The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-16
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wind made matters unpleasant.
Do not forget that F. S. Pratt and Co. hold an
evening sale at their auction rooms this evening,
commencing at 7 O'Clock.
The next moonlight concert will take place on
Tuesday, December 10, and Friday, December p,
at Emma Square, weather permitting
THE stmr. Suez, from San Francisco, may be
looked for this evening, and the P NJ S S. Australia,
from Auckland and Sydney, tomorrow afternoon.
IT has pleased His Majesty to confer the decora-
ton of knight Commander of the order of Kalakaua
on Johan Anton Wolff Grip, diplomatic agent for
Norway.
AT an informal meeting of the Teachers Asso-
ciation, held on Thursday evening, arrangements
were made for the annual meeting in January
next.
THE funeral of Horace n. Farnsworth, drowned
at Kahului, Maui, the only child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Farnsworth, will be attended this pm. 4 O'Clock,
from the Bethel.
AT Fort Street Church, Sunday. Mr.. Cruzan
will preach at the usual hours. In the evening
the sermon on ga Needed and a winnowed Book "
will be prefaced with a brief prelude on Gaps in
the Development Theory"
WI are requested to state that the poetry selected
from Our Continent, and published in the DAILY
l.. =. ADNkhIlSEh y 1ueSuds lastbs IL SAShCu n e
Judd, is not the production of His Honor the Chief
Justice, but of his equally gifted namesake the
author.
THE business at the Custom House has been very
light so far this month. For the next two weeks a
change for the better is anticipated. The Suez is
expected to bring 1900 tons of merchandise and the
mail steamer will have a large freight the follow
ing week.
THE Royal Hawaiian Band will give a concert in
Emma Square, this afternoon, at half-past 4
o'clock. The following is the programmes:
Grand ~March-Reinzi. -. Wagner
Selection-Flying Dutchman. .........W Wagner
SelectiOn-Lohengrin..... by request. Wagner
Waltz-Thine Alone Melsler
THERE will be a temperance meeting held at ~
o'clock on Tuesday evening next, in the Yestry of
Fort Street church, when it is expected that letters
from the other Islands in regard to the working of
the new liquor law, will be read. There will also
be statements from persons in town concerning the
working of the new law, and how it has affected
various trades. All are cordially invited to attend.
Mr.. CAMERON, late chief officer of the Iwalani,
has been appointed to the command of the G. r.
Bishop, in the place of Captain Berry. resigned.
How g~ladly..we embrace a fellow-being and call
him brother "pastor" and other loving
how oft hast thou vented thy wrath and given ut
terance to thy feelings when thou vast not in ac-
cord with thy Christian brethren. Consistency as a
jelceI! J!
THE youths of the Royal School met the youths
of the Fort street on Monday last, and a general
melee ensued. Which were victorious has not yet
come to our knowledge, but it is hoped for the
benefit of the boys and their parents that they
have since been taught such a lesson as to deter a
Of such disgraceful conduct.
Z If there is a gentleman in town who loves horses,
wishes to own a good roadster as we'll as an
elegant new single top buggy, let him invest two
dollars in the grand lottery to take place at the
Pantheon Stables on Christmas evening. Tickets
selling fast, and the committee only have a few
We have ayailed ourselves of the opportunity,
stand on No. - to win or lose.
IN the absence of the usual police station expert
in the matter of opium, a prisoner in the docket
awaiting trial for opium in possession, was called
upon to give his unbiased opinion whether the
article seized on board the Discovery was. opium
Or not. 1t was refreshing to see the artistic man
ner in which he handled the needle with opium on
the end of it, over the inevitable lamp. After
smelling and tasting, he declared it, on oath, to be
the pernicious drug.
OF the performance of "Trial by Jury Tuesday
night, there could be but one opinion, a grand
1t was plainly evident to the fashiona-
and discriminating audience, that the Honolulu
did justice to Gilbert's ideas and Sulli-
vans music. The house was filed to overlooking,
the reserved seats having been taken up days in adj
vance. Our critique will be found in another
column. The performance will be repeated on
Monday night.
THE attention of the Police Justice has been
frequently occupied by expressmen who dis
regard the new regulations. They are many de-
inquents in this line of business who deserve to be
On four consecutive nights, dur
ing last week, an express was tied up on the foot
washhouse betwixt Fort and Alakea streets.
As there are no lamps in that particular part of
the city, it was dangerous for pedestrians passing
way.
A POLICE officer named Halawa was, on Thursday,
sentenced to six days imprisonment and a fine of
$40, and SO costs, on a charge of gaming. In pass
ng sentence His Honor adverted to what the-late
Chief Justice had done whore a policeman had
violated the law. He (the Police Justioe) also had
5he power invested in him to dismiss police who
violated the laws. He had never yet exercised that
occasion, leaving it to the discretion of the Mar
hall and his deputy, who have the immediate con-
.rol of the police officers.
WE have been shown a mosquito house built
Dy Mr.. J.H Bruins, junr. 1t is plainly constructed,
he frame work of cedar and the net work a fine
light wire gauZe of a green tint. 1t measures 6
by 8 feet and z feet high. 1t is light and
and imperviOus to the pertinacious attacks
If our insidious household enemy, commonly
Known as a mosquito Tie total cost of this use
III adjunct to domestic happiness is S35 only. 1t
vas made to the special order of that human
hornet ornithOThy0chus.
OCCASIONALLY we hear of arrests for fast riding
N the country. 1t was only last week that q zeal
,us police officer mounted his horse barebacked at
Palama to bring back two Cinnamon who, in his
dea, were going beyond regulation pace. They
they were in a hurry and bound to Eva,
the constable overlook them at kalihi, arrested
hem and they were fined. On Saturday last, a
mounted on a frisky scrub, came round
corner of King and Fort streets, collided with two
going in the opposite direction, and
Ifter clearing himself, galloped very hard down the
narrow partof Fort street. A policeman saw all this,
1utdid not interfere In the opinion of the public, it
$ cases of this kind that the law was intended to
meet. and not where . man rides 7 or s miles an
hour in the open country.
A YOUNG man named Thomas Lynch died
at the Hawaiian Hotel on Saturday
morning last. Not feeling well the night pre-
TiOus, he declined to go home and shared a bed
a friend at the Hotel. At 8 O'Clock he
his bed-fellow and complained of in
.ense pains. At 6 o'clock DR.. E. C. Webb was
,alled in, but life vas then extinct. Previous to
he had severe commissions. The body was
conveyed to the hospital and a post morton exam
nation was held by Drs. McKibbin and Trousseau.
They reported having found a clQt of blood in the
light venticle of the heart; both lungs congested,
specially the right one. The liver was enormously
and highly cOngested. They considered
of the heart, liver and lungs, efficient
20 account for his death The deceased was %
7ears of age, and had been in this kingdom about
i've months. He was a native Of Plymouth,
England. (