPsIzE.-The sloop yacht Water LIy. formerly the
Lotus, was out on Sunday afternoon on a trial trip. She
is supposed TO be very fast, being heavily spared, and
is said to have been brought here with q view OF beating
all our Island boats. While entering the harbor, a sud-
den pnff of wind threw her over on the side. the boom
Eleven persons were on poard. but none were drowned,
as all but three could swim, and assistance was close at
hand.
fILLIcIr LIQUOR sELLIsG.-A letter from Maui COM
plants bitterly of the laxity of the police on that
Island in respect to Illicit liquor selling by the Chinese.
The writer says it is notorious that the Chinese shop
keepers keep gin for sale to both foreigners and natives,
and that there is good ground for believing that the po-
lice receive brides to keep silence on the subject. This
is not the first time that we have heard similar COM
v~estigated the subject?
TROUBLE WITH THE MAoRIs.-we notice in the New
Zealand papers that on the Goth August last, on the
Thames river, some English surveyors were fired upon
by the natives-the former being in the act of surveying
lands which the latter claim as theirs, but which govern
ment has declared confscsted on account of the native
rebellion some years since. One of the surveyors was
wounded, but not seriously. The natives who did the
shooting were not given up by the Maori chefs. and fur
Their trouble was anticipated
Music AND MoosL1eHr.-The moon was at the full on
Monday night, and Emma Square was also full of listeners
to the concert by the band. The selection of pieces was
excellent, and the playing By the native musicians un-
der the leadership of Berger, was never better, and
ELECTED expressions of pleased surprise, especially by
the strangers pr~esent-passenger on the ZedLandid from
the Colonies.
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the trees
Here will we sit. and let the sounds Of music
Become the touches of sweet harmony"
I CHINESE RIOT ON A PLAsrArros-At ookala Plantation
in the District of Hilo, on Friday the Goth ult, a gang Of
Chinese employed in the field cutting cane suddenly
made an attack ON the overseer with cane knives and
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sugar cane, until becoming hard pressed he drew his re-
volver and fred two shots over the heads Of the crowd.
AS this did not seem to intimidate them, he fired point
blank, hitting one Chinaman, but not seriously injuring
him, but it had the effect TO put a stop to the riot. Some
hfty-six of the rioters were taken to Eilo for punishment:
A pleasant position truly, that OF overseer for q lot OF
heather Chinesei
A PERMANENT INPRovEMENr.-Mr. d. W. Clark, watch
maker and jeweler, has this week removed from his old
stand nearly opposite this Office to the new brick build
ing recently erected by him on the east side of the street.
The new structure has a very tasty decorated front and is
a decided ornament to Merchant street. 1t is AZ feet
deep by Is feet front, is of two stories, respectively II
and IL feet high. The lower story is occupied by Mr.
Clark in his business, and is provided with two large
plate glass windows. The building stands back 81 feet
from the line of the old Snow building, which forms
a rather unsightly contrast to its new and trim-looking
provement on Merchant street.-The most frequented
thoroughfare in the city.
COOLIES SHIFTED FOR GAMBLING DEBTs.-A Congress
sional Commission has been holding sessions in San
Francisco, taking evidence in regard to the Chinese.
Mr.. James Gilroy, for q number of years a merchant in
China, in the course of his testimony made the follow
ing statement: In the seaport towns of China gambling
shops are as numerous as drinking places here. 1t is a
common custom for coolies of the most degraded and
vicious class to enter one of these shops and stake their
services for a number of years against a certain sum Of
money which they play against the game. If they lose,
and they generally do, they are imprisoned and bought
from the owner of the shop by agents of companies here
80 D- -
coraIIed they are bound by a castiron contract and ship
ped to their destination to work out their indebtedness;
These are facts, gentlemen, which the testimony Of
many foreign merchants in China can substsntiste."
MErEoRoLoercAL.-Th rainfall at wilder's Ice Factory
in Nuuanu Valley is reported for the year ending Octo-
Der LIST, to have reached the very large amount of rs
inches. at the same place the record for the past four
months reads as follows:
June .8.16 inches
July. "
August. "
At Mr. W. W. Halls for "
At DR.. r. McKibbins.- "
1t will be observed that the fall of rain varies much in
amount in localities comparatively near to each other,
caused, without doubt, by the direction given to currents
of air by the formation of the mountains But this
neighborhood has been unusually favored in the matter
of rains during the past year.
From Mr.. Dickey's observatory at Haiku, East Maui,
we have received the following account of the rainfall at
windward side of the Manufacturing the three months
last past:
July. SAP inches
August. .o3o
a"
Total
CHIARINIs CRCUs.-This company, comprising some
Of the most renowned performers in the world, it will be
seen by the following letter may be expected by the
steamer on Monday en- route for Australia, and will give
one or two performances at Luproil's tent. The latter
company performs this evening as usual.
SAN Francisco, Aug. 20, 1879.
Mr.. GEORGE LuPRoIL,
Dear Sir You can advertise an exhibition Of my COM
pany, of all that is possible to perform under the circum-
stances- Oh Arrival Of Steamer and the time sha Laws in