The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-31

+ \ FEw Of the late Judge Robortson's friends,
members % the Relch and Bar and Others, have
commissioned Mr.. Strong. the artist. 70 paint 4
full size bus, portrait Of the Judge 20 be hung in
the Supreme Court room. There are q few fair
licensees extant. from which Mr.. Strong hopes 10
produce q satisfactory portrait.
We publish elsewhere a time table Of tLe Bere-
tania Street Railway. prepared by the Road Super
visor pro bono pthlicO. In addition 10 this
table we are requested 10 say that there VIII be a
bulletin board fixed 81 the corner Of Alap2i and
Beretania streets, and another AT the corner Of
Puuaheu and Bereyania streets. announcing the
time Of arrival and departure Of trains
THE schooner General Sigel after twice trying 70
land her freight Of about 80 tons Of coal, returned
10 port on Tuesday last, from Huelo, Maui, and
reports very boisterous weather. It tina! be remem-
bzTed that tbs schooner Prince was wrecked 81 the
same place. The Gen. Sigel VIII now sail for some
time on her usual route TO the other side Of this
island.
Mr.. c.. c. MERRIMAS, the microscopic who has
been travelling from one point to another Of the
group during the past six weeks, returned from
Hawaii and Maui last week, and reports himself as
delighted with his trip. He has collected samples
Of sand at various points containing microscopic
shells. and has also secured some fine diatoms
from Kahului. We hope, ere long TO give the
result Of his examination Of these interesting forms
Of life.
WHETHER it be that the growing of the sugar
cane, and the manufacture of sugar on these
islands develop a sweet tooth - in the resident,
or that the love of sweeties is universal we know
not but we do know that the quantity Of fine
French candies and bonbons that Messrs. Levey 4
CO. receive by each steamers, and dispose Of before
the new lot arrives is something wonderful. SO
are the jewelry boubous they have for sale.
WE regret to announce the death, on Wednesday
morning, of Jason Perry, Esq, Of this city. The
deceased came to these Islands about thirty-two
years ago from his home in the Western Islands.
He was born in the little town of Frequeza de
Pedro Miguel, a short distance from Horta, the
principal city Of the island Of Payal, and at the
time Of his death was nearly 50 years of age. Mr..
Perry acted as Portuguese Consul at this port
since the establishment of the office some ten years
ago, with only 4 short interval. He was much
respected by all who knew him, as an honest, up
right man. During Wednesday the Consular flags
were displayed at half-mast throughout the city,
and his funeral, which took place from the Roman
Catholic Cathedral in the afternoon was quite
largely attended.
ABOUT one thousand square feet of the old
Custom House wharf gave wav Thursday morning,
letting into the water a large pile of shingle ballast
that had been discharged from the bark Hermann.
The section of the wharf that gave way was within
ten feet of the outer end, and an examination of
the break lead to the opinion that the piles imme-
diately under the ballast had sunken under the
load. The support being thus with drawn from
the heavy timber extending across the wharf it
broke, and the floor timbers resting on top of it
were also snapped off short on the line of the tim
Der on top Of the piles on both sides of the break.
The piles under the wharf are about sixty feet in
length, and have been in position sixteen years.
The superintendent of Public Works, Mr.. Stirling,
thinks that as the entire end of the wharf will have
to be remade, it will be 4 three weeks or a month
before the damage is wholly repaired.
THE TINES LEADING ARrICLE.-ELtrGc from
the London Times Passing by a crowd of minor
notions, we come upon the exhibit of the Waltham
Watch Company, which, in economical Importance,
is perhaps superior TO anything else shown. The
rivalry of the watches of this Company has already
been felt by our own makers, and a hesitating at
tempt was made last session, in the interest of the
Coventry manufacturers, to prevent the watch
cases of tho Company receiving the English stamp,
which certihes that they are made OF gold. 1t
would seem that the Waltham Watches may defy
all attempts to exclude them in this indirect way.
Their first claim to public approval was derived
from the extraordinary nicely of their construction.
They were made with such perfect exactitude that
the parts of all watches Of the same class could be
interchanged, and, production being thus made
possible ON a large scale, c~heapness as well as excel
lence was secured. But the Company have gone
on introducing improvements in their art, and the
compensation balance they have devised seems to
have overcome the standing difficulty of the vary
ing expansibility of the spring and the wheel. tits
said that the dehcacy of construction of the me-
chanism invented by the Company is such that a
micrometer they exhibit at Paris measures the
twenty-fve-thousandth part of an inch, and might
readily be divided under a lens into One-hundred-
thousandth parts. NJ. MCINERNY, Agent for this
Kingdom also Agent for Gorham Sterling Silver
ware. The Trade supplied on the most liberal
terms. noll 3m.