The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-03-12
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

"S A-SSAAS OA AhdNHy ~
he visited the residences of several of our citizens on
shore during the previous evening, and in company
with a brother officer, at a late hour, proceeded down
Fort street, with the intention of returnip9 on board
the ship. Arrived upon the Esplanade, the two
comrades disagreed as to the route to be followed
among the coal sheds and piles of lumber which are so
numerous in that locality. 1t will be remembered
that Tuesday night was extremely dark, with a
drilling rain. The two friends separated, one going
to the right-unfortunately to his untimeLy death,-
while the other safely reached the ship. On Thursday,
the conviction having fixed itself on the minds of all
that the missing officer must have walked off the
wharf in the pitchy darkness, native divers were en-
ployed to search for the body, as well as the use of a
diving apparatus and armor, but without success.
But on Friday morning at daylight, the body was
found, floating within about fifty yards of the spot
where it is supposed. and with every probability,
that the unfortunate young man walked overheard.
The remains were taken to the Roman Catholic
Church ON yesterday morning, preceded by a guard
of honor of his shipmates, and followed by a process
sion of foreign Consuls and other residents here, and
the officers and crew of the ship, the band playing a
solemn march. From the church, after the funeral
service the remains were taken to the Catholic Gem
etery for interment. The deceased, Cadet Hlousehek,
was a native of Bohemia, a member of a highly
respectable family. and aged only nineteen years.
Whom the gods love, die young
"SAvE ME FROM MY FRIENDS !" said the first
Napoleon in his exile, "I can protect myself from
my enemies" In reading over the labOred apology
in the Government organ of this week for the District
Justice and School Agent for EVA, purporting to
adduce reasons why that official discharged certain
school teachers who differed from him in politics
at the late election the above saying, which has
almost If not unite become an anhOriSm - was
forcibly brought to mind. In the editorial remarks
following Judge Mahelona's communication, excusing
himself, and accusing others, of drunkenness, etc.,
occurs the following unfortunate sentence Sub
sequently, Kaulii and Kekaina were summoned be-
fore the Inspector General, and Kaulii acknowledged
to his own drunkenness saying, ua OnG pu kaua,
i. e., We were both drunk together That is q
pretty good specimen of the knowledge of the YER
nacular possessed by the man who concocted the law
(since repealed through his own infuence) whereby
a man was forced to leave office because he could not
read and write Hawaiian. The reply of the native
Kaulii, as quoted above, addressed, of course, by its
express terms to the Inspector General of Schools
(Of whom, however, we do not believe such things)
is in plain English just this You and 1 were
drunk together "a proposition that we do not for a
moment entertain. Well may the Inspector General
of Schools crave to be saved from his friends.
FROM Hawaii Capt. Gelett returned yesterday
from a flying trip around Hawaii, having been absent
from Honolulu just twenty-one days. In the interim
he visited Kona, Kau, the crater and Hilo. The
crater of Kilauea he found unusually active, the old
" South Lake having filled and overaown with
streams of lava a mile in extent. The boiling lava
appeared in seven different places, and spOuted up in
some of the openings thirty feet or more in height.
This, taken in connection with the late renewed acti-
witty in the summit crater, and the frequent Garth
quakes, indicates that the volcano on Hawaii is pre-
pairing for q new eruption. While at Hilo, Capt. G..
witnessed one of those grand sights not often seen in
the tropics. On Sunday evening, March 6, it COM
menced snoaoing, and continued during the night,
till morning disclosed the whole mountain summit
covered with a white mantle, the snow belt coming
about half way down its sides. 1t was a most magni-
fcent sight. The warm sun, however, soon melted
the lower belt, though the summit remained capped
for several days. -
NATIVES HOUSEWARMING Miss Rebecca hekaa,
a young Hawaiian lady with an English education
of whom there are not a few growing up in our
community-on Tuesday last at Honuakaha, other
wise called Fisherman's Point, gave a spread to the
choir of Kawaiahao Church and a few invited guests.
The vlands were abundant and appetizing, and the
whole arrangements were highly creditable to the
hostess. The occasion was the ROmO hale as
the Hawaiians designate what in Old and New Eng
land is termed a hou~sewarming, and the company
seemed to enjoy themselves much. After dinner,
the lady of His Excellency the Governor of Oahu,
who was present, improvised on the green with the
ladies and gentlemen of the choir, the old-fashioned
game of Puss, puss in the corner,'' that many of
our readers may remember to have participated in
when they were younger than now. How much
better this kind of a social gathering, so quiet and
SO respectable, from the "kuidhuLa iuau," as it is
called. -
COMMITTED FOR GROSS CHEAT-Last Wednesday,
a native boy, who had been engaged on the Kaalaea
Plantation, on this Island, was brought before the
Police Court on a charge of gross cheat. 1t appeared
by the evidence adduced on the examination, that
the boy had represented himself as being over twenty
years of age, whereas it subsequently, appeared that
he was a minor, and his contract, on which he had
received $50 advance, was void by law. Conse-
quently the action was brought by Mr.. A. F. Judd.
ON the part of the Crown, ON the criminal side of
the Court, Mr.. Henry Thompson acting for the
prisoner. He was committed for trial at the next
term of the Police Court. Some interesting points
of law will probably be brought forward in this case,
as to the relations of parents, guardians and others
to minors. |
LITERARY Theft. -Shakespeare once said, "The
man who steals my purse, steals trash twas mine,
tits his &C., and then goes on to say that he who
sc flches - bis good name is a worse kind of a robber.
We don't wish to be hard on our cotempora-
ries, but will simply observe. in the politest man
ner possible, that when they appropriate the re-
suits of our own exertions and enterprise, word
for word, as in the case of the translation of the
resolutions of the Hawaiian Bar on the occasion of
the death of one of their members, it would be moth
ing but fair that we should receive the proper credit.
THE KoNA AT KooLAU.-While the "Kona of
the first part of this week was quite moderate on this
side of the island, at Koolau the wind at times blew
from the West in violent gusts. On Wednesday
morning, shortly before daylight. a sudden squall
took away half of the roof of the native quarters at
Kualoa, and the entire roof of another house near
by. At Kaalaea, a house was removed bodily from
its foundation, by the force of the wind. Probably
the Pail, from its tunnel shape, caused the increased
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