The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-05-20
Letter from Hawaii.

HILo, May 14th, 1871.
Mr.. EDITOR Late last night arrived from Homo.
lulu the schooner Kate. with latest news from you
twelve days old. If you then of the capital admi
being behind the times, what of the Insignificant Us
who vegetate mouldily in this remote corner of thu
Kingdom? There is something in the mere name OF
a steamer, even be that name Ritauea, which stimu.
lates expectancy, whilst ~latterly nobody ventures tc
expect anything, save bedtime.
Apropos of steamers,-that was
A PRETTY LITTLE PRESENT
From Washington to Captain Long the other day.
an heirloom truly as you say
"That must and shall be hung high and aIoof
Safe from the VOLTS black jaw and the dull ass's hOof"
Why did the Gazette compress that pleasing incident
with scarcely comment into secondary type, and
make a wall-hower of it in an obscure corner of that
independent paper? Why ?-what a set of limo
cents we are to be sure How lately were we all, of
all sorts, kindreds and degrees. exchanging con-
CALCULATIONS on the street, that such an occurrence
as the Saginao's fate had given US the chance to
show our lion-ike great and good friend and
ally at Washington and elsewhere. how gracefully
and modestly
OUR LITTLE MOUSE OF A GOVERNMENT
Might be inspired to act upon occasion, whilst the
right hand of the constituencies went as naturally to
its pocket as if the contingent appropriation had al
ready been called for, so willing. so eager, so proud
was every man to participate TO be aHoved to
share in the happy idea OF proving that the Golden
Rule was a platform here, on a land reclaimed by
the Grace of God and American zeal Heathen-
dom. May the Lord have mercy upon us! say
WHAT INNoCENTs WE ARE!
To suffer during a moment of amiable unanimity,
the delusion that = 3 9 and = = = repre-
sented the Christian instin,ts of the people 1.-THE
Kings subjects.) Let US hide our faces. for there is
nothing else to be done nov, nothing! There is no
word in the Hawaiian language to express Gratitude.
Surely there is something strangely significant in
that peculiar void
THE HILo My AssIZEs
Are just over,-they fzzled out in a puff of smoke,
and the venerable institution called law notably sus-
tanned it's proverbial ductlity, regardless of ex-
pense,'' inasmuch as a sdect half dozen reclaimed
ornamented with constitutional privileges
and in civilized rigging, ssw but the silver side of
the emblazoned shield poised aloft by central justice,
whilst six hly-white gentlemen of Caucasian brain,
honest if poor, and of long hereditary culture, ap-
,~roaching from the opposite side Of the arena, dis
inguished only the ungarniihed field sable presented
o their view by the reverse side In other words,
ieorge Davies Hueu sued the Waimea Grazing and
Company for making a long series of
MISTAKES REGARDING THE PATERNITY OF CATTLE, +.
md $4,000 was the point at issue. A "mixed
1ry'' like oil and water, after some hours of OBJ
innate argufcation in the jury room, unanimously
liled to agree, whereupon the cover was shut down
the present on that Jack-in-the-box thing called
ieum and tuun, and the case was post-pone-ded in
ur gentlemanly words. Thus solemn judicial :
and a charge from the Chief Justice, dis
ling transparent truth,-strong and faithful bar :
sterial power for the justification of the same
Iree profound interpreters duly emphatic with their =
cond hand zeal, q cloud Of bewildering witnesses
Id a wilderness of mythical testimony,-the logic
i'd the wisdom and the wit, good-for-nothing jury (
I'd an,-were courteously resolved into the ele- \