The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-11-04

Low W~AGEs.-Seamen were shipped this week to
go on short voyages at IS per mOnth-one months
advance. -
MAsoSIc.-The regular monthly meeting of Ha-
waiian Lodge, No. q, F. & A. NJ, will be held at
their Hall, on Monday evening next, at seren O'Clock.
Cold NIGHTs.-For a week past, the nights have
been quite cool, even to GOODNESS towards morning.
Cannon suggests that it is owing to the presence
here of so many " cold shoulders - from the Arctic.
RETURNED HAWAIIAN SEAMEN.-From Capt. Daniel
Smith, of the Harbor Masters Office, we learn that
1888 Hawaiian seamen were shipped on the whaling
feet during the last fall and spring, and that 378
have returned to this port, ten having died during
the season. -
WoMAN's RIGHTs.-A Mrs. Kappa, advertises in
one of the native papers as follows: "Know all
people who see this, I, Mrs. Kapaa, the married
wife of Kolomaio, of Naalehu, Kau, Hawaii, do
hereby forbid the foreigners living in Kau, from
again shipping my husband, inasmuch as have
ordered him to come back and live with me, in &C
cordance with the fundamental law of marriage.
Marriage is a good thing for everybody. Respect
fully, Mrs. Kapaa."
NEEDLESS RIDING.-A native was brought up in
IL L OiOC OOuII v 1uursuaJ, CudrReu Win furious
and needless riding through the streets of the town,
whereby a little child was ridden over though fortu-
nately not seriously hurt. The man plead guilty,
but stated in mitigation, that he was drunk at the
time. Our Police Magistrate, as is pretty generally
known, is by no means inclined to be lenient to this
class of offenders, and in this instance imposed a fine
of $50. -
THE HEALTH OFFICER.-We have a communica-
ton from "a man about Town." which is however
too long for our columns, criticizing the agent of
the Board of Health, who, be intimates is no longer
ANEW broom" He instances several loud"
smells that he has encounted in his meanderings
about town. and points to the accumulated rub
bish on Private" street, as thrown from neigh
boring premises. These hints, we hope, will salts
fly our correspondent and rekindle the energy of
the officer. -
DEADLY WEAPONS "A Sailor was brought to the
station house on Tuesday night by a constable, for
carrying about with him a musket. 1t was an old,
rusty, hintlock affair, and looked as if the danger in
firing it would come from the rear as much as from
the muzzle. The man said he was trying to sell it
for a dollar or two, he being a shipwrecked sailor,
without money. He was told that it was not allowed
to carry such weapons about at night, and that he
might leave it and come again in the morning. An
other sailor was overheard to say to a s~hipmate, "If
any body touches me, I'll go for them with this 3"
at the same time exhibiting a large sheath-knife.
The knife was arrested and the man warned.
CASTOR OIL BEANs.-A correspondent writes to
say that he finds that the beans will not pop as
described in our previous item on this subject, and
inquiries whether there is not some machine extant
for hulling the beans. We have made inquiries on
this point, but cannot find that any body knows OF
any such machine ever having been used for the
purpose. We do not see, however, why the principle
of the common corn shelter, seen ON every American
farm, could not, in q modified shape, be made avail
able in constructing a machine for hulling the castor
oil bean. Such q machine could be made at our Iron
Works at a moderate cost, We think.
CoRREcTIoN-The Friend for November has a
brief notice of Photographic views of the lost
whaling Fleet" in which " Mr.. Waldemar Muller :"
is given the entire credit of the production of the
sketches from which the photographs were taken.
Without wishing to deprive Mr.. Muller of any credit
that he may be entitled to, we would say that he
was employed with others) to copy the sketches
made by Captain Kelly, and that to Capt. K. be-
longs the honor of having produced the originals
that have been so successfully photographed by
Mr.. Dickson. The views have been warmly COM
mended for their trutbiulness by all those who hav-
ing returned from the Arctic, are best qualified to
pass Judgment upon them. AS copies of the or
iginal were sent by Mr.. Thrum to Harper's Week
ly, we may soon expect to see the results of his en-
terprise in that paper. We advise our readers to
have a look at the photographs.
CIRCUIT JUDGE OF OAHU.-Judge Kamakau's
Court has been in session this week, and several
cases were disposed of. A native who had been SEN
fenced in the Police Court to two months imprison-
ment for throwing a knife at a thieving dog, cutting
q cash in its back, was, on appeal, adjudged to pay
q fine of So. The Chinaman who feloniously picked
up a natives bag of money, and was sentenced to
one year by the Police Magistrate, got of on appeal
with one month. Considerable interest was excited
by a case of assumpsit, brought by an official OF the
Court House against q prominent merchant OF the city,
involving an alleged transaction in hay. The princi-
pal legal talent of the bar appeared on either side.
Counsel for plaintiff proposed to put in the book &C
count of their client. with the supplementary oath.
which, being objected to by counsel for defendant,
the objection was sustained, and the suit was dis
charged. -
A TRAGEDY IN KoNA.-FromS South Kona. we
learn that on the morning of Oct. 26, q murder and
suicide had occurred at Kauhako, q place about f-
teen miles south of Kealakekua Bay. A native
named Kalua, had killed his wife with q Ratchet and
then ended his own career by jumping of a preci-
pice some eighty feet high, and dashing his brains
| out on the rocks. All that is known of the circum-
stances are related by q daughter of the pair, who
slept in the same house. She states that during the
night of the 25th she overheard her parents disputing,
but dropped off to sleep. Towards morning she heard
Q gasping noise from the place where her mother lay
and as she had complained the night previous OF
headache, the daughter went to lomiiomi her head,
when, in the dark, she was Mortified to find her nm
gers in her mothers brains. Her screams brought
the neighbors, but Kalua, the husband could not be
| found. The woman was quite dead, with two
wounds on the right side of the head, penetrating the
brain, apparently made with a Ratchet. or small ak
II was known that Kalua had an instrument of that
description, but it could not be found. About noon
of the 26th, the body of Kalua was found at the foot
of a ~precipice 100 yards from his own house, the
brains dashed out and the neck and back broken,
and with q handkerchief tied over the eyes, he hav-
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