Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-04-23

ATTENTION IS called To the irrigation notice III
the advertising columns.
From Tuesday evening to Friday afternoon there
fell at the Ice Works 2:36 inches of rain
WE notice number of buildings in process of
construction in various parts of the town.
Tnr Chinese Fire Company had their steam
Fire Engine out for trial on Saturday, Pm.
The condemned prisoner Leong Lung. eats and
sleeps we'll, and perfectly resigned TO his
fate
MEETING of the trustees of Oahu College is
called for 3 P. NJ, Monday next, at the Sailors
Home
The new Commissioner for the Republic of
France, Mons. Feer, is expected by the next
steamer.
THERE will be regular meeting of Lodge lie
Progress de rOceanie, A. +. d. A. NJ No. l2i, next
Monday evening.
THE Storm Bird brings seven married couples,
fourteen single men, twenty-five single women,
seventeen children; total, seventy.
LIVERPOOL paper states that the King of the
Sandwich Islands Is coming to England on visit
to Captain Lord Charles Beresford, X. N !"
The extension to f. o. Hall & Sons store on
King street is well under way and when completed
1t will be one of the largest stores in Honolulu.
The Foreign Office has received from Japan the
text of proposed treaty with the Hawaiian King
dom, which has yet to be taken into consideration.
SINCE Tuesday night it has been raining in
Honolulu almost continually and we now have
muddy instead of dusty streets by way of variety
The case on trial in the Supreme Court yester-
day for an unnatural offense, resulted in the ac-
quittal of the defendant by the unanimous verdict
of the jury.
The artesian we'll Mt Hon. Judge widemann's
plantation, at Waianae, is down $40 feet. First
water struck at 80 feet, and it is now within
30 feet of the surface.
MEETING will be held at the parlors of the
Commercial Hotel this evening to make arrange
ments for the celebration of Kamehameha Day,
on the 18th of June next.
WITH regard to the query of our correspondent,
Gone of the People, " we might observe that the
provisions of the Civil Code as to compulsory
cination, apply only to children and not to adults.
NuUANU AVENUE having been newly macadam-
lied as far as School street, work has been stopped
there, and fresh section taken in hand. On Fri
day the steam roller was at work on the one mile
bridge.
WORK was suspended for two or three days at
the Government well at MalilSi, i'll consequences of
the breaking of part of the boring apparatus.
of water.
KING street from Kawaihao church for nearly
a mile out is in dreadful condition, almost inn
passable this was the case we remember after the
last rains. We reccomend the bit of road to the
attention of the authorities.
SOME frozen mutton shipped from Australia was
delivered in good condition in London after voy-
age of sixty-five days. During the past year there
was decrease of sheep and lambs in England and
Wales, amounting to l,3Jo,OOo head.
ST. ANDREWS CATHEDRAL and Fort Stect Church
were beautifully decorated with flowers on Easter
Sunday; tasteful designs, principally of lovely
white roses and the exquisitely beautiful
stephanotes were used most effectively.
FROM Hilo we learn that the lava stream has al
most ceased flowing. and appears to be cooling
down. The nearest point of the stream Is about
six and half miles from Hilo but no appre-
hensionsions are felt. No smallpox as yet.
H.R.H. The PRINCESS REGENT returned from
Eva on Thursday evening, and will hold recep-
ton to-day at IL o'clock A. NJ, when the Captain
and officers of the u. S. S. WdchHseH will be pre-
scented, and p. NJ. the Captain and Officers of
the French despatch vessel HasSa'u.
NINETEEN passengers arrived in Honolulu from
San Francisco by the CITY Of Nec York, six by the
Helen W. Amy, four by the Discovery and three by
the Wrestler. Seven LETT here by the City Of NeW
York for the Colonies last Monday. There has
been large decrease i'll the number of passenger
arrivals from the Coast.
IT is pleasant to sec once more the pendants of
two foreign men-of-war in our harbor-the
American ship-rigged corvette WUchuseft, and the
French despatch vessel HWssurd. The former will
return to San Francisco, and the latter proceeds
to the Marquesas. Neither will make any pro-
longed stay here ueF-f-. - Is
On Good Friday which was appointed by the
princaSg M "a law of ,,ray for tha nha IN
| ment OF the epidemic, small party of natives
carried their devotions TO excess. They went to a
house where new case of smallpox had been dis
covered, and sang hymns and offered prayers for
the recovery of the patient.
We hear that the Emperor of Germany had to
wear no less than sixteen different uniforms i'll sue
cesson at the numerous receptions, and ceremonies
attendant on the marriage OF his grandson Prince
William of Prussia and the Princess Victoria of
Shleswieg- Holstein. The bridegroom is also a
grandson OF Queen victoria OF Great Britain ana
Ireland.
TIE bark Edicayd May which sailed from here
last Tuesday for San Francisco carried the largest
cargo of sugar that has ever left this port, viz
1,592277 pounds. fifty tons more than the
Zeaiandids last cargo, which WAS the heaviest up
vessel also took 10000 pounds of rice and other
products, the total value of her cargo being Sl2O
20S, 40.
The government immigration vessel Hncaii,
lost on the island of Tarowa was insured in the
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company for $1,000.
Captain Whitney is Of opinion that the purchaser
of the wreck for S35 will not make much by his
bargain, it Is not probable that anything can be
recovered except perhaps the anchors and chains
and those only with great trouble and expense.
As regards foreign mails it is always feast or
a famine in Honolulu. Nearly all of our mails
since the arrival of the March steamer from the
Coast, have arrived this week. The Cossneio
rived on the 18th, the City NJ Nsr Fork on the
17th the Discovery on the 18TH, the Helen w. li1iy
ON the 10Th and the Wrestler on the 2lst and the
Postmaster and his staff have had pretty busy
time of 1t. Hn
The reward of 500 for the arrest of Leong
Lung, the murderer Of An Lee, comprising $50
offered by the Government, and $50 by Chinese
merchants, has been paid by Marshal Parke W
All See, the Chinamal in whose house leong
Lung slept at kailna the night preceding his
delivery to tho authorities. The so subscribed
by the friends of the deceased will be paid TO Lar
Yau, the chief witness for the Crown, com
pensation for the time he was detained in custody
pending the trial.
THE Rev. Il. Wainwright arrived by the cny Of
Ne.e York. intending 10 visit his son in-iaw. the
Rev. Groser VI Waikiki being detained by the
quarantine regulations, he IN at present this guest
Of tho bishop of Honolulu Tho Rev gentlsnian's
| field Of labor has b-en for some time mainly in
the diocese of Quebec, and other parts OF british