The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-10-28
OCTOBER 81, 1892.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

II. R. H.. PRINCESS LILIUoKALANI, and His Ex-
cellsncy Governor Dominis, left here for Maui in
the Likelike on Tuesday.
CHARGES of deserving from bound service occupy
the greater portion of His Honor's time IN civil
Summary Court of late.
HIS ExcELLENcY r. NJ. DAGGETT, u. s. Minister
Resident and Captain Belknap, Commanding q. S.
sloop-of-war Alaska, wore passengers on Tuesday
by the Likelike bound for Hawaii and the crater.
FULL report of the interesting commercial trial
relating to currency, in which }. Lazarus was PLAIN
tiff and G.. Trousseau defendant, appears IN another
column.
A SIGNAL man is now stationed during the work
ing hours of each day, at the point where the tenn
poray railway crosses klng-street to warn passers
by of approaching trains.
THE October term of the Supreme Court VIII
close to-day. Still there are many cases that
| have not yet been tried, and will consequently be
carried over to the January term.
The attention of drivers of drays is called to the
fact that the law forbidding them to drive faster
than a walk has never been repealed or enforced
lately.
MEssRs. J. NJ. DAT, JR, IL Co., have placed on
their counter a very elegant, plate-glass show case.
The design is new and calculated to display their
goods to the best advantage.
TIM brigantine Kit Sap, from Port Gamble,
arrived at this port on Tuesday last, with one OF
the largest loads of lumber ever brought by a
vessel of her size and class. She has about one
million feet on board.
DlhlNb NhC lNoN WEN tHCAC WIZ 1AAS~ >cAANA
ments to the Insane Asylum-one a native woman,
named Pale, another a British subject named
Christie, and the third a Portuguese woman named
Jose da Rabita.
THE work of renovating the Fish Market is being
expeditiously carried on under the direction of
Mr.. Stirling. The eastern end, or that nearest
Nuuanu-street is nearly completed, after which the
other sections will be treated i'll a similar manner.
SENIOR CANAvARRo will leave town by the Like
like next week for Hawaii, and will make a COM
plete tour of that island. After his return from
that trip he will pay a similar official visit to the
Island of Maui.
The heavy rain which fell during the early part
of the week rendered the defects in our delectable
streets plainly Visible. Good work was done yes
terday III scraping up the mud and carting it away.
There is a decidedly improved tone in the admins
teatiOn of the road supervisor,
IT is reported that an arrangement has been
made between the P.M.S.S. Co. and the O.S.S. Co.
by which the local trade will be left to the
later. The fine steamer San Jose, newly arrived at
San Francisco, said TO be intended for this trade,
will therefore go on some other route.
A Coon deal of interest has been taken i'll the
race between the Zealandia and the Suez. Mr..
II. Cornwell who is a passenger in the latter, made
n bet of 500 with DR.. Tisdale who left in the mail
boat that he would land first. The prompt arri-
probable that the Doctor will get the money.
Two Cinnamon, All Fook from the SIS. Suez, and
All Kin from the SIS. Zealandia, were charged at
the Police Court on Monday last with importing
opium into the Kingdom, to wit, D tins and 2
llHS ItSptCtlNtiN. DUN rIdl IL llVahCu uiliN ,
and were fined 800 each, the former being SEN
fenced to six months, and the latter to five months
imprisonment with hard labor.
Prior to the departure of the Zealandia, a sub
scription of 500 was raised amongst parties be-
longing to the vessel in order to pay the fine of the
Chinese steward of that vessel in view of arrest for
importing opium. No amount of money can save
him from serving the five months Imprisonment to
which lac was sentenced.
A CORRESPONDENCE writes from Kilauea, Kauai
The Portuguese are turning out very good
workers ON the whole l think they will be a great
success. The wages of the Chinese have been re-
duced to the same amount paid to the Germans,
which John Cinnamon does not at all like, but
seeing there is no dearth Of labor, he submits to it
with a spirit of discomfort
WE record with regret the death of Mr.. Richard
Covington, of the Survey Department, an old and
well-known resident of Honolulu. Mr.. Covington
first arrived here in Nav. 1916. and subsequently,
spent some time in Oregon and at Washington be
fore finally settling in Honolulu. His health has
been failing, and he had been confined to his bed
for some time before his 1amented decease. The
Survey Department loses in him a faithful and
efficient member of its staff:
NATIVE named Kaliolo was tried at the Supreme
Court, Wednesday, for an assault on a police officer
whilst in the execution of his duty. The evidence
showed that the accused resisted the police
whilst possessed Of a warrant in Selling a demi-
john of okolehao in the honse of his parents. He
was found guilty, and His Honor, considering that
he belonged to a lawless family, sentenced him to
six months Imprisonment with hard labor, and a
fine of 5000 and costs.
Mr.. J. STRONG, an artist, of much and we'll
deserved repute in California, arrived here by the
CensuelO. His special mission to the Islands is to
paint two large pictures for Col. Claus Spreckels,
one of which will be of the Nuuanu Pail. Mr..
Strong is eminent both as a portrait and a land
scape painter.
THE sum of two hundred dollars that had been
4 placed for safe keeping in a box, in the dwelling
house No. l25 Fort street, disappeared Yesterday,
simultaneously with the evanishment of the Chi
nose boy employed about the premises. As neither
the money or the boy have been found yet it Is
supposed that they may have gone off together.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Honolulu Cricket
, Club was held last Tuesday at the Hotel the Pre-
sident, Major Wodehouse, in the chair. The re
signatiOn by Mr.. c.. Z. Perry of his offices as Sec
rotary and Treasurer was reported, and Mr.
Ross was elected in his stead. Some ether detail
business was transacted, and Mr.. Ross reported