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

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were in the boxes ready for delivery within an
hour ester their arrival.
In future shipping and commercial news and
reports will be found in our shipping column un-
der their respective headings
The eamsh Hankow and ship Shandon, dis
played their bunting Monday on the occasion of
having their photographs taken.
All the Portuguese immigrants per HankOw
were landed Monday at the quarantine grounds.
They will be distributed as quickly as possible.
There were received at the ~postofice last week,
per GIenelg and Zealandia 81 bags of mail matter,
numbering 5,648 letters and 8,705 newspapers and
packages.
Subscribers and advertisers ON the other islands
are reminded that the money order system is now
in force. This would be an excellent medium for
forwarding their dues.
The I. s. $. Essex sailed Sunday morning at
eight o'clock for Yokohama, Japan. Residents in
Honolulu are as sorry t. lose the good fellows on
board as they were at leaving.
Why does not our little neighbor Bulletin inform
himself before he passes an opinion upon the con-
duct of official gentlemen? Why does he take at
second hand, the opinion of an INSCRIPTIONS
sheet?
The libel case of John Richardson vs.. J. L. and
b. W. Kawaiinui which was heard Yesterday in the
Supreme Court before His Honor the Chief Justice
and d Hawaiian jury, resulted in a verdict Of not
guilty.
Everybody on Saturday was very busy owing to
the arrival of the San Francisco mail and de-
parture of the mail for the Colonies a few hours
later. There was no time for talking, everything
was biz.
In another column the Tax Assessor for the Dis
trict of Hololulu, publishes an advertisement,
giving full particulars and instructions for the
guidance Of the public, which it would lie advisable
for everybody 10 read.
The Royal Hawaiian Band gave their usual
weekly afternoon concert ON Saturday. The at
tendance was small but it made no difference in
the rendering of the various selections given,
which was up to the usual standard.
Two large pulsometer pumps, with boilers, for
the Makiki reservoir are shortly expected to arrive
in Honolulu. Each pump is capable of throwing
l29, 600 gallons of water per hour so that when they
are placed our water supply should be considerably
augmented.
The medical report Of Drs. Trousseau and
Mouritz, concerning the sickness on board the
Rinjio Kwau, is published in full i'll to-day's issue.
The patients have been sent to the Queens Hos
pital, and the disease not being contagious there is
no need of a scare,
Victoria (B. c., June 2Sth.-Some excitement
was caused here to-day by the steamship Madras
entering the harbor with two cases of smallpox on
board. The vessel was ordered out and quaran-
tined. No deaths occurred ON the passage. She
has 200 tons of freight and I36 coolies.
A correspondent writing from Pittsburgh, Pa,
makes enquiries concerning P. c.. Ward who was
engaged in the Custom House here for three years
prior to 1860, when he joined an expedition going
l.. Nj, ;,l;s4a mill 40 urao{1v OhliOa1 ~ a
ceiving any information of his whereabouts,
Mr.. and Mrs. R. n. MOssman have kindly for
warded to this office a piece of their wedding cake
which is certainly as nice as it looks, in fact, it
was a long time before We could make up our
minds to sample it.. We wish Mr.. and Mrs. Moss
man every possible happiness in their new venture.
The Honolulu Symphony Club assisted by the
Amateur Musical Society gave a concert on Sat
urday evening at the Y. NJ. C. A. Hall. The hall
was well filled but the programme was not very
well received, though we'll performed, owing to a
rather unfortunate selection in some of the num-
bers.
DR.. Mouritz, the medical officer recently placed in
charge at Waialua, has telephoned to town saying
that the sickness that had broken out among the
natives at Punahu is nothing more serious than
chiokenpox. All the ordinary precautions are being
taken and there is no cause to anticipate anything
serious.
Over a thousand tons of cast iron piping, for the
Nuuanu reservoir are now being landed from the
ship Shanion, a. vel. as thirty tons of lead piping,
both of which have come to the order of the Ha-
waiian Government. Some of the iron pipes weigh
as much as four hundred pounds each and are
rather awkward in handling.
Mr.. F. H. Hayselden. the Tax Assessor, has
wisely taken the precaution of sending to the mer-
chants and others in town, a copy of the new tax
law with assessment blanks so that there may be
no excuse in the future for people to say they did
not know or understand the position of affairs.
Mr.. Hayselden's action in this matter is a
very prudent one, and has been favorably conf
mented upon.
The first daily delivery of letters in this King
dom has been ordered by the Pestmaster-General
to take place on Monday next, July 10TH between
Wailuku and Paia on Maui. The distance between
these places is twelve miles and the mail will serve
Wailuku, Kahului, Spreckelsville and Raia, the four
villages on the line of the railroad. The mails will
leave Wailukq by the regular train every morning,
returning from Raia in the afternoon.
The Portuguese population has been increased
by the arrival of the stsamship Hankow on Satur=
day eYeping with / ,4O3 Immigrants on board. Dur
ing the trip there were 81 deaths among children
from measels, and 10 births. The men all appear
pleased at arriving IN port ana SPEAK well Oh tine
kindness of the captain and officers of the ship:
The immigrants, all OF. whom are under contract.
will be landed to-day and Immediately forwarded
to their destinations,
The ADVERTISER reporter is asked where he got
his 3. 500 persons present at the Fourth of July
celebration. Well, really now; yOu do US proud,
Diminutive Dizzy Daily, TO say that zoe got them
all. We can't lay claim to having fetched more
than, say 500. Tbs other 5000 came ON purpose
to show those who staid away-sOne thirty odd
that they believed in celebrating the occasion
because it was " The Fourth, and not because
they wanted to glorify themselves.
The Postmaster-General has kindly furnished
the following returns: Letters received from San
| Francisco for the year ending June 36th, 1880, 50,-
SAC; letters sent away, 81, SAC. In 1882 during the
quarter ending June Both, the letters received
amounted to 81, 1877, while those forwarded from
here reached the respectable total of %, 242, being
1925 ia excess of those received from the rest of
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