The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-04-23

~ It is gratifying to receive commeadatory no
.tices from disinterested sources. We cut the fol-
lowing from the N. Y. .News, a recently established
but well conducted sheet, and vieing in its general
appearance and low terms with the best papers pub
lished in that city:
PRoGREss.-One of the handsomest papers in point
of Typography and general appearance that comes to
this office is the Pacific Commercial .4deerttSer,
printed at Honolulu. Sandwich Islands. 1t is also
ably and well conducted, and bears that internal APP
pearance of prosperity 50 pleasing to see IN a news
paper. 1t is published weekly by Henry NJ. Whitney,
at Sc per annum, and those in the United States who
desire to obtain reliable commercial and other news
from that interesting but distant region, would do
well to take the Commercial. This sheet gives US
the best evidence of civilization and progress of the
people of this group of lands that we could possibly
have.-.N Y. Necs FEB. Z.
THE AGATE AFFAIR.-Afer a full examination last
week of witnesses IN the case of Capt. Homan, charg-
ed with having caused the death ola Hawaiian seaman
on board the .fgate from abusive treatment, the
=. S. Consul, DIR. Lathrop, decided that the evidence
produced was not sufficient, in his opinion, to bring q
conviction for the offence, in case the captain was
sent to California for trial. He was clearly blame
able for the course pursued with the seaman, though
it was not evident that his death was owing wholly
to it. Unless the facts in the case are fully explained
to the natives through their paper, 1t IS likely that
the death of this seaman will have a tendency to
prejudice them against shipping on board of whalers.
They rarely get at the truth of a story, and in such a
case as this, a rumor In going about the islands,
receives among them every variety of coloring and
exaggeration. -
WHALEMEN's SHIPPING LdsT.-0ur Ship List ON the
fourth page has been revised and reset. Over one
hundred ships, homeward bound, have been taken
from the list, and about sixty new vessels inserted in
it. As it now appears, it comprises 225 vessels, of
which 1913 are right whalers and 81 sperm whalers.
Those who are not acquainted with the detail of ell
Letting whalemen's reports, may be surprised to learn
that this list requires more labor IN procuring correct
reports, revising and overseeingit it, than all the rest
of our paper. Yet such is the case. The list as now
published, will be found more full in its reports, than
we have ever had it.
CoURr.-The Circuit Court for Maui will be held at
Lahaina, commencing on the first Monday in May.
Judge Robertson will preside over it.
FAST DAY.-Last Friday was observed as a, fast
day by the native and foreign churches of Honolulu.
1t is rarely that such crowded assemblages have been
witnessed here as filled the different houses of worship
on that day. -
Is The schooner .Haria,- which has become a
favorite under the command of Capt. Frank Nolteno,
has been withdrawn from her route, and viii be re-
ceppered and thoroughly overhauled.
10 Fresh corn We notice is beginning to come in.
The samples We have seen are very fine. Those who
are fond of corn meal will find a good article at
Sayidge s. Mays. No meal has been obtaiuable here
for several months, while corn is equally sought for,
for horse feed.