The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-10-02

the O(a)ccident.
e Vivid and brisk lightning illuminated the
horizon on the evening of the 26th instant.
z The C. R. Bishop carried an srtesian we'll
boring machine to Kauai on her last trip.
e We are requested to state that the Foreign
Jury for the October Term, will be notified when re-
| quired. II
~ Her late Grace Fanny Young. mother Of H.
N. Queen Dowager Emma, win be buried tomorrow.
In another column we give the order Of procession.
= The Chinese element are not as much depleted
az they were, Notwithstanding the departure CT the
Ho Chung with 26s. The Gensina Brons has arrived
from Whampos with 219 to ELL the vacancies.
gs- The Supreme Court session, for the October
term. commences on Monday, the 4th inst. We pub
lish, in another column, the list of criminal and
civil cases to be heard.
e A German steamer is now on the way TO this
port from Canton, China, laden With Orientals. Ne
gotiations were also being entered into to charter the
bark Carl Reuter- and load with a like cargo.
q On Monday, 9th ult., a z. q. ADVERTISER
EXTRA was issued and mailed per steamer City of
Sydney to all our foreign subscribers and to all
IOTeIgn OWCldl5 OF LQlb k1uROOm.
- 1t is no Joke to connect Q Tickle with More
nos mysterious missives. but ticklish fingers guided
the quill that indited the lately discovered diplo-
matte letters. The City of Nsnkin has conveyed him
towards the a Golden Gate" His creditors mourn
his departure.
e Intending Exhibitors at the international
Exhibition to be held in Melbourne this year do not
appear to have been lucky in their shipments. A
majority of the American exhibits have been lost
through the total wreck of the vessel carrying them
and q considerable instalment of the British exhibits
was on board the Orient Company's Steamer Sorata
when she ran aground on the Australian Coast.
ANOTHER CLAIMANT FOR THE KANAINA EsTATE.-
We learn that ]. N. Kaleohemahems has commenced
q suit to obtain possession of the Kanaina estate.
He claims to be Ksnaina's nephew and that he is
able to furnish satisfactory reasons why he has been
so tardy in preferring his claim. Our legal friends
must have already done well out of this inheritance.
New possibilities Of appropriating the whole of the
oyster now loom before them.
81 The Roman paper la Stafetta of Both
July copies the following from the Aurora of
Modena 80 We have just learnt that our Illus
trious fellow-countrymen, Captain Celso G.
Moreno has been nominated Governor of Buenos
Ayres. We congratulate our distinguished col
laborator, that from among SO many ilustrious
personages who aspired to this honor he, an
Italian, should be elected to undertake such a
charge"
Ns- Several friends Of Mr.. T. McLellen, (the
noted turtle who is at present in this city, have
had made q gold medal, and have presented it to him
as a token of their appreciation Of the nerve display
ed by him in driving . home - almost on one wheel,
in the second heat of the $1,000 trotting race, which
took place at Kspiolani Park on Sept. 11th. The
medal is gold, and is valued at $50, and is engraved
in an artistic and appropriate manner; the diverse
side showing q picture OF the incident referred to,
and on the reverse, suitable inscriptions with the
date Of presentation.
q DIR. Nelson, Medical Superintendent. Of the
Leper Settlement, has laid before the Board of Health
a valuable report on the condition of the %unfortu-
mates ut Kalawao. There are now COS lepers at the
settlement. Some change in the alipentation Of these
people has been recommendation q uniform beef
and salmon diet. The late President of the Board of
Health purchased of the Lanai Ranch 1000 head OF
sheep at two dollars q head; the skins being contract
ed for at twenty-five cents each, will reduce the cost
to one dollar and seventy-ive cents for good fat
muttons; considerably less than what is paid in Homo
lulu by butchers for sheep.
~ There has been an expectation, perhaps
baseless, that h. R. H.. the Prince of Wales
might pay US a flying visit during the excursion
be has SO long proposed to make. From a recent
telegram to the Australian papers we learn that
the people of Melbourne are to be disappointed
in this matter, and we may therefore set aside
any idea of seeing the heir to the throne of Eng
land and India here. The laconic announcement
by cable gives the reason for this change OF pro-
gramme 20 be Fl. R. HIS American engagements
As we do not know the exact nature OF these we
cannot further explain the altered purpose.
~ Fire Marshal Mcclure has issued q printed
circular to owners and ~occupiers Of property calling
their attention to certain duties imposed upon them
by the law which it is his function to enforce. Il 10
the Fire Marshal's duty to inspect every tenement
in the city twice in every year in order to see that
the occupiers who use stoves have them fixed in
accordance with the law on the subject, and that
everyone has his fire buckets in order. MIR. Mo
CURE seems bent upon making q name Tor himself,
and as . man who knows his duty and doesi and We
hope all good citizens will assist him. Next to the
sanitary precautions so much neglected here, pre-
cautions against fire are among the most important
duties Of the inhabitants Of this inf smmable town.
Is 1T TO BE Our FATE I'm the San Francisco
Merchant OF the 10th inst. we find the following
-" It is one of the boasts of the Dem ocratic
Party that it has added in time past valuable ter
ritory to the domain of the United States. Seward
and Alaska will ever be associated in history.
And should the Hawaiian Islands ever become q
State in this Union it will be due to the energy
and foresight OF a private citizen. q San Fran
cisco manufacturer, and not Of any member of
Congress OF Cabinet" To this We may add that
should the fate OF Alaska be meted to the Hawa-
iian Islands, the people OF the country will no
doubt be given up to the tender mercies OF a few
San Franciscans, just as the luckless Inhabitants oil
the Fur territory have been. And from the class
and style OF territorial officers usually sent from
Washington City through political influence,
- Good Lord deliver us
g A son of Kalaela, Israel by name, and
whose kleptomaniac propensities bad brought him
to grief. was brought before his Honor on the
morning of the 18th, charged with the larceny OF
sIl3 bimetallic coin, the property of T. B. Tyler.
The circumstances connected with the case are,
that Mr.. Tyler left his domicile. a cottage rented
by a Mr.. WOolmlngton. situated on Emma street,
on the morning of the 25th, and did not return until
the evening. On his return and upon entering tue
house, he found that q trunk belonging TO Mr..
Woolmington had been broken open and the con
tents disturbed, and further. that his OWN trnnk
had met with q similar treatment, and also $Z3 IN