Polynesian., 1862-08-16
No. Is.

demurrers, bills of discovery matters of account,
title transmissible by inheritance, and so forth;
and there our familiar friends the heirs, adj
ministrators, executors and assigns 1t appears
that thirty years and more ago, Kalaimoku let half
of a wharf at Honolulu to some one else and
that Leeiohoku the son of Kalaimoku, Keeliiko-
lani the widow of Leeiohoku. and Kinau the son
of Keeliikolan, were all interested in the rental
derived from the wharf. The suit is worth notice,
not in or for itself, but for the singular manner in
which the usages Of English law have been thus
transferred to the once barbarous Sandwich Islands
When Messrs. Harris and Davis are named
counsel for the complainant, and Messrs Bates and
Montgomery for the defendant and when Chief
Justice Allen and Mr.. Justice Robertson severally
deliver their opinions, we rub our eyes, and ask
whether this is Westminster Hall or not. Then
there is q notice of the KiiGlsa, steamer which
maintains commercial intercourse with the wind
ward ports on the island. Commendation is given
to the exertions of another newspaper, the Hae
Hdtcd, in encouraging the cultivation of cotton in
the island. Then comes an account of the exami-
nation of the public free schools, by His Excel
lency, Governor Kekuanaoa, President of the
Board of Education. There is abstract of
American news, relating to the struggle between
the North and South of Mexican news, concerning
the desperate state of that republic of Paris
news, relating to the Italian question; of New
Zealand news, concerning the rebels. But what
seems very singular to an English reader, consid-
ering the AnglO-Saxon coloring of the whole news
paper, is that there is scarcely paragraph about
England or English affairs.
Noticeable all these matters are, in connection
with such region as the Sandwich Islands, the
singularities are more prominently brought out in
the adyertsements-those significant tests of the
social condition of u people. Mnst of the names
of the advertisers in the POlynesian are English
of the John Smith class, whatever may have been
the country in which the men themselves were
born but whether the purchasers of the advertised
commodities are John Smiths or Kalaimokus we
are left to infer best may. At any rate,
there are people enough at Honolulu who under
stand luxuries. There is BOgles Hyperion Fluid
which Professor j. III. Anderson, the Wizard of
the North, certi6es to have been the means of
saving his hair, when weakened by the climate of
America. There is Bogles Electric Hair-dye,'
pronounced by Mr.. Boyle the best hair-dye in the
world, Language which, as he admits, is rather
strong. but justified by the result Mrs. Winslows
Soothing Syrup we think we have heard of be-
fore; the wonder is (as is the case of Popes flies
in amber) how it got there The bark Yankee
has brought a magnificent seven-octave piano from
Boston, to which the attention of the Sandwich
Islanders is respectfully invited. Mrs. Macfar-
lanes household furniture is to be sold by auction
and as it comprises sofas, bureaus, &c., we infer
that that lady was accustomed to the usages of
good society. The HanOverian brig Schtcinge
brings from Hamburg splendid cargo of silks,
mantas, cambrics, ribbons, gloves, handkerchiefs,
LeghOrn hats, lustre Orleans, alpacas, damask,
lace, silk umbrellas, and other dainty things for
ladies' use and wear and there seems no doubt on
the mind of the advertiser that Honolulu will buy
them. The same ship, among its bales and boxes,
also brings over goOdly assortment of ivory and
tortoise shell combs, portemonnaies, fancy toilet
soaps, mother-of-pearl buttons, ostrich feathers,
| violin strings playing cards, and other luxuries,
| which would never have been sent to Honolulu had
there not been population accustomed to the good
things of lile The Hotel de France with baths
and a table d'hote; the National Hotel, with ex-
| tensive stock of the best brands of wines and
liquors, new billiard-saloon, bowling-alleys. and
gentlemany attendance > the Globe Coffee Saloon,
opposite the Odd Fellows Hail. where the best
oyster-stews prepared at few minutes notice >
the Merchants Exchange Bowling Saloon, where
there not merely toO bOwling-alleys, but those
of superior marble;' the New World Restaurant,
opposite the Sailors Home,' where Graham
bread, bread. hot rolls, cakes, buekwheat
cakes, and flannel cakes are constantly served as
Ordered'-all these solicit patronage in the columns
before US, and that they should do in one of the
Sandwich Islands is puzzlng to our school-boy no.
tions of geography and social history.
The palmer and more strictly commercial adyer-
| tisements such cOmmissiOn-agents are IA
miliar with in all newly-formed communities. No
tees Of the arrival Of ships, with abstracts OF the
cargoes profers of service as commission-agents
and auctiOneers; notices Of freight wanted for
outgoing ships, chiefly to San Francisco. Boston,
and New York dates of regular packet service
| to and from San Francisco of bankers and bank
ing facilities, and the like. English names of per-
sons, native names of places, there abound. Our
old familiar O1hyhee of Captain Cooks days has
been changed into Hda1aii. If Honolulu contains
its Merchants, Queen, Hotel, Fort and King streets,
so does it boast of Kaahumanu and Nuuanu streets.
1t possesses trading vessels with the native names
| MOiwahne, Ka Moi, Halawa, Keoni Ana, Kekau-
/ Ilfnnh Mail
of these are commanded by Captains Kuheaa,
Kalama, and Keoni and they trade TO and fro be-
| tween Honolulu and Kauai, Kahului, Lahaina,
MaIko, Kooau, MoIokai, Hama, Maui, Anahola,
Kona, Kau, Hilo, KOhala, Kawaihae, Koloa, Ma
wiliwili, and Hanalei-a list of pretty names which
the reader is quite at liberty to commit to MEM
Ory, If so disposed. The consonant and the diph-
thong seem to be high in favor in this vocabu-
larry. Among the articles advertised in the COM
mercal columns of the paper are Webster's Die
tionary, and a volume of Hawaiian law reports.
Honolulu, it seems, has its rifle corps, which is
summoned to meet for drill once a week. 1t has
| its Odd Fellows Association, with notifications
plentifully larded with mystical words and phrases
1t has its Dashaway Association which meets
once week at the Bethel Yestry; though what
this means, We cannot guess. And it would appear
as If Sir Cresswell Cresswell were wanted here
about for John Pease warns all persons against
trusting his wife Meri Naone-' she having left
my bed and board without just cause or provoca-
tion.'
| How these things have come to pass in the Sand
wich Islands seems simply to be this When the
islands first explored, their number was found
to be thirteen. OF these, Hawaii was soon ascer-
tai1ed to be more than double as large as oil the
reso spmbined. Further investigation, however,
shewe6 that smaller one, Oahu or Woahoo, is
more fertile, and has better harbor for shipping
than Hawaii Traders became familiar with the
place. and Honolulu sprang up as a town. Each
island had its own king. besides many chiefs one
of them, however, Tamehameha, conquered all the
rest about the year 1915 and some of the white
residents at Honolulu aided him in 80 doing, he
| took than, into bi0h favor His SON. Rhio RHO