The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10

dentists made the best "draw" this morning.
s What did be draw - inquired half q dozen. GA
big tooth, % was the innocent answer. If down-cast
countensnces are anything to judge by, several Of the
inquisitive ones considered themselves " sold"
PROTECTION Hook AND LADDER.-At Q regular
monthly meeting of this Company, held at their
rooms last Monday evening, an election for Foreman,
Assistant Foreman and Secretary took place, COCA
stoned by designations. The following gentlemen
were elected to fill vacancy for the unexpired term
Foreman, r. e. Wakeman Assistant Foreman, H..
G. Crabbe Secretary, William Humphreys. This
was not the annual election Of officers for this Com
pany, as that takes place in September, and Mr.. c.
L. Williams was not elected Deputy, as the Govern
ment GdSeite informed us this week.
CARRIAGE TRIMM1xo-By a card in our advertise
ing column, we observe that Mr.. Whitman proposes
to open a new establishment combining carriage
trimming saddle and harness making. With aview
to making trimming a speciality. be has brought
out a ane workman with him.. We always welcome
among us enterprising and industrious young men,
especially in any manufacturing line for as the
oil trade fails us we must turn our attention TO
home industry, and by encouraging this class to
settle among us, our place is improved, the COM
munity benefited, and the necessity OF sending our
ordersto San Francisco TO be executed, avoided.
RHoroGRAPHIc.-H. L. Chase's new Photographic
gallery is attracting deserved attention. Daily
groups are seen in front Of his windows, examining
the " counterfeit presentments - of our residents
taken in the highest style of the art One Of the
jokers of the town sold a number Of quiet
citizens yesterday. by gravely remarking that '' smart
as the Carandini troupe were supposed 70 be they
were undoubtedly taken in at Chase's." IL turned
out that their pictures were taken In at Chase's.
We have seen some very handsome photographs
taken by Mr.. Dickson, who occupies the stand where
formerly Mr.. Chase held forth.
In ADMIRALTY.-In the case of a native boat
steerer on board the bark Trident. during the last
season, who sued the Master for wages, Mr.. Justice
gave a decision in favor of the libellant for
and costs, valuing the oil at 85 cents per
gallon. Also in the case of John Pauhiwa ct al Us.
the bark .MOuna LOa, respecting the price of seal
skins, Justice HartweTl gave an :" interlocutAry
judgment (which is the law term for a Judgment
that is not final)-in which it was held that seamen
in a foreign port could not be held to the
consular rates at the home port. The question as to
the market price of seal-skins at the port Of discharge
was referred TO the Master, L. McCully, ESQ. On
Wednesday last His Honor the Chief Justice gave
judgment adversely to the plaintiff in the case of
William d. Cover Us. Alfred M. Trip, assault and
battery on the high seas.
IT CAN'T BE DoNEs-A correspondent in the last
Gazette, signing himself "Molokai,' in an incoher-
emily worded and badly punctuated letter, asks
that the RiLdueG may stop at Kaunakakai 10 land and
take off freight and passengers. It'll impracticable,
and Unnecessary First, because it would involve
the expense of maintaining a boat and q boats
crew on shore, say two miles distant from where
the steamer would have to lay to, and involve a
delay of several hours, without any commensurate
result in the shape Of " freight and passengers, /" to
counterbalance the loss of time and extra consump-
ton Of fuel.-for the fires must be kept up. Second,
it is unnecessary, because Molokai has almost daily
communication with Labaina, by small craft, and
with Honolulu every week by schooners. The
suggestion that the Rldued should leave Honolulu
at 9 or 10 O'Clock in the evening, instead of 4 in
the afternoon, is particularly rich. IL is reported
that the weather latterly has been very boisterous
and wet on MOlokai, but there have been no pre-
vious indications that it had affected the reasoning
powers of the Inhabitants.
"INrERvIEw1No.''-If we may believe the CORE
spondents of the New York Herald, both Napoleon
and Bazaine have been !" interviewed, - the first at
W~ilhelmshohe and the latter at Cassell. 1t may,
however, be reasonably doubted whether these two
Is unfortunate" would be inclined to become 90
communicative as is represented. The inquisitive
correspondent of the Herald would make us believe
that Napoleon fattered the American people i'm
mensely that he thinks they are a frank-hearted
and generous people that he feels deeply the dis
tress which has been brought upon the French peo-
pie and that he himself, instead of having large
sums of money laid by for q rainy day,-invested In
New York, and elsewhere,-is comparatively a Door
man. Bazaine is made TO say that there was no
chance whatever for him to make his way out Of
Metz that a piece of a grenade made n hole in his
epaulette, and expressed a wish that the COMPOUNDED
piece had gone deeper, so that he would not have
outlived his reputation as a soldier. Truly this Is
the golden age OF newspaper reporters and public
~credulity. -
NEWSPAPER BLUNDERs.-We are not inclined to
sharply criticize the errors and failings of our cotem-
porary, but sometimes they are too glaring to be
passed over. The article in this weeks Gazette,
headed "who Discovered the Hawaiian IslandsH"
contained, among others, one most ridiculous blum
der. Thus eve conclude as we commenced by
Saying that we do not wish to pluck board from
the brow of Captain Cookl" How uncertain is
fame! There is no difference betW cen a board and
a laurel. Cook has been criticized frequently, and
books variously bound in calf, sheep and boards
have been printed about him, but this is the first
time that we learned that his brow was bound in
boards. Since the above was put in type, we have
received the following communication on the same
subject:
Mr.. EDITOR IL noticed in the last Hawaiian
n wy "a oA4 aASShOoAAnk OOMAAuuAlCu-
ton in regard to the discovery of the Hawaiian
Islands, which showed great research. The closing
was as follows
ave conclude as we commenced by Saying that we do not
wish to pluck a board from the brow Of Captain Cook but
indicating the truth OF history, will not detract from his well
earned fame"
Does the writer mean that he does not wish to tear
off the top of the coffin of Captain Cook, who now
reposes in some quiet graveyard in Englandl II
that is his desire, who does not sympathize with him
in such a generous wish? Captain Cook, after all
his labors, ought to rest in peace, and no one should
wish to pluck a " board T" from his brow.
- SYMPATHIzER.
POLICE CoURT-On Thursday and Friday, the
business before the Police Court was the
Of the Crown Us. j.. d. Peavey, arrested for
spirituous liquors without q license. The
charge was brought under Chapter Al, Section 20 Of
the Revised Penal Code, which reads as follows:
"ADy person violating the provisions Of this
Chapter by vending s~pirituous liquors without hav-
ing previously obtained a license as hereinbefore
provided, shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay to the
Government, for each offense, the sum Of
hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned at hard
labor not exceeding six months, in the discretion Of