The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-04-02
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1881.
NOTES OF THE WEEK..

Our THREE S's-The Shepherd, the Sailor,
and the S~choolmaster.
~ Hawaii NESTING like a tropical bird
under the wing of the American eagle" is q
| fight of fancy, and a figure of speech, that Is
highly suggestive.
2 Reports per Likelike state that there
are no cases of smallpox on Hawaii or Maui.
The natives do not crowd as formerly around
the crews of vessels, while engaged in landing
freight at the different landings; they have a
healthy dread of infection.
~ The Committee on Pardons of the Privy
Council sits again to-day at 10 a. NJ. to hear
what any one may have to urge in favor OF a COM
mutation of the sentence of death recorded
| against Polua. The sitting will be held at the
Office of His Honor the Chief Justice.
- We have been anxiously looking for
Judge Fornander's second volume, respecting
Hawaiian and Polynesian migrations, history,
folklore, &C., and we anticipate quite a treat in
its perusal. The work has been printed in
Europe and copies have been expected for some
time past.
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sitting on this community. They have two
distinct, avowed objects or duties the one to
promote health, and the other justice; and yet
both have the same chairman, and both are
evidently animated by one inspiration, and by
one purpose-the promotion of political in
huence.
~ A lot of ex-college students writing to a
classmate remark, that they would have peculiar
confidence in a selection from the roll of our
alumni themselves included) "for any posi-
ton, even the most responsible and honorable"
These alumni are evidently not wanting in a
good opinion of themselves which, as they
publish, they want the public to share.
~ Henry Ketten 1.-the worlds greatest
pianist, - who gratifed lovers of good music in
Honolulu not long ago, has been, as we learned
by last mail from the Colonies, enchanting the
public in Sydney. The Morning Herald of
that city says she has delighted so many of
our citizens by his marvellous performances !;
as a composer he ranks high in our appreciation;
and as a pianist, soloist and conductor, no artist
has done more, if as much, for the progress and
elevation of his art in Sydney"
q.
JOURNALISTS abroad nave nOCceu ina ". Is at
this time the favorite initial in the alphabet of
Fortune. They point to Garfield of America,
Gladstone of England, Gambetta of France,
G%ulielmus, Cor Wilhelm) of Germany,
Gortschakoff of Russia, Garibaldi of Italy,
Gevers of Holland and George of Greece. And
Hawaiian journalists will insist that Gibson
shall pose as the most prominent figure in our
Hawaiian politics.
The BAND-CHANGE OF T1ME.-The Band will
commence to play hereafter at half past four
O'Clock on Saturdays, instead of four o'clock.
The following is the programme for this after
noon.
overture RiGPHEaf
Waltz-Gold and Azure .Lamothe
Polka MazurkawThe siiesian-
Grand Gounod.
TIL Band will give an extra concert at the
Hawaiian Hotel on Monday evening April 9Th.
~ The Friend of April gives us another in
stallment of Professor Frank Damon's Rambles
in the Old World; always entertaining, and full
of valuable information. This young gentle
mans series of admirable descriptions of places
and persons in Europe should be preserved in
some substantial and permanent form; and We
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Friend were in book form, that every one of his
friends in the Islands, who number a goodly
legion, would like to preserve one or more
copies.
wLord Beaconsfeld' s characters in Endymion
are the subject of a good deal of contradictory
discussion. In a four column review of the
book in a Sydney journal, the noble author is
roundly abused for caricaturing Thackeray as
st. Barbe; and in certain English journals there
is no question :" but that George Augustus
Sala is the original of the character. The
discussion is absurd. Any writer of fiction,
making up a character will take traits and
features from many different originals. st.
Barbe is designed to represent a certain modern
type of journalist and lecturer; with perhaps
Thackeray, Sala, and many others in mind.
- By the arrival of the steamer Likelike
last evening from circuit of Hawaii, we received
numerous letters from correspondents, all are very
encouraging. The sugar interests are very bright
in all the district of Hawaii. The Kau and Hilo
district plantations are grinding and turning out
immense quantities of sugar. The Likeiike
brought down the largest freight ever sent down
to Honolulu from the other islands, over 800 tons
of sugar, besides general freight. We hear that
the Hllea mill In Kau, Is grinding some of the
finest cane ever cut in these islands. Mr.. Spencer
expects some of the fields will yield ten tons to
the acre, some of a poor quality he has already
ground, has yielded 6H tons to the acre. The
Kau district is expected to produce nearly IA, 600
tons of sugar this year. The Hitchcock planta-
ton at Hilo has over one hundred tons ready for
shipment, it is probable that it will be shipped
to San Francisco direct from Hilo in the
Rosario" Tn plantations in the Hamakua
and Kohala districts are all busy cutting and
grinding cane, with prospects of heavy yields.
We expect the whole crop of 1881 will far exceed
the previous estimate of so, 900, 600 pounds.
u Miss Annis Montague, Mrs. Turner) our
delightful Hawaiian songstress, has been win
ming crowns of artistic glory in the cities of
Australia. On the occasion of a grand concert
in Sydney. the Morning Herald reports. that