The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-07-14

The Dizzy Daily says that marriage is like an
egs, either good or bad. Now the only resem-
blance between the two that We can see is in the
yoke.
The Ne,o Age. of san Francisco copies entire a
paragraph \ of ours relating to the cannery business
on the Coast, but fails to give Us credit for the
same.
His Excellency Governor Dominis, left Tues
day in the Likelike on a short visit 10 Maui.
During his absence Hon. A. S. CieghOrn will Of
hciate as acting Governor of this Island.
new bus belonging to Dodd's stables was being
driven into the yards Tuesday when it ran into
an express standing there, smashing one of its
wheels TO pieces. Nobody killed and but few
scared.
The old transit instrument, which has been in
use now for nearly forty years in the observatory
on Union street, was, on Wednesday, taken down
and removed to the Survey Office, 10 be cleaned
and repaired.
A very pretty oleog -aph entitled . Devotion
may be seen in MeSsrs. Lyons & Levey's store. Tho
subject is a beautiful female face and form divine,
which makes one almost wish to be the object of
the originals devotion.
Two strangers were walking down Fort street,
Thursday, gazing intently upon everything and
everybody, when one was heard TO remark, Isn't
it strange there seem TO be quite a lot of white
men here. I thought they were all natives
The new stone breaker, which has been received
by the Road Supervisor, is 50 powerful a machine
that it Is capable of taking a stone containing
eight cubic feet and chewing it up as if it liked it.
The machine will be put in operation ere long.
In the case of the sudden death of Mrs. A. X.
Kaai. tie Marshal did not feel called upon to hold
an inquest, as DR.. Brodie certified that the de-
aaasa1 loJ Iaap ainL with Iaort 1iseaSe for more
than two years, and that this was the cause of
her death.
Four young ladies arrived from the Coast last
week on matrimonial matters intent. Some of the
events have been duly celebrated and the others
will shortly take place. The ladies' pluck in ven
turing over the seas after their lords and masters,
who are busily engaged here. is most commendable.
Nav all 90 merrily.
1t was amusing Tuesday on Merchant street to
see a goodly gathering of natives and foreigners
arranging themselves in various attitudes on the
Postoffce verandah and in front'of Messrs. Bishop
& Co.'S bank. while these buildings were being
photographed. Some individuals looked almost as
if hey had been struck so.
A largely attended meeting of the Young Mems
Christian Association was held Thursday night in
the hall Of their rooms. The business before the
meeting was the calling of a general secretary.
No call was extended but a committee was ap-
pointed to endeavor to find a suitable person, the
committee to report TO a meeting to be called
later.
His Majesty the King. attended the exhibition
at St. Louis Catholic College Thursday, and ex-
pressed himself as highly pleased with the evil
dences of the excellent instruction afforded. This
institution will shortly receive assistance in its
instruction from seven of the Christian brothers,
49,, &c ,;nar +aooBar, in the TTuita1 States
that are shortly expected to arrive.
Much to our sorrow and regret, we have to
chronicle the sudden death of the wife Of the late
Minister of Finance, Hon. Simon Kaai, at
5 PM. Wednesday. Apparently in the best of health
she was suddenly seized with a CONFUSION and ex-
pired before medical assistance could be obtained.
Valvular heart disease is supposed to have been
the cause of her death.
The Dizzy Dajty says: " We have discovered the
reason why His ExceIlency W. NJ. Gibson holds so
many Offices and has, therefore, so many titles. 1t
is to give the poor newspaper man a chance to say
something about him, and never allude to him by
the same title twice etc. We are glad to see that
Dizzy avails himself of the chance offered and
makes up for the lack of double allusion by repeat
ing the, to him, Objectionable name twice in his last
two lines.
An incident, showing how quickly and from what
slight causes fires may arise, occurred a few days
since. A gentleman, of course he was a smoker.
was lighting a pipe in his room and then walked to
the window, threw out the remnants of the match
and turned toward the door TO go out when he
saw almost the whole Of one side OF his room in a
blaze; the fire was at once extinguished and with
but little damage tn property. The only means of
accounting for the accident is that a small portion
of the sulphur from the head of the match few
across the room into a bag, made of light material,
that was hanging on the wall with some brushes
in it, and that it at once ignited. MOral-Be
careful.
Mr.. H.. A. Widemann has ordered the sale of
the Music Hall with its gas machine, chairs, cur
tains, stage fxings, etc, and all the area Of land
on which it stands, comprising LOCO square feet,
This will be an interesting sale as showing the
value of city property, and ii will also be an ex-
oellent opportunity for some enterprising moneyed
man or party of men to purchase the property, and
arrange for a regular series of entertainments at
reasonable rates after the style of the San Fran
cisco Tivoli and Winter Gardens. Such q specu-
lation would be a lucrative one in Honolulu,
where amusements are so few and far between, if
the entertainments were we'll chosen and not
given too frequently.
The Commercial Agent for Japan, Mr.. J. o.
Carter, has sent US a copy of the eleventh report
Of the Observation-Disclosures of Japan which shows
that postal matters in that country are a paying
investment, the revenue being in excess of the ex-
~penditure by about 100000 yens "a yen being equal
in value to a dollar. Over ninety-six million let
tiers, papers, etc, passed through the department;
the aggregate length of the mail routes is 1892
miles, and the total number Of receptacles for
mails, including the various postofices is 90, 6G5.
The foreign mails TO and from Japan have in
creased largely and Hawaii is mentioned as hav-
ing been admitted to the Postal Union ON 1st July,
1882. The publication Is very well geographically
got up and was printed at the Seisti Bansha,
Toxic.
Charters Granted.