The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-11-10

SIR Eighty years have passed ~.
the Resolution anchored in Kealeakep,.
course Of those years the name Of Co.,
become wo~rld-famed, and the service u.
ed to civilization in opening up these h...'
waiian isles has been justly appreciated =
be known to many of your readers H..
and it is believed the only one, Of ths ~.
adventurous Captain vet survives. Ind :
sure of seeing him some months ago IN a.
hood of the Turon, New South Wales.%'
ing, happy old gentleman in whose .n.
fancied that I could trace some resemble
Of the illustrious man whose ZANE he bs.-
from the nature of the relationship such ,,'.
must have been the purest effect Of FAM,
Cook of Cooyal. in the Nudge district ON 3
is I believe the grandson of one Of Cs,,.sl
nephews, or at any rate such was What 7 =.
the line Of descent to be. The following s,,-
the Sydney Morning Herald, Of the "a J
1858. will possibly be read with interest
member right the banquet referred to tot ii,
l do not happen to have a report Of it in :,
zion. 1t may be as well to add that NJ,
comfortable to do in the world, and has a i,
farm Of his own. am, Sir,
Your obedient seryapt.
=. PERos HuoI
Ship .MiIuauhee,
Honolulu Nov. 9th.
a CURIOUS MEETING.-On THURSDAY ev.,i,
meeting was held at Mr.. Foreman's IA,
Arthur, Esq, in the chair, for the purus
senting Mr.. E. Cook, of Cooyal, with a iesi
he being the only living relation of the lss
Cook, of famous renown. 1t was proposed and
ed -" That a naval uniform be purchased h
sented on the next anniversary Of the cday
he then attire himself in the said uniform. !
rambulate the streets of Nudge !; that 3
ton be opened on that occasion, and III
the same be presented to Mr.. Cook" Avoid
crowd suggested that the cooked hat shml
white feather in it. This was the signal nj
confusion, the meeting seeming indignant
person should suggest that a descendant Of {
Cook should wear q white feather at his ma
Order having been restored, the Chairman
put the resolutions. prefacing them with [
marks expatiating in glowing terms on the
the great circumnavigator, and on the CLAIM
only living relative Of that great man. He1
exactly like the last Of the Mohicans, bezzl
were some young Cooks upon whom the \
glory would fall. It would be sorrowfuif
not SO, otherwise the great and noble Coon n
cooked indeed. Mr.. Cook being present, ex
fore the resolution was put ; be saddle I'd
accept this as q favor but as a right be 4
only relation of the great Captain Cook. Al
should he given where honor was due. he 4
his mothers mother was Captain Cooks q
great grand niece, or something simiIar, bd|
was such a babel Of voices at this time that !
porter could not take down the exact relail
Mr.. Cook then vent on to state that thh q
would never have been discovered only for \
tive. n then where would have been our 4
.golddelds, our iron and copper mines, our NJ
coal, our wool and tallow, our oil and blubbd
our every other colonial production and Eu
by asserting a very strange and singular u
VIZ. that only for Captain Cook intrOius3
white population here, that all the {" cons
would have been black people. A nunbr
Anglo-Suxon cornstalks being present shcuh
JOY at their lucky redemption. The venerh4
down amidst general cheering. The rz
was carried, and the meeting separated e.
pledging to bear it out on the 18th January, n
Australia !IJhudgee Paper.