The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-11-20
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

LARCENY OF MISUNDERSTANDING the past week.
the Police Magistrate has been occupied for some
days in investigating several cases o larceny of whale
bone from ships in the harbor. A number of boat
boys, it seems, were pretty deep in the business, pur-
chasing the bone from parties belonging to the ships
for about a third of its value, and under cover OF
night, conveying it to the shore to be sold to a mer-
chant, Mr.. T.. C. Heuck, in the cellar of whose store
the bone was found. One of these operators,
Hakuole, appears to have been an old offender. His
prison record reads thus: 1860. larceny, two years
1862, do. eighteen months 1866, burglary, three
years. In the present instance, convicted of the lar
ceny of one bundle of whalebone. he was sentenced to
three years and $25 fine. There are two more bun
dies against him, and he will probably be committed
for trial at the next term. Nakookoo and Samuela,
two boat boys, were charged with smuggling two
bundles of bone from the ship Onlrard. on the Sd
inst. They pleaded guilty to the charge and were
sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and $50 respec-
lively. Chas. II. Stephens and Jno. w. Hathaway,
seamen of the On,card, were charged with larceny
of the two bundles of bone brought on shore by Ma
kookoo and Samuela, and were on Thursday committed
for trial at the next term of the Supreme Court.
Peter Morgan, "a Hawaiian, but naturalized in the
United States,) was tried on Wednesday for larcepy
Of bone from the Orioie, of which ship he is third
mate. Judgment was to have been rendered in his
S1SS WI hef@fey oAeba PSh4AnE WIlCn IN WaS
released from custody on giving bail in the sum of
$500, to appear at 81 o'clock. He not appearing up
to 10 O'Clock, the bail was declared forfeit.
ADMIRAL TURNER and CAPTAIN FRANKLIN
invited a number of ladies and gentlemen on board
the JNohican, ON Wednesday last, to witness the
crew engage in target practice. The target was
placed on the reef to leeward of the port, and the
shots fired, though very accurate, failed to hit it.
Had a vessel been there instead of the target, every
shot would probably have struck her. The JNohican
was engaged in active service several times during
the late war, the most conspicuous engagement hav-
ing been at Fort Fisher, where the vessel was so
riddled by the confederate balls that she had to be
nearly rebuilt. We noticed three Hawaiians among
her crew, who were in the navy also during the late
war, and are ambitious to learn the art of naval
warfare, so as to be prepared to HELM man the Hawai-
ian feet, should we ever decide to indulge our national
vanity in the luxury Of ehips-ofwar. Since the
fate eff the brig Kamehameha, which the French ran
off with in 1849, we have learned that .t discretion
Is the better part Of valor."
q The bark Comet win sail to-day at 2 P. NJ. for
San Francisco, and any letters left at the Office of the
agents. Messrs- C. Brewer s. Co., with the proper
postage stamps Is cents Hawaiian and s cents Amer
ican) will be forwarded. Capt Fuller intends to
make the trip over in 16 days. arriving at San Fran
cisco four days ahead of the steamer. In the winter
months sailing vessels frequently make the passage
in less time than that. as s~outherly winds then
prevail -
81 The attention of jobbers and retailers is called
to the sale on Wednesday next, by Mr. Barlow, at
the store of Messrs. F.. A. Schaefer & Co., of new
and very popular goods ex A. J. Pope, from Bremen.
The assortment comprises the most saleable mer-
chandise yet offered this fall.