The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-10-25
Correspondents Of the pac. Com. Advertiser.
The Morrison Case Again.

In your issue of Oct. IL, isa communication signed
.. Liberty or DEATH in which the subject of land
bounlrrie- IN general. and the boundaries of Pau
hau in particular. are handled in quite an able
manner. The writer ha: also shown how easy a
matter IL Is for our highest courts TO fall into error
through the lack OF all the testimony bearing upon
a case, and that their decision, however we'll it may
accord with the testimony produced, appears to those
familiar with the matter more like judicial brutality
than judicial justice-as in the case of Judge Nor
rison. Your correspondent has rendered good service
n showing up the injustice on the part of the
Government towards Morrison, and | trust they will
make tina; gentleman nll proper amends without fur
ther quibble of any sort. II is Il decision universally
condemned AT these islands even the party who fur
Di-hei the plaintiff with funds To carry on the suit,
and where the returns OF it depended, in a measure,
Oh favorable decision to plaintiff, remarked at once
Oh hearing the decision, that 1t WAS unjust-a high
chief, and sober 1T the time-ueither dill lac know the
opinion II the persons addressed in the matter
Where your correspondent Is disinrere.tei, he takes
a very commOn-seuse view Of the matter, but where
ne appears to be interested. l am sorry to say his
logic i a. crooked rs that 20 boldly parallel before
the public by the court. He says, does it seem
possible that during the lifetime OF father, mother and
son, vino are parties to the deed, that no c~ircumstan-
ces should come 20 their knowledge that Paauhau ran
half way up the mJuutain," &c. and afterwards
remarks, - that His Majesty, during his short visit
here, feels satisfied the and now cllimed i rot Pau
hau, but his own, from the evidence he has gone
into Were there not - father, mother and SON. in
the Kings case. a well as in the other and if so,
why did not he know the land belonged to him before
his late visit: That Is too transparent The fact is.
the Kings land Is a small one, lying between the
two large lands. Paauhau and Kalopaa, which are
we'll known to every person at all familiar with lands
on Hawaii. But the Kings i too insignificant 10 be
noticed. Il don't know the name Of it, There Is,
however. an old bird catchcr's trail, starting from
tbf. land. and Of the same name. and leading up on
Plauhau to Maunakca and around down again to
Puako. some fifty or more miles in extent. That is a
fact sufficient for a fertile genius 10 ahricate any
land story out or, if he thought it would amuse a
. chief The same story was told to Prince Lot on his
last visit to Hawaii. but he sent for the parties who
pointed out the boundaries Of PIauhau to the survey
ors, and by questioning them and allowing them TO
question the inventors % the new story about boun-
diaries, the latter were put 10 shame. AMI acknowl-
edged 10 the Prince that their story was An invention
Of theirs. The Prince eNpre--el himself satisfied that
all the land included in the survey belonged to
Nv tia. the suli.c. OF boundaries il, up, I am willing to
o rafsr i a@sr aH ,RST Tf Ell hi Ssisasn! va t. Pa pS,a aa5Sl' a. .f saeiep' "-
defined. saverl thousand asT : we're given ~ by Nr Parser
l, The owner q waikiI7s rather han have a dispute viii bin,
although o So sell AuuNu by al dr~infrr sd 1-r-ns m the
50 that h. had uu claim fHL Nt4iaA ~ US aL'tHl- ".AN-
d. rtu- over ,te top of Nsu1aEst. iucuiiu- "a large portion
= /, AMI extends 50 FAR ON o. Nauual1I - O. nearly. n not
mite i4fn th- land belonging % the d" Duke ~ hfhIku"-aI
Gs-le.s o. course 4 Hfffs gVf 'riY place land 10 1naa5y
-,J,, 1yr1y- With a kuHWl-1z- ~ she above facts. will any
,.r.o1 hsisv- that Mr. Parker hriei the ola kama1iua O. *
- he Igurflrf--5 Nr. Liberty Or beath.' that was a
mean iu-fuuati1r. little 20 your credit particularly u you are
acquainted with the moral character Of Mr Parker " Father
,,.,ber and slu-. 20 be sure they knew all about the land Wh~n
tb.v mortgarei t. and when they decided il to Morrison. and
r-iar o-qffu.rv circumstance were well paid for u. Hzkuainas
al TOO muci, about their lands not 10 know ali about them.
Morrison ami his wife. the kruohiki- were both strangers upon
~. ttnI another fact the court igUor-i) and hal no interest
yvbat.v-r about u except 80 fr as 1T was profitable 70 them
The Il another important fact the court did not probably take
into cgnside ration in NyuisCn's CAS-. and that Is. when this
Gnve-uueut ur Auyuri was organized as a distinct thing from
,be MOI. il bad not a foot oflsnd belonging 10 It, but the srtiTe