The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-08-18

No rain lately in the Kau district on Hawaii.
His Majesty went to Kaliki snd back on Sunday
richardson wharf at waianae is rapidly ap
preaching completion.
Mr.. J. Cummin's new house at Waimanalo is SAID
to be one Of the incest in the Kingdom.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager returned tt
own on sunday evening from Summers Island.
Messrs. W. r Castle and L. Thurston have beer
elected members of the Stock and Bond Exchange
Mr.. James Hayselden remains in abont thu
same condition as ne was on his arrival here on
Sunday.
The Emerald finished discharging Yesterday
morning. she will sail in ballast, for the Sound
Tuesday.
His Excellency ]. NJ. Kapena and the Hon. John
S. Walker have been appointed members of the
Board of Education.
One Of the horses in the carriage of H. R. II.
Princess Kaiulani stumbled on Sunday. Horse
bruised. nobody hurt.
The Mariposa will be delayed for a few days in
San Francisco owing to some improvements being
made in her accommodations for steerage passen-
gers.
At a meeting of the newly incorporated Honomu
Sugar Company held on Monday Mr.. W. McCand-
less was elected President, Mr.. P. G.. Jones Jr.
Secretary and Treasurer. Mr.. NJ. Kirchoff and Mr..
G.. J. Ross were elected Directors and Mr.. J. o. Car
er Auditor.
Mr.. J. E. Wiseman, who met with an accident on
Saturday morning was, up to yesterday, confined to
the house. He bruised his face considerably in the
fall and also his knees to such an extent that he is
unable to bend them and consequently cannot walk.
It will probably be some days before he is able to
get about as briskly as usual.
The new native paper published under the above
name appears to-day. 1t consists of eight pages of
reading matter. is we'll printed and has a very
handsome cover with the Hawaiian flag on the
outside. In one article is given the position at
table of the guests of His Majesty the King of Ser
via at a diplomatic dinner. Colonel Curtis Iaukea
had the honor of sitting on the right hand of Her
Majesty.
Sal Poi the Chinaman whose sudden death was
recorded on Monday morning had been suffering
for some time previous to his death from disease of
the heart. Two of his countrymen who were with
him on Sunday evening stated that he complained
Of a pain in his chest and sat down. They left him
there but on their return found that he was dead.
There were no marks or bruises on the body except
one which was caused by his falling down; it was
not considered necessary to hold an inquest.
OF Miss Chamberlain, the young American lady
whose beauty has been so much admired by the
Prince of Wales, a newspaper correspondent writes:
81 found her a very lovely girl, simple, natural and
unaffected, and apparently not in the least spoiled
by the attention and adulation she has received.
Tall and slender, with brilliant dark eyes, delicate
features and an extremely graceful carriage, she is
very much in the same style as the Princess of
Wales. though there is no actual personal resemb-
lance"
Tuesdays rain was hailed with delight as put
ting an end to the very hot weather of the past few
weeks, and as being a probable means of stopping
the spread of fever which has been considerable of
The only damage done during the day was
the washing away of the new bridge over the Eva
stream the whole structure being bodily carried
off. There is a probability that the next inter
news will tell us Of some floods especially
on Mani and Kauai. Both reservoirs at the water
are filled to OVERLOOKING. Bully for the gar
dens. /
An accident occurred to Master Thorn as Mcguire
A boy 13 years old, at the Y. NJ. C. A. rooms to-
wards the close of the Algaroba Lodge social. He
standing on the narrow edge of the gymnasium
room and missed his footing, falling on the con-
crete floor beneath through the light having been
away while some of the boys were dressing.
who was stunned by the fall, was taken
home and attended to by DIR. Hagan, who found
that one arm was sprained and the boys side CON-
siderably bruised. Last night he was progressing
but will be obliged to keep to his bed
Tor a week or two.
Mr.. Lycan, Of Messrs. Lycan x Johnson has pur-
the ranch at Kalihi, four miles from town,
which formerly belonged to Mr.. Morse, and intends
to live there with his family. Mr.. Lycan purposes
going in for farming and fruit raising in q small
by keeping cows and growing bananas, pine
apples, ETC., and it is to be hoped that ne will be
snooaSSfu1 in biS navy vantura and find fhA fruit
market as profitable as the music market. He has
yet decided which part of his store to set aside
Tor the fruit business but it is to be hoped that he
will effect a reduction in the present market price
Of these necessaries of Hawaiian life.
The charge brought against three Cinnamon of
against oonstables Akana and Akiona
was again heard at the Police Court Wednesday.
This case was commenced in June last and has
been postponed from time to time to suit the con-
venience Of the lawyers engaged. The evidence
Produced yesterday was insufficient to sustain a
charge of conspiracy so that il was altered to one
Of perjury against All Sin and All Wong who will
be tried at the next sitting of the Su-
preme Court. The third prisoner Kom Kwei,
against whom the evidence was considered INSULT
cient for prosecution, is still retained at the station
house on a charge of importing opium.
Messrs. Spalding, Searle and Tingle, the Com
appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury to investigate the Belmont boys charges
of fraud in the Importation of Hawaiian sug ars,
have successfully completed at Honolulu their ar
duous search for a mare's-nest, and are taking the
eggs to Washington, where one viii be hung up in
the dome of the Capitol, like the roc's egg in Alad-
din's palace. The parent bird which they chased
off the nest was of the kind known to zoology "a
equus gdstrOcWcnnGis, or nightmare. 1t is believed
that by tickling the patients eye with one of the
creatures feathers q cure cln be effected in the
most stubborn case of sIgar-blindness that ever
an Eastern Paper.
The British bark George belonging to Nova SEQ
tia put into port Wednesday afternoon in distress.
is twenty days ont from Victoria, B. c., and
bound to Shanghai. Captain Grant, who is in com
mand of her, reports that his pump cranks are
broken so that he thought it advisable to call here
and get them repaired or REPLACE thsm. The George
is anchored outside the h4rbor.
The steamer W. H. Reed, Captain Erioksen, ar
rived here Wednesday from Hsnohina, Hilo district,