The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-04-20

Fox SAN FRANcIsco--The Hawaiian bark Queen
Emma is loading with island produce. the greater
part Of which IS freight that was Intended Tor the
steamer. She will sail for san Francisco on MOI
dav. Can't Gelett. owing 10 ill-health will not pro
coed in the vessel this trip. but wc understand max
site will be commanded by Capt Burns, recently
OF the schooner Jenny
TINS FIRFMEx's BALL-The ball at the Hawaiian
Hotel given on Thursday night last by d" Mechanic
Engine Company, No. >, was a brilliant affair. Inc
company Of ladies and gentlemen was sufficiently
large 10 quite ill with sets OF dancers the large nan
snd everybody appeared TO enjoy themselves much.
Among the invited guests We noticed His Excellency
the Governor Of Oahu, Judge MiIemann, Of the
Supreme Court, Hon. {. K Bishop, and others. and
several Of the foreign Consuls- None Of His MAjestys
Ministers houorei the gallant tremcn with their
presence. At - o'clock a sumptuous supper was
served. after which dancing was resumed and kept
up until a late hour-or rather an early hour-oi
the morning. -
STEAMER IINE-The clipper packet d. C. Murray
Capt. Z. Z. Shepherd. arrived on Wednesday even
ing 1T > p. NJ, in eleven days from san Francisco.
She left that port in company with the steamer,
and although both encountered severe weather, the
bark seems TO have bad the advantage while the gale
continued. During the last 30 hours, she was al
most within sight of the Islands, with light weather,
and with an ordinary wind could have made port
Tuesday evening. One Of our :. F. exchanges, IN
noticing the departure OF the bark and the steamer,
remarks that IL would be a" rather a rough Joke " II
the former should arrive hrst lt Is certainly a
Joke as il is, that the Murray should make "A pas
sage nearly equal 10 that Of the steamer.
Runaway SAIoRS-Sailors are generally n dis
contented set of mortals and many have IA decided
antipathy to remain a very great while in one vessel.
This is particularly the case with whalers' crews,
especially when Just from home. The Josephine,
while in port lost ten men by desertioh. aud al
though she remained in sight Of the island several
days in hopes OF obtaining them again she was
compelled to proceed on her voyage without get
ting them all back. Several OF the runaways were
captured a few days afterward. and like many
others before them, who were in hope OF lettering
their condition. had to ship in another vessel-the
NdataUS-to procure the wherewith TO get out oil
their scrape. We understand that the bark Helen
Mar. which is just out from home and arrived yes
terday from Hilo, had several desertions while at
that port. =
The DROWNING OF DR.. ~BERAz.-Letters from Maui
received Yesterday give full particulars Of all that is
known respecting the sad death Of DIR. Beraz, but
nothing Of Importance in addition to the statement
in our issue Of Saturday last, except the fact that
the Doctor was ON his way to return TO Mr.. Unna s
place from the Catholic mission, when he LOST his life
in crossing the gulch of KAPPA. This gulch is dry
in ordinary times, but heavy rains in the mountain
fills it very suddenly with a raging torrent, when It
is quite impossible. At the seaside, the gulch opens
out on to a rocky coral shore on which the surf beats
heavily, and if a person escaped death from the
rocks and boulders of the stream he would meet II in
the breakers. The corpse was identified by two
rings, q diamond and q crest, which the Doctor con-
stantly wore. A coroners' jury was impanelled on
the Sth inst. by J. Nakila. Esq, the Magistrate Of
the District, and a verdict of accidental drowning
returned, and the body was inferred at the Catholic
mission of Hama.
Since writing the above we have received n
letter from an attentive correspondent at East Maui,
who had an interview with Father Boniface Schaefer,
the Catholic priest with whom DIR. BeraZ spent the
last half-hour previous TO meeting his death. The
Doctor had performed an operation ON a native wo-
man in the morning, and after dining at the mis-
sion, determined to return that night 50 as to see the
woman again early next morning. In reply to
Father Schaefer's remonstrance that the weather
was threatening and there might be danger, the
Doctor replied that it was his duty to go, and added,
smilingly, that perhaps he had not long to live, and
must improve opportunities. As they parted, he
took the Fathers hand and pressed it, saying cordi-
ally, he hoped they would be friends till death.
This was the last seen Of the unfortunate Beraz until
his bruised remains we're found on Monday morning
among the rocks Of the gulch. Our correspondent
says "The natives mourned sincerely when his
death was announced. They say they can never find
the name he went by. On the day Of the funeral,
(Tuesday, 8th,) the mission was crowded with
natives from all parts of Hama. and among them
were not a few of his patients, who, scarcely able to
drag themselves along, insisted on paying the last
sad tribute of respect to the beloved Doctor. The
procession numbered at least two hundred persons
wailing loudly in the native fashion,, and testifying o
deep sorrow that was evidently sincere. The coffin
and the grave they covered with flowers and wreatht
of evergreen. Everybody here, both natives and
foreigners, feel that they have lost n true and gener.
Gus friend, and q humane and skillful surgeon and
physician"