The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-10

Phoenix, Thursday afternoon. and departed on 5
whaling cruise. We wish him success.
VIZ are obliged to the Daily Bulletin, for the
report Of the evidence given by Kanepuu in the
case lately tried in the Police Court, anent the
publication Of the Hula POM MOI.
ALARGE building IS being erected on Beretania
street near kaumahaPiE Church 1t Is two-storlss
high, with q front OF almost eighty feet, and when
completed, Will be used by Cinnamon for stores.
The whaling bark Wanderer, left port Thursday
afternoon, and Will remain :" of and on Cap
tain Thurman is still on shore looking out for
some OF his men who are adrnt-
We have taken a look at the large collection of
paintings and chrOmos 70 be sold by MI. Adams
this evening, and we are quite sure that they viii
please a great many, and bring good prices. The
panel pictures in particular are very pretty.
The Coronation Committee having decided to have
the amphitheatre building taken down, and the
lumber and material offered for sale arranged in
lots, the proposed sale advertised for to-day is,
therefore, postponed until further notice.
AT the drawing of Mr.. Eckart's lottery, which
took place a few nights ago, he drew the first prize,
a $500 diamond ring but as there was a little
irregularity about the counting of the tickets, he
concluded to draw the lottery again. Tonight, at
/ 7 O'Clock sharp, the drawing will commence.
Mr.. JOSE. W1sENAN will visit the merchants and
{ citizens generally next week for their subscription
to the Veteran Home Association, and it is to be
hoped that every man sojourninS on these Islands,
will c~heerfully give a helping hand to aid in estab-
fishing a home for so honorable a purpose.
The Band will give a performance at Emma
Square this Saturday afternoon, at 40. The
following is the programme
March-Kapiolani new $500. 800. -. Michiels
Oyerture-Light Cavalry. Suppe
Chorus-Last Judgment ..-.....-. .....S Schneider
Selection-Ernan Verdi
waltz-From the Rhine to the Danube
new Keles' Bella
The Band will give an extra concert on Monday,
March u, in Emma Square steamer permitting.
WHO are the ,corth of these things" comprise
the last line in Yesterdays Bullisnls. Such imbe-
ola rttaronraa q only he plaSSp1 with fba Dra-
ceding paragraph, in which it is stated that "a
very pleasant dancing party was given in honor of
Mr.. c. Macfarlane's birthday at Waikiki" Either,
the itemizer of the BuUisms must transpose his
words, or he will be transported for numbering the
Queens, &c, etc.
WHEN the Swiftsure fired the sunset salute night
before last, the air was SO still as to afford a good
opportunity, to those who could see the flashes, to
compute the distance the vessel was from, say the
corner Of King and Victoria streets. The mean of
six observations at that point, gave eight seconds
as the time that elapsed between he flash and the
report. With the thermometer at rs deg. Fahr.,
what was the distance to the vessel ?
CAPTAIN KooN of the American whaling bark
Louise, reports that while thirty miles off Keala-
keakua Bay, Hawaii, on February oath, he teok a
lone sperm whale that yielded 146 barrels of oil,
worth, in this market, even at the present low
price of sperm oil, something like $4,000. Cap
tain Koon gives it as his opinion that it would
repay the owners Of a whaler to cruise around
these Islands the year through. He has seen
whales three times. and got them twice in his short
cruise, and if it weT3 not that calm weather inter
fereS with the boa. getting on to the whales, the
chances are good of making a successful voyage.
WE commend to the attention of our Road Super
visor the reef running across Queen street, oppo-
site the Honolulu Iron works. At high water this
reef is Just awash, but now that the dry weather
has set in it is s. way up" Horses drawing more
than two wheels find it difficult to get over this
obstruction, rs it extends almost across the road
channel, and drivers find it necessary to haul hard
over to starboard to get by. A little blasting
would remove the rocks, and make plain sailing
through the street in that quarter.
