The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-02-23
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY,. FEBRUARY ..
News of the Morning

News of the Morning
Owing to liz weather. tie ETrlat did not leave
for Hawaii ill Wednesday afternoon. She took
les than he usual number Of passengers for the
-In- reason. = lit Of them will he found under
de- proper head. She will Dee due on sunday NOR
ming. and ieayc again Oh Monday. It iLe weather
p-rrnit--
r. another column q today paper viii be found
an Interesting r-p0tt Of the murder uis! AT Waimea.
Hawaii. furnished b. oar special correspondents
Although the term vas ordered expressly for th-
impor-anrcas- which Ls- 50 fully occupied public
attention. yet ;here being one or two matters on
hand. The Court disposed Of them. The-e were
The King as. Hihun-. charged before the Di-tric.
Justice 81 North Kohala. with house-breakiug and
The King rs. David Eldridge. charged with bur
g.ary. The Att5ruey-Grnerai entered : MOLE pros
eqai in both cases. ! native man. named Papa.
was a~rraiguei FOR rape. but after a days trial, the
jury returned a verdict Of not guilty. adding. very
uaiyely. that Il there was any guilt in the mat
ter. the woman involved in the scr4pe was "a guilty
r. the man.
The rains 20 long wished for. if not prayed for,
have fallen for ten days past. with q freeness that
assures u that the supply above IL i by no means
exhausted. and that a kind Providence It'll watches
over the necessities Of the just and unjust as Of old.
How would our fields and plantations have suffered
had this month Of February passed without the
abundant rains which have fallen and soaked the
ground. and filled the huge cayerns and cisterns in
the mountains which feed the numberless springs
during The remainder Of the year. imparting life and
yigor 10 a thousand enterprises. which without them
must anguish To BE- sure, ships ready for sea
may be detained in port a few days by the stormy
weather. and passengers become over anxious to
encounter Neptune. di-tas,eul visits. and coasters
lie idle at the wbarves. unable to ! load or discharge
these arc incidents which - seldom occur here,
that they ought to be endured without repining.
Man. like nature all around him. shouid always
smile while tire skies above him wecT."
The King and Cabinet having authorized the
Minister Of Finance to depreciate Spanish reals
and English sixpeuccs To the value each Of ten cents
Of American currency, nothing remains now to
prevent the adoption Of the change. but an official
notice from the Minister Of Finance. issued perhaps
in conjunction with one from the President Of the
Chamber Of Commerce. that after a certain date
say thirty days from tLe date Of such notice-reals
will only BE- taken at ten cents each. some time
must el1p-e before tie natives all come into the
change. but once get hem 10 comprehend the idea
that 4 real i worth only ten cents. and that it
takes ten reals to make a dollar and they will
drop the deprecated coins instaHter and look with
suspicion on anybody who offers them.
The d. e. M,uTay viii sail this morning ut nine
O'Clock for san Francisco, with 20 passengers and a
cargo valued at nearly thirty-seven thousand dol
lars Among the passengers We notice the names
Of Charles l.. Richards. Esq. Of the firm Of Richards
* Co. \. :. Grinbaum. Esq. Of the House Of Grin
baum Il Co. Frank :. Pratt, Esq, J. l.. Burbank,
Esq, late manager Of the Koloa Plantation. and G.
r. Carter. Esq. of the firm Of Treadwell x Co. in
San Francisco. We wish them a pleasant passage,
and doubt not they will be in San Francisco by the
18th or 18th Of March.
\ number Of cases Of curiosities leave by the
bark d. e. Murray to-day. intended for the Paris
Exposition. These. together with what left last fall
in the T.. e. UyTis for Bremen, will ell the apart
ment allotted for Hawaiian products. Several Of
the passengers by the Murray intend visiting the
Exposition, which opens in April. and which will
BE- the grlndest display Of the kind ever
attempted in any country. At least Frenchnen in
tend it to be 50. and they know how to do these
things in grand style.
y foreign mail may be looked for in all next
week by the bark 4. 4. E7irjdge or the FORMED.
latter vessel viii touch here en- route for China.
and both were TO leave San Francisco between
February 9 and -. We shall probably have the
New York mail Of January 10th by one Of these
vessels