The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-03-26

OrtnOuOX CnurcleS OF the city. - t(
wlckedest city In the world, 3" needs revival q
reform and We hope that in future it will s (
US only good Moody men.
IL A number of Chinese parties have mf le
up a sum of 5000 to be added to the Marsh S
reward of $3.50, for the capture of the murdere n
All Lee. The reward is now $3.50, and so annoln-
ced IN Chinese posters. We were in error y
respect TO the reward offered for the apprehen-
sion of the murderer of Mr.. Dudoit. The reward
of $1,000 we mentioned, was $500 by the Marshal,
and $500 (not $4,000 by Chinese merchants.
% A brother editor says we should not COM
plain of abuse; as Premier Gladstone has been
called an owl, and said nothing about it nor
would we, if Premier of England, or even of a
smaller country, at five thousand pounds, or
twenty-five thousand dollars a year, care, if a
neighboring ass should call us an owl even a
venerable old owl. But when a brother editor,
who can have no ground for personal quarrel,
sings at us the meanest personalities that come
to his hand, for the sake of small pay, and to
satisfy the spite of others, We think that that is
quite different thing.
- The Hawaiian Hotel has passed into new
hands And is now in charge of Mr.. John NJ.
Lawlor, an experienced hotel keeper of San
Francisco. This gentleman has had the right
kind of experience to qualify him to please the
many Coast people who visit our shores and we
doubt not from our short encounter with Mr..
Lawior, that he will in time satisfy California
people and other travellers that we have-not
only the most delightful and salubrious climate
in the world, the biggest wonder in nature, and
the most admirable miniature political state
but also the best conducted and most comforta-
BILE resting place, or pleasant inn, that a fastidi-
Gus traveller or tourist could desire.
II Those who may have the curiosity TO in
spect the work going on at the new Palace will
be surprised at the rapid progress that has lately
been made with the work of internal decoration
and finish. The plastering of the upper stories
is now all but complete and the decorative work
of the ceilings of the principal rooms and of the
is well worth inspection. The designs
for the decorative work of the building have all
been prepared by Mr.. Moore and will form a
record in the highest degree creditable to him.
Messrs. Bowler & Co. have done thorough ius-
to these designs in reproducing them. The
mouldings, corbels, brackets and pendants are all
turned out in the first style of workmanship and
the more difficult work of the human and other
figures in the allegorical designs which fill GER
tain of the panels is equally well done. How
ever various the opinions of critics as to the
external appearance of the Palace may be, there
be no doubt that it's interior will be some
thing of which our little Kingdom may be proud.
FROM MIcRoNEsIA.-The missionary packet
Morning Star, Capt. Bray, which returned this
week from her annual trip to the groups of
Micronesia, brings news that is encouraging to
the friends of missions. The work of proselytizi-
ing and c~ivilizing the people on all the different
islands, where teachers have been established,
is reported as prosperous in the extreme, and in
some cases as truly wonderful. The system has
Deen adopted by the American missionaries ON a |
somewhat extended scale, of educating converts
ON Ponape ascension Island) to become assist
missionaries to proceed to the groups farther
west as pioneers, and these have prove remarka-
bly, efficient workers. An instance was related
by the Rev. Mr.. Rand, one of the returned
by the Star, at the Bethel Wednes-
lay evening meeting, of the success of one of
these pioneers that was omewh remarkable.
he was landed from the brig on a hitherto I'M
visited island of several hundred inhabitants
0ne evening just at sundown, and left to his own
The language of the people of the
ISLAND was utterly unknown to him and totally
1issimilar to his own. Yet when visited by the
missionaries one year after his arrival there, it
was found that the people, who had first heard
he Gospel from him, had built a neat and
,apacious church and a nice house for their
eacher, improved their own habitations and
lyle of living, had become passable scholars in
day school, and the missionaries, after due
elaboration and examination, baptized and adj
nitted thirty-six of them to church membership.
~ The mails which should have been taken
Ience by the P. NJ. S. S. City of New York,
despatched on Wednesday, by the German
ark Atalanta, she being the first vessel which
ave notice of her intention to sail for San
francisco after it was determined to send on by
sailing vessel the letters which were waiting
ere for despatch. The British bark Lady
.ampson succeeded in completing her loading
nd got away a couple of hours after the ATLANTA
lso carrying a small mail, and the American
rlgantlne Hesperian followed her closely, cast
lg away from the mail dock about the time the
Lampson cleared the entrance to the
arbor. Some little jealousy was INDUCED in at
ne months mail of more than 6OOG letters being
wen to a craft which is not a regular trader,
ut as the notice of the Lady Lampson's inten-
on to sail was not given to the Postmaster
-eneral till 2 PM. on Tuesday, twenty-four
ours after the arrangement with the Atlanta
ad become publicly known, there can be no
round for challenging the selection, especially
the last named bark is a new and powerful
7ssel. Some interest attaches to the race between
lie three vessels, and a few small wagers hang
u the event. The fact that they each are of a
lferent nationality gives additional zest to the {
after. The Hesperian is a craft of beautiful
odel and under favorable circumstances stands
good chance of beating her larger competitors.
o far as the mail Is concerned most of our
1siness men are Indifferent as to the choice of
sssels, having sent their duplicates by the w. ;
:. Dimond, which got away on the 18th and is
Ipected to make a good passage. I
e An attempt to escape from their durance p.
the Quarantine Station was made by a number
the ~Septina0's passengers on Tuesday after
Don. The affair does not appear to have been
,econcerted and the large majority of the men
ere easily persuaded to return to their quarters :
hen they saw that their escape would be !
oposed. Mr.. Along with his son and a police /.
an named Akana had been visiting the Station
make enquiries in response to a number of /.
tiers which had been sent to him by passengers
n Septinea complaining that they were being
reed by the consignees of the ship and by the
Iippping agents to contract at too low rates of
ages. Mr.. Along found that only about 200 |
ere left unengaged. These surrounded him I
i'd complained about their being confined I
here they were. and told him that thew did NOT