The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-30
Mr.. JAMES ASHBURY, M. P.

Being q passenger by the steamer
City of Sydney the above named gen.
tleman who is renowned as a traveller
and as a yachtsman, and who never
theless finds time to represent the
constituency of Brighton in the
British House of Commons paid
flying visit to H. r. H. Princess
Likelike and Hon, A. s. Cleghorn at
their residence at Waikiki. Mr..
Ashbury has just made tour in
Mexico and is on his way to New
Zealand. It is possible that he may
spend short time on these islands
on his return journey.
Mr. Ashbury is best known to the
world in general as the winner of an
ocean yacht race from Queenstown
to Sandy Hook. He accepted the
challenge of Mr.. Jas. Gordon Ben
nett, whose celebrated yacht "Fleet-
wing" his Cambria beat by
seventy minutes, arriving at Sandy
Hook in % days from the start.
Though fond of yachting Mr.. Ash
bury was at the time quite an out
slider in yacht-racing, and the result
was great surprise as well to his
own countrymen as to American
spOrtsmen. AS a traveller Mr.. Ash
bury is chiefly known through an
African journey of exploration, in
which he was seized with malarial
fever, and narrowly escaped with his
life from this and other dangers. One
belongings, which we copy from an
English journal, will, we think,
prove interesting to our readers.
When Mr.. Ashbury first took the
Eothen down to Funchal in Madeira
he had the idea that the electric light
was about to become an important
factor in navigation. When he
reached Funchal his ship was pro-
Vided with an electric light of ten
thousand candle power and flashed
light on the town with very much
the effect of Csesar's comet. The good
Madeiresques imagined that the Day
Of Judgment had arrived. They were
used to storms, but this dread meteor
was more than they conld endure.
''Intolerable day" was flashed upon
them by the ten thousand candle
power lamp and maddened the
totality of Funchal, whatever that
may amount to. Equal disturbance
was created at Pernambuco, just
under the equasor, and on the other
side of the Atlantic reputed to be the
hottest place in the world, not even
excepting La Guayra.
On another occasion Mr.. Ashbury
had the honor of entertaining the
Emperor of Brazil on board his yacht
This was 3 grand occasion and de-
naanded all the resources of yacht
cookery and yacht domesticity. Mr.
Ashbury naturally felt that he could
not offer an Emperor, coming tc
lunch with him the fish out of his
own bay and the fowl of his native
land, so he cast about for something
likely to interest his guest, and found
it on his deck. He had taken out a
few SOuthdOwn sheep and, as gen
uine mutton does not grow in Brazil
conceived the notion of giving hiI
Imperial visitor a dinner Of mutton
only. Like yachting patriarch be
slew an animal and fed his guest
Herewith. It was a capital luncheon
There were mutton broth q pEcos
sGise and mutton outlets galore; there
were roast haunch and boiled leg o.
mutton; there were a dish of kidneys
3 praised sleeps head and sheep'i
feet q LG pOutette. It was a sheer
dinner on board ship and a very goOC
time everybody had on board the
Eothen.
On entering his Brighton residence
it is at once seen that Mr.. Ashbury i:
a vachtsman. Pictures and model!
Of yachts extend from the front dool
to the billiard room. The latte
apartment is great joy to its owner
fer 1t contains relics of antipedear
travels in fact a store-house o