The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-07-10
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

a most brutal murder was committed at kaneohe
on the night of July End by one or two Chinaman.
The murdered was a native named kauwa, a quiet
hard working man, who finding his taro stolen, set up
to watch on the above night, and was murdered by
the thieves. His body showed that there had been q
several struggle and had twenty or more wounds,
inflicted by a large knife. He died almost inlInedi-
ately. MIR. Parke, the Marshal, visited the place the
next day, and upon the evidence obtained, arrested
four Cinnamon, who will be tried at the present
term of the Supreme Court.
ELEcTIoN.-At a meeting of the members of Fire
Engine Co. No. 1. the following gentlemen were
chosen officers for the ensuing year: w. e. Cutrell,
Foreman, W.. F. Allen, asst. Foreman, Jos. o. Carter,
Sec'y, w. N. Ladd, Treas.
Acc1DENT.-We regret to learn that John Dominis,
Esq. met with q serious accident, while returning
from Maunaloa on Wednesday last. Being in company
with sAvenal others on horseback, one of the horses
kicked Mr.. d. and broke his leg below the knee. 1t
will require six or eight weeks to recover the use of
the limb.
Who would ever haye dreamed that the eccentric,
wor1d-renowned Lola Monies, the Countess of Lands
felt, would have honored Honolulu with her pre-
sencG. Yet so it is. She. was a passenger in the
schooner Falkenburg, which touched at our port on
Monday, and she embraced the occasion afforded to
spend q few hours on shore. She has been spending a
year or more in New South Wales and is now return
ing to California. The expression of her counte-
nance was pleasing, but seems to show Se careWorn
look. We should judge her to be about forty.
RoBBERY.-On Friday evening last the residence
of Mr.. Geo. Williams was entered while he was at
the Ball at the Courthouse, and robbed of $500 in
gold, belonging to the Haw. Agricultural Society, of
which Mr.. Williams is Treasurer. The money was
placed in q bureau, and though the drawer was
locked, another drawer above was left unlocked.
Now it strikes us that when there are safe places of
deposit, such as the Custom House vaults, where no
charge is made for deposits, there can be no excuse
for keeping the funds of a Society or even of an indi-
vidual so exposed. No clue has been obtainel to the
robbery.
TIHF Manufacturing the past week this fine
steamer has been lying at the wharf taking in the
coal which came out several months since for her in
the Raduga from Boston. The America is certainly
a model steamer, and a perfect seaboat. During her
voyage from San Francisco to this port, she made
200 miles per day under sail, and the entire passage
was made in twelve and a half days. She will sail
for the Amoor river about Saturday next.
T5YA luau or native feast was given on the End of
July at Moanalua, about six miles from Honolulu bv
Prince L. Kamehameha, at which q number of
ladies' and gentlemen from town were present. Every
thing passed off with satisfaction till the introduction
Of certain prostitutes, whose presence was supposed
necessary to enliyen the occasion with a. series of
hula dances. We understand that the greater nor
ton of the ladies left the immodest sight, thus giving
o gentle rebuke to those who introduced them. Are
these exhibitions to be revived under royal patronage?
Are the ladies ofHonolulu to have such entertainments
prepared for them?
We remember two or three years ago, when hula
exhibitions became quite popular in town, that COM
plant was made against those who introduced them
al q the authorities put a stop to them, as being indie
cent, and In open violation of the law. Is it any less
q violation of the law that the hulas are now exhibit
ed under royal patronage than by a private citizen :
Fit is intended to revive the public exhibition of
the natioaal shows and sports of fifty years ago, let
the pubic know it. Let the existing statute he
repealed let the largest liberty be given to all with
out any distinction, let a select company of prostitutes
be Licensed by the Interior Department, and let them
appear in public in the ancient style Of the dance.