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rJyW A A S 4v h A A J J J rffj J ;T -5-3 vJ ,W 5? V7v 1 57 n ii i ii H a si y ?j hi ft M a j ' : N ii -flff WEEKLY EDITION. H i I l . ir- ... ii! 7 t X : if ill- ; - i!f. ir j i : i j 111 i it" i U A ! n4 : .1 f i it t . fix 1 Vol. XXX.-No. 25. The Weekly Pacific 0o mm c v c tit I d wrt t s cr IS PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING-. f.-)vn S:ibscrip:iius, when jniM ia ad- Viiiic-?, ". a ;-:-ar: S2..1 for six months. tr'i'-,'ri Subscr'.i.tl'MM, !'-r yer.r, h.'.-lndin? THE II!Y Paoific Oominsrcial Advertiser. I'tr niiaii:n .... , Six months !'r ixjonth .....$8 00 r, oo .... l oo .... 0 2.5 Per -week ,. 41-r WwV!r to7fthfr to cue sub3cri- br, per annum l-ou .VJT S:-n-.::.Ti t wa.;. : always in apv.vs. 17" Goi.;nup.icrttious from all partn of the Pa cific: vrill always bo very acceptable. Tr Trrajni residing in any part cf the United State. can remit the amount of subscription duea for theiie capers by Iost:il Money Order. EY AUTHORITY. Fore I ff" Office Xotloc. Tic it known to all whom it may concern that official notice having been communicated to this Department by Ills Kxcellency Rollin M. Daggett, Minister Resident for the United States of America, that MK. JOHN ALLISON BKCKWITII has been properly commissioned as Consular Agent for the United States at llllo. Therefore the said John Allison Beckwith is hereby acknowledged as Consular Agent as afore said and all his official acts as such are ordered to reccWe full faith and credit by the officials of this Government. Givea under my hand and the seal of the Foreign Office at Honolulu, this 23th dny of No vember, A.D., 1334. WALTER 2i. GIBSON, 287 no2C-wde!6 Minister of Foreign Affairs. Interior Depart men i. M. Kaanuu, Esq.. is tbis day appointed an agent to grant marriage licenses for the district of Koo lauloa, Island of Oahu. CIIAS. T. OULICK, Minister of Interior. Interior Office, Deo. 3, 1SS4. 301 wde23 Office of Governor ot Oahu, 1 Honolulu, Dec. 8, 1884. j To whom it may concern : Notice i- hereby civen that every Commission heretofore issued to any person for th appoint. moat f unpaid Constable, en the Island of Oahn, is hereby revoked and cancelled from and after tt,stf5e- jn-o.O. DOMINIS, Governor of Oahu. Office of Governor of Maui, ) Lahaina, Dec. 5, 1S34. To whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given that every Commission heretofore issued to any person for the appoint ment of unpaid Constable, on the Island of Maul. Molofcal and Lanai, is hereby revoked and can cel led from and after this date. JNO. O. DOMINIS, 308 f!e!Mvdelti Governor of Maui. Iuterior Department. Under the Act entitled "An Act to amend C hap er 34 of the Session Laws of 1852, relatigg to the suppression of disease among animals in the Ha waiian Kingdom," approved Aug. 11th, 1S34, the following gentlemen have been appointed as Board of Inspectors for the Island of Oahu: J AS. BRODIE, V. Si., Executive Inspector, A. BURREL IIAYLEY, JOHN II. BROWN. CIIAS. T. GULICK, Minister of Interior. Jlono! ilu. Nov. 21, 1S1. 279 delOw School notice. The regular Christmas Vacation of til Govern ment Schools in the Kingdom, will extend from Friday, the I9th of December, to Wednesday, the 7th of January 1553, on which date the first term of the new year will begin. By order of the Board of Education. W. JAS. SMITH, Secretary. Department of Education, Dec, 1, 13S4. or, 0cl Otiice Uviard of Education. Honolulu, Nov. 23. 1SS1. The following named persons have been ap agents for taking the Census of the Hawaiian Islands foi m4, in their several districts: oAiir. Honolulu, Ewa and Walanae J....F. L. Clarke Walaloa Jesse Amara HONOLULU. Koolaulor. E. Partridge Koolanpoko ..Hon. A. Kaulia ! HAWAII. IlUoand i'niKt Hon. I). W. Hitchcock S. Kona Hon. D. Nahinu N. Kona J. K. Naliale N. Kohala J. W. Moanauli S. Kohala J. Stupplebean Kan E. Smith llarnakua J ton. J. L. Kaunamanu HAITI. LahHina Kia Nahauk-lua Kuupo, Klpahuiu, ttc Hon. J. Gardner Hamakuahta. Makawoa and Kula, Hon. J. Kamakele Wuiluku, Waikapu, etc J. Nakookoo DIolokai Hon. J. Nakaleka jaiiai Kahoohalahala KAVAI. Koloa J- W- Alapai Lifiue J- lvala K.iwaih.iu J. H- K. Kaiwi II ;-..i.