The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-08-19
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From Kauai we hear that 1.-the late kona ha,
obliterated the trash house at Kappa and killeG
a lot of cane. At Kilauea the cane also suf
fered. but no other damage has been done"
The Alta of End August says: All the furni
ture manufactured in the East for the King
Palace, at Honolulu, arrived by rail yesterday
and is being placed on board the barkentine
Eureka for shipment. 1t is a large lot, ahd will
take up about a third of the vessel"
Next month Professor Pritchett, of Washing
ton Observatory, will be a passenger to New
Zealand by the P.M.S.S. Australia. He goes
to make preparation for the observation of the
transit of Venus.
Every one will be glad to learn that among the
news to hand by the Suez is a hopeful report by
an eminent oculIst on the chances OF Lieutenant
Danenhower's recovering his sight. He pro-
misses complete restoration of sight for one eye,
and thinks it may be partially restored to the
other.
In Paris, on the 9TH instant, two men, while
attempting to climb over a railing of the Tuil-
ieries gardens during a display of fireworks,
caught hold of an electric wire used in the
illumination of tue grounds, and were both
| struck dead instantly. The S. L. .dta suggests
that the wires of the electric lights liz cities
present n great element of danger to iremen
when, in discharge of their duty, they have to
climb over and along the roofs OF buildings.
We are glad to find that Captain Roper came
off victorious in the suiJ rs to ALLEGED Illegally
constructed berths. instituted against him in
San FRANCISCO. IL Is one thing 10 enforce law
and another to use the Law rs m cl gIue of perse-
cutiOn which appears To have been done in Cap
tain Ropers case for no othcr r-t5Da than that
he is "A bluff outspoken man and happens to
command q steamer which carried Cinnamon
where they are not wanted.
Planters in Jamaica, encouraged by the sue
cess of the experiments conducted at the Botani-
cal Gardens, Kingston, have in a measure
ceased to lsvDte their whole energies to the
production OF sugar. They have now begun to
- 90 - al -uaat Yra. aud fhnu
have lately done much to make vanilla, cocoa,
and other indigenous plants of commercial
value. Besides oranges, bananas, pine-apples,
lines, mIpgpes, and other fruits, grapes are
now grown Tor export. And planters on these
islands vouli do well to pay more attention to
thu systematic cultivation of the plants spoken
Of abrs-. especially the cinchona,
According to the figures of the Statistician
of the New York Chamber of Commerce, the
consumption of sugar in the United States dur
ing the year 1881, was IL per cent lIrger than
for the previous year, amounting to 91S, 800
tons, against S24, 900 tons in 1880. and 743, 900
in 1879. Adding to this the sugars made from
molasses and maple. the consumption reaches q
grand total of 1000, 900 tons. New York, as
the chief distributing point OF the trade, received
during the year 5G6, 900 tons as against $4,000
tons in 1880, and it distributed to home consun-
ers $50, 900 against 56S, 900 tons in 1880. Of
the total importations into the States, which
reached the amount of 77S,000, New York re-
ceived $50 600 tons, or II arly 73 per cent.
The tern Hera is up for Puget Sound. This
same name tern has made trouble. The
marine reporter of the z. c. ADVERTISER started
out to find what kind of a rig "tern" was. On
the principie that any sort of IA yarn can be told
to "a marine" one man ssid a ''tern" was a
siOJp with two masts. Another that a s'teru" :
had the smoke stack of I e cIboose rugged out
of the cabin window; while IL third joker stated
that n term was a vessel that came to anchor
every night. Finally it was ascertained that a
tern is 4 three-masted fore and aft schooner.
rL-.u- 80 A. E-ll. 49, |
priatensss Of the lines Is IA well known ballad,
Turn again Wilmington; tern .'(thrice) Lord
Mayor of London town" The derivation is in
geuious, but the name was more probably bur-
Fcwe1 from the sea bird which bears it, whose
long wings sud swift flight make the COMPARE
son appropriate.
We recently gave an account of an extraordin-
AIRY hurricane which devastated Tongatabu.
From Navau. iii the same group, We have now
an account OF a similar storm of wind which