The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-04-09

cuage, to make use of it in their practice, and
their advice in most cases has to be given through
an interpreter. To supply this want IN a mea-
sure, the native form book will be found useful.
Not only lawyers but every business man having
transactions with the natives will ind 1t an as
~sistance. We hope that the author will not only
be amply rewarded for his labor in preparing this
work, but will find encouragement to prepare
another on the principles of common law for the
instruction of his countrymcn.
- Our quiet town is subject to periodic spasms
like the nervous twitchings of n rheumatic patient.
1t had hardly recovered from the Indignation excited
by the stern, and as many think, arbitrary mandates
of the Supreme Court bench, when the schooner Gen.
Morgan arrived from San Franclsco-Wlthout q mall,
and without even a California paper Heigh what's
in the wind, now? everybody asked. Some specula-
ton, certainly. The treaty must have been passed
or a rise in sugar, perhaps. AT all events. the small
lots of sugar in market were Thought 10 DE Worth
eight and Il half cents per Id.
On Monday it was rumorcd about town that sum
dry letters, papers and even mail bags were on board
the schooner, which would not be sent ashore till
Thursday ?. NJ, as they had been taken with the
stipulation that they should not be delivered till the
expiration of six days. This caused no little feeling
in the business community, especially as the Major
was to sail on Wednesday for San Francisco. On
further inquiry, the report turned out to be ground
less, at least so far as is now known. By extra
searching possibly some letters or nOn-descript bags
may be discovered in an out of the way corner of the
vessel, by Thursday 2. NJ.
To those who know the trade and traffic between
these two ports, it seems a little strange, that an old
Sandwich Island packet like the Gen. Morgan, could
slip off from San Francisco for Honolulu without any
one in the former port knowing it. And q little
stranger that an old trader here like Capt. Way,
should omit to bring our island mail, which was
known to be waiting at the P. 0. No one here OBJ
jects to displaying q little tact in speculation, but he
could have ~ommoda all parties and particularly
the fifty or sixty whalers waiting for letters, and
bound off for q ten months cruise. Capt. Way could
easily have landed himself and sent his vessel to sea
for q day before returning to land his mails, and no
one could have complained with his course, if he
choose to do so.
Honolulu merchants are about as wide awake rs
any traders in this quarter, and it will take pretty
close steering to get to windward of them, whether
their letters are delivered to them or not.
ISLAND OF HIvAOA.-In the April number Of the
Hawaiian Missionary, printed in the native language,
we uuu I'LL dCCOunG VI 14lfUOdt, OIC VI III IN1dIuucSdS
group. The Missionaries sent from here to the Mar
quesas several years ago with Matonui, have removed
from Fatuhiva and located on Hivaoa, which is the
second island in size of the Marquesas group, and lies
in latitude 90 81 S. longitude 1880 4 w. The shape
of the island is long, somewhat resembling that of
Molakai. 1t is said to be very fertile. Astounding in
fruits, such as bread-fruit, cocoanuts, bananas, sugar
cane, taro, potatoes, &C., The island is divided into
ten districts or valleys with different chiefs to each,
and has q total population of about $500. The people
appear to be much given to the manufacture and use
of Intoxicating, drinks, which is the source of fire.
quent contentious among the clans. The cause of the
removal of the mission station from Fatuhiva was the
continued opposition which the Missionaries received
on that island, and the urgent appeals made to them
to remove to Hivaoa.
SHIP-NEws.-Our attentive correspondents OF the
different windward ports, as well as ship captains,
will accept our thanks for the various ship-news COM
municated by them. We hope soon also to be in the
regular receipt of news from the different southern
Pacific whaling ports, and shall continue to make
every effort to furnish the most reliable marine news
from oil parts of the Pacific Ocean.
SENATOR SEwARD.-In q late Boston paper, we see
that this distinguished statesman and orator proposes
n journey around the world, and that he will stop at
Honolulu in his route and deliver an address on agri-
culture. If so, our Society ought to be stirring itself,
to make some greater display than it has ever done
yet. -
IRON as. - would have it that the
bottom of the iron schooner Alice was as rotten as the
stern of the propeller. So Capt. Rye, determined to
show the difference between g true steel'' and imita-
ton, hove out his vessel on Tuesday to examine her.
Her bottom was found covered with barnacles, g.
quarter of an inch thick; these being scraped off the
old paint showed itself. The iron appears to be in
good condition, and has probably received no damage
from the action of the water, though the vessel is now
six years old. For service she is as good as new.
~ Our subscribers and others will bear in mind
that no papers can be delivered to them from our
printing office. Our printer is frequently annoyed
by applications for papers, although No papers de-
livered here,' is posted in conspicuous letters at the
door of the printing office.
"a We would call attention to the notice soliciting
proposals for making the uniform Of the Rife Com
pany. -
- The Fanny Major sailed yesterday after O
long detention. She waited chiefly for the arrival of
the Liholiho from Hilo, which was to bring her q
hundred tons or more of freight. The Liholiho is a
week behind her time, owing to the late Gains. The
Fanny Major takes between thirty and forty passen-
gers, n list Of whom we publish to-day.