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1 1 i 1 I f . -. l . t !:. .1 j - 1 i - I i 1 Y f V : 15 a it i i 1 : i j Hi ft n IS III lifl I Vol. XXX.-No. 9. The Weekly Pacific IS PUBIilSHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING. Town and Island Subscriptions, when paid In ad vance, S3 a year; $2.30 for six months. ' Foreign Subscriptions, g'J.SO per year, Including postage. THE DAILY Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Per &HHT1111, S Six months . 5 00 rer months 1 0 Per reek . 0 25 Daily and Weekly together to one subscri ber, per annum 12 g35" SUBSCBIPTIONa PAYABLE AX.WATS IN ADVANCE. BC7" Communications from all parts of the Pa cific will always be very acceptable. D Persons residing In any park of the United States can remit the amount of subscription dues for these papers by Postal Money Order. BY AUTHORITY. Foreign Oftlce Notice. It has pleased His Majesty the King to appoint he following gentlemen to be members of His Privy Council of State: HON. LUTHER AHOLO, HON. JOHN K. KAUN AM AN O , HON. JOHN T. BAKEK, MAJOR ROBERT H. BAKER, MR. SAMUEL M. DAMON, MR, ALFRED N. TRIPP. Foreign Office, Honolulu, August 12, 1SS4. augl3-d&wlt It has pleased His Majesty to appoint the follow ing gentlemen to be Members of the Board of nealth: HIS EXCELLENCY PAUL NEUMANN, COI THE HON. CURTIS P. IAUKEA. The Board is now constituted as follows: HIS EX. WALTER M. CJIBSON, President. CHAS. T. OULICK, PAUL NEUMANN, HON. A. S. ULEOIIORN, HON. CURTIS P. IAUKEA. VVeign Ofliee, August 1", 1SS4. augl4-dlt-w2t H luis pleitsed His Majesty to -Appoint HON. JOHN LOT KAl'LUKOU ),o a member of the Board of Education. The Board is now constituted as follows: HIS KX. WALTER M. GIBSON, President. HIS EX. JOHN M. KAPENA, HON. DR. J. MOTT SMITH, HON. JOHN S. WALKER, HON. JOHN L. KAULUKOU. Vor:sn Ofilce. August 13. 1SS4." augl4-dlt-w2t HIS MAJESTY THE KING has been gracious ly pleased t permit Major Anton k Rosa to ac cept the decoration -! the fifth class of the Order of the Rising Sun, conferred on him by His Im- pcrka Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Foreicn OWco, Honolulu. August 12, 1S3L augl3-d&wlt It Ins phased His Majesty the King to re appoint IIISEX.JOnN OWEN DOMINJS as (iovcrnor of the Island of Oahu. Aliiolanl Hale. August 20. ag20-dlt-w2t It has pleased His Majesty the King to re appoint HIS HONOR CHARLES FREDERICK HART .as a Circuit Judge for the Island of Hawaii. Aliiolanl nale, August 20, 1S31. ag20dit-w2t I have this day appointed G. B. Meheula, Esq., District Judge for the District of Kawaihau, I! and of Kauai. SOLOMON NAAUAO, Acting Governor for Island of Kauai. Offlce of Governor of Kauai, Lihue, August 1, ISM. augl2-3tw I have this day appointed John Alull to be Pound Master for the District of Kawaihau, Island of Kauaf, vice G. B. Meheula, Esq., re. signed. SOLOMON NAAUAO, Acting Governor for Island of Kauai. Office of Governor of Kauai, Lihue, August 1, H4. . aug!2-3tw HONOLULU, LIST OF LICENSES Expiring in the fonth of August, ItETAILr OAUU. 2 Ah Soon, Waiakani, Koolaupolco 2 Ah Sum, Pawaa, Honolulu 2 YIng Kee, Pawaa, "; 3 F Horn, Hotel street. 4 W H Place, Maunakea street 4 Haula, Kikihale & Wo Sing, Nnuanu street 5 A F Cooke, Queen street ' 0 U Laage, Queen street 6 Poy Kee, Nuuanu street 44 7 Moses Mahelona, Walanae street i( 8 Pau HIng & Co., Hotel street 9 Kwong On Tal & Co., Hotel street " 15 H Reimenschneider, Kaahumanu street 16 W E Foster, Fort street 18 Cha Wing & Co., Nuuanu street 19 J H Bruns, Jr., cor Bethel A King street ' 21 Lam Goon, Maeraae " 25 A V. Pierce A Co, Queen street 27 Yic"c Shung Lung ofc Co, Maunakea street ' 27 Len Wo York Kee & Co, Hotel street 28 Hollister & Co, cor Fort Jt Merchant st3 MAV1 1 Chok Wal, Olowalu 2 QuongFong, Paia, Makawao 2 C A Hona, Waihee 13 Amaoa, Waialua, Molokai 14 Chun Lo, Lahalna 19 C Aslng, Haiku 20 J Grunwald, Makalae, liana 24 Wing Tal, Waikapu . 27 Tong Mok, Kula 30 Ahulii, Kaupo HAWAII. 