-deI - 1- Pauiki Wsiimea E- Kahale Xiiliaii - (ieorge Gay F. L. CLuVUKE, Supt. of Census, 1881. Approved: " Walter M. Gibson, Pres.B'd of Education. J. S. Walker, J. M. Kapexa, Members. 202 no29-wdecl6 LIST OF LICENSES i:xpirin in the Month ol December, 1881. KETAIIj OA1IU. 1 P A Dias, Kfng St 2 Kwong Fui Lung, Hotel street 3 King Bros, King street 4 Atai, School street 4 C J Fish el, corner Fort and Hotel streets 4 Ah Yon, Hotel street 4 Low Fook Kee, Nuuanu street 5 Yee Ying Y'aun, 5AUHee ' " C Ah Sam, Kaneohe 6 Young Wo, King street -G AIo, Beretania street C Lok Chung, Nuuanu street 8 Miaw Kee Maunakea street 9 J L Rosenberg, cor Fort and Merchant streets 10 Tom Yuen & Co, King street 10 Wong Chung, Maunakea street 1 1 Wong Quing, King street 15 Ben Joe Enos, Nuuanu street 18 Toiig Wo & Co, 19 See Chong. Emma street 21 G R Wood, King street 21 Wong Kwong Keet, Fort street 21 Lam Foi, Maunakea street 23 Ho San, King street 26 T Silva, Lilia street 25 C Gertz, Fort street 29 Augusta Fernandez, King street uirr AIL HAWAII. 1 Yee Chong, Honuapo, Kau 1 K A Bielenberg, Maalepu, Kau 4 Chas Michels. Ullo 9 Gee Sing, Honoli, llllo 11 Knee Wo, Hilo 13 Akana, Nrth Kona 13 Laupahoehoe Sugar Co, Hilo 18 Chung Sal, Hll 18 Akau, Kailua, N Kona 19 Koki. Hilo 24 Chi Mau, Puueo, Hilo 2G Hiu Kalepo oKa Paiaala Kalapuaa, Puna RETAIL MAUI. 3 J L Smith, liana 4 J J Halstead, Ulupalakua 4 Young Yen, Pala 18 Chung Atong, Lahaina 20 Lee Hop & Co, Wailuku 21 Ah Poe, 3fi Afu 30 Wing Wo Tao Co BinrciiEu. 1 Awana, Makawao, Maui 4 C IJ Dndoit, Lahaina, Maui 23 Chas Williams, Hamakua, Hawaii BOAT. 2 D Tailor, Lahaina 4 G C Beckley, llllo 20 Makahi, Lahaina FIUE ARMS. 1 C B Wilson, Kona, Oahu VICTUALING. 7 Ah Sam, Kaneohl, Oahu 13 Wing Chong, Hotel St, Oahu 19 A Y'ow, Hamakuapoko, Maui 20 Oswald Scholz, Lihue, Kauai 20 Ah Poe, Wailuku, Maul 21 Alona. Walalua, Oahu 24 II J Nolte, Kapiolani Tark 24 C N Arnold, Waiohlnu, Kau 29 Outi, Lahaina AUCTION. 16 Lyons & Levey, Queen street 18 LSeverance, Hilo, Hawaii DRUG. 36 C S KJttredge, Hilo, Hawaii WHOLESALE. 11 Len Wo York Kee fc Co, Hotel street 12 Sing Cheng & Co " " 13 FT Lenehan fe Co, Nuuanu street 20 Wing On Wo & Co " SILLIARDS. 11 It Mason, Halawa, Kohala 11 E Smith. Waiohinu, Kau 29 Chas Williams, Hamakua, Hawaii l'EDDLI.VCS. IOUSi DUTCH EK. II Lakaaio 1 4 Hong Chong, Wailuku, Maui 1 j D Warnboldt, Lihue, Kauai CAKE PEDDLING 17 Sam Ung SALMON. E Malailua 2'J7-de30 H. L. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1884 ; COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. Tuesday December 1(1, 18 Si. JAPANESE IMMIGRATION. Tlie fact which we announced two or three weeks ago tiiat the first shipment ot Japanese immigrant laborers could not be expected to leave Tokio before the mouth of Jan uary is naturally a cause of great dis appointment to all concerned. There is no reason however why it should awaken any doubt (as it seems to have done in some quarters) of Mr. Irwin's truthfulness in the represen tations he made when he was here as to his ability to secure these immi grants. Still less ought it to be taken as an evidence of any drawing back by the Imperial Japanese Govern ment from the promises made to Col. Iaukea when he was at Tokio. Some paragraphs in American papers show ing that British Columbia and Brit ish Guinea are seeking similar privi leges to those which have been ac corded to Hawaii have been made the subject of comment as if they in dicated that the matter was stiil un settled diplomatically between this country and Japan. There is no such cause for the delay in the arrival of laborers, and nothing could on the face of things be more improbable than that the Japanese Government would break faith.'iti regard to a con cession made voluntarily and as an act of grace and evidence of friend ship. The first delay in the arrangements must be laid on the shoulders of our own Legislative Assembly, which kept Mr. Irwin here awaiting their decision on the subject for an uncon scionable time. If those members of the Legislature who are interested in sugar planting had been as alive to the need of haste in May last as they became in October it is possible that more than one shipload of Japanese laborers would