The Hawaiian gazette., 1880-04-28


There will be special meeting of Hawaiian
Lodge No. q, F. d A. NJ, on Friday evening next,
April Both, 1880. Visiting brethren in good stand
ing cordially invited.
We learn that Miss De We're has decided to give
another concert during the coming week, assisted
by several amateurs, of the time of which due
notice viii be given.
Elder Hook will address the congregation at
Kaumakapii Church, through an interpreter, next
Sunday evening, May Ind. The public are re-
spectfully invited to attend
The Legislature will be opened at noon on Fri
day neIt, by His Majesty. We hope the session
VIII be short one spite of the paucity of mate
mai for the papers, tlll submarine telegraph Is
land.
By official notification it Will be seen that it has
pleased His Majesty the King to appoint His Ex-
ceLlency j. Z. Bush, Governor of kauai) q Noble.
His many printer friends In this city congratu-
late the Governor on this mark of distinction con-
hrIned upon him.
Patronize home industry is a good idea, and the
Kohala Sugar Company has just been doing that
in getting West to make four cane wagons, l6 feet
long and feet wide each, capable of conveying
load of 10 tons to a wagon. They will be drawn by
the traction engine for cane, sugar, or any other
freight desired.
The Advertiser says that before the entrance to
the harbor can be deepened costly survey will be
needed We thought Captain jackson in his thor
ough and fine work had completed that survey and
had not heard that II was ruinously costly. He
took over 200 soundings by the way before his
work was completed, and his mapi IS very fine one.
The Gussie TslfGir brought down about two dozen
fine Merino bucks from Woolsey's Alameda Ranch,
for Mr.. Charles Il. Alexander, on Maui. They are
in fine condition and will be valuable addition to
the stock now on the Islands. One young man was
asked what kind of sheep they were, and promptly
answered, Rams.
This paper is sometimes rushed to get off in time
the LiLellke on Tuesday afternoon, in conse
quence of which few last items are not care
fully read and the result is sometimes melancholy
to behold. We felt ourself 'waned and our wind
was knocked ont on reading that note about the
ketten Concert last week.
Probably no one longs so heartily for the COM
pletion of the proposed Music Hall those hap
less individuals who sat disconsolate in the theatre
last Saturday evening holding umbrellas their
heads TO keep off the fast descending drops which
sifted through the sieve-beg Notwithstanding
overhead 1t looked like an unusually respectable
camp meeting
What Is the matter with our town water 1t does
not flow with the force it ought in view of the large
rainfall of the past winter. 1t is rumored that
Nuuanu Valley now supplies the whole system, that
the Waikiki Reservoir has again lost Its bottom.
Rather porous soil up that way, and reservoir
must depend its own bottom if it is expected to
hold water.
The GEssie Telfair is to go to-day and as she has
so much the start of the Zealandiq and is a fast
vessel letters by her will probably arrive over be-
fore the mail by the latter vessel 1t is quite pos
sible that she NAV reach San Francisco before the
City Of NetC York leaves to come down. Therefore
if any one wants to write and get prompt answer,
patronize the Ieitair.
The side walk along King Street before the Pal
ace grounds has become much safer and plea
santer way since the trees have been trimmed.
Prior to that time it was positively dangerous for
the evening pedestrian. We know howiti is ourself
as We sometimes passed along that way in our after
supper constitutional. Thanks, kind srs, for this
trimming of algaroba branches.
The artesian well on the Marques place pro-
crosses slowly, but, we hear, satisfactorily. 1t
is now down over go feet, piping in, and water
within twenty feet of the surface, of a good
quality 1t is to be hoped that the well will prove
success. If it does not flow, it will not of neces
sity be unsuccessful, for good water from never
failing source may be pumped out.
Last evening the German war vessel Vineta,
Commander Zirzow, arrived from Panama, en-
route for Japan. The Vneta is of the larger class
of ships, and viii remain a short time in our har
Dor before proceeding on her voyage. This vessel,
il will be remembered, visited port in April,
1876. We unable to present our readers with a
full list of her officers this morning.
new street has been opened west of the Gov
eminent Building. 1t runs from King to Queen
street (which is the proper thing to do), and will
be quite a convenience, particularly when the Mu-
steal Hall is completed ON that corner. Ten or
twelve feet were given from the premises surround
ing Aliiolani Hale, and the street, as we judge,
viii be about twenty or twenty-five feet wide.
We saw the other day some sections of portable
railway or trains, for use on plantations else
where They are in lengths of nine ten feet, are
! quite light and easily handled and appear to be
Just what is wanted for use in cane fields, or fir
other agricultural purposes. 1t is said that one of
+ the Kauai plantations proposes to introduce this
new and convenient method of transportation. Its
I success will be watched with interest.
The Forest Queen arrived on Monday morning,
bringing down the rest of that mail which the pub
lie was led to suppose was on the GnsSie Teffdir.
! A large proportion of her mail consisted of the
monthly magazines. which always looked for
ward to by the reading portion of the community
Harper's and the atlantic hold their own in inter-
est, and Ser5Her is constantly improving in its IL
Illustrations.
The bark KdIakdna arrived on Thursday the
/ 18th, and on the following Thursday she had dis
charged her cargo and filled up with sugar, rice
DC, as return freight and could have left by Fri
day; which is pretty quick work. She finally left
however on Sunday morning. Capt jerks believes
that he has at last got the scent of the China
I man who owned that wood in which the thirty
Z nine tins of opium were found and which caused
4 the vessel SO much trouble.
/ It is said that Mr.. Berger tof the New York Life
Insurance Co.. not of the Band,) is to give us some
more light that fifty lights are to be added to our
thirty-three thereby making eighty-three in all
1t is a good idea bur ffty-three lamps are totally
l spise the day of small things. If private citizens
I will now join in, placing lights before their re-
spective premises, it will help the general effect
wonderfully.
Perhaps we are going to have plank road along
that sandy strip from the church at Waikik-kai
to the Park entrance-at least SO says rumor, and
it Is to be hoped that rumor is correct, for some
kind of way is needed. We are shareholder
I ourself. but have only been to that park once,
on account of our merciful feelings towards our
beast. Let the lumber dealers prepare TO put in
their lowest bids for this job and let it be job
either.
If any one doubts that Honolulu is not growing
and taking unto herself new garments, let him go
about the streets and count the new houses finish
ed and unfinished Their number is legion "a lit
lie oneL Our friend Bickerton has at last COM