The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-09-17

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s- Hon. Walter ". Gibson left town PEI
Likelike on Tuesday, 18Th inst, for Lahsina-
We're s'vine to iine de Union, Is not
a bad Post Office resolution. providing it i
acted upon.
The schooner Warwick, which sailed for
Molokai on Tuesday, took with her fourteen
lepers for halawao.
ESg- One of Mr.. Campbsll's new stores on
Fort Street has been let, to be occupied as a fur
niture warehouse.
Miss Kinney, who lately returned to Ho-
uoIulu after q two years residence in California,
has resumed her old post as assistant teacher OF
Fort street school.
We notice that bon riraats have now an
opportunity TO indulge in Pork SauSages, fresh
and newly made daily. Messrs Raupp and
Schtader's advertisement speaks Tor itself
= Judge MeCully sailed for Kauai in the
c. r. Bishop. on Tuesday, to hold his Court.
Mr.. Preston being unable to leave town, Alr
Cecil Brown went in his place to act as
Crown prosecutor.
A new list of addresses just issued from
the Central Office of the Hawaiian Bell Tele-
phone Company, shows that 1874 different premi-
sesaare now connected together by this latest and
highest triumph of electric science.
~ The inquest on the body of the late Mrs.
Russell was brought to a close on Monday and a
verdict Of suicide under the influence of severe
mental depression was given. A report of the
proceedings appears in another column.
~ An inquest was held last week on the
I body of a laborer who was killed at the Hama
kuapoko Sugar Mill. The unfortunate man was
caught in the belt which works the centrltugals
and so severely injured that he only lived for a
few hours after. \ verdict of accidental death
was returned.
- Mr.. Edwin Browne who has severed his
connection with the theatrical troupe. advertises
that he will give lessons in Elocution and Dram
attic culture. We have in Honolulu very good
elements for m Amateur Dramatic Club and
this would be a favorable time for organizing
such an institution,
- All Sam has been sentenced to three
months Imprisonment, Mt hard labor, for steal
ing chickens from premises on Punchbowl ST.
Keauhi, missing his chickens, kept a lookout,
and with the aid of a n%eighbor, caught All Sam
literally mp a tres" with one chicken in his bag
and intent on securing others.
- Yesterday was the anniversary OF the
Declaration of independence, made in the year
1910, by the Spanish Colonies which now form
the Republic Of Mexico. In recognition of the
day, the flags OF the foreign Consuls, and that at
the Custom House, were flying, and Consul
Laine received many cong ratulatory greetings.
- \ little 10y, the son of a Norwegian la
borer, was drowned last week in the water-race
which supplies Mr.. Claus Spreckels' plantations.
His sister was with him at the time, but the child
was so swiftly carried away by the current, into
the pipes which convey the water to the planta-
ton, that assistance could not be procured.
- The Government Schools and several
private schools resumed work on Monday. The
attendance is reported as being better than at
any time since the epidemic of smallpox first
began to interfere with it. May the ADVERTISER
never again have to record any similar disturb
ance of school routine as that which has occurred
during the past year.
Racing is a thing of the past in Honolu4
lu, aud the race-track is closed sine die. 1t is
hardly possible, under the circumstances, to ex-
pect to see any more races in this Kingdom until
Chapter 80 of the Penal Code is amended and
becom es law. Who will risk his or her reputal
ton and liberty by betting a pair of gloves" or
n new hat" as long as there is n liability to be
arrested for il?
q 1t was reported on Monday last, that His
Excellency, the Minister of the Interior. pro-
posed to proceed per Likelike to Lahaina, to
meet Her Royal Highness the Princess Regent
there, and from there to proceed TO the Lepef
Settlement to inspect that institution. The re-
port appears to have been perfectly correct, but
ing or other turned up to prevent so wise
a purpose from being carried out.
p On Sunday last Mr.. Hallenbeck com
menced a series of Gospel Temperance meetings
ut Hilo. If the accounts brought from that
quarter, by those who recently attended the ses-
sion of the Circuit Court there, are to be credit
cd, his advent on the scene was timely and de-
sirable. He has the assistance, in his labors, of
Mr.. Henry Warehouse and the Rev. w. ].
Smith, of the Tabernacle, San Francisco.
~
. One of the objects of the visit to Hawaii
which the British Commissioner, Major Wode-
house, is now making, was to investigate the case
off. Leslie, whose complaints ofinjustice have al
ready caused Marshal Parke to take a trip to
Kohala. Major Wodehouse, having seen Mar
shall Parke's report, does not now deem an indie
pendent enquiry necessary, as the matter is to be
dealt with in open court, at the NOvembe" ses-
sion at Waimea.
p The case was reported to the Police yes |
terday of a foreigner, a carpenter by trade, who
is suffering from religious monOmania. He has
not been committed to the asylum in the mean
time, his lunacy being of a harmless character. |
As it appears to have been developed during the |
late period of religious excitement n the city, In
which he has beenan enthusiastic participator, |
II IL TO be hoped that it may prove of only tenn 1
porary duration.
E9- The Rev. DR.. Damon, whilst conducting |
the services at Fort Street Church on Monday last, |
trenched on the subject of tobacco smoking, in |
tended, as he clearly stated, to deter youths
from indulging in the Use of the pernicious
weed. The Rev. J. A. Cruzan supplemented the
first speakers remarks by endeavoring to make
the restriction more general, while Mrs. CruZan, |
ia her little speech, urged old as well as young,
not to defle Gods temple by the use of that
which Is unclean.
la Marshal Parke returned by the Likelike
on Sunday morning last from Hawaii after inves-
tigating the charges made against the Deputy
Sheriff Of North Kohala by Mr.. Leslie. The
popular account of the all eyed outrage is given
in our correspondents letter, but We understand
that the invasion of Mr.. Leslie's premises by
Mr. Kamauoha and his officers was not for the
purpose Of arrest. bonds having been previously
acceptedfor Mrs. Leslie's appearance when in a fit
state, but in order to hold a court and hear the
charge on the spot.