The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-09-16
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6 ana are Just what have been needed to ensure
: good growth for the young cane.
e Captain M'Gregor wishes TO return his thanks to
o the boats crews from the z. s. 8. Alaska, and
schooner Kaala for the assistance proffsred to him
on Saturday at the time of his capsize in the
I harbor.
We have to acknowledge copies of the Planters
Monthly for September, just published. We note
i that the editors have departed from the rule they
i at first laid down, and have INDUCED in political
discussion. We are sure that a majority of the
subscribers to the Planters Monthlu will Join with
us in deprecatinG this unwholesome change.
There has been some idle rumor. or rather sheer
invention about alarm al the palace. the doubling
of guards. and other precautions. The occasion of
some of the volunteers being at the palace, is their
regular semi-annual drill, when they mount guard
As part Of their practice in the palace grounds. This
drill will be continued on the parade ground and
at Kapiolani Park. These volunteers have been
drilling without ammunition. If there was any
cause of alarm, of which happily there is not, the
brave volunteers would, no doubt, fill their cart
ridge boxes. But the vapOring of a few Office seek
ing politicians is not likely to cause sufficient alarm,
either to call for ball cartridge, or Gattling guns.
A few newspaper squibs will suffice for them.
In the second story hallway which leads to the
Honolulu Library Rooms there were to be seen
the other evening three new helmets ranged along
On the floor. Enquiry led to the information that
proved they belong to the Knights of Pythias, and
are worn by the principal officers on state occs-
sions. They are made of metal, and are designed
after those worn in the time Richard the Lion
hearted, being straight on the sides with project
ing cheek pieces, and n rounded top surmounted
with q metal crest not unlike a ROSTERS comb.
The design is simple but decidedly medieval.
They had not yet been lined inside SO as to sit
comfortably on the head, neither had the distinc-
tive emblems of the order been attached to them.
Near at hand were some sections Of body armor,
evidently fresh from the armorers hands.
The Minister of the Interior has purchased some
light rails in order TO lay a temporary tramway
along Beretania street as far as Kamoiliili for the
purpose of conveying material from there for street
improvements in town. Fort street will be
thoroughly remade down to the wharves, and q
considerable portion of the Esplanade will be
formed into a solid roadway. Queen street will
receive attention at the same time. A survey has
been ordered of Alakea and Merchant streets with
a view to their improvement and widening. The
improvement Of Alakea street is specially under
taken with the view of relieving Fort street, which
is already insufficient at times for the traffic upon
it. Throughout the city work on the streets and
sidewalks is to be carried on with vigor to the
fullest extent that a proper economy OF the appro-
priation will permit. 1t has also been decided
that the principal streets of the town of Hilo shall
be macadamized, the frequent rains that fall there
rendering such an expenditure not only desirable
from the point of view of those who have to use
the streets for traffic, but also u true economy for
the Government in the matter of future m~ainten-
ance of the roadway.
The FIJI Times of August I'd contains a full re-
port of the trial at Noumea of the master of the
schooner Aurora and one of his recruiters for kid
mapping people from Penticost and other islands.
These miscreants appear, from the evidence adj
duced at the trial, TO have gone in wholesale for
stealing men, sometimes by %trickery, sometimes
by sheer force. For instance a son was bought
from his father by the promise of q gun,
and when the father had been enticed on
board TO fetch the price Of his human chat
tel he was siezed and carried off too.
ed several times. In reprisal for the doings
of the captain of the Aurora and his people
and of the master of another New Caledonian
vessel, the Venus who is now awaiting his trian,
the captain and most of the crew Of q British vessel
were attacked and killed by the natives of Apia.
The facts elected by the enquiry made into that
affair were communicate ted to the French authori-
ties, and the Investigations they made led to these
trials. They have also led to an order from the
French Government for the entire suspension Of
labor recruiting in Polynesia by French subjects.
The trial of the Aurora's people ended in a con-
yictiOn. The punishments inflicted were four years
imprisonment and the costs of the trial for the cap
tain, and IS months imprisonment for his mate.
In view of the enormity of the crime, and the
bloody reprisals to which it naturally led, these
sentences appear extremely light. Nevertheless, it
is stated that /" the effect of the verdict upon the
public was to call forth sympathy for the con-
demned men, which, says the correspondent OF
the FIJI Times, 4" can only be accounted for by the
widely expressed opinion that they had been made
scapegOats to let escape those who also should
have been tried for gross neglect of duty, but who
escaped by influence This reference is to the
Government agents who accompanied the Aurora
on two of her trips. Evidently the presence Of a
Government agent is not enough to prevent kid
mapping, especially when, as in the Aurora's case,
they are ignorant of the natives language, and
not even able TO speak the broken English known
as - beehe-le-mer, y which is current in those
regions.
The Anna brings two days later news from San
Francisco. Our acknowledgements are due to
Captain McCulloch and to Captain Babcock and
also TO Messrs. VIM. G.. Irwin and Co. for
late papers. In Egypt the British troops were
pushing forward towards T~el-et-Kebir, but no new
had taken place. The Alta, of 2Sth,
has a telegram describing the engagement Of
August oath as ending in a repulse for the British,
and POUNDS z sOmewhot lugubrious article on it,
showing what a complete mess England has got
into. In the same paper as this appears the
following copy of a telegram from General
Wolseley, dated Ismailia. 27th August 80 have
just returned from the outposts, and saw that our
action on Thursday and Friday had far more
important results than was aware Of yesterday.
The enemy were completely routed, and fed
toward Zagazig throwing away arms and accoutre-
ments, and q large amount of camp equipage and
munitions was captured. Mahmoud Fehmy, Arab
Pasha's chief engineer and military adviser, is now
a prisoner in my camp The engineer referred to
in this dispatch has reported much suffering and
insubordinstion in the Egyptian army. The only
other news of much importance relates to Japan
and Ccrea. From Corea the news is that the
- anti-foreign revolutionary mob " had complete
sway. The report Of the assassination of the King
is not confirmed, he had fed, and was in hiding.
An expedition of 10000 troops and ten ~gunboats
was being fitted out by the Chinese Government TO
restore order. The japanese Legation had been
attacked by an armed mob, and after protracted
defense the Ambassador and his servants managed
to escape by the back premises and get on board
the English man-of-war Flying Fish, which took
them TO Nagasaki. The matter caused great ex-
element in Japan, and a warlike expedition was
being prepared there also.
An hours walk through Chinatown yesterday,
under the guidance of Fire Marshal Mcclure,
made patent two important facts. First, that
the Marshal has an intimate acquaintance with
the ms and outs of the district bounded by
Nuuanu, Beretania, Maunakea, and King streets;
aud, second. that all the vigilance that he
exercises ia needed to keep the Chinese who
crowd that quarter from burning up themselves
and their district.
In the rear of the cook shops, of which there
are plenty on Hotel street, large cylindical
ovens of stonework. open at the top, are used in
which TO roast pigs. These ovens are heated by
being filled with wood, which is ignited and
allowed to burn away 10 Goals. The heat from
the pile is very intense, and in most cases the
roof over the oven is dangerously near the
flames. The Marshal has compelled the owners
of these ovens to cover the under side of these
roofs with tin, but at the best this material
affords but a himsy protection. Upstairs, down