The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-03-27

selectiop-The Merchant OF Venice. -. .Pinsut
Echo PieSe-Ka He . Hiku. by request -. Berge
CLEANING UP-The whole interior Of the Gov
eminent House has during The past week been un
dergoing a Ihorough cleaning and rrnovating pro
cess, aud the walls. ceiling and w~oodrnwork lool
as good a new. The coat of arms and p~araphar
MALTA above the daiS in the Legislative Hall havt
been retouched and regilded. SO as to be in a Il
condition for the approaching presence OF th,
= assembled wisdom of the nation
y Some time since, Senior Moreno, the agent o
the proposed China steam line, forwarded to Rome Il
the address Of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII. q copy o.
the Hawaiian newspaper Ro Hdlcaii Pas .dfaa. L
has been said that every known language on earth il
spoken or read in the College of Cardinals. How.
ever that may be, a brief notice of the Hawaiian
paper appears in La Sta tstG, a journal published
simultaneously at Rome and Naples, under date Of
Jan 81, and in which allusion is made to SenoI
Moreno's mission to this Kingdom.
CHINESE FROM CALIFoRNIA.-Under pressure oil
the present raid on the Chinese in Calito rnia. we
may reasonably expect a large influx OF the Mon.
golian element from that quarter-and of a very
undesirable class. The San Francisco Merchant OF
a late date says The Hawaiian sugar planters
may as well send word to the Chinese steamship
companies not to trouble themselves to ship any
more Monaghan emigrants direct. expecting a big
advance on the wages to be earned. for they won't
get it. San Francisco can furnish i've times as
many Cinnamon as the Islands can possibly dispose
of and wOn't ask any advance. We are only too
glad to get rid of them.
OUR VALUED contemporary the San Francisco
Merchant, not infrequently copies somewha freely
from the ADVERTISER on matters of Island news,
aud very naturally we are pleased to see our
labors thus appreciated abroad--when they are
properly credited. But when, in the Merchants
issue for Feb. 20. we see a hali-column article OF
ours. entitled 8" Anniversary OF the Accession of
King Kalakaua.' purporting to have been copied
from the Hacaiidn Gazette. we must protest that if
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should prefer that they should pass unnoticed. No
doubt the Merchant editor 9 knows how it is him
self"
fGIANr PowDER-A painful accident occurred TO
Thos. W. Lishman, son OF Mr.. r. Lishman of this
city, on Tuesday last. He was engaged in clean
ing the accumulated verdigris from "a metal car
fridge of giant powder, using for the purpose a
piece of wood, when the thing most unaccountablY
exploded in his hands. The first joint OF the thumb
and also of the middle finger of the left hand. are
quite gone, and several OF the other fingers on both
hands are more or less injured. AS the compound
in question is somewhat extensively used on these
Islands in roadmaking and excavations on or about
plantations, it is hoped that everybody who may
have occasion TO handle ii will take extra care in
doing so. 1t is u new idea however, that simple
friction with a stick will cause the treacberous
stuff to explode, as it did with young Lishman.
Book EEPING.-Last week il was announced
that a Chinese firm on Nuuanu street, under the
name of ANU & Co.. had failed, with liabilities
amounting TO some I'VE OF SIX thousand dollars.
Our informant stated that not far from one thou
sand dollars of that amount was for liquors. How
ever, the account books of the concern,-like those
of other Chinese traders-were kept in their own
language. and it is next to impossible TO obtain a
statement from those books of the affairs of the
firm. as to their assets or who may be their debtors.
This is very interesting truly to creditors. We
think that under our peculiar circumstances, the
law should make it imperative for everybody do
ing business to a certain amount, to keep their
books of account in either the English or Hawaiian
languages.
A BUNDLE OF Gdzette's
g picker up of unconsidered trifes " should take
more pains in regard to his facts. 1t is perhaps a
pity to spoil his story about the midnight foray on
a Minister'S stable. the tbiel's big knife which
frightened the policeman, and the dispatch of a
posse in pursuit but the facts are simply these
An insane native escaped from the Asylum. and
shortly after he was reported next morning at the
station house, as having absconded. a native mot u
policeman) CANE To the station and gave infOrma-
ton that he bad met a man on horseback on the
road to Koolau, who from appearances be judged
to be insane. He had on the horse, portions OF IA
carriage harness. A note was Immediately dis
patched to the local authorities of Koolau, and in
due time the man was brought back, found to be
the escaped lunatic. and returned to the Asylum.
The harness belonged to the Minister Of the Inter
from whose stable the crazy man had taken il
on the night of his escape. The Gazette s insinua-
ton that it is only when u Minister'S premises are
visited by thieves that the police make any effort
uncallrd Tor.
the CALIFORNIAN. The March number OF
new monthly is at hand. full of good things
though we miss the Pheasant varied chat OF Out
groupings" which added no little to the attractiye-
ness of the first two numbers. The most Dutc-
worthy article in the March number is one by Gen.
J. F. Miller entitled Some Phases of the Chinese
1t is tempeiately but forcibly written,
its reasoning and conclusions will, if we are
not greatly mIstaken, go a great way towards EN-
Tightening public sentiment in the East on this
question. The writer shows that the Mongol and
civilizations are radically antagOuis-
tic that they can no more mix than oil and water. /
that il is already high time to consider which 1
of the two civilizations existing side by side on the
Pacific Coast shall predominant. The Republic, of
Washington, edItorially reviews the article In the
Californian, and after thoroughly endorsing his
says that - The fact that it is not always
the highest type OF man that survives in the strug-
for subsistence is demonstrated by reference
to the authorities from whom General Miller
quotes and the review, after presenting the ques-
whether the nation has not a right to discrim-
mate in favor OF an assimilative immigration as
against the hordes of Mongolian heather by whom
the maintenance of American systems are threat
sned, concludes as follows: If the Chinese came
here to make a conquest of our country by force
Of arms. who doubts that the whole nation would
resist them but the stealthy and strategic con-
quest which they are pursuing is just as dangerous
and should be met by just as determined a resist
ance.'
IHE EMfEROh , DihlhDA - EG ChS VI
he anniversary of the birthday (83d) of Emperor
Wilhelm of Germany was celebrated on Monday
he 22d inst, in a truly national. and therefore
manner by the German residents OF this
city, and especially so by the members of the
Deutscher Verein.' The programme for the day,
Inder the auspices of the above Association, con-
listed of a morning reception for ladies ard chill
Iren at the rooms OF the club an afternoon con-
on the grounds adjoining, and to which the
general public were invited /; and the festivities Of
he day were closed by a theatrical performance
and dancing in the evening. The building and
grounds of the club were very tastefully decorated
flags. bunting and evergreen. The morning
reception was we'll attended by ladies and chill
iren. and the afternoon concert was enjoyed by a
of townsfolk. The evening entertain
nent. although only originally intended by the
to be a social reception Of their friends,
proved to be one Of the most fashionable affairs of
he season, the company comprising. besides His
Majesty, a number of Government officials. mem
of the diplomatic and consular corps and of
the bar. press, &c. many of whom were accom-
- ah.T- l,lSn1 aA1 tho gamma nraCantn1