The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-09-07

mate and extensive business relations,
conversing together, that they were
conversing on the subject which, for
the moment, was agitating his assis-
tant. We have no doubt that if the
gentleman had stepped up and inquired
into the subject of the conversation,
similar explicit account of the business
under consideration would have been
given him, as appeared in this paper some
time since in relation to the affairs of the
Waihee Plantation, over the signature
of the Second Associate Justice. Our
self, being of an inquiring turn of mind,
and being impelled by the above quoted
sentences, took occasion to investigate the
subject of this conversation, believing it
to be our duty, as much as it is any
body's to inquire into our neighbours pri-
waite affairs and conversation, and found
that they were engaged in making ar
rangements.to pay the administrator of the
estate of His late Highness NJ. Kekuanaoa,
the sum of ten thousand, seven hundred
and fifty dollars, the same being the
amount agreed to be paid for the fee sim
pie title of the Waihee estate. And it
may be gratifying to the curiosity of
those who find it more profitable and
agreeable to attend to other peoples affairs
rather than to their own, to know that
the sum was duly paid to the administra-
tor, who, in his turn, paid it to Mr.. Schae-
fer, agent to Mr.. de Varigny. We have
not followed the matter any farther, and
are therefore unable to state what dispo-
sition was made of the amount on the
part of the agent of the latter named gen.
tleman, but haven't a doubt that Mr.. S.
will give all reasonable information as to
the disposition of the funds.
The leading article of the p g. H., for
last week, tends to show that the Editor
loves himself more than he does his neigh
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cerned, he is very easily excited, and feels
it very sensitively, but he has no objec-
ton to publishing his own SuppoSitiOnS,
or those of still more crude and irrespon-
sible men than himself, regarding the
private business, conversations and mo-
tiyes of his neighbors, as is eviden-
ced by the comments on Mr. w. L.
Green's letters to this paper; but
/ his idea of the law of conspiracy
is certainly interesting to any one, and
must be amusing to the gentlemen who
are the subject of his comments. He re-
fers his readers to the Penal Code, Chap
ter Twenty Nine, on conspiracy, and
says that the statute book declares that
it is a CRIMINAL OFFENCE for any
parties to CONSPIRE to injure any man
in his trade or occupations" so according
ly we referred to Chapter Twenty Nine
and found that that chapter pertains to OBJ
structing the course of justice,-but sup
posing he meant Chapter Twenty-Eight,
our readers will please observe the read
ing of that Section:
81. conspiracy is a malicious or fraudulent
combination mutual undertaking or concerning
together of two or more, to commit any offrnse or
insigate any thereto, or charge any one there
with; or to do what plainly and directly tends to
excite or occasion ofTense what is obviously aud
directly wrongfully injurious to another"
SO, according to this moral philosopher,
the meeting together of few gentlemen,
who have singly and collectively been
slandered in his paper, as shareholders
and slave-drivers, whose business he has
sought to injure by asserting the "unde-
sirableness of plantation labor" (see p.
@. Adcertiser Aug 9th, 2nd page, 9th CO.
lumn, ct ubique,) and a resolution upon
their part that they will give him " let
ting Alone and that they will not purchase
of those who advertise in his paper, or in
other words that they will use the means
in their power to withdraw their own sup
port from men who use every means with
In their power to inquire their business
and traduce their character, is "malicious
and fraudulent combination to do " what
is obviously and directly wrongfully inju-
rious to another" According to this low
er of his neighbor, man would be indict- |
pable for conspiracy, who, finding that a
man is melting people to defraud him, to
burn his houses, or to do him any other
injury, or being armed, threatens his life
or property, himself resolves to deprive
him of those arms or other means of |
injuring him by peaceful means, is
guilty of conspiracy within the terms of
the statute; more particularly if his
friends and others who have likewise been |
subject to the same traduction and injury, /
unite with him in Withdrawing their coun- /
tenance and support from their traducer
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