The guns crews of the U. S. S. man-of-war
Wachussett were exercised at target practice on
Tuesday. The target was placed on the outer edge
of the reef, about 1900 yards distant from the YES
sci, and a number of shots were fired at it. The
best practice. seemed, from the shore, to be from
one of the heavy guns nTing shell a mum Der OF
these formidable missiles bursting over and around
the target. As the guns were fired at almost point
blank range, the ricochet of the balls was visible
six and seven times far out at sea
, A CARRIAGE in which was seated Mrs. w. W.
Hall and daughter came around the corner of King
and Fort street yesterday afternoon at such a rapid
rate as to turn over and land on its side in front of
Montana's show window. The horse was stopped
and it was found that the occupants
of the carriage were, fortunately, uninjured. The
carriage itself sustained but trifing damages, and
we congratulate the lady and her daughter upon
their narrow escape.
MARCH 18th. st. Patrick's Day, is a Hawaiian
National Holiday. 1t is not SO, however, from any
respect the Hawaiians might wish TO pay to the
Patron Saint of Gould Ireland, - and it will be OBJ
served in commemOration Of the birthday Of Kane
hameha III. The Hon. member for Hanalei, Mr..
Paiahou, who introduced the resolution which
this holiday, probably claims that his
were of Hibernian blood. He certainly
displays sufficient hilarity and POPULARITY to sustain
such an imagination.
THE British bark Jubilee, Captain Dow, from
Newcastle, N. S. W., with coal to Wilder & Co., ar
rived at this port Yesterday. The Captain reports
that he left Newcastle on December 30th, and
came down through Cooks Straits, having fine
the entire passage of sixty-fve days. tits
ayi1ant from the fact that the JnhIlee has enCOunt-
cred no " weather ." at all during the two months
that she has been on this voyage, that the g terrifi-
sharp, about this time, has not started in
the Central South Pacific. We now await returns
from the other districts.
POLICE officer Mehrteus made an unusually
clever arrest on Monday night last. 1t appears
that q foreigner had been arrested that night for
A friend of the unfortunate, by
name Collins, thinking that the inebriate had
boon illegally arrested, went to the police station
to protest. Information having being previously
given to the police about a stolen watch, accom-
panied by description of the suspected thief Collins
was invited inside of the Station by Officer
On being asked the time OF day might,
he showed the lost watch, end was
with lodgings for the night. He was ~arraigned on
Tuesday, and remanded in order to give him an
opportunity to present his defence.
IL delivering Judgment yesterday morning in the
celebrated - common nuisance case, Police
Justice BickertOn said, the only matter to be con-
sidered, was the obscenity of language and printed
matter. According TO the evidence of the witness,
as interpreted by the Government interpreter,
there were certain lines in the pamphlet, which
taken collectively, were obscene but taken separ-
ately, they had no improper meaning. His Honor
found that these sentences and phrases in the
pamphlet. lot fit and proper to be placed before
young Hawaiians. He therefore held that the
pamphlet did contain obscence language, and there
had beer a consequent breach of the law. The
prosecution did not press for a heavy penalty. The
law gives the court the discretionary power of
to imprisonment or inficting a fine.
His Honor was Of opinion that the ends Of justice
would be served by the infiction of a fine. He
therefore inflicted a fine of SIS and costs against
Robert Grieve. In the case of w. Aud, His Honor I
that his remarks in the Grieve case were ap-
ard he therefore inflicted q similar fine.
added, that a great deal might be said in the
of excuse for both parties.
THE following is the list of the officers of II. 3. -,
NJ. S. $. S~wiftsure, armOr-plated ship, 6,91O tons,
flagship of the Pacific
Rear acknowledgement NJ. L. Lyons.
Flag Observation-Disclosures Evan-Thomas.
Secretary-George Liddell.
Secretary's Clerks-C. E. H. Meredith, E. F. E.
Gipps. ,