The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-03-17

/ proeosED Moru,rrxr 10 Coox-Abodt Ayear
$40. the Comnercie1 propoeedt be idea that : puO"0
han sboald be erected IN Honoluln. Is q fitting mon-
: ument 10 the msnoty Of the great circumnavls1'o-
! 10 BE- mrmounted with his statue. No one, nowesef'
lapn 10 pay any attention to our suggesnon ~
su but the British Acting Consui 0enei.''
han |ktely paid a visit to keaiakeakua pay the
spot where Capt. Cook met his doth. the suD)e0s ?
again brought up in the following very appropriately
worded letter. which we copy from the fofynes,a" :,
Saturday. It is very natural that Engnsnmsn suo.~
feel il ought to be their exclusive privilege TO erect a
monument to their illustrious countryman' thouen
we doubt not a cosmopolitan subscription for a grand
monument. az suggested by Mr.. Nicolas. would meet
with a prompt and liberal response. The following
is the letter alluded to above:
HONOLULU, March End, 1852
MY DEAR Sin. So much has been said and wr, ,s., .n a years
, nms 7 r almost fear to nut ben to paper on this subject. ALL
will venture to write is this-Wni you ana any any a..s Mac
inr som nei simple stone stone to |" mark the spot where Cook fell
Is it any wonder that Foreigners taunt Us M n ne
the fame Of our men Of sciencel
What Engishman visiting keaakeakua bay ~ : m
fury, a rotting atump is still the only monument !" o~
memory. r o,n this
matter, and / also believe that there is strong, unanimous asaan. sh teel,
ing among Englishmen in these islands on TINS su'e'' VIM"
only requires to be called on, warmly to respond. :, oor,ect
My own opinion is. that the hIst thing 70 u = - order
from San Francisco a small marble or granite ooeasH, . os :; = n y
other monument mt that 1 may y be m asrsr per%an upSn; s the spot where
Cook fell, and viii redeem us from a cahouSheSs WINCH
Towards this object it will give me great pleasure to subscribe
one hundred dollars. o,,,r 20
Join in any measure for collecting subscriptions throughout the
s w0na ae . : mo "r commensurate with Cooks fame.
lam, my dear sir, yours, very fafhf%.yTi or, NICOLAS.
W. L. GREEN, Esq.
FROM THE SOUTH PAcIFIC.-Dates from Australia
to November 20 bring the intelligence that the French
have repeated at Tongatabu the same process that
they initiated here twenty years ago. Those islands
have been for a number of years occupied by English
missionaries of the Wesleyan persuasion, who have
introduced, quite thoroughly. their mode of worship.
Lately, several French priests arrived at one OF the
islands. and the Governor informed them that the
King being absent, they must await his arrival be-
fore they could be allowed to land. the laws Of Tonga
specially providing that no foreigner shall come to
reside without his permission. The Frenchmen. in
great Indignation, Immediately sent off to a neigh.
boring island for a frigate, which was lying there,
and which, without loss of time, came to the rescue
of the prescribed proselyters. As was the case here
in 1886, the naval power of France compelled the
people to receive the missionaries of Rome, with the
forced agreement on the part of the natives that they
should build the churches and residences required by
the Catholic teachers.
LAuAINA. MARCH 14.-.Tis Z" election day" here,
and the usual excitement attendant on the privileges
of this free and enlightened people, exercised on such
occasions. shines forth. There are three candidates
for the vacant seat in the Lower House.. D. Ka-
hookano, P. II. Treadway and F. A. Oudinot.
There is a rather amusing farce of some friends of
the sc Marshal" going on. An ancient. dilapidated
donkey, with a monkey strapped on tO>his back, and
n board with the name of the nominee in big letters,
headed by a Calithumpian band, and the Hawaiian
flag half-mast and union down, are pronenading the
town. Alas for the gallant candidate who might
we'll exclaim, ..save me FROM my friends 20 He has
proclaimed "war. relentless war;" on the beer shops
if he is elected. Hence the ridiculous procession
got up and conducted by some of those who keep the
beer houses. --
Or PUBLIC INTEREsT-We hear a rumor on the
street which seems to be we'll founded. to the effect
that a mercantile firm here has applied fer a lease of
the vacant space between the store of c. L. Richards
& Co. and the hay scales opposite the store of 1.
Spencer, for the purpose it is said, of erecting thereon
n large store. 1t is further stated that in all proba-
bility the lease applied for viii be granted by govern
ment. We feel called upon in this matter to protest
against the contemplated lease, inasmuch as the pub
lie convenience req uires that spot as we'll as all the
wharf space around it, should be allowed to remain
vacant. Its nearness to the wharves and landing
places would render an obstruction or narrowing of
the streets a great public inconvenience.
The BARK YANKEE--As we predicted, when the
report of the sale and probable withdrawal of our
favorite packet was circulated before her last depar-
ture for San Francisco, she is to remain as a regular
racket on the route where she has so long been a
favorite. She has been sold. however, to Messrs.
M'Ruer & Merrill, we'll known to our merchants as
the agents for the regular line of Honolulu packets.
Capt. James Smith has sold out his interest in her,
and retires from her command, and from a service
in which he has justly earned an enviable popularity
as a gentleman and a captain. Capt. Lovett, long
known to our community, has charge Of the bark.
and in him the travelling public will find one every
way qualified for the important post he holds
THE BELL BuoY.-We hear complaints from ship
masters about the removal of this buoy, without any
public notice having been given of it. Its removal
was no doubt necessary. but let it be put back with
ont unnecessary delay. The ship Sea Serpent, found
difficulty in finding an anchorage and finally drag
ged off, having anchored in deep water with eighty
fathoms of chain; the Russian bark Grefer Berg
anchored too near the "middle ground'-both vessels
having been misguided by the removal of the buoy.
1t has become almost indispensable to vessels running
down the reef, and we trust it will be replaced soon.
Our volcano PAPER.-We issued last week an
unusually large edition of about 1900 copies, but SO
great was the demand for the account of the eruption
on Hawaii. that before the closing of the mail, the
supply was exhausted. As orders from the other
islands are coming in for that paper to be mailed, we
shall reprint IN two or three weeks ~(probably in a
supplement- a revised and more full account of