have been here by this time. It was the end of August before Mr. Irwin got back to Tokio, with all the work of organizing the emigration scheme before him. !Never theless so readily was the assistance of the Japanese Government extend ed to him and so favorable were the accounts he obtained from the coun try, districts that within a fortnight of his arrival he felt so sure of being able to start early in November with at least 600 emigrants that he wrote to a friend in Honolulu requesting him to secure suitable apartments for him self and his family for the middle of that month. His advices to the Government, as made known by Mr. Gibson to the Planters' Labor and Supply Company at the time, were of the same tenor. A totally unfore seen incident appears to have discon certed his plans. The work of re cruiting in the country districts must necessarily be done under the surveil lance of the various provincial Gov ernors. Moreover the Imperial Gov ernment arranged with Mr. Irwin that the Governors and local Magis trates should themselves announce to the agricultural laborers the conces sions that had been granted to Ha waii and the terms offered by the Hawaiian Government to emigrants. Such an official announcement was no doubt of vital importance to the success of the scheme, and must, ! under any circunistauces be an enor- i mous help to it. Just as this had been j arrange;!, other circumstances led the Emperor to summon all the Govern ors of Provinces to Tokio. Their pres ence there would not be dispensed with until 20th November. Whilst there they were all interviewed officially by Mr.Irwin. Knowing the interest felt in this matter not-only by all employers of labor, but by the community gen- erally,we have obtained leave to pub- lish th exact words of Mr. Irwin's official communication to-th Min- ister of Foreign A Hairs which hears date of November oth. He siys. re- ferring to this interview with the Governors: "They promised their cordial assistance on their return to their local governments, about the 20th November. I must, therefore, wait until then. They were one and all of the opinion that they could readily secure 0,000 farmers to ;o to Hawaii during ISSo. I am promised the first contingent of S00 in January. I have arranged for their pasagi by Pacific Mail steamers direct to Hono lulu from Yokohama." The drttesat which the steamers belonging to that company leave Yokohama in Jan uary will be about the 14th and 28th ol the -month, and for our own part we feel quite sanguine about being able to greet our enterprising Special Commissioner on Honolulu wharf about the 27th of next month. THE " MADRAS CASE. As the claim of the owners of the Madras for compensation for deten tion at this port is again the subject of town talk, it is much to be regretted that the published correspondence ou 1 the subject which passed between the British Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs should be hid away hi the appendix to that alto gether inaccessible book the Report of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Assembly of 1884. To our minds the complaint of the captain and owners of the Madras, and their claim against the country for com pensation for the ship's detention here has, so far as its legal aspects are concerned, always appeared pre posterous. They and their agents evidently knew from the beginning that they had no chance of gaining a suit for damages, no matter what legal tribunal they might have access to. They therefore, with an ad cap tandum tale, have sought the ear of the British Foreign Office, a lion ever ready to roar on the bare suspicion of a British subject being ill treated. The Hawaiian Government has now to put forward its versioli of this story a story -undoubtedly dis creditable to some of the actors in it, but not to the Government. This will probably be the last we shall hear of it, unless the British Government should think fit to ask that it be set-4 tied according to the modern fashion, by the arbitrament of some neutral Government. Nevertheless we cannot help pity ing the owners of the "Madras" and wishing to see them relieved of at least some part of the burden which, for the benefit of the people