The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-08-26

BuASueu CONSIDERATION, as well as OF the 0tOh6 Il
for himself and his family by all classes al
nationalities in this community, that We are Co
hdsnt he will look back upon his official al
social life here with unslloyed pleasure.
We would repeat our farewell to Gener
Comfy as Minister Resident, and assure hi
that his future career will be watched with int
est by all who have known him here, in the wei
founded hope that he will always be found
the future what he has been proved himself I
e in the past. the friend and ~well-wisher
Hawaii nei.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Cousins Society holds their regular MONTH
meeting tonight at Mrs. H. A. p. Carriers, NuI
Hnu Avenue.
The frebeI at the tower will be rung at 4S
pm. to-day. and on the last Saturday Of eac
month in future, 10 call ont the Department fo
practice.
Mr.. CEUzAS will preach Sunday morning o
After Conversion What?'' In the evening q lee
ture to young men and some young women, o.
Profanity"
STEAM fire engine No. 1 will be taken out to tn
Kings Artesian we'll this afternoon at 4:30 pm
Mr. Dodd furnishes the horses to take the engin
out. and = 'buss for the fire laddies." There will
also be a 'buss in readiness for those who wish t.
see the trial, To start from No. rs house at half
past fonr.
II another column our readers will notice al
advertisement Of Mr.. Stratemeyer's, who is arrang
i ing some neat specimen advertisements Tor s0mt
OF our business merchants and professional gentle
ment in Honolulu. These advertisements are Il
be displayed in Mr.. Dodd's large omnibus. A few
more spaces can be granted on prompt application
TIE following named Hawaiian youths have
been selected by his Majesty to go abroad to be
educated: Kaumaoha and Piisnaia, TO the Military
School at Woolvich, England. Hugo 4. KawelO,
KaPena and Lowell as apprentices to Messrs. Mir
less, TAFT & Watson, Glasgow, for five years; and
Matthew Aakalua to study medicine in the United
States.
The following is the programme for the regular
concert at Emma Square this afternoon, COM
mencing at 4:30 pm:
March-"Deflir". ............... Unrath
Overture-''The Oath"........... ...Auber
S~eIection-"The Puritans" .......... Bellini
OVerture-"Joan of Arc" 20. new ...... Verdi
Waltz-"Ay Friend" new .......... Gassner
The Band will give a second moonlight concert on
Monday evening, August 2s-Emma Square.
The Right Rev. the Bishop of OIba and Mr..
J. A. Cruzan returned from windward on the
Likelike.
Two young kids were arrested the other day
for vagrancy. and are still at the Station House,
no one having turned up to bail them out.
A DEUSKES man arr sted on Saturday night
was found to have about $1,000 on his person,
of which $500 was in twenty dollar gold pieces.
Some one missed q haul.
A Chinaman was taken charge of by the
police on Sunday for doing some painting
in a shop in N-u1anu-street This is the first
arrest under the Sunday law since the Legislature
was ~prorogued.
NEXT Sunday August 9th, Pontiical Mass in
thelRoman Catholic Cathedral, Honolulu, at
10 an. and English sermon by the Rev. Father
Ryan
A RARE ocurrence-a police officer refused an
offer to drink. Said lie to the Boys, " mo gentle
men. I'm off that at present, 1 am a fH6ustering
around on another lay just now"
CORRESPONDENT writing from Haiku saws: "a
young nephew of Mr.. George Beckwith, resid-
ing here, was kicked by a COW a few days ago,
and had his leg broken between the knee and
hip.
: IcE is scarce, but all the same, Aarchants' spicy
ginger ale, Harris Elite" ice cream, and Hollis
tiers sparkling soda water are kept cold and
delicious as usual. All who enjoy these
coolers should visit those establishments and tone
down the system.
The attendance at the sale of household effects
at General Comly's on Wednesday was very
good. The day was as fine as any one could
desire. The ride up the valley was, as it always
is. a pleasure. The articles offered were all
good and handsome, the auctioneer was fully
up to the erigencies of the situation, but the
bidding was slow, and prices realized small.
u Nh. JAMES DoDD commences watering the
StItElS dBaAh III TX purposes ~ 0O"A
the dust by sprinkliug in front of those places
whose proprietors pay him for doing so. The
damage done to merchandise of every descrip-
ton by the dust during the past week, will e1-
coed the running expenses of the water cart for
that length of time.
Or Wednesday, two Cinnamon were convicted
Of using opium and were sentenced by the Po-
lie Justice to imprisonment, one for three and
the other for one month, with fines of $50 each.
Encouraged by the results of the late term, in
the way of t g defeat of justice by jury trial,
they both appealed to the Supreme Court.
The house and lot adjoining the Queens Hos
pitaI were sold on Saturday to DR..
Trousseau for $500 90. The new build,
ings in course of erection on the
plains by Mr.. AgDew are being sold about as
fast as they can &c rEt in the market, no less
than three having been disposed of lately, at
good prices during the past week.
OK SATURDAY. last. a runaway in Nuuanu.
Street. resulted in the smashing of one wheel of
the buggy to which the frightened horse was at
tached. Nobody hurt. Later in the day, a
horse attached to a buggy, started from the
Aston House of his own account, brought the
Wheel of the vehicle in contact with a post.
breaking the whifaetree. The buggy came to 3
standstill, fortunately for the young lady seated
in it, and the horse was caught a few rods
further on,
Two iudges of the L. S. Circuit Court have
decided that the Laundry Ordinance issned by
IN. supervisors of the city Of San Francisco,
which requires for the issue of a license to carry
on the business of a laundry within the limit
mentioned, the recommendation of twelve citl-
ems and taxpayers of the block to which the
laundry is to be established TO be unconstitu-
tioual. for if the eau make the exercise of their
Legislative power in the granting Of licenses
dependent upon the approval of anybody else,
thew NAV place in vhosever hands they may
deem best. and no one can control their action.
60 the Chinaman has scored one.
Bx reference TO our advertising columns in
to-day's paper it will be seen that lumber has
advanced somewhat In price. This is due to an
advance at the point of supply and also to in