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

Sunday morning Tor Tahiti direct. Also the Amer
lean Schooner Anna for San Francisco
o. Wednesday a native man, named David Ma
hoolewa, fell from a mango tree IN his yard on
Emma street ard fractured his collar-bone-
The work Of demolition Of the premises recently
occupied by Messrs. Hofschlaeger IL Co. has been
commenced
THE 3-masted schooner Dakota is on the Marine
Railway repairing. Business continues TO be brisk
in that quarter.
owISG to s~outherly wind prevailing on Thurs
day the John d. Spreekels was obliged to obtain the
assistance Of the tow-boat Pele.
A WEEKLY contemporary came out a short time
ago in a neoo dress. 1t did not take long TO become
sOiled, and now it is disgracefully dirty.
u HEE Royal Highness Princess LiliuokaIani held
her usual monthly reception at Washington Place
Thursrday afternoon. The Band was in attend
ance.
Coon work has been accomplished by carting of
the mud that had been scraped up duringthe past
week.
We are pleased to see our fellow-townsman, Mr..
George F. Wells, about again, and able to attend
to business. He informs us that he intends to go
TO Kohala this evening to still further recuperate.
THE Hawaiian Amateur Minstrel Troupe will
| give a performance at the Music Hall. The box
plan is now open at Messrs. j. w. Robertson. q
Co.'S.
MR. THRUM has made q temporary move from
Ehis old stand on Merchant street-where he had
been for thirteen years-intending TO move back
again as soon as the new building is finished
The bark Revere, was on Friday Of last week
launched from the Marine Railway, and the three
masted schooner Dakota hauled up, and is under
going a thorough repair.
OVER four thousand people assembled at the
Palace ON Saturday last and partOOk Of the good
things provided at the iuGU. Our full report IS IN
another column.
THE Steamer Kilauea Hon, with her new prOpel-
Ter made remarkably good time ON her last trip to
kahnlui, Mani. The up trip was made IN 10 hours
fand the return trip in liz hours.
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hEs been built. and we hope that some little care
Viii be taken by owners Of horses and cattle that
brink there, to avoid breaking it again.
THE Hermann will dispense with the services Of
the donkey engine for pumping purposes, having
been placed in "Rottsn Row where she VIII
quietly rest on the mud awaiting orders with
regard to repairs.
The American schooner Pannonia from Hum
bOldt, with \ cargo of lumber to Messrs. Allen *
Robinson, was reported off Coco Head at p. II.
on Thursday. Also, a whaling bark. Head winds
prevented their getting in until yesterday.
WEDNESDAY,, on Fosters wharf, a native had a
narrow escape of losing his arm, or possibly his
life. His hand got caught in the rope attached to
the donkey-engine, and the Chinese engine-driver
seeing the dilemma, with commendable presence
Of mind, stopped the engine, and thereby saved
what might have been a eriOus,aceident
ID AT Fort Street Church. Sunday morning, the
ordinances of adult and infant baptism, and the
Lords Supper will be administered and seven
persons will be received to Church membership.
II III GFGulub II. OihNah VII hNL- VIZ
series Of L" Home" sermons, taking for his theme
t. The Home with Children in It."
Mr.. Henry SMITH, who is well known as a good
and faithful servant Of the Interior Department,
has been appointed to the clerkship in the Supreme
l Court, rendered vacant by the retirement of Mr..
NJ. K. Fyfe. Mr.. Smiths place has been filled by
Mr.. Smithies, jun, and that of Mr. Smithies by
PR. Harry Aud.
the subject of I" Homes was a very interesting
one. He impressed upon his hearers the great
truth that without love, home cannot be happy;
and that If husbands and wives would but treat
each other after marriage as they did before
land during the honeymoon) there would be
Mower unhappy homes than there are now.
THE steam fire enginesswere out for practice last
Saturday afternoon. The one stationed on the
corner Of King and Fort streets, with a hose laid
along King street threw a very good stream to
quite a height. While in operation the hose-coup-
ling next to the engine blew of, and there seemed
to be something Of . delay in getting 1t coupled
again.
THE Likelike made the run from here to Mahu-
kona on her last trip in sixteen hours, including
stoppages at Lahaina, Maalaea and Makina. She
arrived at Mahukona at $50 An. on Wednesday.
The Iwalani arrived at Maalaea forty minutes
ahead Of the Likelike.@- The last named vessel,
however. had to so out of a direct course to Maa-
lasa in order to land freight and passengers at
Lahaina, where she was detained some time.
Az express wagon which had been left standing
outside Of a certain yard on Fort street, was
smashed on Saturday night last by the horse
taking q trip on his own account. Inc w Bon nrsi
struck a telephone post, then ripped off about n
dozen pickets from 4 fence, shen fouled n corner
and capsized. What became Of the horse we are
not informed, but the wagon looks as though 1t
had been struck by lightning and thrown of a
P~reciPice.
THE new steam whaler Mary and Helen fNo. p
arrived yesterday. Captain Willard, has taken
charge Of this vessel. The first vessel of that
lfname. il will be remembered, arrived here about
two years and eleven months ago, and had an ex-
I tremely successful whaling cruise under command
4 81 sHa cau1e expericnced ShlpmaStcr. Her pur-
chase by the United States Government, change OF
name. and ultimate sad fate in the Arctic are facts
too fresh in the minds OF our readers to need re-
eaPitulation-
her OF fifteen. serenaded the retiring Foreman, Mr..
McAfee. at his room at Mrs. C. F.. Hoyt's, corner
Iof King and Alakea streets on Tuesday evening last,
and presented him with n very handsome gold ring.
ON which was engraved the word ALOHA, and on the
other side the letters p. G. A. On the INSIDE was
engraved UGkdnG nan Hd hetkt Hd'rdt. before
presenting the ring, the spokesman made the fol-
i0rins little speech:
kIRl JAMES McAFEE-Late Foreman Of the Pacific
C6HHERcIAL ADVERTISER Office We come here
tlas evering TO tender to you, Our respected Fore
man. our best wishes and respects before you leave
us for San Francisco. Also, our regrets that you
are about to leave n place where You have always
done your duty and won the esteem OF all those
under and around you. Putting natohaIty aS1ae'
we come all Of one heart to give yon our ALOHA,
which we have no doubt you will appreciate and
always emember wherever you go.
Please accept this RING there tho ring was pre-
Z sented by the speakerl as a token Of our regard.
Z IT, intrinsic worth is. perhaps, not much, but you
will value il none the less for that, knowing, as
Won do. that with it yOu take with You the ALOHA
and hearty good wishes Of the Hawaiian boys OF the
PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER office.
Mr.. McAfee replied. in very feeling and a%pprOpri-
ate terms. that this expression Of regard on the
mart Of the BOYS was entirely unexpected, but was
indeed very gratefully received. Mr; HcAiee Is III
every respect a frst-class and faithful workman,
aud we regret that for private reasons of his own
he is about to return to San Francisco. Following
are the names of those who made the presentation
Z Thomas p. Spencer, f. j. Tesla, Albert McGurn,
n. KaIanipoo, c.. H. BrickwoOd, j. h. Heulu,
fAIonzo K. Kuhia, William Hakalaau, Joseph haalo7
tihelo. John Aiiau, Sam Kaaikaula, ID. H. Pierce. j.
n. KaIawaia, j. H. Mfkasobe, Charles KamakafoL.
Health Department, Honolulu, 81. J. 4
MoRTUARY REPORT FoR FEBRUARY, 1885.
The total number Of deaths reported for the month of
p January was 4S, distributed as fohoYs -
u,der I year 7From 80 to 40......-.-.-. Z