The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-01-24

vaiian Mission ChildreRs Society will be held this
Saturday evening at the house OF Mr.. c. W
Cooke. on King street
. ~ As We go to press. the whaler John HOr7.
land is Of the port. Capt. Green kindly offers to
take charge OF any parcels for Ascension Mission
Stations. to sail again this forenoon.
DRowNED-While The schooner IA Moi was
lying at anchor at KahuIli. East Maui, on the Eth
inst, the vessels boat got adrift and several of
the crew jumped overheard to secure it. One of
them. named Lilikalani. never rose to the surface,
and is supposed To have been taken with a dt. The
body had not been found. as tbe current was set
ting strongly across the bay towards Waihee.
FIRM FOR THE PRISoIPLE--Last Thursday the
case of P. c. Jones VS.. G. II. Luce TAX Collector)
came up in the Supreme Court. The sum at stake
was only one dollar, but the principle involved was
an important one, being the question of costs in
cases decided by the Board of Tax Appeals. The
Court decided in favor of Mr.. Jones, being of the
opinion that the same rule as to costs should apply
as in other civil cases, that is, that they should 60
with the decision.
ARcHERY.-A favorite amusement in fashionable
circles in the United States of late is the practice of
shooting with a bow and arrow. So much in vogue
has this pastime become that whole chapters in the
leading periodicals are devoted to an calculation of
the game and instructions whereby skill may be ac-
CURED at " the butts.'' AS an out door exercise, of
which the fair sex cannot have too much, they are
preferring archery to croquet. 1t has even reached
these Islands. and we hear of an " Archery Club "
at Makawao. Why can't there be one in Honolulu
as well?
ANOTHER PIONEER GoNE.-Late Auckland papers
record the death of Mrs. Williams, widow of the late
Archbishop Henry Williams, of the New Zealand
mission, who landed with her husband and three
children at the Bay of Islands 10 1928, Sc years ago.
Four years before her death she completed the Seth
year of her age. She leaves children, grandchildren
and great grandchildren The Hawaiian mission
was established in 1920, three years before that of
New Zealand. OF its original members there are
none living, and now the last of the New Zealand
pioneers is gone.
AMERICAN EXCHANGE IN Notwithstanding to
published reports. this establishment by II. F..
Gillig & Co.. 449 Strand. W. c. London. with its
offices and reading rooms. must be a great accom-
and convenience to Americans sojourn-
ing in the great metropolis Of England. For the
of s / .25 one may have a months freedom of
the Exchange and Reading Rooms, where is TO be
found a large list of American papers, facilities for
writing letters. registers of arrivals and departures
Of steamers. lists of passengers. etc. etc. Mr.. J. B.
No. 3 Montgomery street, is the San
Francisco agent Of the American Exchange in
Europe.
WILL IT PAY A correspondent inquiries why
The British Colonies OF Australia may not. with
heir large anu increasing population. prove good
customers for our Island sugars; and suggests that
We should make Il display OF our products at the
Melbourne Exhibition. We have in The past advo-
lated the latter idea in these columns. But so
ong as our sugars are admitted duty free in the
,orts of the United States. it is not likely that we
hall send them seeking for a market elsewhere.
The quality for which we get from seven to eight
ents in San Francisco woHld bring from Eve and
to six and three-fourths cents in the
with a duty OF "a lbs. I'D. pei ton added.
|oNwARD.-The many improvements and labor
aving machines gradually being introduced into
he establishments of our best mechanics are worthy
f note, as, besides being q matter of curiosity in
he various complicated mechanical movements dis
they also assist in the production at low
of many articles, both useful and ornamental,
hus beneftting the community at large and besides
that the watchword of our mechanics is pro-
- INV VI II htC IL q Oiluu
laking machine, or rather two machines, a Mortic-
r and Borer, imported by Mr.. George Lucas and
ow in operation at his shop on the Esplanade ; it is
Iell worthy a visit from the curious.
TAX RECEIPrS-oome years ago a candidate for
ne Legislature in this city initiated the practice OF
acuring possession OF the tax receipts of the
atives some weeks preceding the day of election.
10 one can vote at the polls without producing
be receipt Of the tax collector for the taxes of the
urrent year, aud the possession OF this paper by
lie candidate gave him a quasi lien on the voter.
f course it really amounted to no more than that,
ut with the average simple minded native it was
property followed up by a voluble
runner, - to ensure his vote. This sharp practice
e learn is now largely in vogue, both in this
ty and elsewhere, and large numbers of tax re-
eipts have been collected by prominent candi-
for use on election day. 1t is an outrage on
lie supplemented people, but q" what are you
to do about it?'
The TIoHBoRNE CLAIMANF.-We notice by a re-
mt English paper that in the course of a letter to a
lend respecting certain statement made by " Cap
in Barry of New Zealand. with regard to the
laimant, Mr.. Guilford Onslow remarks: cap
in Barry had seen the Claimant, and he instantly
cognised him as an old friend in Australia, known
him as Thomas Castro, the companion of one
rthur Orion, who was also well known to Captain
+ = Captain Barry's evidence not only
es to prove the prisoner and Arthur Orion to be
10 distinct individuals, but proves Thomas Castro
As known by that name so far back as 1857 = = 3
short. Captain Barry's evidence upsets the whole
chborne trial, and if there is a spark of justice in