The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-05-28

r. Mr.. c. c. Bennett publishes in his last OWn,
an open letter to the Postmaster of San Francisco,
which indirectly and unjustly reflects on the Hawai-
ian Postmaster General. Mr.. b. complains that he
does not obtain his mail matter from the steamer as
soon as the publisher Of this paper. Now the facts
OF the case are these The three news Offices received
their San Francisco papers within a few minutes
after the delivery of the mails at the Post-office.
For their Eastern papers they all had to wait the
convenience OF the Post-offce officials to assert, and
some OF the papers We did not receive till the morning
after the steamers arrival. Neither Postmaster
BrickwOod nor Col. Coey, (the Postmaster in San
Francisco,) has shown us any favor whatever over
what is shown to Mr.. Bennett or others in delivering
mail matter. We have to thank Mr.. B., however,
for calling public attention to the place where papers
can be had two hours earlier than at his Office. If it
be so, 1t Is not owing to any Partially, but rather to
private enterprise, and we advise him to procure his
supplies there IN future, instead Of sending to San
Francisco for them.
ASSAULTS AND BATTERIEs-There have been several
of these during the past week first, on Sunday, on
board the City of Melbourne, steamer, when the
steward pitched into one of the passengers, and
would, If not interfered with, have given him a bad
beating with a paper ruler-an odd thing for a stew
ard to handle. He was arrested and fined SO, on
Monday. On Tuesday, a more serious assault and
battery occurred: a sailor, named Olaf Peterson
belonging TO the bark Cambridge, had an alteration
with William Carroll, the second mate, down in the
hold, and Us is asserted by the mate, attacked him
with a knife and bit with his teeth. Two rather
severe cuts were made with the knife in the scufle
and clinch, and several slight ones. Peterson was
committed for trial at the next term of the Supreme
Court. -
LEGAL NoTIcEs.-Kauwahine Alo petitions for
divorce from her husband, Alo, a Chinaman, on the
ground of continued and wilIful desertion for more
than three successive years. Set for hearing before
Justice Widemann, ON Thursday, September LIST, the
said Alo not being at present a resident Of this King
dom. In the matter of the estate of John Ii, deceased,
application for probate of the will and issuance of
letters testamentary to j. Komoikeehuehu and 4. Z.
Judd, was filed by S. u. Dole, Friday, the 10th day
of June next, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, is set for proving
said will and hearing said application, before Mr..
Justice Hartwell. -
ICE.-The public are indebted to Mr.. A. w. Bush,
for a supply of ice, twenty-five tons having been
received by him per Comet, to be followed by regular
supplies at short intervals. 1t is furnished to sub
scribers at the very reasonable rate Of Ave cents a
pound, which is the price it was formerly sold at in
San Francisco. Now, by the use of a new ice ma
chine, the article is manufactured in that city at a
cost of about one cent a pound, where forty tons per
day are consumed. -
u Telegraph signal, No. p, has, by order of the
Postmaster General, been changed to announce a
steamer from the Southard. There has heretofore
been no signal for the Australian steamers, and this
change will be q good one.
R- Mr.. Barlow advertises a large variety of new
goods for sale ON Thursday, which are well worth the
attention of dealers, as they are of an entirely new
line. - !
~ The present debt of the English Government
is e601 900 ,000-abOut 81 ,000, 000, 000-a mass of
money which appears almost fabulous.
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