8 SO Wilder & Co, Mahukona 8 Wilder fe Co, Kawalhae 10 C Along, Pepeekeo, Hiio 12 Atai, Hilo 13 Kwong Chong & Co, Puehuehu North Kohala 14 Kwong Cheong Leong, Laspahoehoe 16 Akui, Napoopoo, Kau 16 Wing Shin Kee, PunaUu, Kau 21 Hong Sing Kee, MaulilL, Hllo 24 A kau, Kohaualkl, Kona 25 Kung Fook Lung, Uuamu, Hilo 30 Jas White, Halawa, North Kohala KAVAI. 6 Chong Wo Kee, Hanalel 27 Chon Young Kwal, Eleele - VICTUAUIfG. 7 Aluna, Wailuku, Maui 7 S Sam Loy & Co, Paia, Makawaa 13 Chas Kala, Koloa, Kauai 23 Yee Sum & Co, Punahoa, Hilo 25 Adele De Jean, Hotel street 27 Ak Wal, Kipahulu, liana 30 Ben Yan, Waimea, Kauai miTCHEK- 1 Geo Gray, Hotel street, Honolulu 1 Pu, Honopueo, North Kohala 5 G W C Jones, Kau 11 Hana Plantation, Iinna 11 Kekahuna, Hana IS J D Paris, Jr, Kaawaloa 22 Mrs Nannie P Brewer, Koolaupoko 2tt H N Greenwell, Kona 2i J Walawala, Kawaihau AVIIOLHSAL 10 Hollister & Co, Nuuanu street 25 A W Pierce, Queen street DEALERS SIIi:iT. 2 Macfarlane & Co, Kaahumanu street 11ILLIAUD. t L K Kaumualii, Koloa, Kanai 9 P Launua, Hilo 14 Ahulii & Kepoikai, Wailuku . BOAT. 24 Keluke, Honolulu SAUiOX. 1 J W Kualaku, Fish Market LAI'AAI'. 1 Daniel Nupela, Molokai CAIiE lJEDOt.IIVC3. 21 Chung Yat, Kingdom 21 A hoi, Kingdom 23 Wo Kana, Kingdom XUUti. :s Hollister & Co, cor Fort and Merchant streets l'EDDLIXG. CI Idela Fuen to, Kingdom NOTICE. jinROUGH TICKETS FOR THE And RETURN to HONOLULU, May be obtained from the undersigned. Tourists leaving Honolulu by the steamer Planter, as per time-table, will be landed at Puna luu; from whence tney win De conveyed by rail way to Pahala, where horses and guides will be Ii attendance. Tourists can make the round trip by this route In seven days, giving them four days for the land trip to and from the Volcano. Fare for the round trip from Honolulu to the Volcano and back, $60. Further informatlan can be had at the- office Of the later-Island Steam Navigation Co, Esplanade. Honolulu. Or from J. F. JUDD, VOLCANO HOUSIS. myl5--wly ' ' WEEKLY EDITION. H. L. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1884 COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. Tuesday, Auyust 26, 1SS. THE OPPOSITION'S FAILURE. We most cheerfully report the fact that 14 a public reception was tendered the Independent members of the Legislative Assembly last Saturday evening." These gentle men must feel a deal of honorable pride in the approbation of their con stituency. And now that the session has adjou-ned sine die, it iseminently proper that these heroes should be decorated with laurels, and that this community should feel the salvation of the country can be attributed to their efforts. It would be an invid ious critic indeed, who, perusing, the record of the Assembly, should in quire, "What have they accom plished?" "What conquests ' bring they home?'' '"What tributaries follow them to Home to grace in captive bonds their chariot wheels?" Is their triumphal car decorated with the gory corpses of their politi cal foes, and does the Cabinet, with bowed heads and fettered hands, march under the yoke? In fine, wherein does their victory lie?. )Ve cannot say. We fear that there has been a great deal of ammunition wasted for very little game. A good, healthy, energetic opposi tion is a benefit to any Government. But while it should be earnest and persistent, everything that might be construed as personal animosities weakens it. Herein lies the failure of the Opposition, It had ample ma terial to work upon, but it neglected the real issues of the fight to fritter away its strength in malignant per sonal attacks. It kept hammering away at the members of the Cabinet to the neglect of the assailable measures of that body. Therefore, at the end of the session it stands just where it did at the beginning. It has shown, its disposition to make a winning fight, but it has lacked the ability for the contest. It presents the appearance, not of a victorious, but a defeated army, and the ovations its friends may shower upon it, can not aiter this fact. Yet the foe stood altogether upon the defensive. The Opposition had its own time to plan campaigns and lead assaults. It was not harassed by any" skirmishing on