THE BEST EVER IMPORTED
into this Market, guaranteed
Good SINGERS!
For Sale at
C. FRED. PFLUGER’S
Fort Street, nearly opposite Messrs. von Holt & Heuck.
(PCA, 8/12/1865, p. 1)
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Volume X, Number 6, Page 1. August 12, 1865.
Pertaining to the Rice in Waimea.
Rice is planted much here in this place. The rice just newly planted here in some paddies is growing and it is green when looking at it. Continue reading
A general meeting of the Society was held at the Court House on Saturday last, April 1st, 1865, pursuant to a call published by his Ex. R. C. Wyllie.
Mr. Montgomery was called to the Chair, and stated that the objects of the meeting were, first, to consider the amalgamation of the Planters’ Society with the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society.
Hon. G. M. Robertson, appointed at a former meeting to report on the proposed step, stated that the simplest way for attaining the object was for the members of the Planters’ Society to unite individually with the R. H. A. Society. Continue reading
[Communicated.]
Mr. Editor:—The eminent success which has attended Dr. Hillebrand’s first consignment of plants and birds per Alberto for the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society, ought certainly to operate as a stimulus to all who feel interested in the material progress of these islands, to lend a helping hand to enable him to avail freely of the facilities and opportunities he now possesses of procuring and forwarding here the vast number of plants, &c., suitable to our climate, Continue reading
Commendable—There are few or no song-birds native to the Sandwich Islands, and the Hawaiian Government is importing rare and beautiful birds from China, setting them at liberty in the suburbs of Honolulu. Continue reading
The R. H. Agricultural Society [Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society] received from Dr. Hillebrand, by the Alberto, Continue reading
New plants.—Aboard the trade ship of the Chinese laborers which Dr. Hillebrand sent for, arrived some plants which were never seen before in Hawaii, Continue reading
About Rats.—A correspondent writes us as follows: “In your last issue I have remarked a paragraph on Snakes vs. Rats. It seems wonderful to me that none of our rat-eradicators, nor the inhabitants of these Islands, have ever alluded to a small animal called the Mongoose Cat (Mustela), or Weasel kind. Continue reading
Containers of new birds.—Upon the trading ship of the Chinese that stopped here, there were containers of new birds. The thing these birds do is to eat creeping things of the earth, they being caterpillars [peelua], worms [koe], and so forth. Continue reading
O Ke Au Okoa:—Aloha to you:
I am sending you a small gift atop your outstretched foundation, should your captain and Editor be so kind, and it will be for you to take it to the shores of these islands so that my newspaper-reading companions may see it, it being the letters placed above: “Some Locals of the Tuahine Rain¹ are no more,” and it has been ten or more years which they have not been seen.
And my friends are probably puzzled about these locals that have gone missing, and you, our old-timers, are all likely saying, not them, here they are, and some people have passed away, but we knew of their passing; but the departure of these kamaaina which I speak of was not witnessed. And this is it, the kamaaina birds of our uplands: the Iwi, the O-u…
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