The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-03-26
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
saI-r SATURDAY. lM4RCH %.
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

BEER Shops The Police Court was the scene of
an extraordinary amount Of excitement on Saturday
last, in q large concourse of anxious faces assembled
to witness the result of q prosecution instituted by
the Crown against q man named Kalaihiapo, charged
with .t vending s~pirituous liquors, y without q license,
in the rear Of Maunakea street, in violation Of Section
Is, of the Acs of 23d August, 1862. The I'd section
of that Act defines what are sspirituous liquors, -
as contemplated by the Act, viz wines, ales, and
other liquors, containing alcohol" The prosecution
was conducted by His Excellency, the Attorney
General, and the fact Of the sale by the prisoner OF
two bottles of beer TO each of two natives, at Ia
cents per bottle on the previous Tuesday, was clearly
proved. Two of the bottles were produced in Court.
and their contents were proved by an accurate analy-
SIS to contain 81 per cent. Of sscohoL 1t was also
proved, by q competent adept, that the beer was
decidedly Intoxicating a fact corroborated by one
OF the witnesses, who proved that at the time OF the
purchase, he drank the contents Of one OF the bottles
in prisoners house, and that it made him quite hazy
and stnpid. No evidence was offered for the defense,
and the Court held the charge clearly established,
and imposed a fine of $500 under the statute, but
without imprisonment at hard labor, as authorized
by the Act. The Magistrate, in pronouncing the
judgment of the Court, awaited himself of the oppor-
tunity to lecture the prisoner, and through him the
rest of the fraternity, so largely assembled, on the
great evil resulting from the n~efarious traffic in
which they were engaged, and referred to the fact of
the great increase of cases of drunkenness, as mani
tested by the records of his court for the last few
months and also stated the determination of the
authorities to suppress the evil by every legitimate
means within their power. 1t was also stated on
the authority of the Deputy Marshal, that he was
fully prepared with proofs to convict several others
of the fraternity on similar charges, but which would
be suspended in the hope that the example now made
would operate as a warning to them, so as to induce
them to abandon their evil Courses hope which
appears by the sequel to have been well founded,
inasmuch as a general demolition of their stock in
trade Immediately followed. and on the next morning
some forty of these fourishing establishments had
ceased to exlst-we hope forever. We congratulate
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labors to 's stamp out - what all the community have
long felt to be an intolerable nuisance, but which,
from its very nature, it was no easy task to accom-
plish. from the great reluctance generally felt to
become &C an informer,' TO which stigma the native
population are not sensible.-GGSette
The result is that a sudden end has been brought
to the beer traffic, and the shops have been
closed. There can be no doubt but that the indis-
criminate selling of the so-called beer to the natives,
manufactured by some unprincipled foreigners and
sold to them by many of their own countrymen, has
been productive of a great deal of drunkenness and
attendant vices. 1t remains to be seen, however,
whether the authorities win be able to suppress the
surreptitious consumption of ava, that is pretty sure
to follow the closing Of the beer shops. Those who
have the inclination to use stimulants and the means
to pay for them, if they cannot get cheap beer, will
a way to get either ava or ale or whisky.
Legislation is unnecessary. Let the laws be
strictly in all cases, otherwise they become
a dead letter, and consequently fall into contempt.
THE VERNAL EoUINox.-The sun enters the vernal
equinox on the 21st of March, when the days and
nights are of equal length. The same occurs on the
23d of September, the autumnal equinox. These
are called in astronomy, the equinoctial points which
are found to be moving backward, or westward, at
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are called the procession of the equinoxes. The
passage of the sun is often accompanied with q gale
IF wind or a storm of rain, which leads some to sup
that gales are produced by the SUMS crossing
line. Last Sunday, the Goth inst, the day
opened with rain and wind, and during the day and
ali that night until next morning there were occa-
ional showers and strong gusts of wind, making
houses tremble to their foundations, and shaking
rom the trees immense quantities of young mango
ruit, just beginning to set. The rain again came
reshing the country and doing a vast deal of good
or the agricultural and grazing interests.
WHALING AT H1Lo.-One day last week a whale
went out in pursuit of whales which have been
cen frequently from the shore. 1t was not long be-
ore one was made fast to, and then commenced
That Jack calls rare sport. The whale darted off
nth the boat in tow, rushing from one point of land
en- or fifteen miles to another, wounded just enough
D make him desperate, but not MORALLY. The chase
through the night, and early next morn
1g the boat was seen still in tow rushing through
he water like a steam pillow. Another boat from
went off, followed by one from the ship Cham
ion, and the latter succeeded in killing the animal,
hitch was towed into the harbor and turned out
xty barrels, which was divided equally between the
nip and the shore party. The latter then towed the
lrcass ashore and tried it out, obtaining fifteen bar
els more, giving them ~forty-6ve barrels of oil for
labor, worth $1,000.
The FIG-TREE.-Fifteen or twenty years ago, the
g-tree abounded in and about Honolulu, and all
yer the island, and the delicious and healthy fruit
as plentiful and cheap. But afterwards came the
phis, by some called the sc scale-bug,'' and again
e blight,-andn now it will be hard to find a fg-tree, !
r they have oil died out. In some localities, how
on the other islands-as at Makagao and Hama,
Maui, particularly,-the tree with the leaves of
hich Adam clothed himself and Eve, still hourishes :
ID bears abundantly. Why cannot some of the :
sidents of that favored region send some to this mar
It, in a dried state of course, for then they make an
.cellent lunch with a piece Of bread. When fresh q
ON the tree, roasted on the Goals, they are a fine c
nitary prelude to breakfast, or greatly help out the e
inner dessert-especially with milk. 4
BIRTHDAY OF THE KING OF PRUssIA.-Last Tues :.
y. March 22d, was the 73rd anniversary of the y
rth-day of His Majesty, Wilhelm l., King of the a
German Confederacy. His Majesty is a we'll 8
eserved specimen of the last generation, having a
r~ticipated in the campaigns of 1814-15, including
aterloo, which wound up the fortunes of the first c
,poleon. The day was observed in Honolulu by n
e display of flags from the battery on Punchbowl, q
3 Austro-Hungarian frigate Donau, the foreign :
and the shipping in port. q
AT Work AT ~LAsT.-Captain Cluney informs us b
At Captain Roys has succeeded in capturing two n
lales, though We have q report that he had taken 3
rec. They viii average forty barrels each. With
as abundant as they now are about the isl 9,
ds, he ought to obtain one q week for two months z
so, at least. r. 49, -
LEGAL NoTIoE.-The following appears in the Ga :
tie. In the matter of the estate of s. P. Nohea, Of =.
.nolulu, deceased, application Of A. F. Judd, Ad- =
for order Of Court to sell certain pieces r
in KooIaupoko hesring ordered for Thursday, y"
nil It'll, before Judge Widemann. 81 ifu o.
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