The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-04-16

the amount Of clerical assistance required IN the
Saprema Court and when We assure him that
the Chief Justice decided before he left for the
States, that there was not business sufficient for
q second eieEk-the appointment appears all the
more remarkable.
The certificate OF call" referred to by Mr..
b, may be a document of great value in Eng
land, We know nothing TO the contrary bat it
should not pass as of the same value here. We
have not doubted that he Possesses ordinary
qualifications, but We do doubt that he possesses
such extraordinary recommendation as he claims
and trumpets forth for himself or such as should
set aside older and more meritorious applicants,
(not simply one, but a score perhaps, of foreign
es and HarGiians) who have some claims on
the government, who have lived here for years.
been useful and industrious citizens, who have
grown up among or become identified with the
people, its language, and habits. but who are
too modest to push their claims forward as out
weighing those of everybody else. When the
public see q stranger thus appointed 10 Office on
the strength of q certificate. of which even the
judges have no proof of its authenticity, and see
more worthy applicants set aside, they are natur-
ally indignant, and feel that an act of injustice
has been tolerated in the very shrine of Justice,
where, of all places, natire industry and merit
should be fostered.
Our correspondent says he = does not under
stand the native language" and proposes TO
acquire 1t at the expense of the public treasury,
when he and every other public officer should
qualify themselves before Presuning 10 seek office.
The late clerk George Brown, spent one or two
years studying the language, and it was only
after he had acquired it, that he was appointed
to office, and every one was satisfied that the
appointment was q credit to the court. Had
our correspondent spent q year in the same
course of study, fitting himself for Office, his,
appointment would have been more appropriate.
1t is nothing less than impudence for foreigners
to ask for Office under this government, when
they are deroid Of the first quaii fcation required.
We don't doubt our correspondents connec-
ton with newspapers as an amateur reporter or
otherwise, but what has that to do with the
clerkship Of the court? 1t looks to US very
much like self-conceit to parade the fact before a
public who care no more about it, or Lord
George Bentinck, or his first class staff. than they
do of the Chinese rebellion. Lord Georges fame
has. indeed, reached these islands, but he is re-
membered only as a patron of the turf, fast
horses and fast men. There are other equally
conspicuous attempts to blow his own trum-
pet - that might be adverted to. but they are too
silly to notice.
1t is unfortunate for our correspondent that he
has sought to place himself so conspicuously
before the public, when, had he observed the
discreetness and sagacity which n lawyer is
always supposed to possess, he might, at least,
have made 4 more favorable debut among US.
The fancied : attacks of the Pacific Aduertiser,' -
which his disturbed imagination prematurely
conjures up, if they exist at all, exist only in his
Imagination, and re are glad to learn they .'strike
him undisma we'd :"