The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-08-04

continue for a fortnight and will rank among
the causes ceLe6reS. In 1877, an adventurer,
the Marquis de Rays, then aged 43, and belong
ing to an old family in Brettsne, started an en-
igration project for a free colony at Port Breton,
in the vicinity of New Caledonia. The price of
share, which gave a title to several acres of land,
was ) Fl. payable in i've monthly in~stallments OF
l fr. The colony was To b. at once royalist and
pious, lectures were given, the society had a
journal. French, Belgian, Spanish. etc, appii-
cauts poured in. From 1879 10 1880 four vessels
were chartered. The eni5rants were mostly the
riffraff of towns, the provisions proved to Be rot
ten, the passengers All crews deserted wherever
the ships touched, sickness carried of others,
and at Port Breton, where d few arrived and
lived like savagss, death laid nearly all low, 60
at least. Five of the Robinson Crusoes were res
cued by a missionary vessel. The Marquis who
conferred titles of Comte, etc, on his associates,
concealed himself in Spain, but has been extra
dited aud is charged, with some others, with
swindling, homicide, and violation of the emf
grafton laws.
SUNDAY LABOR.
This summer witnesses still further progress
in the cessation of Sunday labor; more shops are
closed and there is a diminution in business
street traffic. Though Sunday be a legal holiday
in France, every citizen is allowed to work if he
pleases, save apprentices who are prohibited.
The police can prevent any unnecessary trading
and the exposure of goods in the highways for
sale, on Sundays, the penalty for resisting being
a fine OF 5 to 10 fr. and Is days Imprisonment.
APPRENTICES.
Respecting apprentices, there is a round rob-
bin opposition against increasing their number,
on the part of journeymen. The temple of EPhe-
sus appears to be in danger. Form srly each
trade had its fixed nunbsr Of apprentices, the
period Of service, generally five years, varied
however i'll each city aud for each trade. linden
lures at present appear unnecessary, as the mum
Der OF apprentices in Paris is set down at 20, 900
of which only ., 200 are articled. By law a mas
ter cannot have an apprentice unless he be 81
years of age and of good morality. If a bachel-
or or widower he is prohibited from taking fe-
male apprentices. If the apprentice be under Is
years of age he must be allowed two hours daily
to go to school. The master cannot employ him
as a servant and / is responsible for his moral con-
duct. The first two months are accorded as a
trial at the conclusion Of which either party can
cancel the indentures.
LUNATIC AsYLUMs.
The lunatic asylums in France cannot be Bas-
tiles. I am aware of a gentleman who has had
to place recently a relative in that at Clarendon,
where the price varies from ], 500, 1000 to 900 fir.
a year. Any relative can visit the patient every
Sunday and Thursday, and the Project can order
his release despite doctors and friends. Nay
more a patient can write when he pleases to one
of the Judges, demanding his liberation and the
letter must be forwarded, under penalty of i'm
prisonment if the directors or keepers refuse.
The regular soldiers objected to shoot Marshal
Ney, SO fanatical volunteers were obtained and
dressed up in uniform, who did the work.
At Bordeaux the heat is so powerful that sun
strokes are very prevalent. At Marseilles 4 citi-
zen boasts the heat is such that people die of
''mOou'' strokes.
Two friends. when last 1 saw you, 20 years
ago, You We're quite bald. and now your hair is
not a bit thinner