Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-04-02

The regular monthly meeting of the Library
and Reading Room Association will be held this
evening at 7.30 p. NJ.
The steamer c. Il. Bishop arrived in port last
Sunday with a case of smallpox on board and was
placed in quarantine
ALL of the smallpox patients on Kauai have re-
covered but two, and no new cases have been re-
ported since last week.
Oven one hundred street lamps now illuminate
the streets of the city and suburbs, and the lights
will soon be carried farther out.
THERE has been a gratifying decrease in the
number of cases of smallpox reported this week.
We hope it is a permanent one.
YESTERDAY was the first of the month and tn
of the quarter, and the settlement of
quarterly accounts is now i'll order
SOME of the sailing vessels that left here for San
Francisco before the city Of Ney York arrived,
raised their passenger fare fifty per cent.
SoUru SEA ISLANDER with smallpox went into
DR.. Hutchinson's office on Thursday. He was
sent to the station house and taken to the reef.
AN open air concert was given at the Hawaiian
Hotel by the band last Tuesday evening for the
attended
HE StrHihu stedIleT LJhth Balls IOr Suiut To-
day, taking with her twenty-four Chinese in
irons, who were among the leaders in the difficulty
last Friday night.
The regulation of the Board of Health requiring
the officers and of all vessels in the coasting
trade to remain on board at nights when in port,
has been rescinded.
ONLY two passengers arrived here by the City of
Neo York from the Colonies, but thirty EIGHT sail
ed from here for San Francisco by the
steamer. Seven left by the schooner W. II. Meyer.
WHAT is the matter with our mail routes? A
Hamakua correspondent writes: =" The Marion is
our only medium of communication with Homo
lulu at present. The kawaihae route appears to
be closed"
The Committee appointed to consider the advis-
ability of having this Kingdom enter the Postal
Union are to present their report to-day. The
general opinion among the people seems to favor
entering the Union.
THERE is one house quarantined at Waialae and
nine persons are in quarantine at Waialua. In
Honolulu, fifteen houses have been placed in quar-
antine during the week. and twenty six have been
released from quarantine. ti
Mr.. j. NJ. LAwLoR who has taken charge of the
Hawaiian Hotel, arrived here recently from San
Francisco He is landlord of experience, having
for number of years been connected with some
of the largest hotels in San Francisco and other
cities i'll California.
A FEW days ago near Kaneohe, Hoopi, native
girl, struck her husband, Charles Coney, on the
forehead with an axe, making a severe wound.
She has been remanded until it is seen whether
the injury proves fatal or not
The rainfall for the month of March, as
measured by j. X. Wilder at the Ice Works, Nuu-
anu valley, 11.6 inches; at w. w. Halls resi-
dence on Nuuann Avenue, 65o inches; at Or. 4;
McKibbin's residence on Beretania street, 4.07
inches.
The total sum of the reward offered for Leong
Lung, the murderer of Ha Lee, ia $3.50; of this,
the Marshal offers $500, and Chinese residents of
Honolulu $780, reward of $40 is offered for the
apprehension of the Chinaman who assaulted
Captain Ross at Waianae.
THERE are provisions in the Statutes of this
Kingdom prohibiting the selling of liquor to
natives and yet every week natives are brought
up in the Police Court on charges of drunkenness.
They apparently have no difficulty in getting all
| the liquor they wish. There must be screw loose
somewhere.
The size and speed of ocean steamships are
rapidly increasing The celebrated Cunard Com
pany will shortly add to their fleet new steamship
to be built of Steel and 10 measure 1900 tons and
to be driven by engines of $500 horse power. This
will be the largest merchant ship aoat next to the
Great Eastern.
Mn. AND MRs. j. S. WALKER we're agreeably sur
prised on Wednesday last, their crystal wedding
anniversary, by a number of beautiful, useful and
appropriate presents, among which were one dozen
gohets, one dozen custard cups, two butterdishes,
| q celery glass, a card receiver two sugar bowls,
ond other articles of glassware.
The Kapiolani Park Association has put forth a
notice forbidding the of their course to
non subscribers, unless provided with written
permit. This is only fair, ltcannot DO right that
| ly used, and perhaps damaged by people who re-
fuse to subscribe for its maintenance.
THr Sydney Morning Herald says: "Miss
| Christian vocalist with finely cultivated rich
contralt0 voice, has, with the assistance of Miss
Annis Montague, Mr.. O. Turner, and Mr.. Farley,
financial success" Mr.. Henry Ketten, the pianist
is also performing in Sydney.
WHEN speaking last week Of the victim of the
criminal whose sentence is now under consider
alton, We We're mistaken IN stating that she was
his wife. She was not his wife at all they had
been living together unhappily and after
frequent squabbes she expressed her intention Of
leaving him. To this he objected; and the crime
committed ended the disagreements.
NEARLY a hundred of the Chinese who arrived
by the Nae Foo, quarantined near the Reform
School, attempted to escape from confinement last
Monday. They knocked of a number of pickets
and had broken down the gate when they were
confronted by a squad Of policemen, Who forced
them back and secured them again. The polios
guard has been increased TO prevent another out
break. The Chinese complain that they were In
sufficiently fed.
On Monday fresh southerly bresss YES blow
ing into the harbor, but nothing which an,
ordinary tug might not have easily faced. The W
n. Meyer loaded and ready for ga, bat the Pei
was unable 70 take her out, and she did not g.
| away until Tuesday morning. We need NOR
efficient tug. Az long ago as 1876 We cav bark
the Madison, wrecked IN the passage when In tov
Of this Peis, owing " tbs lack u power OF tn
latter. Twenty -four years more work have not In
creased her towing powers.
TIE dilhculty with tho Chinese On the 0ermal
steamer Lydia, which ve spoke Of last wesl
/, although for time il looked like ANAL spec
o. var ON the horizon" fortunately resulted b
nothing serious. After the Chinese we're drive
tered with blood On Saturday = guard Of soldier
vas kept posted on the brigantans Pssavs, vhic