The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-02

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% days from Yokohama, we are in receipt of dates
from that port to March Sd. But one copy of th'
Japan Gazette has come to hand, and the news i
contains is not particularly important Passenger
by the Jennie Eastman state that Capt. Eyre, the
master of the British mail steamer which ran down
the u. S. Onefda, with such q terrible destruction Of
life, had been suspended from command for the space
of sir monfhs!-a very mild sentence, to say the
least, for one of the greatest marine outrages ever
perpetrated. By the way of California, We had
learned that he was to be suspended, but the term was
not stated. A few days before the Jennie Eastman
left Japan, another of the Oriental g. Peninsular
steamers ran into and sunk 9 Norwegian bark, cutting
her in two amidsnips. This time the steamer stopped
and saved sn on board the bark. The collision oc-
CURED near the scene of the Oaeida disaster. On
the night of March I'd a large fire occurred in YOkO-
hama, which consumed several stores, a hotel, and a
large number of houses chiefly occupied by China
men. 1t was supposed to have been the work Of an
incendiary. By this arrival a large number of new
varieties of trees and plants have been received from
Mr.. Van Reed, besides green pigeons, canaries, white
Java spsrrows, and silk-worm eggs, of the quality
known by the natives as the jOShfu, said to be a
superior kind. At Yokohama rice is reported as
scarce-quoted at 800 itzaboos, (35 cents each).
The Jennie Eastman has a lead of Goals, and her
destination is at present uncertain. The r. W.
Wood, hence Jan. 90, had not arrived, "a days out.
Capt. Samuel James, formerly a well-known resident
of Honolulu, is reported as doing well in Yokohama,
in the draying and dairy business.
SUPREME COURT, IN BANCo.-A case in the nature
of a submission on points of law and fact, has been
before the Supreme Court for some days past, and yes
terday the decision of the Court was rendered by Mr..
/ .Justice Hartwell The facts n c snhmifted wara that
at the time the firm of C. N. Spencer & Co. made a
voluntary assignment to Messrs Davies and Carter,
they were agents and part owners of the schooner
Pdudht. The schooner at the time was mortgaged,
and the main question at issue was, whether the
firm had a legal lien upon the vessel which should
take precedence of the rights of the mortgages, and
also as to the validity of the chattel mortgages, said
mortgages having been recorded only Mt the Custom
house, and not at the Office of the Registrar of Con-
veyances. The Court held that the recording of the
mortgages at the was sufficient notice
to all persons of the conveyance. and that the mean
ing of the word chattel as regards u vessel, is not to
be taken in the restricted sense as applied to that
kind of mortgages in general. Also that part owners
acting as agents and ships husbands can have no
lien upon the vessel as against other owners. The
Court therefore decreed judgment against the as
signees of c. N. Spencer g. Co., with costs. The
case was very ably argued for the .~assignees by Mr..
John Montgomery, and for the mortgages by Mr.. R
I'll. Stanley. -
THE STREETs.-The condition of some of the streets
of the city during the rains of the past week, has
been most decidedly swampy Queen street and the
lower part of Fort street particularly, being ANGLE
deep with Shiny. slippery mud. There being no
regular crossings, it requires considerable ski. to
pass from one side of the street to the other without
getting thoroughly mired, and polished boots are out
of the question. In fact, in many places there is no
choice in point of mud between the sidewalk and the
middle of the street. Now is the time for the road
makers to cart on the black sand, which readily
mixing with the mud, forms q hard road. Nuuanu
street is the driest and cleanest in the city and has,
through most of its length, good sidewalks. We
commend the plan generally adopted by the shop
keepers on that thoroughfare of making good side
walks-plank or otherwise--in front of their re-
spective premises, to the considerati"" g
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GA LITTLE KNOWLEDGE" &C.-The mistakes
made by some foreigners in trying to talk Hawaiian,
and those of the natives in endeavoring to understand
them, are sometimes laughable. a day or two since,
a gentleman came down town to open his Office in the
morning, but found he had forgotten the key. He
dispatched q native boy to his residence with orders
to bring the "ti,' and in the course of a half an
hour the messenger returned with q teapot, and the
parsphernalia of a light breakfast. If he had been
told to bring the XII, the difference of one letter
would have prevented the blunder. Another servant
was told to fetch a book lying on a lounge, which
latter was particularly described. Of course he left
the book and brought the lounge. These afford as
hearty jokes as any Irish bulls we have ever heard.
CITY Fathers -Bennet's OVn goes into rapso-
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at the Court House, and greatly honors somebody
whom it terms &c the city fathers - for the improve
ment, which. by the way, is certainly a very hand
some one. But we are indebted to our neighbor for
the information that our city has got " fathers -
had we been asked how she got along to her present
prosperous condition, We might in our simplicity
have answered, like little Topsy in the story-"I
'spect 1 grow'd.' However, as Benefits OWn ap-
pears to be well acquainted with the family, will it
oblige by informing us-whO are the city's
grand-mothersf -
In LUcK.-The discoverer of the new gold mines
near San Diego is Mr.. John r.. Cover, formerly of
who, with his family. migrated to Lower Cali
fOrnia about a year ago. If the mine should prove
to be extensive, it viii be valuable, especially to a
who is accustomed to hard work, and is capable
Of carrying on quartz mining. We have seen a letter
from Mr.. G. in which he fully confirms the published
newspaper accounts. The specimens sent to San
and which were taken out within six feet
Of the surface, will yield from one to two thousand
dollars to the ton. If 50, and his claim to the discov-
cry is confirmed, his fortune is made.
ANOTHER NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the natives en-
around the sugar kettles in the mill of the
Lihue Plantation on Wednesday week. fell in and was
scalded up to his waist by the boiling cane juice. He
has since died of his wounds, after the most intense
This makes the tenth or eleventh person
employed in the same mill, meeting similar ac-
,idents, some of them fatal, the last previous one
having been q German, about a year since. Is there
not some way to remedy this? Cannot a simple
be constructed around the kettles to serve as
, protection to the laborers?
ASSOCIATION MoNTHLY.-This is the title of a new
monthly journal published in New York city, under
he auspices of the Executive COMMITTEES OF the
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