Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-04-23

sleeps WE'LL and seems perfectly resigned to his
fate.
A MEETING Of the trustees Of Oahu College is
called for p. NJ, Monday next, at the Sailors
Home.
Tnr new Commissioner for tho Republic of
France, Mons Feer, is expected by the next
steamer.
THERE will be regular meeting Of Lodge lie
Progress de l'Oceanie, A. +. q. A. NJ, No. 12i next
Monday evening.
THE Storm Bird brings seven married couples,
fourteen single men, twenty-five single women,
seventeen children; total, seventy.
A LIVERPOOL paper states that the "King Of the
Sandwich Islands IL coming 90 England on visit
to Captain Lord Charles Beresford X. N. !"
The extension to +. o. Hall d Sons store on
King street is well under way and when completed
it will be one of the largest stores in Honolulu.
The Foreign Office has received from Japan the
text of proposed treaty with the Hawaiian King
dom, which has yet to be taken into consideration.
SINCE Tuesday night it has been raining in
Honolulu almost continually and we now have
muddy instead of dusty streets by way of variety.
The case on trial in the Supreme Court yester-
day for an unnatural offense resulted in the ac-
quittal of the defendant by the unanimous verdict
of the jury.
The artesian well at Hon. Judge widemanns
plantation, Mt Waanae, is down $40 feet. First
water struck at 30 feet, and it is now within
30 feet of the surface
A MEETING will be held at the parlors of the
Commercial Hotel this evening to make arrange
ments for the celebration of Kamehameha Day,
on the 18th of June next.
wrTn regard to the query of our correspondent,
n,,., &C. : ht.,t,u hat
provisions of the Civil Code as to compulsory vac
cination, apply only to children, and not to adults.
NUuANu AVENUE having been newly macadam-
lied as far as School street. work has been stopped
there, and fresh section taken in hand. On Fri
day the steam roller at work on the one mile
bridge.
WORK was suspended for two or three days at
the Government well at Makiki, in consequence of
the breaking of part of the boring apparatus.
They now down $50 feet, with good prospect
of water.
KING street from Kawaihao church for nearly
a mile out is in a dreadful condition, almost i'm
passable; this the case we remember after the
last rains. We reccomend the bit of road to the
attention of the authorities
SOME frozen mutton shipped from Australia was
delivered in good condition in London after voy-
age of sixty-tve days. During the past year there
decrease of sheep and lambs in England and
Wales, amounting to lJOO,oOO heau.
ST. Andrews CATHEDRAL and Fort Steet Church
were beautifully decorated with flowers on Easter
Sunday; tasteful designs, principally OF lovely
white roses and the eXquisitey beautiful
stephanotes were used most effectively.
FROM Hilo we learn that the lava stream has al
most ceased flowing, and appears TO be cooling
down. The nearest point of the stream is about
six and half miles from Hilc, but no appre-
hensionsions are felt. No smallpox as yet.
H.R.H. The PRINCESS REGENT returned from
Eva on Thursday evening, and will hold recep-
ton to-day at IL O'Clock A. NJ, when the Captain
and officers of the u. s. 5. VdchnseH will be pre-
sented, and 2 p. NJ. the Captain and Officers of
the French despatch vessel Hnssard
NINETEEN passengers arrived in Honolulu from
San Francisco by the City Of New York, six by the
Helen w. Amy four by the Discovery and three by
the Wrestler. Seven LETT here by the City OF New
York for the Colonies last Monday. There has
been a large decrease III the number of passenger
arrivals from the Coast.
IT is pleasant to sec once more the pendants of
two foreign men-of-war in our harbor-the
American ship-rigged corvette WochnseH, and the
French despatch vessel Hvssord. The former will
return to San Francisco and the latter proceeds
to the Marquesas. Neither will make any pro-
longed stay here. ragFs. ~ Is
On Good Friday, which was appointed by the
1rlnceS5 Regent as u Gay OF prayer Ior aDate-
ment OF the epidemic, small party of natives
carried their devotions to excess. They went to u
house where new case OF smallpox had been DIS
covered, and sang hymns and offered prayers for
the recovery of the patient
We hear that the Emperor of Germany had to
wear no less than sixteen different uniforms in sue
cession at the numerous receptions, and ceremonies
attendant on the marriage of his grandson Prince
William of Prussia and the Princess Victoria of
Shleswieg- Holsten. The bridegroom is also a
grandson OF Queen Victoria of Great Britain and
Ireland.
TnE bark Edioa,d May which sailed from hero
last Tuesday for San Francisco, carried the largest
1592,2T pounds over fifty tons more than the
ZedidHdia's last cargo, which WAS the heaviest up
to the time the Edca,d May left here. The latter
vessel also took 10000 pounds of rice and other
products, the total value of her cargo being $780,
20S49.
The government immigration vessel Ha'cdii,
lost on the island of Tarowa, was insured in the
Fireman's Fund insurance Company for $4,000.
Captain Whitney is of opinion that the purchaser
Of the wreck for *35 will not make much by ms
recovered except perhaps, the anchors and chains,
and those only with great trouble and EXPENSE
As regards foreign mails it is always feast or
since the arrival of the March steamer from the
Coast, have arrived this week. The Coasueio ar
rived on the 10Th, the CITY NJ Neu fork ON the
17th the Discovery the 18TH, the Helen W. Amy
on the 10th and the Wrestler, on the 2lst and the
Postmaster and his staff have had pretty busy
time of 1t. ~ NJ hH
The reward of 500 for the arrest of Leong
Lung, the murderer of All Lee, comprising $3.50
offered by the Government, and $40 by Chinese
merchants, has been paid by Marshal Parke to
All See, the Chinaman in whose house Leong
Lung slept at Kailua the night preceding his
delivery to tho authorities. The $50 subscribed
by the friends of the deceased will DO paid to Lai
Yau, the chief witness for the Crown, conn
pensation for the time he was detained in custody
pending the trial.
The Rev. II. Wainwright arrived by the City of
Nee York, intending 10 visit his son in-law, the
Rev. Groser Of Wailuku; being detained by the
quarantine regulations, he is at present the guest
Of tho Bishop OF Honolulu. Tho Rev. gentlenlan's
| field of labor has been for some time mainly in
| the diocese of Quebec, and other parts Of British
! North America. We hear that he is accounted an
admirable preacher, and will occupy the pulpit at
| the Anglican Pro-Cathedral ca Sunday evening
next.
| The Hongkona correspondent Of the Celestial
Es.psre writing ON Feb. 18th states, "The.e Is an
| epidemic Of small-po at Canton" and the China
mail reports, II is sumored that with character
istic caution, all the legal luminaries, including
Chief Justice French. who went u Canton to take
part in the celebrated cause OF Regina VI. Page
have been yaccinated." This WAS the state oi
| Canton when the lydia WAS shipping her passen