of this country, has been put upon their shoulders. It was their own fault that the shiphada foolish captain, and it was their own fault (since, as we understand some, or all of them, live in Hong Kong) that they did not take proper precautions to keep smallpox patients off their ship, as was done in the case of the other ves sels arriving about that time. But it was not their fault that the ship ar rived here at a time when the public mind was greatly excited about the Chinese invasion and the chances of a deadly epidemic which the Chinese had brought here so short a time pre viously being renewed. Nor was it their fault that every available quarantine building win more than filled by immigrants who. were pre sumably free from the dread disease, so that no place on shore could be found for the sick folks brought by the "Madras." Neither was it their fault that the Captain of the ''Madras'' put himself in wrong from Whole No. 1503. j the beginning of his troubles, und j that the agents who were selected i for him here were more anxious to j outwit and humble the government j than to make the best terms they j tou Id for the ship. They were j far awny no cable lent its aid to con able them to counsel were acting or. their were helples victims stances over which exercise no control. those who behalf they of clrcum they could It is prob- able that som- hundreds of lives and another $100,000 of expenditure of public funds were saved by the harsh measures which tho Govcr--ment found it necessary to take to wards the Madras, and a large paii f the pecuniary loss falls on a - private lirm whose share of blame in the matter is very difficult to determine, and was certainly very small. HAWAIIAN MUSIC. The Hawaiians are eminently a music-loving people, and there are but few natives who cannot givor ex pression to their melodious feelings in some manner. The older people cling to the ancient mele and wail', but even they join with one mind (if not with voice) in the musical part of their church services. The younger', people, however, catch .with great quickness the songs, inarches, and music generally that they hear about them, and not only reproduce the notes, but arrange words together to sing, very easily. They are not, as a ; rule, trammelled by auy syllable re strictions, as their language permits of extension or curtailment to a re markable degree, hence improvisation v is an easy art with them. This leads : to a multiplication of verses to airs that please them, that to the listener, ignorant of the language, is some times tiresome; to the performers neper. There has been some sweet music composed by Hawaiians, and not a few songs. The best of these have been gathered together and published ' in sheet form, and through the kind ness of Messrs. J. M. Oat, Jr., & Co. we have been enabled to examine the nine compositions published by them n sheet form, j' The first of these is the National Hymn, "Hawaii Ponoi" (Hawaii, My Own) the words of which were omposed by His Majesty the King, the music by Mr. H. Berger, the vet eran leader of the Hawaiian Band. The second, a song entitled "Aloha Oe," (My Love to You) is composed by H. II. II. Liliuoka'ani, and Is a sweet and popular melody. No. 3 is a March (quickstep) ar ranged by Mr. Berger, entitled "Sweet Lei Lehua,'' iThe Sweet Lehua Wreath) and is familiar to all. The 4th is a song with a chorus, ar ranged by Mr. B?rger, and entitled "Malanai Anu Ka Makani" (The Light Cold Wind). No. 5 is a march by Mr. Berger, called "Lunamakaainana," (The Legislator). The Cth is a pretty song and chorus entitled I'Eleile" (The Waterfall) which lsa great favorite. "Ka Moi Kalakaua" (King Kala kaua's) March is a spirited quickstep, arranged by Mr: Berger,- as is "La Hanau o ke Alii" (The Birth of the King, or the King's Birthday). "Ahi Wela," (The Fire of Love) is a char acteristic song and chorus, arranged by Mr. Berger. That completes the list published so far. The vignette on the title page of each song contains a spirited view of Diamond Head surrounded by tropical foliage. The general appearance of the sheets is good, and they will form quite an addition to the music stands of Honolulu's music-loving people. 1 did-