The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-06-30
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.


We continue the Legislative reports from the
Dist to the Goth inclusive. 1t is interesting to
watch the extreme partiality of the Ministerial
party, and its want of sympathy with the poPu-
lar interests. The Hawaiian members asked
that the Law Reports might be printed in their
own language, rightfully arguing that if there
was a public press, it should be used for en!ight-
ening the natives, and not devoted almost exclu-
sively to the benefit of foreigners. Ministers
replied it was too expensive to print these re-
ports in native, would take too long a time TO
translate and print, and when done there would
be none but a handful of native lawyers who
would read them. 1t is truly sickening to see
the Ministers driven from one excuse to another
as they were on this subject, and saying that 4
simple publication of the Reports in a paper
called the Au OkOd would serve all the purpose,
as though Hawaiian interests were not para
mount. There is point in TIE following remarks
of the member from KoOlaupoko, and the ques-
tions of Gov. NahaoleIua
Mr.. Ukeke said that the motion of the last speaker
was with the intention of keeping the Hawaiian
people in a happy state of ignorance as regards
the dOIngs of their own Kingdom, and let the for
cigners into everything that Is going on. If the
reports were originally printed in native, the peo-
pie would see how quick the Ministers would want
tUtli IIlllltu III I-u8ll~h u u dlldu Il III
original language of the world, and to prove that.
he would say that whatever foreigner arrives here
can upon his arrival distinctly pronounce the word
4" aloha" and that proved that Hawaiian was the
original language.
Gov. Nahaolelua wanted to know why the Re
ports We're printed ut all.
Minister Harris answered him by saying that
they were printed for the use of the Judges and
lawyers. so that they might have them in a col
lected form, and not scattered through newspa-
pers, and that they were intended for the present
as well as future Judges and lawyers.
Gov. Nahaolclua said that he was of the opinion
that the book ought To be printed. as 1t would be
of benefit to the native as well as the foreign law
yers and Judges. He did not agree with the mem
Der from Koh&la in his statement that the book
an unimportant one. If so. why was it pub
lished in English
The bill has passed its second reading. but,
from the very determined efforts to de-
feat it, it will probably be killed on its third
On Tuesday, 4 somewhat singular commune
was presented from His Majesty the King,
requesting that the salaries of his Ministers be
They now receive four thousand dollars
year, and took office with the understanding
that that was to be their pay. No doubt their
salaries will now be raised, but the public will,
of course. he permitted to have its own opinion
Of the matter.
On Tuesday, the : anti-snake bill =" came up,
and the report of the discussion on it is worth
Here again we have a fair specimen of
our Hawaiian Ministers. To understand the
subject it should be stated that there arc now no
on these Islands that DIR. IIillebrand,
who was sent to China and the East Indies as a
Special Commissioner to obtain coolies, &C., re-
ports having found, in Java, Il species of snakes
are kept for the purpose of destroying
rats. With these novelties he was at once per-
rectly charmed, and has secured Il barrelful,
which are expected to arrive in one Of the first
vessels from San Francisco.
Of course there is n great and natural repug-
nance to the introduction of snakes of any kind.
in his natural history, says that tooth
snakes in the East are made 50 by extract
.ng their fangs, and that in that condition they
IRE considered harmless and kept as pets. We
find no allusion in any natural history to a
species that lives on rats only, while nearly all
makes destroy mice, birds and chickens. and
others live on fish. 1t is not improbable that a
make that will destroy rats, will destroy fowls.
Be that as it may, the introduction of these
reptiles is repugnant to the public sense, and
ought to be prohibited, though as all the for
,icners in the House side with the Ministers, we
ioubt whether the natives posses tact to get the
present bill through.
There is some probability that the Legislature
5ilI adjourn ON or about the 10th Of July. By
, resolution which was adopted, no new bills
an be introduced, and the old ones will rapidly
acted on, so that by the end of next week the
rorl of the session will be virtually closed.