The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-02-25

TO be used in purchasing a new instrument for
the vestry. The programme is not yet perfected,
but it will contain the names Of the best talent
in the city, and the entertainment will be a feast
of good things.
IL 4 s~hooting-gallery has been opened on
Hotel-street. His Majesty the King patrons
lied the establishment on Thursday last, and.
made Il few bull's-eyes. This shooting-galleryi
is a novelty in Honolulu. 1t has already been
very freely visited, and promises to be a success
for the enterprising proprietor, who is a native
of the soil.
~ The store which the Union Feed Com
pany have put up on land leased from Mr..
Widemann, makai of Queen-street, although its
architecture is more of the useful than of the Orna-
mental order is a goodly building to look at,
being 60 feet by nearly 100 feet in breadth and
length. 1t contains at the present time an i'm
mense stock, but there is room in it for some
large parcels expected by vessels now on the
way. The contrivances which have been
adopted to keep rats out Of this store are in
.genious and ought to be successful if anything
can be so against this omnipresent plague.
BE- On Wednesday evening about six o'clock,
a little boy, son of a Spaniard, living in the
premises Immediately in the rear of MIR. J.G.
Dickson's, on Beretania-street, while playing
with matches set fire to some of his mothers
dresses that were hanging il the room. TIL
child's mother arrived just in time to put out
the flames, otherwise u most destructive con-
hagration would have been the result as a high
wind was blowing at the time.
ry" On 9TH inst. a house in School street.
occupied by a Portuguese, was robbed of five
dollars and a quarter in cash, and of two bottles
OF brandy. A revolver was at the same time
taken ont of its case apparently for examination,
but was left on the table. No diamond ring was
taken. neither was there "A gold watch on the
premises as reported by a contemporary.
~ Another of the sugar mills on the
Spreckels' plantation is now completed, and is
by this time, no doubt, at work. This is the
first to be ready of three new mills which Mr..
Spreckels is erecting. 1t is of the same capacity
as that which has been at work for the last year
there, and which has averaged thirty tons a day
right along. When all the mills are at work it
is expected that they will turn out 100 tons of
sugar daily. The important additions to the,
plant have been erected under the personal
superintendent of Mr.. John D.. Spreckels.
Eay- At st. Andrews Cathedral special series
of lectures will be given during Lent. on Sunday
and Wednesday evenings. On the Sunday evenY
ings the Rev. A. Mackintish will lecture on thS
Prayer Book taking as the subject of the
first discourse ION the 9th inst.) 4 Commons
Prayer" On the Wednesday evenings, the Rev.
I. Blackburn, proposes to lecture on Chris
tianity and Modern Science" commencing on
the 1st March, with some Introductory Con-
siderations." Next Sunday morning Goth inst
the pulpit will be occupied by the Rev. Z. H.
Turton, who is travelling through the islands.
BSy- There was a narrow escape from a serious
fire in one of the lodging-houses in town on
Thursday night. About midnight one of the
dodgers upset a kerosene lamp near his bed,
and the oil escaping Immediately took fire. He
tried to smother the flames with the bed clothes
without saccess. Fortunately the landlord and
some Others had returned late from the mail
dock, and We're not asleep. Assistance was
speedily rendered the regulation fire buckets
coming in very handy. The bed clothes and
mosquito bars were burnt and the mattress
damaged, also the. ceiling which is of paper and
canvas, but the fire was put out before any wood
work had caught.
Ia The long overdue Australia was seen
approaching the port soon after nine
o'clock on Thursday evening, by a gentle
man who promptly telephoned the news to
the head office. ]Ier approach had not
been noticed from the lookout station. a
few minutes before her arrival was notified,
Capt. Shepherd who had been patiently
waiting to pilot her in, had gone home, and
had to be summoned back again. He was
promptly at his post but through the Aus
ira in not having been earlier made out she
was lying to, off the harbor, before he
could set out. a strong nOrtherly wind was
blowing, and the steamer appeared to drift
Al rood Histanc whilst tha hI1nyc uyara bainO
lighted, so thai it was fully an hour aud a
ha If after her arrival before her head was
turned inwards. A large crowd was i'm
patiently watching her from the mail dock
and many were the exclamations when it
was found that she did not come at once to
the wharf. The cause of this was soon ex-
planned by the pilot who reported two cases
of measles on board. AS soon as he got
ashore he telegraphed for DIR. Hutchinson,
and that gentleman, and the President of
the Board of Health presently arrived. The
former went off to the ship which by this
time was moored with her bows within q
few feet of the dock. She lay head to wind,
the warp from her stern having been
merely brought ashore. After a lengthy
colloquy the Health Officer returned
and went into consultation with Mr. Arm
strong as to what was to be done. The re-
suit of their deliberations was that the
teamer was hauled alongside, the mail
dock being previously cleared except of Off
ciaIs and a few persons who had busine IS
with the ship. The public were not allowed
on board, and only the passengers who We're
to remain here were allowed ashore. The
latter were inspected and instructed to pre-
sent themselves periodically to the Health
Officer for further inspection until danger
of outbreak of disease should be passed.
The eases or board were those of two chil-
dren, steerage passengers. They had been
isolated as soon as the disease manifested
Itself. The number of passengers landed
here were fifty-five, of whom t~wenty-three