The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-07-31

or water and the force with which II threw IL, tearing
off the thatch roofs ike an axe, was noted by every
body. Co. number 1. have reason 10 be proud OF
their machine. Engine Co. No. ? and the Chinese
Engine were also On the ground, and did good service
in combining the FIRE to narrow limits.
LkUScH,-The new propeller Built for the Govern
ment Will be launched at 1 O'Clock this day (Thurs-
day.) This is undoubtedly the most substantial piece
of ship-earpentry ever executed in this Kingdom, and
VIII reflect credit on Mr.. j. Monroe, the contractor,
and Mr.. r. A. s. Wood, who has superintendent the
work. The boat is seventy-fve feet in length, and
built Of unusual strength. Her cost is about $4,000.
She will be christened by Her Majesty, though no
name had been decided on yesterday
STRAwBERRIEs-AIr. NJ NJ. Cover Of Makawao
has sent US a peck-yes, a full peck-of this most
delicious fruit. We of course placed them in the
fair where everbody's mouth could water, as did
ours, at the sight. Mr.. G.. will accept our thanks.
Two Cinnamon, named Akau and AIDING, employed
on the Hanalei coffee plantation, were found drowned
in the Hanalei river ON the Goth June. 1t is sup
posed they fell into the stream while under the in
fuence Of opium.
NPpoISTMENTs.-Abraham Fernandez, Esq, has
been appointed Enumeration for the district of Homo
lulu. No great perquisites attached, bat we presume
it is better than printing. We always rejoice in the
successes of our Aforementioned.
JOSEPH JACKSON, ESQ, was appointed by the Min
lister of the Interior Postmaster for Honolulu, on the
Goth inst, to FIJI the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton Of Mr.. q. N. Whitney, publisher of this paper.
Mr.. J. enters on the duties of an office which is no
sinocure, but requires almost daily the fullest amount
Of patience and forbearance allotted to mortals.
y His Honor, Chief Justice LEE, and associate
Justice ROBERTSON, left town on Tuesday morning for
Kahuku, where they intend to spend a few weeks in
the task of c~odifying the laws.
FERDICT-At the inquest held upon the body Of
the native killed by the Chinaman, on Monday last.
tie verdict rendered was that Hoopii came 20 his
death from knife stabs inflicted by twp Cinnamon, one
Of whom is dead in the fort, and the other unknown
escaped into the woods.
The verdict at the inquest on the body of the Chi
naman, was that he was killed with q hatchet, by
Hoopii in self defence, in an attempt to arrest him as
an escaped convict.
ARRESTED AT LAsT.-The Chinamfan for whom a
reward has been offered, was arrested yesterday by
Mr.. Murray and several policemen, information
having been left at the fort by a Chinamdh about
10 o'clock that he was in a gfass house in Pauoa
valley. He was brought to the fort by a strong posse,
and surrounded by the largest crowd we have wit
messed for some time. If half that is said of him Is
true, viz, that he has been a pirate, murderer, rob
Der, thief and burgler all his life, the sooner the
community are rid of him the better. We have no
dou' he viii meet with justice in the hands Of the
authorities.
saJ- The next news from the United States will be
interesting. Il will probably announce the presiden-
tial nominations made by the Democratic Conven-
ton which was in session at Cincinnati at the latest
dates. Also, what action has been taken, if any, by
the House of Representatives, in the assault case OF
Brooks on Senator Summer. 1t will be too soon to
look for the result of the dismissal of Mr.. CHAMPION
by the U. S. Government, as sufficient time viii not
have elapsed to have heard from England. The Yam
KEGS mall due here about August 10th, will prob
ably bring news of the action of the British Govern
ment on the subject. We look for the sloop of war
John adams with the ". York mail of June 20 dailr
MURDER.-We have gathered the following 20 rite
ulars in regard to the tradegy in Manoa s.T.lIey.
which resulted in the death of a native and a CI;aa-
man. In our last issue we stated that a reward inl
been offered for the apprehension of two Ch4ra1qes
who had escaped from the fort.
On Monday the 18th of July, two natives named Eal:a9a1a
and HooPi, went up Manoa Valley after ohia apples takins VIII
them at Hoopiis suggestion, one a rope and the other a Eatthc~
On getting up into the gulch where the ohias grow, they fo.15 {
quantity of hen feathers, which Hoopi said had core Eryu-
fowls stolen by the runaway Cinnamon, and then told his tc4r-
panion that he had been UP there before that morningsand see
ing the feathers, returned home thinking the Cinnamon ~@e Up
there. Kaiiulaula proposed going back FOR more natives, but
Hocpii objected, that there was no dancer they went on,
Soon after they came upon the entrails OF six 70 lying by the
stream, and then a strong snlea o. the staoBe u toregn wood.
Creeping up behind a kukai .Tts, they &c ce of the Cinnamon
going down the bank with q tnal rs MS band after water. Hoo
phi rushed upon him and Gang "a nipf ~ ~: arms and hair, and
in the struggle the Chinamar fG 80 he ground. KaiIuIaula
ran ZIP with the rope to tie him, bus I&copii said, Never mind
this one" The other Chinaman VIZ a little way up the bank
behind a large kukui tres where they a.l g fire, and as Rsli-