The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-04-28

MURDER AND ARsoN.-On Thursday night last a
messenger came up to Honolulu from the Magistrate
ut Eva, informing the Sheriff that a horrible tragedy
had been enacted that afternoon at a place called
Kalakoa, this side of Waialua- The Sheriff and his
Deputy, with their usual promptitude. started after
midnight for the Scene of disaster, and to investigate
the matter. So far as the Investigations of the jury
could elucidate the sad affair, the facts as narrated
to US are as follows.
Two women were living together at Kalakoa, gather
ing kukui nuts from the mountains one of whom, by
name Hunehune, appears to have had both n husband
and a paramount. The name of the latter being Kanea-
kauhi. On Thursday, Kaneakauhi came from Waipio
to the houses where the women were living, and inquir-
ed for a blanket, which the woman Hunehune did
not give him. An alteration Of words ensued, and
the man getting very angry, caught the woman by
the hair and pulling a knife from his side, stabbed
her three times in the throat, once in the side. The
other woman attempting to interfere was threatened
with the fate of the first, and a boy about nine years
old attempting also to assist his aunt, had the wrist
Of his right hand very badly cut, as also the side of
his head.
On the outcries Of murder and for help by Hume
hume. the other woman ran down the hill to the water
side and aroused some natives who were there fishing,
to come to her assistance. While she was thus absent,
kaneakauhi dragged the murdered woman away from
the house and set fire to il and to two others, where
upon he cut his own throat with the same knife, close
TO his victim, and when the woman returned with the
people from the foot Of the hill the last act of that
horrible drama had been enacted, and two corpses and
tntSC ~ WClAiti 8tlCctCu III II II
quences Of Il mans inhumanity to man."
In justice to the indigenous population of the
Hawaiian Islands, we would here remark that it is
thirteen years since the last murder by a native
Hawaiian was committed in this country.-Poiyne-
sian. -
FROM THE WRECK OF THE SOUTH SEAMAN.-The
schooner Ramehameha ~, Capt. Foss, arrived
yesterday afternoon in thirteen days from French
Frigate Shoals. bringing twenty eight of the crew of
the wrecked ship South Seaman. The schooner was
ten days in getting to the shoals on account of head
winds and Gains. Found the party on the
island in good health, and doing well in saving
articles from the wreck as well as killin g seals.
The sealing season. however, was about over.
The schooner is full of articles saved from the wreck,
besides some 40 bbls- seal oil In all, about 125 bbls.
of oil have been tried out. As to the guano deposits,
we judge from the tone of those on board the schooner.
that, after all, some considerable quantity of the arti-
Gle can be procured there. A all events, Rawlins &
CO.. win come out right side up in the speculation.
The schooner brings q number Of turtle, which we
hear it minated, win be sold 1t auction. Who goes
in for soup = Almost everything of any value on the
wreck Of the South Seaman, including spars. cargo,
Sails &C., will be saved. a~ffording. il no Unforeseen
accident happens. q good remuneration to the
ureckers. -
e We are indebted to Capt. Lunt, Of the Elisa
& Ella, for the latest San Francisco papers received.