The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-10-17

a SUMMARY OF domestic events for the
past two months does not include any
very important or exciting events.
Her Majesty the Queen, since the
funeral OF His Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, has been living quietly in Homo
lulu and may be occasionally seen in her
carriage or taking her frequent morning
rides on horseback. Notwithstanding
the mlschievous reports to the contrary,
started here for political purposes and
retailed to certain papers in the United
States by, amongst others, the notorious
Moreno, the agent in Washington for the
National Reform party" Her Majesty
enjoys excellent health. Owing how
ever, to the persistent misrepresenta-
tons of native paper, DIR. Trousseau,
Her Majesty's physician, has deemed it
advisable over his own name to contra
dict the statements there put forward.
The Queen has been we'll advised in
commissioning 80 able and suitable a
gentleman as DIR. Mott-Smith for the
temporary charge of the Hawaiian Le-
CATION in Washington, in the absence
from ill-health of the Hawaiian minister
resident.
The tull census report for the six years
period ending with last year has been
published in pamphlet form, and shows
total population for the Kingdom of
$1,000, and for the city of Honolulu
22,9O7, being net increase for the King
dom of 9,412 individuals, of whom a
large proportion are Japanese immi-
grants. The native race has lost in
numbers 5,578. The proportion of fe-
males to males is 48 per cent. of the for
mer amongst the natives, and somewhat
less amongst European-descended for
eigners. Eighty per cent. of the natives
above 6 years old are able to read and |
write.
The rainfall in Honolulu, for August |
O.62 in, and for September O.47 in, is
still very scanty. In the first nine
months of 1890 there fell 1856, and in
the same period of this year only 9.S7. |
The drought, however, in parts of the
other islands, and in some districts of
Oahu, has been largely relieved.
A great quantity of lumber and the
two large boilers for the scow for dredg-
ing the entrance to this harbor have
arrived from the Coast, and work on the
frame of the scow and on the walls of |
the deposit-ground for the silt removed
is we'll in hand.
Notwithstanding the depression of
price of our great staple, the building
trades are doing well; in fact, more
building has been done in the last twelve
months than in any similar period in
the history of Honolulu. The larger
are for the most part fin
ished, but great deal of domestic work
is still going on.
That very eccentric burglar commonly
spoken of as "Barefooted Bill" from
his habit of leaving prints of bare foot
he piled his vocation, was
caught in the act by two policemen.
he admitted twenty-seven burglaries,
and, at first, said that he was put up to
the business and paid for it by two white
men, a story which he told on the
witness stand, but afterwards re-
canted. He is native Hawaiian, a
carpenter by trade, and 80 presumably
to deal with doors, windows,
skylights, etc. He was sentenced to
Our years. imprisonment with hard
labor.
The vital statistics for September pre-
sent no feature worthy of special remark
except that the number of deaths is
less than that of the same
month of 1890, viz, Al to SO; of these,
2 are classed as unattended"
The Oahu Railway and Land Com
oany have organized and carried out
several delightful trips to their new sea-
'ide city site, the Peninsula of Pearl
darbor, which juts forth into the smooth
waters OF an inland harbor or loch, and
Affords most delightful sea and mountain
news, with good bathing and unequalled
ABILITIES for boating and yachting. +.
smooth water daily, brisk breeze, and
'lmost any depth to be had for choice,
make this beautiful spot one much to
,e desired.
Local Pictorial Talent