The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-07-21

\ contemporary opposition editor says that Mr..
Gibson, the Premier, Is not a fool. We feel assured
with tie majority Of the community, that the
Premier cannot return the compliment.
Mes7rs. I. P. Adams * Co., Tuesday, made ap-
plicatiyn 10 the Minister Of the Interior for a
charter on behalf of the Hawaiian Carriage Manu-
featuring Company with a capital Of $4,000.
The " little one tells IA. that q new boys boat
club Is about 70 be started here and he wishes
them every success. Who i the new boy, can it
be the sonny lately mentioned by our weekly CON
temporary?
II has been proposed TO export some Of the more
obnoxious Ritualist- in Bingham / to New Guinea a.
missionaries. They are not popular III England,
but they will be popular III New Guinea. The ma
tiyes there prefer them high.
The Little Daily has struck out a new plan for
avoiding a libel suit. II now constructs its edi-
torial articles with such utter disregard of gram
NAUTICAL rules a. to set at defiance the keenest
lawyers efforts TO make sense of what Is said.
Mr.. z. NJ. Fasold, late school teacher at Kilauea,
died rather suddenly last week from Inflammation
Of the lungs. The deceased was only thirty years
Of age and had been i'll for scarcely q week. He
was highly respected and esteemed by a large circle
Of friends.
a skillful American surgeon owning a cow, one of
whose hind legs was cut in twain by a railroad
train, amputated the limb at the knee joint,
healed the wound, and supplied the animal with a
wooden leg, on which she Is said TO stump around
quite comfortably.
\ gentleman Monday afternoon lost a pocket
book containing a large number Of drafts on various
firms in town. amounting III the aggregate to a
very considerable sum. Fortunately for the loser
the book was returned to him in tine evening with
the contents intact.
The mill on the Waimanalo Plantation on this
island Is now being fixed with the double effect and
all modern improvements in machinery. A rail
road for hauling cane is being built and also a new
wharf, alongside Of which, when completed, the
steamer will be able to haul.
RumOrs are ahoat Of the formation of another
baseball club in Honolulu, the initiatory steps
having already been taken. Daily practice is fast
and furious, and 4 tournament will shortly take
place between all the local clubs to settle the
much discussed question, who is best?
MesSrs. W. CT. Irwin Il Co. have very kindly of
fered space in the o.. 5. 5. Co.'S new warehouse for
storing all goods that may be sent for exhibition.
The work of repacking and cataloguing is now en-
trusted to Mr.. F. L. Clarke, in consequence of Mr..
Buckland's engagement on this paper.
On Saturday morning a horse belonging to W..
A. Montana, was shot, at his place at Manoa Val
ley; its legs were broken so that the animal had to
be killed. \ reward is offered for the discovery of
the individual who committed the dastardly act,
and Mr.. Montana warns trespassers to keep OFF his
property.
One hundred and ten Of the lately arrived Port
uguese immigrants were mustered Monday in
front Of Messrs. Hackfeld & Co.'S Office prior to
their departure for their new homes on Kauai and
Maui. Some were sent by the C. r.. Bishop to the
Wilcox and Koloa plantations, while those for the
Grave Ranch plantgtipu a N Mani went Inv tha
Kilauea HOu.
The members Of the Society for Hawaiian Mis-
sion Children met on Saturday at Mr.. Dole's resi-
dence, where, as there was no special business to
transact, the evening was devoted to a musical
and literary social which was highly enjoyed by
those present. This society, which has now been
in existence for twenty-five years, does considera-
bic good in 4 quiet and unpretending way.
1t is said that the people of Honolulu are SO
averse to parting with the band, even during the
short time that it VIII be absent in San Francisco,
that several graves have been dug in Emma
Square. in which TO bury Mr.. Berger and his boys,
on the scene of their many %triumphs, should they
attempt to leave the city, and that this accounts
for the many pitfalls that are at present gaping
open in that square.
Towards the termination of the sitting of the
Court on Saturday night some little merriment
was caused at the appearance of a well known
knight Of the quill who was sleeping peacefully in a
rather uncomfortable position on his chair, note
book and pencil having fallen at his side. He
knew not Of the judges charge neither knew he of
the retirement Of the jury, but when everybody
was leaving the Court he was aroused, and jump
ing to his feet exclaimed is the Judge charged?''
Mr.. Reinhardt, manager of the old Spencer
Plantation arrived in Honolulu Sunday,morning
and reported the total destruction by fire of all the
buildings and machinery of the mill. The fire oc-
Cured on the night of the 10th instant, and had
obtained a good hold Of the buildings before it
was discovered. The total loss is estimated at
about $50, 900, and about 1000 tons of sugar will
he lost unless arrangements can he made for grind
ing the growing crops at some of the adjoining
mills.
The seventy-third annual report Of the North
British and Mercantile Insurance Company has
been issued by Messrs. Hoffschlaeger Il Co., and
from it we see that the net premiums on fire bust
ness for last year amounted to over five millions
Of dollars, being about five hundred thousand
dollars in excess Of the fire business in 1881. A
dividend Of five dollars per share has been declared
and a large sum has been added to the reserve
fund which now amounts to over six million
dollars.
The Dizzy Daily copies a paragraph from a
Melbourne paper setting forth the fact ~ that a
man, whose name they give, Is III the habit OF
swallowing from fifteen to 20 pebbles a day, each
weighing 8 ozS. and having a diameter of two and
half inches This subStantiates the statement
that has been made that a man can, under some
circumstances, swallow most anything. 1.-TWO and
a half inches Is 4 pretty large diameter for a
mans throat, but erperjegtia docet, and it is said
that sammy Will swallow almost anything, wet or
dry.
A short time since an advertisement appeared in
this paper headed Theft, Theft, - offering a re-
ward for a draft said to have been stolen from the
postofice. The Observation-Disclosures has caused
diligent inquiry TO be made into the matter both
here and in Hilo where the letter containing the
draft was supposed to have been posted; and as the
result Of such inquiries he has come 10 the conclu-
sion that the money was never mailed at all, es.
pecially a. the Chinaiuan who said that he posted
the letter Is now under arrest at Hilo for keeping
4 gambling saloon.
From the proceedings at the Police Court,
W. ere enabled m plean Tho frasap,