Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-02-18

TO conflict with the meetings of the Y. NJ. C. A.,
which has heretofore met on the same evening"
| The next social will be held In five weeks ut the
residence of j. a. Cruzau.
The Puget Sound Weekig Aygps Of January 18th,
publishes table giving the lumber exports from
Port Townsend to foreign ports for the month of
December 1881. Out of total Of thirteen cargoes
six were for Honolulu and two for Kahuu The
others were for Mexico and the Fiji Islands.
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Ar Fort Street Church Sunday morning. j. A.
Cruzan, pastor, will preach upon the " Essentials
for Church Membership" and in the evening. by
special request, upon " How Shall we Spend Sun
day in the Home ~ cordial welcome to all.
Ushers always in attendance to provide seats for
strangers and casual attendants.
The steamer Chy Of N,tc Yoyk did not arrive
from the Colonies until Thursday She sailed
from Sydney January 9th and from Auckland on
the 3lst and when near the Equator laid to from
230 p NJ. until p. N. on the 9th to make repairs
on the engine. She brought fourteen passengers
for Honolulu. On Thursday evening mt 3 p NJ
she sailed for San Francisco.
LAST Saturday the 18th inst, which was cello.
brated MS Accession Day. the troops were on
parade and in the afternoon, with the King and
staff at their head, marched to the residence of IL
IL. III. Ruth Keelik1lani Emma street, where
they formed in line and presented arms as tho
Princess appeared. The soldiers afterwards par
took of a luau. The marching on Saturday was
by far the best we have seen them do.
TnE nrtesan well being bored for the Govern
ment on the extension to the Aliiolani Hale lot is
down one hundred feet in very hard white rock,
In which progress is made very slowly The first two
feet was through soil, then followed five feet of
black sand, fifty feet of hard coral. ten feet of
very hard black powders. ten feet OF sandstone
and the remainder in the hard granite like rock
through which they are now boring. The first
scventy-ive feet was made in two weeks, and it
has taken the same time to bore the last twenty
five feet Specimens of the rock encountered at
varions depths are saved and All interesting
study.
TnE opinion expressed by the SATURDAY Press a
short time since that have plenty of stone
near at hand suitable for building material and
for both common and fine work is about to re-
ceive thorough demonstration. In the large
building which Mr.. james Campbell contemplates
erecting on the corner of Fort and Merchant
streets to cover the space occupied by the
stores of Hoffschlaeger d Co., A. W. Richardson &
20. and Thos. G. rhrum. he INTENDS to make the
first story of the front of iron and glass; and tho
upper stories of stone from his quarry at Eva
which takes fine polish.
LAST Tuesday some Of the boats of tho
whaling bark Rainbor which was lying off and on
outside the reef came into port i'll tow OF n steam
whale boat. This is a new Innovation in the whal-
ing business. The boat is built specially for tho
purpose and the propeller is placed underneath
and nearly in the center so as to make as little
noise as possible. When or sail are being
used the propeller can be lifted clear of the water
and can make about eight knots an hour when
running at full speed. Among the members of the
crew who came ashore were natives of these
islands and northern Indians.
ONE by one the ancient landmarks of Honolulu
are disappearing. Soon it will be that old resi-
dents returning after r. an absence, will hardly
on the corner of Hotel street and Adams Lane
have recently undergone transformation. and n
number OF neat new cottages now occupy the site
of the former adobe houses. The place has a
history. Forty years ago it belonged to the Hud-
sons Bay Company and was long occupied as a
residence by the Agent, George Pclly, who was
very much of character in his way When the
Company closed up its Agency here, the property
came into the possession of the late II. c. Wyllie,
and was leased for number of years to the Gov
ernment, which fitted up and occupied the build.
ines as Ministerial offices, (Wylle, Gregg and l..
kameha,neha,) until the removal to the old
French Hotel premises between Fort and Garden
streets. The last purchaser was Mr.. j. L. Water.
house, who is now SO thoroughly and tastefully
renovating and rejuvenatng what was once SO
well-known as "Od Pey's."
On Saturday evening last another entertain
ment was given at the Music Hall by Mr.. Edwin
Browne and Professor Xavier The Canopy of /"
Phydias was the first thing on the programme
and it was one of the best. The sudden appear
ing and disappearing of the statue i'll the canopy
was well done, and was mystery to not a few
The Labor Question was then discussed by Senator
Browne, who made some good hits. Professor
Xavier next entertained the audience with bud
get Of fun and mystery, and performed some very
good tricks, the best one being the tearing up OF
borrowed hat and returning it uninjured to
its owner. The Grecan and Roman Stat,,ary was
shutters did not manage his part AZ well as he
should have done. The subjects were. Watch
ing" "Aiax,m THE Gladiator" "Thc Dying
,nI ,s Rad .s1 hs
OF Drink was we'll illustrated, in the second part
of the entertainment. Five minutes with Xavier
served to still further mystify the audience. The
ever amusing Dancing Skeleton was next produced.
The entertainment concluded with the Marvel of
Mecca, or the Floating Sylph."
Hon. LEWIS MonoAN, who recently died in New
York, was led in the course of his Investigations
into the history of the North American Indians,
to study the subject of kinship Under the auspi-
of the Smithsonian Institution he sent all over
the world for classified names of kindred in all
known languages. The result of his researches
was published III his books Ancient Society, and
Systems Of Conso"q"inity and ADinity Of The Human
Rdce, books that ought to be in our public library.
lie clnssities the human family in five divisions,
the Malayan Turanian, Syndasmial, Patriarchal,
Mohogaman. The first, or "Consanguine," pre-
walls over two third of the GLOBE the intermar-
riaee of brothers and sisters bringing it to pass
that every person is grandparent, parent brother,
sister, child, or grandchild of every other person
in the tribe. The second division (which he calls
P""oimn, apparently from Hawaiian word,
p"naina having wives or husbands in common)
Is founded, he says, on the ntermarriage of
several sisters with each others husbands in u
group. The third. or pairing division, is mar
rage on trial SO to speak, at the will of either
party. The Patriarchal, comes from ono mans
marrying several wives. The Monogamian is the
marriage of one husband to one wife. In this
way MIR. Morgan has traced out, Az he believes the
gradual development Of Christian ideas of
matrimony, anu of the family, from an original
state OF promiscuous intermarriage in savage life.
VISITING one day this week Mr.. G.. Vests car
riage shop on Queen street wc were surprised to
lind 80 complete an establishment in Honolulu, IA
we had not been inside of the building or build
ngs since locating in its new quarters. There ara
two departments devoted to wood work, one for
carriages and light vehicles, and the other for
heavier wagons and carts and for repairing. The
blacksmith shop adjoining is fitted with the latest
appliances for doing work thoroughly and quickly,
tue most noticeable being the use of the steam
blast--which can be regulated without the least
dtculty-instead OF the old fashioned bellows.
In AN adjoining room is u circular saw for cutting
the wood used. machine for shaping the ends OF
the feloes OF any sized wheels, u machine for
boring iron etc., all ot which is run by an engine
of Honolulu manufacture. In another room tho
buggies and "expresses" are trimmed, from
which they pass through successive apartments
where they are primed painted, and vanished and
at last turned out complete. In addition to the
above are store houses, and in the former n large
quantity of material ON hand. After finishing our
tour of inspection our greatest surprise was to
know that Honolulu could support extensive an
establishment, ono employing on AN average
thirty hands.