The Hawaiian gazette., 1880-09-22


We have had the pleasure Of reading a valuabls
report presented to the Board of Education,
which we shall publish next week.
The Adre,tiser proposes that the Kaumakspili
Church Association run IN debt in order 70 build
their new church Where are the creditors
The RHoEo1 has started a useful column setting
forth the opinions of the contemporary press:
good idea which will prove useful with its readers
We hear that Capt. Thomas Spencer is in town,
and reports the country as safe on Hawaii, but it
is uncertain whether Hilo will go for Hancock or
Garfield.
Miss Harriet Judd or as her friends lovingly
called her, Aunt Hatty," is reported to have been
lying at the point of death when the Ho Chung left
San Francisco.
An interesting paper upon early (reported) dis
coyeres OF the Hawaiian Islands prepared oy bon
II. A. Peirce was recently read before the Cali
fornia Academy of Sciences.
1t is said that Rev h. bingham has, or is to re-
ceive, some kind OF an appointment from the
Government relative to the Gilbert Islanders. He
viii be good man well placed
Dr. Emerson, that wicked man whom the Legis-
lature during last session, charged with the helm
GUS crime of writing book, has opened an Office
at DR.. Hofman's store, Merchant street.
The community will be glad to hear the official
announcement, which is already reported on ex-
cellent authority, that not dollar of the Chinese
Subsidy is TO be paid! Hurrah for good intentions
and reform.
1t is rumored that another paper is to be started
TO be issued IN the Hawaiian language but rumor
doth not yet assign 1t any particular position IN
politics: whether one of the great opposition or
sleepy head-like shadow.
"Opposition Press Is pretty good, particularly
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nation and the regular chap, that is to say the
editor of the other paper, stands alone. However,
in his words we are all rebels and traitors.
On Monday next the new steamer c. r. Bishop
will commence its regular trips to Nawiliwih,
Koloa. and Waimea, Kauai. We learn that the
steamer james -Aakee will continue to run to ka
paa, Kilauea and Hanalei on the Same island.
The Colonel will make good thing out of it if he
brings and gains his Crown lands suit. The Crown
lands are worth good deal more now than they
used to be formerly. At all events, We shall IN
Court have the real value of these lands, about
which so much mystery was made during last
session.
The new music hall is making considerable pro-
gress. We hear, however, that there is some diff
GUILTY about the funds We trust nothing will
intervene to prevent the completion of a very
necessary building for our city. The Palace Is
also going ahead.
1t Is worth while 70 Qr1Ve round ana see the new
wash-houses at the mouth of the Nuuanu stream
they are commodiously arranged, and ought to be
able to supply accommodation TO most of the
+ Celestials IN the city. They were certainly a
brilliant idea of our late Minister of Interior.
VIII the Advertiser cite the decision of the Su-
preme Court upon the title in the Crown lands II
/ decided that Queen Emma was not an heir while
/ the kamehamehas were alive, and yet that she
was entitled TO her dover. 1t is hard to see how
there can be dover In an estate not Unbeatable.
! The Express must take this community for fools.
I No man possessed of any sense tact would
soberly present such an argument as that of hast
Wednesday the discussion of constitutional
questions TO any but unsound persons In the upper
story So fellow citizens We know now IN what
regard We are held by the sapient editor OF that
little sheet.
white woman was recently thrown from her
horse on the N1uanu Valley road, her horse being
run against by . wagon driven by a white man, as
/ he IS called. She lay by the roadside, her head
bleeding. but the man refused TO stop TO render
her the slightest aid. A Chinaman finally came
along and kindly assisted the poor woman to her
home. The Leylte can read this, if the Samaritan
Y cannot
The dull season is truly upon US. viii some one
send our esteemed and honored contemporary, the
Adrertisss-, full accounts of the latest gigantic
mango or an enormous egg, or calf with five legs
or that naver-failinG object of interest, the sea
serpent. Items of this sort would, we are SURE
/ when touched up by our friends Eastern magma
tior. give greater pleasure 10 his readers than
column and three-quarters of trotting match anc
. column and a-quarter OF cricket.
Our contemporary is undoubtedly student o.
Klopstock, the German poet Klopstock's methoC
Of saying the gun Is fred was the pious monk
invention now resounds." Our friends idea o.
describing the upset of two milk wagons is a
/ follows The tactical fluid contained in twt
wagons was thrown upon the bosom of mothe
earth the morning OF the 18th instant frightened
equine and collision being the cause"
The correspondent of the Adrertissr who sign
himself Lex either has not read Honolulu news
papers this year. including that journal before 1t
I present regime, or else he does not wish to know
( what is unconstitutional. If be does, let him asl
the first honest man he meets. The star" cor
respondent Of the same Journal seems to thlnl
there is something very rotten In the state o
Denmark and that he knew who made 1t SC
Perhaps others think that they know, and that b
| Is one of the two white men who have brough
4 about the present state of things
tits to be hoped that the movement now pend
ing 10 have places of business closed at noon o.
Saturdays will succeed. 1t is a move in the nigh
direction People who live in this tropical cour
try ought to take moro relaxation from bushes:
In all probability several lives valuable to thi
community might have been saved had Their
been less devotion TO business We need to nd
horseback. walk. play games and take more out y
door exercise than We have hitherto. Why ar
known and SO rarely explored.
TIE OSrARIo WEI1--The artesian well on Jude
, McCuily's premises has been finished since OF
last issue, and deserves mention again, as Ii
statements IN our last item are not correct nov
The well is AS feet deep and discharges more tina
800 barrels per hour of soft, sweet water OF tt
purest quality. The pipe at the upper part is eigi
inches in diameter, and stands three feet abo'
. the ground the water pouring over the rim. like
dome of glass The owner has given it the abo'
name and welcomes all who will, to come and g
supplies Of drinking water of unquestionab
i purity.
5 On Sunday morning about O'Clock, CELESTE
( was detected in the act of attempting to snugg
E some thirteen pounds of opium on shore from q
steamer Ho Chung. John had Invested himself
all superfiuous clothing, secured the drug abo'
his person and then quietly slipped over the sic
, of the steamer into the water, and commenced
I. swim for the shore under the wharf bis lit
. game was frustrated by the vigilance of the Gu
y toms officer, who gave chase Ii boat and presse
j John so closely that he let 90 the opium In 4
shallow water, and Immediately after gained ter
' | ny-Ma, and made his best time, IN his primlG
5 | costume I'D town. He has not been seen slnc
5 | The opium was secured
A singular case of suicide occurred on Mondi
| night or Tuesday morning. Nh. johnson ca
penter was found dead In a little building IN Kin
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