The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-02-12

- y iStuiu iH1iSu USlh6Su ut SSCOuu SASNS
Of the Honolulu Cricket Club and the Pacific C. c
will be played next Saturday afternoon on the usual
ground.
- The plans and specifications for the two new
bridges which are to be erected at Kipahulu, Maui,
are now ready, and tenders for the work are adver-
tised for.
Kahewahewanui. a laborer on Kaslaea
Plantation, whilst working about the rollers of the
mill, running at the time. had both feet drawn in
and crushed. aud has been taken to the Queens
Hospital.
The anniversary of His Majesty's accession
to the throne. which occurs on Saturday the 18th.
will be observed as a national holiday. According
to notice in our ''By Authority column, ali public
offices will be closed on that day.
% In these times of epidemic danger, prudence
and temperance in living are saving virtues. But
live well keep cool and avoid worry weed out
bitterness, and all malice of uncharitableness from
your hearts and be cheerful and hopeful in yonr
family circle, and all will go well.
q Tie damaged ceiling Of the Supreme Court
Room 10 the AliioIani Hale has been repaired. The
ornamental work of the ceiling has been accurately
restored aud it is now impossible to detect any sign
of the ;ecent accident. The work of repair was con-
fded to Messrs. ]. Bowler s. Co, the contractors for
the plaster wolk of the new Palace.
- At the close of the Police Court proceedings
on wednesday, Judge Bickertou gave orders that all
persons not having business in the Police Court dur
ing its session, should, until further orders, be ex-
cluded from the Court Room, in consequence of
the prevalence of small pox in the city of Honolulu.
and the necessity of crowded assemblies being avoid
ed as much as possible
p The monthly meeting of the Honolulu
Cricket Club was held on Tuesday evening last at
the Pacific Hose Co.'S rooms. There was a fair at
tendance of members. The Captain of the Club,
Mr.. 7. Lishman, gave in his list of the first eleven,
and Mr.. H. NJ. Whitney was unanimously elected
Captain of the Clubs second eleven.
"a The newspapers of California in praising the
balmy atmosphere of their Monterey, say that it has
only one rival and that is Honolulu ;-and DIR.
Hillebrand in writing about the character of Madeira
as a sanItarlum, says 1t is far surpassed by our
Lahaina. The ~salu5rity of this Archipelago, will
make it ereOng the health resort of nations.
Mrs Thompson a wealthy lady of the city of
New York. who has given away over 5000. 900 in
charities says that it costs 80 cents in benevolent
society official machinery in order to apply 10 cents
to an actual charity and that the active promoters
and managers of organized benevolences never give
anything themselves,
- The captain and officers of The steamer Quinta
were very friendly with our late fellow-townsman
De Jean, and it was 10 doubt as a consequence of
their hospitality that he caught the disease which
proved fatal to him The two cases OF white small
pox patients reported yesterday may be attributed
to infection derived FROM De Jean, at whose restau-
rant the sufferers used regularly to dine.
MUsIc.-The Bind will play in Emma Square
this afternoon, commencing at iour O'Clock. Fol-
lowing is the programme
Faust |
Cavatina-The
PoIonaise-IH follow Farmer
Quadrille-Under the
The second moonlight concert will take place on
Monday evening, Feb. 18th, in Emma Square.
- The Chinese residents in the city are raising
a fund for the purpose of erecting on the reef a
separate smallpox hospital for their countrymen.
where they can be attended by their own physicians.
Messrs L Aseu, Goo Kim. Wing Wo Tae, Goo Yuk,
and Chong Wong Ting are Il committee of manage
ment and are actively engaged in collecting sub
s%criptions and i'll organizing matters so that the
building may be gone on with at once. Mr.. Aseu
says that people do not die of smallpox in China
when they have Chinese physicians to look after4
them.
~ mp pAOS' 90 - ACIbS LludS WILL IN |
the interior of the Palace. The upper story is in the
hands of the contractors for the plaster work,
Messrs. J. Bowler & Co who have already finished
the greater part of the plain work and much Of the
ornamental ceiling. The ceilings in the verandahs
at front aud back are nearly completed and are
worth an inspection; the tasteful designs of Mr..
Moore having been reproduced in a thoroughly |
w~orkmhnlike manner. Below, the ThrOne-room lisa
chaos of workmen. mouldings, aud carving. The
more important part of the work is, however, being
pxpeuted nj the Factory of the cOntrAclor- Mr. GeOr0a |
Lucas, under tue immediate eye OF Mr.. Moore.
B The Improvement OF the roadway in Fort
Street being completed, Mr.. Super visor Hart intends
to effect a similar good work in Nuuanu Street, COM
mencing at Queen Street. The construction of we'll
macadamized road ways in Its principal streets ought
to mitigate one of the summer plaques of this city.
The blacksand, a distribution of which used to be
looked upon as road-making, in Honolulu, began
steadily TO move towards the sea as soon as laid
down, binding the eyes of citizens on its way to q
final resting place at the bottom of the harbor. 1t
is expected that the surface of streets constructed as
Fort Street now is will not blow away so readily, and
that both the city and the harbor will benefit accord
ingly.
% The Royal Hawaiian Library received some
short time ago an accession of new books including a
number of valuable technical works, memoirs. and
books of travel. Amongst them may be found
Memoirs of Prince Metternich, of Charles Kingsley,
of Madame de Remusat, Smiths Life of w. E. Glad
stone, Froudes Caesar, Las Cases's Memoirs of
Napoleon, Schweinfurth's Heart of Africa, Bartlett s
Egypt and Palestine, Alcock's Three Years in Japan,
Escott's England, Bakers lsmaila. Barth's Discoveries
in North and Central Africa, Wallace's Geographical
Distribution of Animals, Dana's System of Mineral
ogy Reid's Law Of Storms, Labor by Joseph Cook,
(Boston Monday Lectures), Haeckel's Evolution of
Man, Woolsey's Communism and Socialism, Baird's
Rise of The Huguenots, Bayard Taylor's Translation
of Goethe's Faust. Mrs. Cowden Clarke's Concor-
dance to Shakespeare, Sanitary Engineering by J.
Bailey Denton, Baird's Sanitary Drainage of HOUSES
and Towns, q number of works on Construction,
Engineering. and Material for Public Works. and
sundry Medic | Works, including DR.. B. W Richard
sons latest.
POLICE CoURT-The following business has been
disposed of at the City Police Court during the
week, before Judge Bickerton. Monday. Feb. 9TH.