The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-02-21

SurRugr CovEr-Two important cases were de-
ciicl in this court ves.eriay. The first wls that Of
Halliday as. Capt Wm. S,ott- The point At issue
was whether S,ott, As master Of the bark Comet was
responsible for the debts 81: VI. ". Webster, an ab-
scouiiug debtor. who secre,ei himself on board that
vessel. and LEFT without a passport. The amount At
Nsue in this case was small-soue sixty or seventy
dollars only but - Webster LEI; other debts amount
ing TO 5000 or $500. for all which the defendant
becomes responsible If the decision i sustained, the
case i an important one. An appeal vii, We under
stand. be taken to q full bench.
- The second case was the application made by
Bishop NIaigret for probate Of q will made by the
Spnuiard Jose Naial, in MS favor. The Chief Justice
gave = decision admitting the will to probate, from
which an appeal was taken by those con,eStug I>
validity. to = full bench. In the appeal the former
decision Wa, reversed. and the will refused admission
10 probate, on some techuicality, Justices Robertson
and L deciding against it, and the Chief Justice ad-
herring 10 his drst opinion. These decisions will pro
badly be published on saturday, pending which It
would be premature 10 express any opinion.
\ GENUINE BARBAEIAN.-By one Of the schooners
from Kauai. we learn that q murder and suicide had
been committee on that island. The person who
committed these acts was 4 stranger, and is supposed
10 INV bttll = hItAN IA t4t ~ AAN IA e T"NA-f
who had deserted from some vessel. He took up his
residence at Kappa, about midway between Wailua
and HanaIei. After committing various thetts, and
numbering a woman. ne entered the house Of an
old man and woman armed with a sheath knife, some
eighteen or twenty inches in length, evidently with
the intent to murder the inmates. The old man at
tempting to secure the boy, a savage struggle en-
sued, in which the former was badly wounded in
several ularpS Tho how finally Sprurai hound
and on the following day taken to Jail, where he sue
ceeied in strangling himself with his malo, thus for
tunately relieving the public and the courts Of any
further trouble with him. He was an entire stranger
here, knowing neither the language or people,
stray savage from one of the southern cannibal
islands. -
ALMOST A sELL-On the arrival of the schooner
.Nttie Merrill last Saturday from Hawaii, one of
cur towns people, who Is always on the qui rire for
news, learned that the schooner had seen a vessel in
channel. That was su ficieut foundation to start
story for the credulous, which was to this effect
that a clipper had been spoken by the .Ncttie, which
reported that the Union had dissolved, and war de-
clared between the "Union and the Southern
confederacy, that California had seeded, that the
Yankee had been seized and might be looked for
hourly, armed to the teeth with Glibusters. Our
had promised an EXTRA but the dose
was evidently too salt to 90 down. This specimen
If gossip will illustrate the anxiety for news which
has existed for the past ten days.
\ CHANCE FOR ISvEsTMENT-The well-known and
;pacious building at the foot of Kaahumanu street,
tanding on the Charlton wharf, will be sold to-day
It II o'clock. The building is in good repair, and
or renting, the stores are the best located of any in
he place. -
p We are happy to notice the return by the
Yankee of Mr.. j. c. Pfuger, OF the firm of Hackfeld
( Co., also the arrival of Mr.. John {. Merrill, of the
louse Of N'Ruer * Merrill of San Francisco, and
Ir. W. F. Ladd, of C. W. Brooks & Co. of the same
ity. -
n We are under Obligations to Capt. Patty, J. W.
sullivan, Mr.. Merrill, and Mr.. W. F. Ladd, for late
apers. -
n The next mail for the Enst, will 90 forward
y the steamship U[y0mtag, to sail about March LIST.