Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-11-04
SATURDAY PRESS
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER :, 1891,
~ LRANcLgcO LEZIER.


SATURDAY. NOVEMBER :, 1885,,
SIN FRANCLSCO LETTER.
EDIToR PREss. Different persons have dif.
fereni divisions Of time or rather milestoncs,
which remind them Of duties performed or
duties to be accomplished and such ha, the
departure Of your steamers become, leaving
here 50 regularly, either on the ninth or TWEEN
tieth, as to remind one Of the old days in early
California life when every engagement was
made with due reference to steamer day,
when all was hustle and preparation, letters 10
write, rcmitlances to make and goods to order,
when not to work all day before steamer de
parure was 10 be out q the fashion and not up
to the times, but now how changed; we have,
10 be sure as q sort " relic u those days, our
regular collection days, occurring on the thir
teenlh and twenty eighth Of each month, which
are frequently miscalled "stcamer days for
the sake Of old associations, but otherwise we
have no clearly marked dates as Of yorc.
Mails arriving twice a day from the East and
also from Oregon, Lower California and all
parts Of this state, and mails delivered many
times during business hours with every posi-
bic facility and dispatch distances Seem
lcsscned, and a visit to the postofice Is almost
unnecessary: and, speaking Of all this facility
and convenience, 1t is also satisfactory TO note
that the postoiice department Of the United
States reports itself for the fiscal year as nearly
two millions ahead Of It's expenses, while II the
account stood the other way, would not he
wondered at, considering the enormous outlay.
TifE COMET.
From the earth to the heavens seems
"slight divergence but have your good pco-
pie seen the comet and have the peculiar at.
fractions Of lis tail with all its radiance been
vouehsafed to your fair isles, or have you been
left out in the distribution and dcstnsl to
know Of this beautiful phenomenon only by
description WELL the unusual visitor has in
duced early rising anyway, which of itself is
worth something, many ghostly apparitions
being visible at various hours from 4 TO 5 A.
NJ, the writer viewing the "critters" tail and
all at the most unscemly hour of 4 o'clock, the
sky being as clear and the light as bright as
the comet of 1869. But for a very full and
satisfactory description of this interesting sub.
jec,, with cut showing exact position and angle,
the AIgonam Of this date will post you in a
manner far beyond my feeble powers to even
initiate.
CARNIVAL ATTRACTIONS.
The next interesting item which engrosses
the attention is the preparation for the Au
,hors' Carnival, which opens on Monday
evening next, promising even greater success
than before Experience teaches, and as most
OF the interested parties directed the previous
entertainments, fine show is expected.
Everything that money and intelligent action
can secure has been furnished, and the out.
come should be pecuniarily as well as other
wise satisfactory. Certainly the charities are
deserving, the participants are our best people,
all are enthusiastic, and II we get tickets
shall honor ourselves by looking in occasion
ally.
STEAM COASTERS
Judging from what is reported, our friend
Foster was by no means idle during his stay
here, and while not credltable to your foundry
management in being obliged to come here to
have the Jas. Make repaired, it is some salts
faction to the owner TO know he had a splen.
did Job performed in less time and with the
slight difference in price of over $1,000, which,
though a mere bagatele, seemed TO warrant
your enterprising citizen in his venture, and
during his visit an order for still another
steamer to ply in your waters was given and
will soon follow in the wake OF the c. e.
BiIhep, ItoalaUi and lanes Mako, and sug-
gests the query at our elbow If our friend
Wilder had not better look to his laurels and
have looked little more to the accommoda-
ton OF the IIilo people, which may have been
all talk, for to suit the travelling public, one
should issue free tickets, stop a, all ports,
whether large OF small, and each passenger
assured of the honor he is comforting by tray.
cling on this or tina, steamer. So its no sort of
use trying to suit everybody, either in Hawaii
or elsewhere.
SUGAR STOCKS.
Sugar stock seems to have taken sor, OF
Irish dividend -double-baek action somersault
lately and dropped fifty per cen, willie one
was talking about it, the knowing ones assert
ing it is only owing to the sudden disposal in
open market of few shares belonging to a
retired stakeholder. but it may be only game |
OF ireefc.out to scare holders into selling be. |
cause the prospect of large and continuous
dividends is to be ruled upon. Hceia doubt,
less in xymnathyl declined two noints all Of
which to one on the outside would seem TO
show how sensitive stocks are and what may
be expected at any time, no matter II every. |
thing is apparently lovely and the goose hang
ing unusually high; and now comes another
the iiakalau' Sugar Company, candidate
perhaps for public favor, OF may be close
corporation; but OF one thing be assured, the |
more of this people who get interested in your
country the better for you, for, beyond the
comparatively few now investing OF having |
friends OF relatives with YOU, most lament
able ignorance OF your resources seems to OBJ
tan and many who have commercial relations
with all parts Of your kingdom, have the most
ridiculous IDEAS abou, its geographical position,
ruE ELECTRIC LIGHT
Has now become such a formidable rival Of
gas and other illuminants that each day brings
out in the public prints alarming accounts Of
instantaneous deaths caused by contact with |
wires in process either of erection OF repair,
and while the passage under ground seems a,
present impraeticable, some way out OF the
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