The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-06-04

secure RESERVED seats AT NleSSJS' "HNA "
Co.'S drug store during the day
-, An article from Mr.. Gibson's Book of
| Sanitary instructions for Hawaiians, on the
Human Body, appears in to-day's supplement.
E 1t is proper to remind our readers that
the mails for the United States and Europe viii
definitely close mt the Post Office at 4 P. NJ, this
day.
We are sorry to learn that Mr.. Thomas
Sorenson the well known shipwrigt, is at pres
ent confined to his residence, laboring under an
attack Of bilious fever.
~ Mrs. Darlington, on her travels round
the world, is now in town. She thinks this must
be a very musical community, as she hears of
several people who have guitars in their heads
IL The we'll known policeman VIM. H. Tel,
has received a merited promotion, having been
appointed to the position so long held by j. Il.
Mahiai. We take pleasure in noticing the
Z emotion, and in saying that Mr.. Tell has proven
himself to be u very worthy, faithful and indie
fatigable officer.
- 1t is among the on dts of orr community
that His Excellency H. a. P. Carter, is preparing
Il llltIdIN hOIh III W NAt AiolO1g u1htNt
diplomacy of the Hawaiian Kingdom. We ant
icipate from the accomplished pen of this gent
leman a very valuable contribution to our Ha-
waiian literature, on such a subject.
- The presentation concert advertised by
Messrs Pickering & Co, which has been so long
postponed in consequence of the small pox cpl
demic will take place ON Friday next. Professor
D. Ill l. IL ,nn1n,N,r .nI 4ha Pnr-o1
Hawaiian Band will give some of their favorite
strains including the popular selection from
1.-The Piratrs of Penzance."
~ The Band will play in Emma Square
this afternoon at 4.3O PM. The following is the
programme.
March-Hunting Faust
Overture-The Vestale
BallAd-PIgrlm OF """. - blshoP
election-Mercha of Venice -Pinsuti
Quadrille-Prince
The next moonlight concerts will take place
on Monday June 9Th and on Thursday June 9Th
in Emma Square.
~ According to private adviccs of May 18th,
Messrs. Williams, Dimond & Co., had tele-
graphed to Sydney, to instruct the captains OF
P. VI. S. steamers not to call at Honolulu, as
they will in such case be quarantined III the
port of San Francisco Z or 8 days. However
we presume that this precautionary advice vii
not prevent their calling here for mails so tina
they may save their subsidy.
~ The e Royal Hawaiian Theatre is de
molished. The little temple, cor. of Hotel anC
Alakea streets, where Biscacianti, Madam,
States, the Carandinis, Florence Colville, ant
others in past times, and recently the Well
Troupe, delighted Honolulu theatre goers, is nov
a mass of building debris and the present pro
prietor DIR. McGrew is about to erect a neV
structure, for public amusement or for othe
purposes possibly, not yet determined.
II The latest news from the volcano ind
Gates continued activity, though not of a yer
( demonstrative kind. The extreme end of tn
, flow of lava advances extremely slowly. 1t
situated a few miles from Hilo, to the eastwar
of the town and still within the forest. Shoul
1 il. as seems now so probable, force its way
the sea, it will pass a little to the south of Hi
and must do considerable damage to the Wa
f akea plantation, if it does not entirely destroy j
The present state OF the labor market
Honolulu may be judged from the fact that Il
Chinese who have recently left here for ST
Francisco to the number of about one hundre
have been attracted by the report that hands a
wanted on the railways in course OF formation
the United States. That there is any surpl
= labor in Honolulu is however due to the ia
that engagements with employers on the 9th
n islands cannot be proftably made on account
the present very necessary quarantine regul