The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-23

HER ROYAL HOLINESS PRINCESS LILIUoKALANl
sailed for Maui last Tuesday evening in the Like
like.
THE American ship Hope has been sold to Messrs.
Levers and Cooke. She will be reitted and placed
in the lumber trade.
A POT of most delicious butter was handed in to
the office last Tuesday morning, from the Nuuanu
Valley Dairy. 1t is of beautiful color, firm, and
sweet, and may properly be called-gilt edged.
THE suez completed discharging her cargo of
1900 tons ON Wednesday afternoon. The drays have
had a busy time clearing away her freight, but
failed to keep pace with the donkey engine.
Mr.. H, A. BURNS has filed his applies ton, with
the Minister Of the Interior, for a patent on his
process of making fre-proof plasterine without
lathing or shea thing. He informs us that he will
be prepared to make a public exhibition of the
fire-pr0of qualities Of the new material imme
diately after the arrival of the next Suez.
OUR old and respected fellOw-townsman, Mr..
Harry Swinton, informs us that he remembers we'll
the first steamboat, the Comet, referred to in an
article published in the DAILY p. @. ADVERTISER of
December 10, at G~reysmouth, Scotland, in 1910.
He states that the vessel burst her boiler, and
that some forty persons were injured, many of
whom were cared for in his fathers house.
A CHINESE storekeeper, at the corner of Richard
and Merchant streets, has recently built a wooden
platform over the sidewalk around his store. 1t
allows a drop of II or IA inches form the corner TO
the roadway. As there are no lamps in the vicinity,
it would be well for pedestrians, to avoid the risk
of breaking their legs, or even worse, by using the
hhA0 AOo a.
walk.
A MEETING was held at the Armory last evening
for the purpose of organizing a military company,
to be composed exclusively of half-whites. His
Majesty was pleased to accept the nomination of
Hon. Col. to the newly organized Volunteer Mill
tary Corps, and presided at its first meeting. At
the conclusion of the meeting, a vote of thanks
was rendered to His Majesty for honoring the
meeting with his presence.
4 AT the regular meeting of George w De Long
Post No. As, G. A. r., held last Monday evening,
the following officers were elected to serve during
the coming year: r. w. Laine, Post Com. Sam1
Mott, S. Y. c.; W. r. Lawrence, J. V. c.; DIR. NJ.
Hagen, Post Sur. N. B. Emerson, Officer of the
Day r. jaw Green, Quartermaster s. NcKeague,
Chaplain j. Simenson, Officer of Guard; F. L.
Clarke, Adjutant.
AT the Pioneer Show Rooms. of NJ. J. Rose. the
celebrated carriage-maker, may be seen for a day
or two before delivery, the finest family carriage
ever built in this Kingdom. The design is entirely
new, and styled a four-passenger, cut-under Vic
toria Phaeton. A more elegant Christmas gift
could not be selected, and we congratulate the
builder on the success of the design, and the
gentleman for whom it is built.
On Sunday last, a native named Mahiai attempted
to commit suicide by hanging. This unfortunate
man sought to bring himself to an uatimely end
owing to having been thwarted in love. He had
improperly placed his affections on a woman who
had already taken a Portuguese protector "for
better or worse" Because Mr.. Mahiai could not
possess the object of his affections without the in
reference of her husband, he resolved to die. He
tied a rope to the ceiling, and then around his neck.
A little girl passing by the house in which the
dreadful deed was being enacted, ran and conveyed
the news to the inmates of the next house. The
woman, on whose account Mahiai was about to sus-
pend himself in mid-air, rushed in, and through
her entreaties, ne raised his hands to the rope and
relieved his neck of the weight of his body. The
usual Hawaiian process of resuscitation was re-
sorted to and the would-be victim rapidly recov-
cred his health and strength. He gave as a reason
for his rash act, Love" He is now walking
about repenttng OF his folly.