The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-22


THE Pacific Mail Steamship Company are now
having bnilt by John Roach, four new steamers.
two of which are intended for the Hawaiian trade.
They will be of 220O tons bur then and have a guar
anteed speed of ii miles an hour. The cabins will
be on thefo rward part of the vessel and particu-
lar attention will be paid to thorough ventilation,
and the appointments throughout will be especially
adapted to our tropical climate. Perfect ARA nge-
ments will also be provided for the carrying of ba-
nanaS and other tropical fruits, after the style OF
the West India steamers. The 2. NJ. s. 5. Co., rec
ognize the Importance of keeping up their Hawaii
an and Australian line Of steamers, and the line
has now all the freight they can carry To the Col
onies. The statement Is made that it does not pay
them to bring a pound of freight to Honolulu at
So per ton, when in order to do so they have to re-
fuse freight to the Colonies, that they get from S12
to SIS a ton for; hence the necessity of putting
on additional steamers for the Hawaiian Islands.
The mail contract with the Colonies will expire
in about eighteen months, but we are assured that
the line will be continued after that time, as it il
expected that the American Government will assist
the line with a subsidy. Sir Henry Parkes has
assured the management that New Zealand, at
least, will continue to pay a liberal sum towards
its continuance. The first of the new boats for
Honolulu will arrive here about the end of June,
to be followed by the second one in July.
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G% This is the day on which is to take place
the long talked of picnic at Kahakaaulana, in which
those who had to undergo quarantine or hospital
treatment there, are all to take part. The Royal
Hawaiian Band will be there and will remain on
the ground from noon to four o'clock, returning in
time to keep faith with the public who may be
looking for them at Emma Square. The 9 luau -
is to come off at / pm, i'll the quarters nsed by
the Chinese who were quarantined on the island,
where seats have been provided for nearly six
hundred guests. 1t is expected that the number
of those present will considerably exceed that just
mentioned. His Majesty the King, intends to be
present if the Kilauea Hou can call for him and
bring him back to Oahu in time. Queen Kapiolani
and members of the Royal family, Queen Emma,
H.H. Princess Ruth, His Majesty's Ministers, the
JudgeRandsother .oficial personages have been in
yited TO be present. After the - .luau - an address
will be delivered by Rev. H. II. Parker. After this
and any impromptu speaking that may develop it.
self, the time will be given up to sundry meles,
which will be sung in honor of chiefs both dead
and living. A special mele will also be sung
which has been composed for this occasion, in
honor of the dead who lie sleeping in the Kaha-
kaaulana cemetery. Those who want a dance will
find ample room for it in the building known as
No. l which was occupied throughout the epidemic
by healthy persons only. All the buildings which
were used as smallpox hospitals viii be locked up.
They have been cleansed and fumigated, but an
excess of precautiOn is in such case better than the
smallest risk. For the benefit of those who may
desire an inexpensive method of attending the
" luau " we may mention that Mr.. Dodd's omni-
busses viii run from Mossman's corner to the reef
at a fare for the round trip of fifty cents.
~ The Hawaiian and British Commissioners
Hon. A. S. Cleghorn and Major j. Hay Wodehouse
left town on 18th inst, to investigate the condition
of laborers and laborers quarters on this island.
They proceeded first to Waimanalo examining there
the condition of the laborers employed by tributary
planters as well as by the Company. Some of them
are Chinese; and here, and in other places, the Com
missiOners found that as a rule the Chinese who
work for their contrymen do not huddle together
as some planters profess TO believe they are fond of
doing. At Kaneohe, however, they found a Chinese
employer, planting on land mauka of the mill, whose
quarters were both inferior and crowded, and who
was reported TO be largely engaged in an illicit
traffic in liquor and opium. This man had re-
ceived as much as 30 cases Of liquor in a single
shipment. The commissioners went round by the
coast to Waialua and thence to Waianae, visiting
all sugar plantations and MANY rice Dlanfa flOng on
the way. The general result of their examination
is that the laborers' quarters on this island are on
the average better than those on Kauai.
U Mr.. Wray Taylor will give his third free
organ recital on Tuesday evening April 25th, at
7:45 O'Clock in st. Andrews Cathedral, assisted by
Miss Ponti, soprano, Mr.. F. NJ. Swanzy, baritone,
and Mr.. Myron Jones, organlst. The recital Of
Tuesday evening last was highly successful. Mr..
Taylor was assisted on the occasion by Miss Flor
ence Luce and Mr.. T. r.. Walker. Mr.. Atkinson
was prevented by indisposition from giving his pro-
nounced contribution to the programme Of the
evening. This stood as follows:
/. Festival March Collin
3 Air Pro Peccatis" (stabat Mater) ............R ossini
Mr.. WALKER.
/. Introduction and welv
3 e hertoire de 81. Baptiste
!. Solo Come unto linn. Iesiie
Miss LUCE.
:. Variations on a Hymn Taylor
Hawaii Ponoi.
Mr.. r. H. FOWLER, representing the firm of John
Fowler & Co, of Leeds, England, returned from
his Australian trip by the City of Sydney, and will
remain with us a few months in order to complete
his large contracts for portable tramways, made
with several of our planters during his first visit
Most OF the. material has arrived, or is nearly due.
and Mr.. Fowler, before leaving, will personally in
spect the construction and working of the different
lines Of tramway sold by him. Mr.. Fowler before
leaving will give an exhibition of the working Of one
OF thelr large patent steam plows, which is EXPECT
ed TO arrive by the barque Edward May, now near
~ due from Glasgow. We congratulate Mr.. Fowler
on the successful result of his Australian and Fiji
trlp' ne having sold and negotiated for the sale
there OF no less than twenty-One sets of steam plows
and nifty to sixty miles of portable railway and Lo-
cOmOtives.