The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-01-03
BRIEF MENTION.

MUsIc.-The band will resume its concerts at
Emma Square, this afternoon, commencing at half
past four o'clock. Following is the programme {:
overture-Emms of Resburg. .Meyerbeer
Cavatina-LuciR Iii Lammermoor. DOM Zetti
March-Turkish Review. .MichaeIis'
selection-Daughter of the Regiment. --Donizetti
Galop-Per STRAUSS
EcLIPsEs IN IsSO.-There will be six ~eclipses
during the present year, four of the sun and two
of the moon. Two Of these will be visible at Ho-
nOlulu. that of the sun on Sunday. January 18th.
and of the moon, on June 22d. The eclipse OF the
sun on the l1th OF the present month will be par
tial. the magnitude OF the middle being 0.7S. Com
mences at 1888 in the morning and ends at 2 in
the afternoon. That t. of the moon, which will be to-
tai, commences at 2.59.6 A. NJ. June 22d middle.
3.I9.l, A. Nj ends, 1856, AN. We are indebted
to Capt. Daniel Smith for these figures.
RAIN FALI.-The reports are as follows for the
month of December just passed
AT Mr.. j. X. wilder's, Nuuanu Valley. 1890. 1913 inches
At w. W. Halls, Nuuanu Avenue .-......-.-.1O.71 4"
The record for The year 1879. is as follows
At Mr.. J. K: 95.ss inches
At I HF: M W. w HAIRS
AS compared with previous years. the rainfall
for 1879 shows a considerable increase, the last
four years having exhibited a gradual decrease,
while that of 1874 was a maximum year. the
figures having been reported at 52.95-l00th inches.
DoINGs OF A HAWAIIAN CoNsUL-A telegram
from Panama of Nov. %, via New York Dec. II,
contains these words: ''The Peruvian torpedo boat,
detained by the Colombian government as contra
band of war, has at last sailed for Peru, flying
the Hawaiian flag and with a license from the Ha-
waiian Consul. The Peruvians place great reliance
in the torpedo service now organizing" We are
at q loss to understand by what authority a Ha-
waiian Consul abroad can license a foreign beni-
gerent to fly the flag of his country. 1t would be
rather uncomfortable were the Chileans to send an
;iron-clad here to take vengeance by knocking the
sugar and molasses about our ears.
The CAIIFoRNIAN.-We have received the 16rst
number of this new monthly from the publishers.
The A. Roman Publishing Company of San Fran
cisco. 1t is beautifully printed on extra good
paper, and contains 100 pages of entertaining and
instructive reading matter, the articles being all
original and mostly on Californian topics. In its
prospectus the publishers say The Californian
will be thoroughly Western in its character. local
to this Coast in its favor, representative and Vigor-
Gus in its style and method OF dealing with ques-
tions. and edited for a popular rather than a severe
literary constituency" We had intended to par
ticularize some OF the articles Of this initial num-
Der, but where all is so excellent it is difficult to
discriminate. The Californian is published al IS
per annum.
MORE ABOUT THE TREATY.-A Washington special
dispatch TO the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, dated
Nov. 90, sitter stating that the agent Of the Treasury
Department sent to Honolulu had reported that no
foreign made sugars were sent from here to San
Francisco under the treaty, says:
There has been considerable pressure brought
to bear by sugar merchants to induce our Govern
ment to take steps to abrogate the existing treaty,
but from the best Information attainable it is not
considered probable that this will be done.
sThe government loses from one to two million
dollars annually by there being no duty on the sugar
brought from the Sandwich Islands, but this was
fully anticipated by the officials who we're instru-
mental in having the treaty negotiated. If the
present treaty did not exist, it is regarded as certain
that the British Government would have control
Of the islands, and it was to prevent this and to
secure to the United States the trade of those isl
ands that the concession was made that all sugars
manufactured in the islands should be admitted to
the United States free of duty"
some to two millions annual loss in duties, is
rather indefinite, besides it Is not true in fact.