The Hawaiian gazette., 1881-11-02

at the corner of the street, but then he must hay
been enjoying his morning nap; besides you can
expect him to look after milk-cans.
Early on Monday morning, the cottage belong
ing to Mr.. Cushmsn Jones was observed by som
of the neighbors to be onfre. Helpwas promptly
on hand, and the fire engines were immediatel,
summoned; before they arrived however, the neigh
bors, who had collected, had managed to get tn
flames under BY means of the fire buckets. Hat
these not been handy, the confagration would Ger
tainly have spread. Credit is due TO the Fire com
panies for the prompt manner in which they turned
out Before the flames were got under, the whole
of the interior of the cottage was destroyed. II
was particularly unfortunate for Mr.. Jones that
the FIRE occurred in the cottage as he had removed
large part of his furniture, and many valuable
articles into IT pending repairs in the large house
These have been all destroyed; it is doubtful
whether he can recover his insurance upon them,
as they were only insured for the large house. The
fire must have been the work of an incendiary. A
candle and quantity of shavings were found IN
der the house. Marshal Parke has offered 500 re-
ward; if the rascal is caught, we hope he will gel
well punished.
The SATURDAY.. Press says ''the GAzETTE's account
OF Tue Ol roD MI o. AAOoc . otaAo 40
wrong in every particular" And then proceeds
to give an account of robbery that occurred on
Saturday the 18th. Before the Saturday Press be-
gins correcting tie GAZETTE it had better get hold
of its facts in proper shape. Our information
came from Mr.. Rose, who we presume is pretty
good Judge of whether he lost the money or not.
Where the Saturday Press collected its facts We do
not know. There were two robberies, one on
Saturday 18th, the other the following Saturday.
of course this was little bewiderng; it requires
a strong brain to unravel the intricacies of such
matter one robbery at time, with a decent in
terval between, say six months so, the Saturday
Press will manage to report correctly: thieveswll
please take notice of this and act accordingly (;
even the worst of criminals would have some
pity for the struggles of the Press man to get
hold of his news. Go slow is the motto; no hurry;
crawl along. The Advertiser has also a would-be
correction in which it states that the prisoner was
arrested by Mr.. McKeague." We are given to
understand that the P. c. 4. received its informa-
ton from the Policel Corrections received with
many thanks
HAWAII.
Hilo Bay presents lively appearance with three
steamers and two large schooners.
The English steam-yacht Wandsrer arrived at
Hilo on Thursday, October 9th.
The schooner Tiofight, Whitney master, arrived
at Hilo on Friday, October 2lst, 1251 days from
San Francisco with full cargo of general mer-
chandise, 40 mules and COW.
The Russian cruiser Tesfnik bearing the broad
pennant of Admiral Aslambegoff arrived at Hilo
on Tuesday afternoon, October 18th. At an early
hour of Wednesday a large party of Russian
volcano.
There is now mile of track laid, grading has
been carried up to 10 miles. The non-arrival of
the engine is the greatest drawback. However.
there is every hope that January LIST, the first
load of cane will be hauled 10 the Mahukona land
ing, and then things will Just begin to buzz.
The well at Mahukona had reached $40 feet last
Thursday, and supposing the rock to prove the
same, it ought to be over 900 feet now. No water
had been reached. Mr.. Wilder talks of buying
the machinery and working it on his own account.
There seems to be determination to reach water
or lava. or to reach the antipodes of Mahukona.
MAUI.
morning.
The Steamer C. R. Bishop, lays up this week TO
undergo an overhauling painting DC. The james
Makee will take her place instead sailing this day.
There are great complaints of drought. If the
weather continues as it is not only will the planta
tons suffer, but the natives will lose their taro
crop.
The credit of the decorations and Examinations
about the Government buildings is due to Mr.. J. A.
Hassinger, who worked most indefadgaby and
whose efforts were crowned with success.
Rev. T. H. Rouse preached two interesting ser
mons on the subject of Temperance lately, in
Makawao, and on the SOth preached at Spreckels-
vile. A room having been provided by Mr.. ]. d.
Spreckels for that purpose.
Mr. E. H. Parker, the engineer of the Kahului
and H. r. r., deserves the thanks of the COM
munity for his genteinaniy conduct and affable
manner in delivering freight in his capacity as