The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03
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Their E~xcellencies the Ministero of Foreign
Affairs and the Minister of Finance visited,
Yesterday, the different men-of-war in port,
and were received with customary honOrs.
We would suggest that until Merchant
street is widened that the police be instruct
ed to tdbu the tieing of more than two car
riage horses at one time in that part OF the
street opposite the Chinese wash house.
The locality is known as "No. 81" we be-
lieve.
The auckland Weekly News says we have no
doubt that the mail service between San Fran
cisco and New Zealand will be renewed 1t adj
mits of being considerably expedited, and will,
there is no question, ultimately be the most
speedy mail service between England and the
Australasian Colonies.
ESPECIAL pains have been taken in the Gazefte's
report of the Washington Birthday celebration
here on the 22i ult.. to ignnre the fact that the
Hawaiian Hotel was brilliantly Illuminated ON
that occasion, and that the Band was there and
discUursed music to appropriate the occasion.
By n cablegram from London, dated February
10, we learn that the steamer Abergeldie, which
sailed from London February 9th for the Azores,
to take on board 900 emiSrants for Honolulu,
had received some damage to her rudder, and put
into Plymouth for repairs, and was not expected
to start again on her voyage till the 10Th inst.
The SuUa Times, FIJI, speaks very highly of
the POlyneSians recently brought from New Brit
ain, and surrounding groups, and pronounces
them as fine IA set of men as ever came to FIJI
The same paper says that if the supply can be
depended upon, there is no doubt but that a great
boon has conferred upon the colony in the pres
cnt condition of an increased demand for, and a
diminishing supply of laborers.
We are pleased to announce that we have en-
gagged the services of Mr.. j. H. Black as fore
man of the ADVERTISER Steam Printing estab-
lishment. Mr.. Blacks long association with
this journal i'll former years under Mr.. Whitney,
and subsequently as proprietor, are guarantees
that the ADVERTISER in his hands will derive all
the advantages to be obtained from frst-elass
ability and experience.
The man Walcott, who undertook to eat sixty
quails in thirty days, at the rate of two a day,
has completed his task. At one time in the con-
test he said he felt n strong feeling of nausea.
but = braced up" and went ahead. TIL next
match will be to see whether he can devour an
OK quicker than a nest of white ants. Natural
lists are prepared to wager on the ants. AS 1T
will be necessary for Mr.. Walcott to visit Central
Africa to meet his opponents, we are in hopes
that the savages there VII settle the point by
eating him.
In our daily issue of February 2Sth we
gave some information in regard to the
probable sailing day of the Suez from San
Francisco. Messrs. w. G.. Irwin 81 Co. now
inform us that MeSsrs. j. ID. Spreckels d
Bro. write that they would despatch the
Suez on the LIST inst; but as the Suez could
not have reached San Francisco before the
25th ult., hat would only give her three
days in port. 1t is probable that she may
have been despatched on the I'd to-day or
the 3d-but it is also possible that the
agents may put her on to her old sailing
day, the 9th. -
The Mr.. Brown who 'sknows" that we are
sending more sugar to the Coast than we can
possibly produce on these Islands that we are
Systematically classifying Custom-house and
other returns and that we are altogether a bed
lot, was introduced by Representative Darrell to
the mint on Foreign Affairs rs IAN expert
on the sugar question, and also a representative
of the sugar planters of Louisiana" Perhaps
he is-both.
Ii is commcndable to hear Of a newspaper pro-
prietor who PROCESSES to be a total abStainer, re-
iusing to give publicity to an advertisement that
sets forth the sale of spirituOus liquors, but when
the same person offers for sale on the Sabbath
dav. or any other day, immoral and trashy lltera-
ture, there il something unsOund about hIs probes
sedIy religious principles. In this latter connec-
ton all the booksellers in this city offer for sale,
illustrated papers that will defle any household.
Even in the United States, where this vile matter
is printed. it's salc Is limited, and cannot be had
from any respectable bookseller. In Canada it is
forbidden to be carried in the mails, much less
being offered for sale. The public ought to show
their objection to obscene literature by refusing
to purchase it. If few consignments were left
on the hands of the news agents they would
soon cease to import This rubbish.
Our attention has been called to the inaccesi-
bility to carriages, fire engines or hose wagons, of
a part of the city in the vicinity of Montgomery
Square, and, we find upon examination, that the
only mode Of reaching n number OF residences
west and north of St. Louis College without
climbing fences, Is through a narrow, dangerous
roundabout foot passage, which Is liable to be
washed out in several places at any time by any
ordinary rain storm. Not only for the convenience
of those who live in that neighbOrhoOd, but also
to enable engines and hose wagons to approach
in case Of emergency, n new street should be
opened up from Montgomery Square to Liliha
street. -
THE itemizer uf our Wednesday coiemporary
intimates that we would avoid publishing the
name OF any Hawaiian official whom it might be
presumed that we did not like-against whom we
might have n personal grudge. We know our
business better. Whoever takes part. officially,
in any public eyert, or whoever may be appointed
to any position, We mention without allowing
any personal feeling to express itself. Or item
izer may not like. personally, the Gazette item
izer, but should that latter-named party be
. elected or appointed To any position, say tnat OF
t. Associate OF Society of Seribblers," we should
,certainly expect our itcmIzer to note the event,
and give the Gazette man at least tue prom nent
initials of his new title.
Encourage newspaper reading among your
thildren, and you will soon discove what a
fondness they will have for their family journal,
and how rapidly they will improve. The news
paper is the poor mans library-every family
should be provided with a newspaper" We
clip the above from an exchange. OF course we
agree with the writer in the general statement
that . every family should have a newspaper "