The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-07-29
rHr W. G. Irwin viii sail for san Francisco
early next week.

early next week.
TIE schooner .'Emms" has been put on the Wal
aims and Waisnae route, and will run regularly
from this port every Monday.
THE Assembly yesterday. by Il unanimous vote,
| appropriated the sum II S5,OO0 70 assist the ha.
waiiau Agricultural Society 20 institute an annual
show Of stock and agricultural and dairy produce
Tar appearance Of the lower part Of Fort Street
a. well as the comfort OF pedestrlsns-a fast dimin-
| enhanced by the setting back Of the fence II Wilder
4 Co.'S lot, adjoining their premises.
A CORRESPONDENT from Lahaina reports that
three natives were ont fishing in a canoe last Non
day, and in attempting 10 land through a heavy
surf the canoe was upset and one old man, haha-
lsu, was drowned.
THIS evening there viii be a an exhibition at the
Music Hall by the pupils Of haakopua school The
exercises are 70 commence al 5 P. m. and include
many speeches, dialogues, songs, concerted pieces
and choruses. 1t is 70 be hoped that the attend
ance will be as large as the object IN view Is good
H. NJ. QUEEN EMMA started yesterday for Waialua
using Mr.. J. II. Blacks steamer as the mode Of
conveyance. There was quite a little excitement
on the wharf about 10 a. M, when the steamer
sailed a number Of friends and well-wisEers going
down to see Her Majesty of.
THE whaleboat Unknown owned by His Ex-
cellency Gov. ]. o. Demons, and the winner OF the
race on last Fourth of July, has been re-christened
and Is now known Is the "Ouida;' q Hawaiian
compliment TO the talented authoress. The Gu
ida was forwarded 10 Lahaina on the Nettie Mer-
riLl last Saturday. 49,.
AT the Royal School on Thursday, the annual ex-
sminations and Rotations went of very success
fully. The prizes given by the masters to deserv-
ing scholars were distributed by II. r.. II. Prin-
cess Liliuokalsni. n. Fernandez, w. Oil, John
Kalai, and Vincent were the prize-takers. We
have to hold over our report Of the proceedings.
OK Monday, at O'Clock pm. His Majesty the
King, entertained at lunch at his summer resi-
dence, waikiki, Mr.. A. b.. S~preckels and Colonel
Wilmington. The Following gentlemen were pre-
sent: Col. c.. H. Judd, Col. c. Iaukea, Col. G.. w.
Macfarlane, Capt. \. b. Haley and Mr.. Fowler.
The Royal Hawaiian Band was in attendance
GROUND has been cleared and the foundations are
being laid for a new warehouse for j. L. Water
house in the formerly numbered up space IN the
rear of his Queen Street store. Mr.. Waterhouse
needs no special building act TO induce him 10
erect freproof buildings here, as the value of his
stock is in itself sufficient to warrant him IN pro-
tecting it from a possible fire.
The Chinese passengers ex Triumph were re
leased from quarantine on Monday. They are a line
lot of men, very superior in physique, cleanliness,
and general department to the class Of Chinese
immigrants we were treated to last year ihey
are men picked specially for the work of cultvat-
ing rice by the agents of their employers here,
Captain Reynolds, who was quarantine master,
says they have given no trouble during their resi-
dence in quarantine, and that the odour of opium
has never been detected about their persons or
their quarters.
Mr.. FEsLER struck a full flow Of water, Tuesday
in the artesian well he has been sinking for Colonel
Claus Spreckels, at his residence at Punahou the
depth of the bore being 299 feet. On being tested
the water was found to rise TO the height of 43 feet
10 inches above sea level, another proof that ON
artesian wells, Notwithstanding their varying depth,
all reach the same water basin. ~
As a Chinaman was returning from his work near
Kamoiliili, about ~half-past IL on Tuesday forenoon,
he saw a man, named Pilino, lying apparently
! on the side of a taro patch. Recognising the
deau ave the alarm at his house, and a native
man ne &" 1iately went TO the spot, and
named b!la inme~' u Y \ quite dead, with his
hoe, his pipe, and his knife beside nm. -,
had set out apparently well after breakfast to AT
tend to the taro patches. A post norton examina-
ton was made by Drs. McKibbin and Brodie, who
certified that death was caused by "yaIvular
disease of the heart"