The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-06-10

to devote his whole time, usually allotted to working
hours, 10 the interest Of his employers, and was not
entitled to apply any portion Of such time to stock
iobbinp or any other purpose, no matter how bad an
example may have been set him by others, Pro Bono
Pubfico to the contrary notwithstanding. If We are
mistaken, will Mr.. p. B. p. please inform the public
what portion Of time belonging to an employeran en-
ployee has a right to appropriate to himself. leaving
unfinished the labor he has undertaken. and receiv-
ing enor nous compensation for his services.
In the above expressed opinions We have no doubt
the late lamented Chief Justice Lee would have fully
concurred, for he was . most excellent man and did not
neglect his public obligations for pecuniary gains.
"although for many years he was an sctive particle
pant in the Lihue Plantation, and without whose
countenance and pluck it never would have been sus-
tanned until it become q paying steck;' (quite unlike
some of those engaged in the old Mil Co.. although
we are not prepared to believe that all Of Judge
Lees acts were the best Of Law or his teachings un-
alleged gospel.
That H. Majesty and Prince Lot are both praise
worthy examples in the course they have pursued in
every enterprise that has been started here, that has
commended itself to them as being likely to be Of
benefit to the nation. We presume no one win pretend
to deny. Their public spirit is unquestioned-their
integrity, officially, or otherwise, has not been inn
peached-neither have they complained Of want Of
time to perform the duties demanded of them in their
respective spheres. Instead Of censure they deserve
commentator, and no one is more willing to accord
praise where it due than x.
OF the Minister Of Foreign Relations we have not
much to say. His diseases are chronic-absolutely
beyond the influence of any known remedies-and if
he does occasionally upset the exchange market to
the pecuniary disadvantage of our merchants and less
opulent operators, we are consoled with the s~atisfac
ton that the paper and ink market, by such episodes,
is saved from absolute depletion
To Pro Bono Pu6iico we would say,-we have no
patience with, nor confidence in, any person who
distorts facts in any way; but more especially one
who, in a public Journal, quotes but one-half Of a
paragraph, of one who differs from him in opinion,
when, if he had quoted the whole, he would have
been left entirely unarmed; or, who rings in the
names and acts of praiseworthy examples Of probity
and enterprise, to get up upon such good names a
lame defence for a delinquent ex-minister, who can
at all times find leisure to attend to any business
except that for which he receives a large salary from
government for performing. X.
Mr.. EDITOR Allow me to mention a fact which
I happen to know-that the President of the Board
of Education requested a stakeholder to say to the
Flour Company in his abseece that he wished not to
be fnaRsident of that concern,
but the message was not
by the way, as l am somewhat of a believer in 8 mis-
sionaries and cold water,'' that the :" cloth'' ought
to be interested in mills, especially as they are so
much indebted to the operations of such as Samuel
Mills, and s. J. Mills. Yours, &C.,