The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-05-11
Bearing False Witness.

Mn EpIToR-Nhen | read the article in a news
paper headed " Commercial, very naturally infer
that the statements made and conclusions drawn are
perfectly reliable, being suPpo>jtiou>ly derived from
good mercantile authority. But somehow the - Com
mercial y" writer in the Gasetfc of last Wednesday is
sadly out in his arithmetic a. for instance the fol-
lowing extract;
III comet, Com, Patty. camg ia on saturday, the VA u-t,
tie 5JI. Is d,y- I4SS,se, sal tie iris Eans. "a Trs~iaS. the
'tu- - days passage
The facts are, that the vessels namel sailed from
san Francisco and arri,el at Honolulu As follows;
h iq"t ~aasi ----Arfa l., Arrived -....-.-May
Comet >si.eI---..---.AIdI -, ArTiN,d.--.------May =
To 20 into a reckoning of fractions Of days might,
perhaps, have ii tendency to confuse the very disin-
tereStei commercial reporter of the Gazette.
The l. B. Laat sailed from san Francisco April
Eth, bringing papers Of th.t date, and arrived here
May 9TH. Thirteen days ia April and seven in May
makes her passage twenty days. Computing the
time occupied N the passages of the three vessels by
the same method, which is undoubtedly the only cor
rect one, and he showing would stand as follows, in
the rotation il which they arrived:
'n",atAe-- 9a! : lS1ssase'
l beg to ask if It is right or proper to allow any
party the use of the :. Commercial - column of a
newspaper to the injury of the reputation of any vos-
sci or any particular line of packets, in order to sus-
tain that Of another in which the party writing may
he interested The statement that there was a differ
ence Of eight days in the passages of the Cambridge
and l. b LUHt, in favor of the former, looks as
though it was made with the intention Of iniuring
the reputation of the latter vessel, or the line TO
which she belongs. If not, for what purpose was
such a misstatement made? Yours,
MISSING LETTERs.-The following item. which We
clip from a San Francisco exchange, may serve to
show where some of the missing letters are. The
American overland mail, during the winter season, is
a public nuisance. During the summer, it works
very well
Mail MyrTER-The Co'orado Register of March
30th says there are ten tons OF mail matter lying at
the different stations between Omaha and North
Platte Station awaiting transportation westward, the
coaches being delayed on account OF the snow.
Court MARrIAL-There is Il rumor about town,
which we have ascertained is well founded, that a
Court Martial was held on Tuesday last, on one of
the members of the Kings staff, for improper conduct
in churchs during Divine service. The conclusion
arrived at .by the court has not yet transpired, but
Will probably he made known officially next week in
the government organ. |
HOME PRoDuoE.-We noticed one day this week,
by the schooner .fctire, n shipment of three tens of
Rice, grown here, to the Metcalf Plantation, at Kau-
pakuea, near Hilo, Hawaii. How much better thus
to raise our own supplies than to send money out Of
the country to procure them from abroad.
RELIGIOUS NoTICE.-We are requested to state
that public services will be omitted at the Bethel to-
morrow, Sabbath May y, on account of painting and
repairs. -
~ The steamer California, which was reported
as destined to Japan, has been resold to the Consol-
;IatnI IJolla1ov CoInpany noticed in m commercial
columns, and Will be retained in the California SER
vice. -
81 Have we the Cholera among us, is a question
which has been asked since the sudden death of Capt.
Hopkins. Is it not a subject that deserves the atten-
ton of the Board of Health