The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-02


E 1t is reported that the bark u. C.. Murray,
which sailed on Thursday last for San Francisco. will
hereafter be run in the same line with the Comet.
THE VoLcANo.-From Hilo we learn that the late
eruption of Mauna Loa was not visible on that side.
Latest accounts from Kona report the light on the
mountain as seen from that side.
PASSENGERS EAsr.-The S s. Moses Taylor, which
sailed on Monday afternoon, took some twenty-one
passengers from this city, besides forty-three from
New Zealand. Her cargo of domestic produce was
valued at $4,000 -
OAHU CoLLEGE.-On Wednesday next, the 9th iu-
slant, the new term commences at the College. By
the Moses Taylor, Mr.. W. Fl. Chickerng, a graduate
of Amherst, Mass, arrived here to take a Professor
ship in this institution.
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL.-It. is officially an
nounced that during the absence of His Excellency
the Attorney General on q visit to the United States.
L.. McCully, Esq. will act in the Courts of record of
the Kingdom as Deputy Attorney GenerpE
KNIGHTS OF PYrHIAs.-A dispenskion having been
received by the last mail, from the Supreme Chan
cellor of the Order, Deputy Grand Chancellor George
Howard formally instituted Oahu Lodge No l, of
the Knights of Pythias, on Wednesday evening last,
aad installed the following duly elected officers for
the ensuing term: J. A. Hassinger, W. c George
Williams, W. v. C.. H L. Sheldon. w. R. S. ; Thos.
Tannntt, w. F.. s.. David Dayton, W. B. John
Neill, ". g.. J II. Black, w. L S. ; Edward Kistler,
w. o S.. -
Police CoURT.-There has been so little dore in
this forum during the past week, that it has been
suggested that Sc to let,' might with ~propriety be
written over the door. On Wednesday, Oni, a native,
plead guilty to having been drunk the night before,
for which indulgence he was mulcted in the sum of
50. Kalili also had been guilty of the same ofense,
and it appearing that ~inebriety was getting to be an
old habit with him, he was find So, and warned that
on his next appearance he would be " sent over" A
boy eleven years of age, named Kamapa, was COM
planned of by his mother, for absenting himself from
school. He was sent to the R~eformatory until he be-
comes of age. -
CoRREcTIoN.-In our notice last week of the case
of the estate of Hannah Vaughan, deceased. intest-
ate, we were in error in stating that the decision of
the full Court was rendered by the Chief Justice.
The facts are that Judge Hartwell, sitting as a Court
of probate, made an interlocutory decree, November
10th. 1869, that Sc the petitioner, (Pauahi) is not
entitled to the said estate by virtue of the said writ
ten articles of adoption, but that the contestant,
Nancy Writ, was the i~ntestate's sole heir at law
From this ruling, appeal was taken to the full Court
IN 6anco. The majority of the Court,-Justices
Hartwell and Widemann-decided that articles of
adoption have not the effect of making the adopted
child an heir, Chief Justice Allen dissenting.
ABUSE OF A CH1LD.-It is reported that a we'll
known foreigner, a resident of the district of Kohala,
Hawaii, has been arrested and convicted before the
District Magistrate. of the crime of abusing a female
child under the age of fourteen years, and sentenced
to twelve months imprisonment at hard labor. 1t is
further reported that an appeal to the Circuit Court
had been taken, and the accused admitted to bail.
The law under which the prosecution is brought, is
found in the Revised Criminal Code, Section 9 of
Chapter 13, which reads as follows
Whoever shall be convicted before any police or district
justice of this Kingdom, of having sexual or carnal intercourse
with any female of this Kingdom, under the age of fourteen
years, shall be imprisoned al hard labor for any term, not less
than three, nor more than eighteen months, in the discretion
of the Court.
Yesterday, in the Police Court of this city, a young
native about Is years of age, "a married man at that)
was convicted under the above section of abusing a
girl uuder IA, and sentenced to six months imprison-
ment at hard labor. -
CARRIAGE BUILDING-Dropping in at Benfield's
Carriage Factory on King street the other day. we
were surprised TO learn that all the work of some
of the finest vehicles is now done here. The raw
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do the entire work, and certainly in a style quite
equal to anything brought here from abroad, while
it is superior in good, honest workmanship. Some
marvellous light buggies have been turned out or
are in process of building at Beniield's. to order
aud for sale. The trimming by Whitman is unsur-
passed in neatness and durability. while the orna-
mental painting and gliding by Richards is all that
the most fastidious can desire. Any one wanting
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needs or faneies, can get every bit
as well and as cheap in Honolulu as by sending
abroad. -
A WONDERFUL BEAN.-Mr. Sands, recently re-
turned from the Coast. shows some specimens of
what he calls a Mexican bean. that is certainly a
curiosity. 1t is apparently the dry seed of a plant,
which, held for a short time in the palm of ones
hand: hegins to move, turn over and skip about.
in a most unacconntable way Many have puzzled
over it nnavailingly to find a reason for its move
Some concluded that there was a bug in
the she'll ; others that the pulsations of the
nerves of a persons hand set it in motion others
again attributed it in a general way to electricity
but then, why should this particular bean, more
than any other, be susceptible to the electricity of
the human system? The most likely explanation.
or rather suggestion likely to be near the fact, was
made oy q medical gentleman. who supposed the
plant to be a connecting link between the animal
and vegetable kingdom. as the polyps or zoophytes
OF the sea. We hope that some who may have Sc
cured the seeds will make the experiment of plant
ing this curious stranger.
FIRE AT HANALE1-From the Hen. D. Kaukaha
are panied to hear of the l9s By fire Of several
belonging to the Prinoeyilie Plantation, one
Of the largest and most extensive eststes on the Is
He states AT II o'clock noon, on the
18th of August, two large trash houses and two of
the laborers houses were burned down, besides a
Iarge lot of trash stored in the aforementioned build
lngs, and ell the pill on the paH IN the vicinity OF
The plantation, (valuable for matching or roofing pur-
poses-) The FIRE was caused from the sparks from
The chimney, blown on the roof Of one of these houses.
At 10 O'Clock in the forenoon FIRE vas first discovered
IN one of the houses, xheu fbe hands were set to
york to extinguish it. An hour-aad-a-half after
Yards fire was again seen in the same place, but too
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