The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-11-26

Police CoURT.-In the Police Court, thursday
morning, the steward of one of the ships in port
1--WE presume, however, he had been discharged)
brought an action for S25 against the master for
about one years. washing of his clothing on board.
The performance of the washing was not disputed,
but it was contended by the master that it was an
invariable custom for stewards TO do such work for
the captains ; and a master of long experience pro-
duced to show it, which he did, stating that he had
once been sued himself in a ike action, at New Bed
ford, and such n claim was dis-allowed by the Court.
In the present case His Honor did the same, and asa
matter of course the steward went out of Court, not
only minus the $25 he expected, but minus costs as
we'll. -
The OPEN POLAR OCEAN-A DAVIS STRAIT HAIR
pooN FoUxp IN A WHALE CAUGHT OPP POINT BARROW,
IN THE ARCTIC OcEAN.-The American w~haleship
Cornelius Hootand, Captain Holman, arrived at
this port on Tuesday last. Captain Holman and
his mate, Mr.. Potter, report that they took a
polar whale off Point Barrow, with the head of a
harpoon marked ga. G." imbedded in the blubber,
and the wound had healed over. This harpoon is
supposed to belong to the bark .AnseH Gibbs, of New
Bedford, which is known to have been engaged in the
whale fishery at Cumberland Inlet, in Davis Strait,
for ten or eleven years past. We have heard before
of instances where a whale has been caught at Cum
berland Inlet, with harpoons in them, with which
they have been struck in the Arctic Ocean, but We
believe this is the first authenticated instance of a
whale having been caught IN the Arctic Ocean with
a harpoon in it from the Davis Strait side. This
corroborates the view of those who maintain that
there must, sometimes at least, be open water in the
polar sea connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific
Oceans, and is an instance worthy of careful record.
The harpOon is now on board the Cornelius How-
land in this harbor.
The CARANDIN1s.-We together with our cotem-
porary, the Gazette, have been somewhat seriously
taken to task for having exhausted the vocabulary of
the English language in praise of this talented and
pleasing family of vocalists. All We will say in
reply is, the more shame for the vocabulary. If it
be exhausted in their praise, we are not. HawaIans
are not Cherokees or Choctaws. whose maxim is nil
admirari nor do we deem it necessary to hide our
feelings beneath a dignifed reserve. Besides we
have not, or at least most of us have not, just arrived
from the capitals of Europe, the great centres of
music and song. On the contrary we confess to have
been confined for q quarter of a century, more or
less, upon the Hawaiian group, In that time We
have heard Kate Hayes and the Ethiopian Serenaders,
with an occasional funny song in the circus and If
we are now more than usually p.eased-nay de-
lighted-tO hear the best songs sung by several
beautiful voices, well trained and harmonizlng
together, with the additional charm of pretty faces
and engaging manners, why should we not express
our pleasure as warmly as we are able? Faults In
the manner of expressing our feelings may perhaps
be excused on the ground Of their sincerity, and If
We nave SDOWereu = bouquets on mr. OHdlls Us lHe
g Unfortunate Man, as well as more appropriately
on Miss Lizzie and her sisters, it merely meant that
we appreciate the comic as well as the pathetic, and
that funny faces may sometimes please as well as
pretty ones. ro..E,5 -- 7f51s e.-.f r4.u s-
SUPREME COURT IN ADMIRALTY.-An interesting
case was heard Thursday before Justice Hartwell,
where three seamen, lately belonging to the .Mauna-
loa, sued the captain for balance of amount in the
nature of wages-in this wise. They shipped, as we
understood, on a sealing voyage, in the above vessel,
from this port, for twelve months, on shares. After
a cruise of fourteen months, the ship went into San
Francisco, where these men applied for and got their
discharge from the Hawaiian Consul at that port,
who also settled their voyages at the rate of three
dollars per seal skin, that being their value in the
United States, and gave the men orders to such eff
feet on the owner here. The Consul also procured
passage on board the same vessel to Honolulu. Ar
irving here, the owner objected to the COnsuPs set
Element at San Francisco, and the Harbor Masters
deputy also appears to have ignored the same, and
paid the men off at $1.50 per skin-that icing the
value fixed by the American Consul here. Mr.. Jones,
counsel for the men, argued strongly against the
propriety of Hawaiians being bound by rates OF the
U. S. Consul, and that such proviso really formed no
part of the contract under the shipping articles,
being only under the head of s. Remarks.S' OF the
force of the argument We can express no opinion
the Court has taken the case under advisement. So
far, suits in admiralty have not been very numerous,
and our friends, the captains, cannot complain of
excess and litigation at our port, though the lawyers
MIGHT