the part of the enemy. And all the public receptions in the world, all the congratulatory phrases, and tri umphal cheers cannot put any other face on the legislative record of "His Majesty's Loyal Opposition." THE BATTLE OF THE BILLS. The report of the Committee on Street Railway Bills was adopted in last Tuesday forenoon's session of the Legislature, and the Austin bill was ordered engrossed. Mr. Dole's mo tion to insert the name of Wilson in stead of Austin iu the latter bill cer tainly displayed no lack of modesty. Mr. Dole's bill, drawn by him for Mr. Wilson, was thrown out, but the honorable gentleman had no hesita tion in attempting to capture the Attorney-General's bill for his client, Mr. Wilson. The attempt was a de lightfully cool exhibition of gall, and almost deserved to be successful for the very audacity of its conception. Judge Widemann's speech on those bills was the feature of the session. It was sharp, logical, and cut right into the heart of the business. He gave the Dole-Wilson bill a brilliant scoring, and boldly told the talented leader of the Opposition that he had -I not hesitated to insert a section in that bill which was in direct antag onism to the laws of the country. A street railroad is a necessity in this city; but the franchise must be givesi to those who will conscientiously take the matter in hand, and not peddle it to the highest bidder. We believe the passage of the Austin bill, behind which Mr.. Flowerdew stands, is a positive benefit to this community. It does not contain an objectionable section. It will be the means of bringing a large amount of foreign capital here, and there will be no jobbery or penny policy about its construction. THE " BULLETIN'S " BLUNDER.- Our chirping little contemporary, the Bulle tin, had the following last Wednesday: We clip the following from the un usually idiotic columns of our matu tinal friend the Advertiser, and in vite our readers to hunt up all the dictionaries in the city and find out what 4 'sanitation" means. Webster evidently does not know, or perhaps he took some weak whiskey and water and forgot to put it in. For choice editorial, commend us to the follow ing: Then follows the extract from this journal wherein the word " sanita tion' ' occurs. Usually things of this sort are not worthy of notice, but as an expose of the ignorance of the Bul letin w quote from Webster's Una bridged, page 1577, ' Sanitation the preservation of health: hygiene." It is about time our little neighbor grew tired of stumbling against the Ad vertiser. It never fails to catch a knock-down blow. When next it runs arounu tee corner to oorrow a J fr'lenda dictionary, it should also em- vj ociivco i oumc uiic wuu uu ut;xoi.iuuo Kuan uaciui vuiuujc. diU-AflSSfl WUMUfl. I xn view oi me auvenc oi a large T f I a m i I numoeroi Japanese women to tins country m uie near imure, it may not be out of place to note a "few promi nent characteristics of these Asiatic females. The Japan Mail recently translated a lengthy article from the Hochi Shimbun (Japanese paper) on the "Profligacy of Japanese Women." It speaks of the dissolute conduct of those female as "highly reprehensi ble," and goes on to devote a whole coulmu, in a very strong language,' on what tbey stigmatize as "a great and melancholy evil." The Hong kong Daily Press, in commenting on this subject, says that "We think that our Tokio contemporary is some- what disposed to exaggerate, and to attiibute more immodesty than necessary to the unhappy creatures he refers to. Japanese women of the class he speaks of are certainly, as a rule, far better behaved than their Western sisters, though doubtless there are some so brutalised as to have lost all trace of womanhood. The subject is a painful one, and it i3 sau to finu tuafc almost the only emi- grants from Japan are immoral women." A. reason given for this is the Buddhistic religion, the tenets of which place women on a lower scale thau man, and afford her little or no hope in the future. The Press goes on to say: "Nor is this all; the Japanese law is