The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-30
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Captain Belknap has made an elaborate report to
the Secretary of the Navy respecting the celebra-
ton Of the birthday of King Kalakaua of the
Hawaiian Islands, and in which the ship Alaska
took an active part.
The Commissioner for immigration of POrtu-
guese has completed an arrangement with Messrs.
from the Azores to Honolulu. By last advices, we
learn that a steamer was chartered to carry about
1900 passengers, cost f1S or $50 per adult We
are assured that the next shipment OF Portuguese
emigrants will not include so large a proportion Of
women and children as per Hansa.
W. l.. Austin, whose funeral took place from his
late residence at Kapalama on Sunday, the oath
instant, was, as a representative Hawaiian, an
honor to his nation socially and morally. Born in
this city in December 1874, his childhood was
passed in receiving an ordinary English-Hawaiian
education until Is years Of age, when he went to
learn the trade of carpentering with the late Mr..
Johnson. After several wears service with Mr..
Johnson he assisted in the erection of the Kohala
Sugar Mill, and on the completion of his labor on
Hawaii returned to Honolulu, where his skill, good
Judgment and unceasing industry gained him con-
slant and remunerative employment. Fer several
years past, in the service of the Government, in
experimenting the building and repairs of wharves,
bridges and buildings, he proved himself an in
valuable master of his business, and in all
his business relations his strict integrity and
unwearied vigilance were ever acknowledged.
Above all, his character shone most brightly in his
social life. Truly could it be said Of him, he was
a good son. a good brother, a good husband, and a
good friend. No sacrifice was too great or exertion
too severe to benefit a friend, Enemies, he had
none. One trait of character strongly prominent
in him was his earnest desire, accompanied by his
constant effort to benefit the Hawaiian people, and
see them advance to excellence in whatever they
undertook. and his wish and practice was to en-
courage and advance all those who by their actions
were deserving. Hawaiian and foreigner alike have
lost a good friend, but his memory will be fresh
and green always, for the good never dies The
respect and esteem in which he was held was shown
in the large concourse of citizens who bore him to
his last resting place.
The China Merchants Steam Navigation Co.,
who started = line of steamers In 1879. TO run from
China to San Francisco, touching at Honolulu,
say. in their report for the year ending 30th June,
1882. that the proposed scheme to send steamers to
Honolulu and San Francisco has been suspended
for the present, owing to the severe competition of
foreign steamers. In September last the heifOo
was despatched TO England with tea, and returned
last March but through the jealousy of foreigners
she made no profit out of the trip.
The census of the United States shows a larger
per cent of illiteracy in that country than is pleas
ant to contemplate. OF the fifty millions in the
United States, more than &c, 900, 900 are over ten
years Of age. OF these, 4.O23, COZ cannot read, or
1874 per cent and 6 1898, 95s cannot write, or II per
cent. 1t is remarkable that Pennsylvania has the
largest per cent Of illiteracy Of any Northern State.
The following table includes only a few States
where the comparisons are the more striking