The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-11-18

the most intrinsicaIIv valuable Of all the collec-
tons IN the building. The draughtsmen in the
Survey Department were engaged on a map. the
value OF which when completed. would have been
about 1900. It = probable that a new census Of
the colony VIII have 10 he made. As all the archives
ahd papers IN connection with that department
have, IL Is believed, been destroyed. They were
not deposited In a safe, but were stored on shelves
IN bundles. The papers believed to be destroyed
represented thirteen months work Of 50 men. and
abstracts Of the greater portion Of this work had
been prepared, and were TO have been printed.
There were i've or six safes in the whole building,
each containing y2luablcs worth thousands Of
pounds. NJ. FattOrini had in his studio a number
OF valuable paintings, representing a large sum Of
mSney- In addition 10 these losses is that of many
specimens Of sculPtUEe.
The sudden death Of our townsman Mr.. J. G.
Tucker last Wednesday week. seems TO have given
cause for suspicion in the minds Of some. We
know nothing OF the circumS tances beyond what
we have learned from the family and the Doctor in
attendance at the last moment. 1t appears that
shortly before he was married. he had a narrow es-
cape from drowning. He could swim but only a
short distance. and on venturing ont of his depth
on the occasion referred TO- il was only by the Mt
most exertlon that he again gained a footing. On
reaching home he Immediately retired to bed with
out partaklnS OF dinner a. usual. being completely
exhausted During the night he spit blood, and
impaired the fact to Mr.. Herbert who slept in the
next room. Not feeling any further diSagreeable
effects on the day following, no further notice was
taken of the incident. He occasionally complained
OF a pain III the chest. more particularly on the
night of his decease. Immediately after dinner,
while smoking and attributing the cause TO smOk-
ing too much. he made the fact known 10 Nh. Her
bert and threw ms cigar away. Ills sudden death
followed as related by rs last week. As an instance
Of sudden detth very similar in many respects to
that of Mr.. Tucker. We elm the following from
the New Zealand Herad of September 18th ::
SUDDEN DEATH or Mn. J. II. HEsLE. Very gen
eTal regret and surprise was felt yesterday evening,
when II became known that Mr.. ]. II. Beale. Of
Grafton-road, had died suddenly al his residence.
while al dinner, shortly after hS return :r"I1
church. For sonlc time past le iti been suffering
from an affection of the heart. hut nnthing 10 pre-
vent HIM from Thrilling ms sgt HrrN IL ties About
two years ago his medical attendant nr. Wj.Ir.
warned him against Undni. eS T!ii: himself, 81 ga
ing quickly up a hill. Or Saturday last Mr. Ecale
gave his usual music lesson T." some q! the mem
beTs of DR.. Wines family, and appeared To be IN
M usual hsdith' ms was al ":'t'h' aumlISt 81
athletic sports, especially crlcFcj @n1 t'"tbaii. and
was up at the football match oh S~efi"la, aftegun,l.
returning home in the evening trea-f. ,l.lSei "ith
the victory of the Auckland team. Ca %und y
morning he attended st. PaUls Cltlri Uf wlic.
he was a church-wardenl, and assisted ia ,abjugEp
the ofertory. After service he hal 4 c,'tt with tMe
Rev. c. Vi. Nelson, in connection With splae church
business, and then walked mp as far as the Choral
Hall with Mr.. Angelo Forrest, the organist. turn
ing of there to his home in Grafton-road. The
family had just sat down to dinner, and Mr.. Geaic
had finished carving. when he bent his he IA for
ward. a il to say grace. One of the members Of
his family noticed that his head appeared to fall on
his breast, and suSpeciiuE that something WAS
wrong. gave the alarm, bat the vital spark had fled.
An attempt was made 10 administer restoratiycs,
and three medical men We're sent for. At last DIR.
Wine was found, and hurried over to Mr.. Beales
residence, but nothing was left for the doctor to do,
but to pronounce that life was extinct. Death
must have been almost ins taneous, as the de-
ceased never gave a 9roan, or exclamation but
simply passed away.
General Grant and Hon. VIM. IL. Prescott. who
were appointed by Congress as Commissioners to
negotiate a Reciprocity Treaty with Mexico, left
Washington to enter upon their dutiee on October
12th.
The newspaper, the Irish World, has closed the
fund which was being raised for the Land League,
and in doing so has declared that organization is
now defunct.
1t is stated by an Auckland paper that Sir Arthur
Gordon intends to apply for reappointment to the
Governorship of Fiji, with the office of Lord High
Commissioner, Fiji.
Our neighbor seemed very much griered on Sat
urday last at having been hit so hard, and in such
soft places, and so many times during the week,
that he gave vent t. his Democratic wrath by
blathering forth on the street some of those vile
epithets for which he is renowned. 1t Is to be
hoped he eased Is angry mind yesterday by a longer
soliloquy than usual over the case. Don't Grieve I!
A commission composed of the highest engineer
ing authorities of the United States, says, in re-
ference to the proposed Canal across the Isthmus
that the Nicaragua route : possesses, both for the
construction and maintenance of Il canal, greater
advantages and offers fewer difficulties from en-
cheering, commercial and economic points of view
than any one of the other rautes shown to be
practicable by surveys sufficiently in detail to en-
able a judgment to be formed of their relative
merritt
Residents on the Plains viii he pleased to learn
tLat Miss Anne N fIeHcot whose cara appears IN
the Z. G. ADVERT SER, comes to us bearing the
the highest official and personal recommendations
as a teacher from the Public Schools of Boston,
where she Taught in the NorcrOss Grammar School
for seven years, and III San Francisco where she
was granted a first grade certificate from the
Board Of Education. Miss Prescott is a distin-
guished pupil of the well known elocution-
list, Prof.~RsgTN DSTTc~sf, Ct-Heston, and she pur-
Doses"to give lessons in that art, iii addition to the
eor'nct of her conduct of her school on King
BY the latest advices from Japan it is pleasing
to learn, more especially on account of the visit to
that country Of the Hons. J. NJ. Kapena and J. L..
Koulukou, that the epidemic of cholera which had
prevailed during the summer has now almost come
to an end. Tho anxiety and risk attendant upon
these outbreaks render residence in the districts
whore it Is worst, hazardous and unwise. While
the disease lasts, steps are taken to introduce
sanitary improvement but the necessity for car
rying out the proposed measures seem to lessen as
the disease abates, no precautions against its re-
turn being regarded as requisite.