entirely in favor of the husband. He may take to himself two or three concu bines; he may spend his means and hi.4 health in the haunts of vice, thus robbing his family; hs may get con stantly drunk with sake (wine) and ill-use his wife, but she has no re dress. On the other hand, he can divorce lier for such a cause as dis obedience to his parents or even for excessive loquacity. Yet it is com mon enough in Japan to find the wife the real mistress alike of her lord and if on ' . K Wliole No. 1487. her home, an ascendency acquired by native tact, grace and cleverness. In Japan, while woman lias yet to ob tain her proper place socially, she nevertheless in accorded more respect than in other Kastern lauds. In no other Oriental country, too, lias so much attention been given to the education of woman, nor is there one, we believe, where she has enjoyed equal freedom. The latter fact, per haps, more than anything, joined with her social degradation, has helped to make vice ilauntingly ap- , parent in Japan." Professor Griflls, who spent some years In close and thonulitful study of Japanese people,fornu'.l a favorable opinion of the Japam-M girl. He writes: "The Japanese maiden is bright, intelligent,! n terextin;r, modest, ladylike, self-reliant; neither a slavo nor a wanton. What the American girl is in Europe, the Japanese maiden is among Asiatics. Both are misunderstood. A Japanese virgin may act in a way not reconcilable . with Our standards. She may ex pose her charms so as to shock our exalted and chaste masculinity. -Lighter-skiuned woman-kind may see moral obliquity in an eye not per- ' fectly horizontal, when there is none. Japanese virgins knows nothing of the white lady's calculated limits of exposure, or of scientific dressmak ing, which ly an inch of affluent economy exerts a more wicked in fluence than a nude bust empty of in tent to charm." In forming an opinion of the Japanese women every allowance is to h made for customs, for habit and for education. They cannot fairly be judged by our own . standards, for they have not enjoyed the advantages which women in Western countries enjoy. But the social evil win doi oe puTgeu irom jauan. even in a decree, until n higher moral tone prevails among hpr rifizpna. . Tfc is jim unfair fr Hi row ii t.i .u.. x cut me umiuc upon tnu lupiiuese woman as it was lor Adam to nlead that the woman temnted him in the ardetl. Let .Japanese statesmen reason out this irreat nroblem and they will find that the circumstances make the women what they are, and that altered conditions will effect a social reformation that will lead to the moral and physical regeneration. of the race. Even the Gazette, stately, digni fied and occasionally decent, feels the absence of its editor The insinua tion tliat the bill to protect creditors against the raids of fraudulent in solvents was introduced because no monetary inducement was given to renress it, could emanate only from onb of the thrifty proprietors who is a proprietor, but does not understand the proprieties of journalism. He, following the profession of gathering fees, was not considerate, but he calls his journal into service to help eke out the Chinese contribution a reluc tant contribution which failed to come forth. There was no money except on his side of the fight,and his procurers did not get it, because the Celestial is trained too well. .Let us deplore the unfilled pocket. What has heretofore been con sidered an axiom, that a prophet hath, honor save in his own house and in his own country, has, in the case of Dr. O'Ponnell and his lepers, proven a fallacy. Prophets who want honor abroad will not be recognized when accompanied by lepers or smallpox patients. Some Eastern physicians go so far as to assert that O'Donnoll doesn't know anything about leprosy. This is misstating the case. He has been a close student of the disease, with ample opportunity of study and the school at his very doors. Did O'Donnell possess a mental balance he would be a valuable authority on leprosy and kindred diseases. rti x ti O It J I . J